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SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance\, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight against fascism. As the characters encounter each other clandestinely to discuss political questions\, they also discuss works of art and question how the art of the past can support their resistance to a horrific present: what can art suggest for a future they may not live to see? \nJust as Weiss’s characters rely upon group discussion\, readers of this trilogy have often formed reading groups to aid their understanding of the novelist’s ambitions. The MEP is joining this leftist tradition. We will read these challenging novels slowly and discuss themes such as strategy and tactics in the fight against fascism\, and the works of art that inspired the characters’ discussions. Familiarity with art history or with Europe in the 1930s is neither required nor expected. \nPublisher’s web pages for The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3\nSecond-hand bookstores\, online resellers\, and public libraries may have copies of these books available. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/aesthetics-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Fall 25,Gender,Germany,historical materialism,History,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Strategy,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,Spring 2026,War,War Fiction,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Reading 'Karl Marx in America'
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman’s recently published Karl Marx in America.  To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nFacilitated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-karl-marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Fall 25,historical materialism,Housing,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Reading Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 8\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nBrian Kwoba‘s recently published Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism introduces the working-class journalist\, activist\, and educator Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)\, who generated an array of visionary solutions to the systemic injustices of his day. After blazing a trail for Black workers and organizers in the Socialist Party of America and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913\, Harrison emerged as the most prominent Black freethinker and free lover of his generation. He also practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist\, anti-imperialist “Colored International” alliance in the face of European colonization in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Most spectacularly\, Harrison’s Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of African people in modern history. Because of his fearless radicalism\, however\, the full scope of Harrison’s revolutionary legacy has been largely erased from popular memory … until now. \nDr. Brian Kwoba was born in Manchester\, Connecticut\, and raised in Boulder\, Colorado. After earning his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Cornell University\, he spent six years teaching high school and middle school history and social studies in Boston before heading to the University of Oxford for his doctoral degree in history. Dr. Kwoba is currently an associate professor of history and also the director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis. Over the past two decades\, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism\, immigrant workers rights\, climate justice\, Falastin\, decolonizing education\, pan-Africanism\, and the movement for Black lives. In his spare time\, he is a big time music lover (especially live jazz)\, an Afrobeats DJ\, and a frequent traveler to Kenya where he visits his dad’s side of the family. \nImage l/r: author Brian Kwoba; Hubert Harrison with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn\, Big Bill Haywood\, and other leaders of 1913 Paterson\, NJ silk workers strike; book cover.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kwoba-on-hubert-harrison/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,American Imperialism,Book talks,Classes/Events,Fall 25,History,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 26\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nHistorian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book\, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nAndrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of Karl Marx in America (2025) and A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015)\, both published by the University of Chicago Press\, and Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008). He is also the coeditor of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times (2018). Hartman has been published in a host of academic and popular venues\, including the Washington Post\, The Baffler\, Chronicle of Higher Education\, American Historian\, Journal of American Studies\, Reviews in American History\, Journal of Policy History\, Salon\, Jacobin\, Bookforum\, and In These Times.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,Book talks,Civil War,Das Kapital,Fall 25,featured,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Republicanism,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx and Republicanism: Reading 'Citizen Marx'
DESCRIPTION:“… It is still not adequately appreciated that Marx’s principal political value was freedom\,\nrather than\, say\, equality or community.” Bruno Leipold\, Citizen Marx \nA five-session reading group\nWhat better time than the present moment to revisit Karl Marx’s commitment to the democratic republic as a necessary (if not sufficient) step on the path to human freedom? Over five weekly meetings we will read and discuss Bruno Leipold’s recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. As some of the most powerful capitalists in history are openly disavowing political democracy and calling for the unbridled rule of private wealth\, we revisit Karl Marx’s revolutionary republicanism and his ideas about political power and social classes. \nConvened by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/citizen-marx-karl-marx-and-republicanism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Capital vs. Labor,communism,England,France,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Republicanism,Revolutions,Social Democracy,Winter 25
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T160000
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SUMMARY:State of Emergency in US Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:A video of this April 12\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAlan Wald presents an overview of the state of emergency in higher education in the United States that recalls earlier eras of extreme political repression\, such as McCarthyism in the 1950s. Students\, faculty\, and staff at US colleges and universities who stand up for Palestinian human rights and stopping the genocide in Gaza are being punished by the administrations\, and in some cases – such as Mahmoud Khalil – threatened with deportation. They are charged with being antisemitic\, even though the movement is antiracist and a sizable fraction of the protesters are themselves Jewish. This campaign is being used as a smokescreen to dismantle programs in Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI) and set Jews against other minorities. Students\, faculty\, and staff are facing deportation\, arrest\, suspension\, termination\, and other draconian measures that undermine both civil liberties and academic freedom. \nAlan Wald is active in this controversy as it plays out at the University of Michigan (U-M)\, through his membership in the U-M Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine\, and nationally\, as a member of the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace. He is the H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at U-M\, and formerly director of the U-M Department of American Culture. His academic specialty is the US Literary Left\, about which he has authored nine books\, and he is an editor of the journals Against the Current and Science & Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/state-of-emergency-in-us-higher-education/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Israeli occupation,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Strategy,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Spring 25,US History,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T140000
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SUMMARY:'The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads' with author Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nKevin B. Anderson presents his newly published book\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads\, based on systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s “Ethnological Notebooks” and related Marx texts from his final years\, 1869-1883. \nIn these writings\, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts\, turning his attention to colonialism\, agrarian Russia and India\, Indigenous societies\, and gender. Anderson’s book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat but would be touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups\, peasant communes\, and Indigenous communist groups\, in many of which women held great social power. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities that continues to speak to us today. \nThe Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism is available from Verso and from other online booksellers. \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has been a scholar-activist since the 1970s\, working in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, and the Frankfurt School. Among his numerous books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He is is the coeditor\, with Peter Hudis\, of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader. He writes regularly for New Politics\, The International Marxist-Humanist\, LA Progressive\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/late-marx-revolutionary-roads/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Colonialism,communism,historical materialism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Modernity,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Russia,Seminars and Talks,Winter 25
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SUMMARY:'Citizen Marx' with author Bruno Leipold
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 26\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAs some of the most powerful capitalists in history are openly disavowing political democracy and calling for the unbridled rule of private wealth\, now is a good time to revisit Karl Marx’s revolutionary republicanism and his ideas about political power and social classes. In his recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought\, Bruno Leipold argues that Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Challenging common depictions of Marx that downplay or ignore his commitment to politics\, democracy\, and freedom\, Leipold shows that Marx viewed democratic political institutions as crucial to overcoming the social unfreedom and domination of capitalism.  \nPlacing Marx’s republican communism in its historical context—but not consigning him to that context—Leipold traces Marx’s shifting relationship to republicanism across three broad periods. First\, Marx began his political life as a republican committed to a democratic republic in which citizens held active popular sovereignty. Second\, he transitioned to communism\, criticizing republicanism but incorporating the republican opposition to arbitrary power into his social critiques. He argued that although a democratic republic was not sufficient for emancipation\, it was necessary for it. Third\, spurred by the events of the Paris Commune of 1871\, he came to view popular control in representation and public administration as essential to the realization of communism. Leipold shows how Marx positioned his republican communism to displace both antipolitical socialism and anticommunist republicanism. One of Marx’s great contributions\, Leipold suggests\, was to place politics (and especially democratic politics) at the heart of socialism. \nBruno Leipold is a fellow in political theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.\nHe is the coeditor of Radical Republicanism: Recovering the Tradition’s Popular Heritage.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/citizen-marx-bruno-leipold/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Capital vs. Labor,communism,England,featured,France,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Republicanism,Revolutions,Social Democracy,Winter 25
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SUMMARY:Reading Gramsci for Today's Movements
DESCRIPTION:Sundays at 11 am ET \nAn ongoing study group on the Prison Notebooks and other works of Antonio Gramsci. We explore Gramsci’s themes and concepts\, including state-civil society relations\, historical bloc\, hegemony\, spontaneity\, strategy and tactic\, and language. We follow Gramsci’s philological method\, addressing such areas as linguistics\, cinema\, critical theory\, literature\, journalism\, comics\, animation\, plastic arts\, mass media and Machiavellian political studies. We draw on Iran’s Woman\, Life\, Freedom movement and its documentary evidence\, along with other shared historical movements\, experiences and cultures in U.S.\, Iran and worldwide\, towards change and “What-ought-to-be.” \nNo prior knowledge of Gramsci is required. Session contributors lead the discussions on passages from Gramsci’s works and bring their own experiences\, philosophies and scholarship to our readings.  RSVP below if you wish to attend and we will send you the Zoom link. A suggested donation of $50 or whatever amount you can afford is welcome and appreciated. \n\nConvened by Piruz Alemi. Piruz has a PhD in Political Economy and an MFA in Documentary Film Making from City University of New York (CUNY). Piruz is an independent scholar-activist in Gramsci’s work and cultural studies\, with a focus on the common struggle of politics of race in the U.S. and gender segregation in Iran and the wider region.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-gramsci-for-todays-movements-spring-2024/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Iran,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Winter 25
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T183000
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SUMMARY:Fascism\, Antifascism\, Gaza\, and Political Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Where does the rising wave of authoritarianism and “late fascism” fit in the global relations of force at work today?   And what paths of resistance work in response?  \nThe war in Gaza has brought to a head the left’s strategic dilemmas facing new\, overt forms of fascism. Questions include the historical relationship of settler colonialism and national forms of fascism; the horrific escalation of the long war on Palestine; the opportunities and dangers for the left in national elections in the US and other countries.   \nWe will explore these questions through three points of departure that touch on race\, gender\, settler colonialism\, fossil fascism\, and the carceral state.   \n\nRashid Khalidi\, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance\, a moving\, unnerving essential reading today to understand the background to the present war. \nAlberto Toscano’s Late fascism: Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism\, Toscano gives us powerful tools and perspectives to understand fascism as a changing\, evolving process. \nAndreas Malm and the Zeitkin Collective\, White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. The authors lay bare fossil fuel’s roots in racism and European white supremacy toward colonial peoples. \n\nWe will structure this as a focused\, six to eight-week study emphasizing selections from these three books that most relate to the present moment\, with other parts optional readings.  And we will supplement these books with important analyses of the present moment.  \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich \n Photo: An uncredited photo obtained by The Times shows an inverted US flag\, a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” phenomenon\, at Supreme Court Justice Alito’s residence on Jan. 17\, 2021\, three days before the Biden inauguration.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fascism-antifascism-gaza-and-political-strategy/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Summer24
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SUMMARY:If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:What can the last fifteen years of worldwide mass protests teach us about strategy and organization for socialism? Street protests and organizing from Seattle WTO to Occupy and on to George Floyd Black Lives Matter demonstrated new tactics\, new generations of activists\, and new lessons about the future. Likewise\, worldwide protests from the Arab Spring to Latin America\, Europe\, and Hong Kong also struck hard and have brought many important lessons. Join us for reading and discussion probing three connected themes: \n\nMass street protest since Occupy. We will analyze the rich legacy of largely leaderless mass mobilizations as well as new labor struggles\, locally and globally\, over the last fifteen years.\nCrowdsourcing the Revolution: Digital possibilities\, real-world limitations in networked movements. How has digital communications media changed the organizing landscape since the Arab Spring? A critical assessment of the politics and practicalities of digital networking and communication for effective political strategies.\nFrom mass mobilization to accumulating power against capitalism: new long-term strategy for socialism. What remains important and what has changed in connecting strategy and organization?\n\nReadings will include selections from newly published analyses of and theoretical reflection on recent struggles in the United States and globally: \nIf We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution\, by Vincent Bevins (PublicAffairsBooks)\nTwitter and Tear Gas:  The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest\, by Zeynap Tufekci (Yale)\nCommunism and Strategy: Rethinking Political Mediations\, by Isabelle Garo (Verso)\nNeither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization\, by Rodrigo Nunes (Verso) \nBringing direct experience from Brazil\, France\, Turkey\, and the United States\, these authors invite reconsideration of political and organizational strategy in light of the worldwide extent of recent struggles. We will make this a new\, collaborative exercise and add related readings\, multimedia\, and possibly guest talks suggested by participants in the reading group. \nTuesdays\, at 6:30 pm EST; Winter series ends April 30; RSVP for information about coming Spring series.\nPhotos: Occupy Wall Street\, 1 year later (credit Glenn Halog: 2012); Black Lives Matter (credit: Taymaz Valley 2020) \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/if-we-burn-political-strategy-for-21st-century/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Organizing,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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