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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-11-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-11-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221109T193000
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-11-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221108T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-11-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice and Socialist Strategy with Jason W. Moore
DESCRIPTION:King’s Triple Evils\, Modern Environmentalism\, and the ‘World Revolution’ of 1968\nA video of this November 6\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nOn April 4\, 1967\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, came out publicly against the Vietnam War in a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam.” Beyond\, in that title\, meant everything. King not only broke with the liberal establishment\, which viewed the war as a separate issue from racism and as an aberration in American foreign policy. King simultaneously presented a radical critique that linked racism and exploitation at home and abroad and began to elaborate a vision of an American socialism animated by a searing indictment of capitalism’s “triple evils” (racism\, militarism\, and class exploitation). Such a socialism would be grounded in a triple alliance encompassing the antiwar\, civil rights\, and labor movements. In this talk\, Jason W. Moore addresses the missed opportunity for a program of planetary justice as the “Environmentalism of the Rich” came to the fore after 1968 and overshadowed King’s appeal for a radical turn. As King underscored in his final months\, justice cannot be effectively pursued piece by piece. The “whole society” with and within the web of life must be reinvented\, inasmuch as we are “all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality\, tied into a single garment of destiny.” At the end of the Capitalocene and the beginning of the planetary inferno\, climate justice – and socialist strategy – must proceed as if “all life were interrelated.”\nJason W. Moore\nJason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University\, where he is Professor of Sociology. His books include Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015)\, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (2016)\, and (with Raj Patel)\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017). Moore’s books and essays on environmental history\, capitalism\, and social theory – translated into over 20 languages – have been recognized with numerous academic awards. He co-coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/moore-climate-justice/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity,Transition from Capitalism
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221102T193000
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-11-02/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221101T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-11-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-10-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221018T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221018T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221011T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221011T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221004T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221004T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022: Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward
DESCRIPTION:with\nSam Gindin\, Adolph Reed\, Jr.\, Toure Reed\, Vishwas Satgur\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright\,\nVISHWAS SATGUR\nEpidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa\nIn this presentation\, Vishwas Satgar sets out the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa as an example of polarized access to medical services shamelessly piled on top of acute polarizations of income and employment and ecological vandalism. But the ANC government’s neoliberal pandemic response\, “has also unleashed a cycle of post-apartheid progressive resistance.” \nJAMES SCHNEIDER and HILARY WAINWRIGHT\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project\nA discussion of the lessons to be learned from the experience of Momentum as a national campaign organization for the left wing of the UK Labour Party and its achievements (despite ultimate failure to elect a government led by Jeremy Corbyn).  They are optimists in their accounting of the new spaces that are now open for a radical democratic politics in Britain. \nADOLPH REED\, JR. and TOURE REED \n“Race” and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism\nThis presentation links the rise of the hard right in US politics to the marginalization of the progressive pole as “the black political class” became embedded in “the Democratic Party’s commitment to a programme of retrenchment.” Addressing poverty and continuing social inequality in the black community requires building a broader working-class movement. \nSAM GINDIN\nAmerican Workers and the Left after Trump: Polarized Options\nSam argues that the inherent limits of Democratic Party “Keynesian” reflation still constitutes a difficult terrain for the left in the USA\, which needs to take care not to slip into the trap of spending all its energies defending the liberal forces exemplified by Biden as opposed to organizing labor and independent social struggles. \n Summary by series editor GREG ALBO \nVishwas Satgar\, associate professor of International Relations\, University of Witwatersrand\, is principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. James Schneider\, communications director of Progressive International\, is a co-founder of Momentum and was a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn; Hilary Wainwright is an editor of Red Pepper magazine and a fellow of the Transnational Institute and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex University. Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of political science\, University of Pennsylvania; Touré F. Reed is a professor of history at Illinois State University. Sam Gindin is former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-polarization-and-socialism-the-direction-forward/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Socialist Register
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-03/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-29/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-22/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital
DESCRIPTION:2nd in the Socialist Register 58 Series: Old Polarizations\, New Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism\nBILL FLETCHER                  Trump and the Danger of Right-wing Populism in the US\nSAMIR GANDESHA            Identity Crisis: The Politics of False Concreteness\nINGAR SOLTY                       Market Polarization Means Political Polarization \nBill Fletcher’s essay on the “Danger of Right-Wing Populism in the US” presents a careful appraisal of the forces marshalled on the right over the course of the Trump presidency\, leading to the insurrection of January 2021. Fletcher’s longstanding contention\, put forth in his widely-noted ‘Stars and Bars’ essay in the Politics of the Right volume\, was of the dangers of a rightwing mass movement emerging in the US. \nSamir Gandesha seeks an answer in what he identifies as ‘a fragmentation of the universalism that had historically underwritten the struggle for socialism’ leading to what he terms a ‘politics of false concreteness’ centered on forms of identity politics on both the left and the right. Indeed\, in the absence of a ‘left universalism’\, Gandesha argues\, ‘we can only expect the logic of polarization to drive an already accelerating authoritarianism\, as rightwing demagogues mobilize support based on racialized grievances’. This can only be met by a ‘class identity’ that seeks a universalism ‘in its own self-dissolution’\, that is\, in the struggle against classes as such and thus capitalism. \nIngar Solty’s “Market Polarization Means Political Polarization” is a third assessment of this particular moment. Solty’s contention is that the social polarizations that result from the market processes set in motion by neoliberalism bring with them a political polarization in the form of fissures in the party systems of liberal democracies\, allowing the hard right new political space to occupy and permitting varied forms of authoritarian nationalism to take hold. He concludes with the gravest of warnings: unless a new organized working-class politics emerges\, this world world will further and further slip down the slope of liberalism into fascism’. \nIN MEMORY OF LEO PANITCH • 1945-2020  / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted. \nBILL FLETCHER JR. is a long-time trade unionist\, writer\, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum.\nSAMIR GANDESHA is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.\nINGAR SOLTY is Senior Research Fellow in Foreign\, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. \nAll book offers include US Media Mail. The book offers are for US addresses only as the costs for shipping outside of the US are often more than the price of the book. From Canada\, the book can be ordered from Fernwood. Merlin Press in the UK is the best source for other areas of the world. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hard-right-and-the-political-parties-of-capital/
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Anti-fascism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Food and politics,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-15/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of Detroit
DESCRIPTION:with authors Mark Jay and Philip Conklin\n \nRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile\, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services\, water shutoffs\, mass foreclosures\, and violent police raids. In A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit’s history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism’s mandates. \n“Jay and Conklin work backward before working forward. The authors first offer a people’s history of Detroit’s present\, subverting chronology to read the resurgence narrative of Detroit against the grain and reveal the erasure of Black Detroit via the myth of Detroit’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’30s\, ’40s\, and ’50s. This allows them\, and therefore us\, to understand the systemic problems facing contemporary Detroit first\, and then uncover their prehistory second\, instead of the other way around.” — Hannah Zeavin\, Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/hannah-zeavin/ \n\n\n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\,A People’s History of Detroitimagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\, Public Books \n\nMark Jay received his PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara.\nPhilip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nThey are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery. \n  \n  \nBOOKS AVAILABLE\nDUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of Theodore W. Allen’s two volume work\nwith The Revolutions Study Group\nIn 1972\, after a lifetime of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Theodore W. Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the U.S. is white supremacy. White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.] \n \nIt is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy. It is the decisive vulnerable point because—as history has repeatedly proved—the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nTheodore W. Allen spent the next 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes) which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The group has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction and this past winter and spring studied White Supremacy and Bourgeois Social Control.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race/2021-12-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Insurgency,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of Theodore W. Allen’s two volume work\nwith The Revolutions Study Group\nIn 1972\, after a lifetime of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Theodore W. Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the U.S. is white supremacy. White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.] \n \nIt is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy. It is the decisive vulnerable point because—as history has repeatedly proved—the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nTheodore W. Allen spent the next 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes) which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The group has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction and this past winter and spring studied White Supremacy and Bourgeois Social Control.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race/2021-12-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Insurgency,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211205T140000
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SUMMARY:Parade of the Old New with artist/author Zoe Beloff
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion of Booklyn’s important new accordion fold-out 40-panel book with painter and author Zoe Bellof\n \nA discussion by Zoe Beloff about her new 40-panel accordion book that reproduces\, Parade of the Old New\, an epic panorama on cardboard panels\, a 40 meter long  allegory of the American body politic. The title is taken from a 1938 poem by Bertolt Brecht that inspired the theme of this work; now more than ever\, we are not finished with the past and the past is not finished with us. The project was launched with Trump’s inauguration and continued until he was defeated at the ballot box. It begins with the president’s triumphal entry into Washington DC. Beyond stretches a country where the Mexican border walls meets Japanese internment camps from the 1940s at a vanishing point. It chronicles the desecration of public lands for profit\, the battle of Charlottesville\, the arrest of undocumented workers across the country and the detention of asylum seekers at the border. It illustrates the toll of COVID 19\, the work of the nurses\, the breadlines\, young people painting Black Lives Matter mapping a road ahead\, the storming of the Capitol and finally the flickering light of what might be a new beginning. Zoe will also talk about her essay also included in the book “The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World” in which she explores how painters have explored themes of social justice. She brings the writing of both Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to bear on how we can think through the representation of history and lived experience. \nZOE BELLOF is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. She aims to make radical art that educates\, entertains\, and provokes discussion. Most importantly\, as her work attests\, she believes protest should be vibrant\, humorous and colorful\, a carnival of resistance to light the way in dark times. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum\, Site Santa Fe\, the MHKA museum in Antwerp\, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. However she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. These have included in New York City; The Coney Island Museum\, Participant\, Momenta and The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been awarded fellowships from. The Graham Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at Queens College CUNY. \nBOOKLYN\, INC.  is a non profit organization founded in 1999 and located in Sunset Park\, Brooklyn. Their mission is to promote artists’ books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting\, exhibiting\, and distributing their artwork and archives. They specifically assist artists and organizations committed to environmental and social justice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/parade-of-the-old-new-with-artist-author-zoe-beloff/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Emancipation,Insurgency,Labor Organizing,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Poetry,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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