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Planetary Crises: ‘Metabolic Rifts’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, and related topics. We are moving to a monthly format and will be covering one book each month. At our next session on June 24 we will discuss Metabolic Rifts by Ian Angus.
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Reading Science Fiction Politically – Midterms Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupNext on June 29, 5-6:30 pm ET Reading Science Fiction Politically, Midterms edition explores climate crisis, artificial intelligence in politics, a reawakened Klan, and more by way of four recent novels and selected short stories. Have you noticed that, as contemporary politics veers into the fantastical, more writers have embraced the fantastical, speculative, visionary, horror ... Read more
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Muskism, Global Trends, and Political Strategy Today
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupWe are currently reading 'The Choice of Civil War' by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work "a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare."
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Monthly Literature Group: Hammett’s ‘The Glass Key’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP Literature Group's new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our July selection is 'The Glass Key' by Dashiell Hammett - a scathing description of small-town corruption.
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