December 2020
Book Special: Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times (with shipping)
This is for ordering the book only. We have another offer for Andy's talk, the book with the 4 session class that will begin on Monday, December 14, 2020.
Find out more »The Origins of Geopolitical Economy in Marx’s Remarks on Carey and Bastiat
In recent years, geopolitical economy has become a term for the properly historical-materialist analysis of international affairs that can successfully comprehend the evolution of the capitalist world order down to the contemporary age of multi-polarity by placing the nation-state as centrally in the analysis of capitalism as class. This interpretation is embedded in Karl Marx’s thinking, though not fully developed there. Perhaps its clearest expression can be found in his fragmentary comments on the “Yankee” mercantilist economist, Henry Carey, in the final pages of the “Grundrisse”.
Find out more »Opening presentation: A People’s Guide to Capitalism
Hadas Their will present on her new book which has been desribed as “a lively, accessible, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%”.
Find out more »The Last Years of Karl Marx
With The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx's critique of European colonialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries.
Find out more »January 2021
Corona/Climate/Crisis
The MEP is offering essential works by Rob Wallace and Andreas Malm with the Ecosocialist Study Group. Wallace and colleagues track the Covid-19 pandemic as it emerged out of the global circuits of capital and the peculiar scientific thinking that underpins capitalist rule. Malm takea a critical and urgent look at the politics demanded by the planetary scope of pandemics and global warming, the short time-frame for action, and the chronic emergency of increasingly frequent social-ecological disasters.
Find out more »Considerations on Bolshevism Before Stalinism
We will consider questions such as: Were the Bolsheviks inherently authoritarian? What was 'democratic centralism'? Is the Bolshevik type organization necessary for revolutionary change? What exactly was the role of the Bolsheviks in the revolution? What were the Soviets? How did the soviets come into being? Did soviets represent a higher form of democracy?
Find out more »Capital, Volume 1, Part 2
Session 2 will complete the analysis of Part I: Commodities and Money, starting with Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange followed by the historical development of the money form in the circulation of commodities. This in turn leads to the Transformation of Money into Capital, positioning the reader to analyze the specific social relations of capitalist production (wage labor and owners of capital) in relation to the forces of production, the means of production.
Find out more »A People’s Guide to Capitalism
Despite the efforts of mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many are asking questions about why the capitalist system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. The 14-week class which begins in early January will feature a close reading and discussion of the entire book with explication and references to additional materials related to this study.
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