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SUMMARY:Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:A video of this June 27\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register \nThe newly published 2026 volume of Socialist Register – entitled “Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins” – interrogates anew the notion that global capitalism is in its end time (a recurring theme among Marxists since 1848). At the heart of this concept are indications that capital accumulation is running up against some inherent limits. just as the hucksters of private capital are crowing that so-called Artificial Intelligence will usher in a capitalist utopia of unlimited prosperity (for whom?). Socialists warn the world’s working classes to prepare instead for a late-capitalist dystopia\, characterized by irreversible damage to the natural environment\, wars brought on by new modes of global competition among capitals\, and the inevitable squeeze on capitalist profits and human labor if robotic production alters the organic composition of capital to the extent predicted by the AI boosters. Based on their essays in the 2026 Socialist Register\, our panelists speak to the utility of the concept of “late-stage capitalism\,” both for understanding contemporary political economy and for devising strategies for the working class to defend itself and advance a universalist vision of human emancipation. \nPanelists: Michael Roberts\, “Capitalism in the 2020s and Beyond”; Alfredo Saad-Filho\, “The Rise of Neoliberal Fascism and the Challenges for the Left”; and Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno\, “Profitable Immiseration: Finance Capital at the End of the World.” Invited commentator: Catarina Principe\, a political activist from Portugal\, a co-editor of Europe in Revolt\, and a contributing editor of Jacobin magazine.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2026/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,Capital Studies,Class,Crisis,featured,Financialization,Globalization,History,Imperialism,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Money,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Socialist Register,Summer 2026,Transition from Capitalism,Video Available,War
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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:Old and New Contradictions: Opening Socialist Register 2022 Session—The Crisis of Centrism
DESCRIPTION:Opening session of the Winter/Spring panels of authors who have presented essays in the current Socialist Register\, No. 58.\nFeaturing\nGreg Albo An Introduction to The Crisis of Centrism\, Socialist Register 58\nWalden Bello At the Summit of Global Capitalism: the US and China\nSimon Mohun Portrait of Neoliberalism: Rise of the One Percent\nSamir Sonti The Crisis of US Labor\, Past and Present\nThe stage is set well for Socialist Register No. 58 in the Preface by Greg Albo and Colin Leys:  [In the midst of the] “current multi-dimensional crisis\, the center-right consensus that was struck around the neoliberal policy regime has been steadily splintering\, with a phalanx of far right and neo-fascist groups inserting themselves into electoral politics and gaining prominence ‘in the streets’ (not least in motley demonstrations against pandemic measures of any kind\, from lockdowns to masking). The observation that capitalism is always characterized by just such economic and political polarizations has preoccupied – even haunted –socialist analysis from its very origins: in Marx’s and Engels’ memorable phrase of revolutionary optimism in The Communist Manifesto\, ‘the more or less open civil war\, raging within existing society\, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution\, and … lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat’. In the much picked-over chapter in Marx’s Capital on ‘The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation’\, the language is just as vibrant but now stark in its imagery: ‘The greater the social wealth\, the functioning capital\, the extent and energy of its growth\, and therefore also the greater the absolute mass of the proletariat and the productivity of itslabor\, the greater is the industrial reserve army…. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is\, therefore\, at the same time the accumulation of misery\, the torment of labor\, slavery\, ignorance\, brutalization at the opposite pole\, i.e. on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital.’ \nThe first panel of the series addresses a number of the new contradictions emerging within global capital during this period —with the centrists attempting to right the neoliberal ship of state ly presenting more crises and a more defiant hard right. \n \nWALDEN BELLO writes from within the social movements of Southeast Asia and from the Philippines\, a particularly auspicious location from which to evaluate the growing rivalry between the US and China. His essay\, “At the Summit of Global Capitalism” provides a judicious assessment of the growing polarizations and contradictions in the inter-state system as the phase of US unilateral power gives way to a much more variegated world order. \nIt is appropriate that Socialist Register 58 begins with SIMON MOHUN’s “Portrait of Contemporary  Neoliberalism”. With the massive growth of inequalities in income and wealth being one of the most  commonly agreed-upon polarizations today\, Mohun argues that most ‘important for understanding the  structure and dynamic of neoliberalism has been the large and sustained increase in income share’ accruing to the richest one per cent. A movement to begin radical state action breaking with neoliberalism is imperative. \nSAMIR SONTI addresses the prospects and strategies for rebuilding a labor movement in the US after Trumpism in his essay on the ongoing crisis for US labor. The challenge in rebuilding a union movement is in organizing campaigns keeping a focus on aligning the interests of the workers who provide essential services with the interests of the communities that depend on those workers. He points out the dangers of having labor campaigns slip into spending their energies aligning with the interests of the Biden administration instead of the communities that they are engaged with. \nWALDEN BELLO is currently the International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South. \nSIMON MOHUN is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Queen Mary\, University in London. \nSAMIR SONTI has worked as a union organizer in the US and now teaches at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/old-and-new-contradictions-opening-socialist-register-2022-session-the-crisis-of-centrism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialist Register
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