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Reading Science Fiction Politically

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group reconvenes April 15 for a new Spring season. Watch this space for coming reading selections and use the website contact page for questions and suggestions. *     *     * Join us this winter to read five landmark, award-winning novels, and novellas using science fiction to shine a ... Read more

Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic II

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

The MEP's recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues our reading of Hegel's magnum opus, The Science of Logic, Part II. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx's Capital. Alex Steinberg guides participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel's works.

Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks – Spring 2024

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

In this ongoing weekly reading group, we continue to read and learn from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.  We explore key themes and concepts related to politics and civil society, including race, class and gender, religion, linguistic and other methods of analysis, critical theory, mass media, the arts and cinema, hegemony, and subaltern studies.

Free – $65.00

Reading Science Fiction Politically – Spring 2024 Season

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group meets weekly to read and discuss science, visionary and speculative fiction that bears on politics, the environment, and the struggle for a better future for all. We focus on the concept of visionary fiction, emerging from Octavia Butler's writings and beautifully articulated ten years ago by Walidah Imarisha, ... Read more

Free – $65.00

Trotsky in New York Walking Tour

Socialists and Immigrants in the Lower East Side Join Alex Steinberg for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917. We will explore the culture of the radicalized immigrant communities of Yiddish-speaking ... Read more

Free – $11.00

David McNally: Marx and Colonialism

Video available on YouTube

David McNally joins our 10th anniversary celebration of the MEP with a keynote talk on "Marx and Colonialism: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey."

Free

Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

The MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism's catastrophic impact on the Earth's climate and other critical systems, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice.

Palestine: Celebrating 75 Years of Literature

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

Read Palestinian fiction, poetry, and related literature in weekly meetings with the MEP's Literature Group. The ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East breaks our hearts daily. As part of our mission to explore creative political resistance to oppression, we will read several novels and poems by Palestinian authors.

Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

The MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism's catastrophic impact on the Earth's climate and other critical systems, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice.