BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Marxist Education Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191014T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191014T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006634-1571079600-1571086800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-10-14/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191016T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190629T231708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z UID:10006624-1571250600-1571257800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-10-16/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191017T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190716T034526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z UID:10006659-1571335200-1571340600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-10-17/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191019T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190703T034719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T051548Z UID:10006654-1571482800-1571493600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each. \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc. \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital. \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two). \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1: \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’ URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-10-19/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191019T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191019T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190923T050211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T050211Z UID:10006670-1571499000-1571506200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:A Brief History of Class Warfare DESCRIPTION:Talk at exhibit with Jim Costanzo / Aaron Burr Society\nThe Empty Circle Gallery\nCurated by Raúl Zamudio \nfoto\, video\, letterpress\, whiskey still with bottle\, Free Money Flags \nunending profits a death spiral\nclimate change\nmass extinctions\nmass murder\nunending war\nforced migration\ndrones\nausterity\nuntold wealth\nobscene poverty\nunrealized dreams\nprecarious foreclosed \n \nGeorge Washington in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-brief-history-of-class-warfare/ LOCATION:The Empty Circle\, 499 3rd Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/FreeMoneyFlag_Oct19.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191021T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006635-1571684400-1571691600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-10-21/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191023T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190629T231708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z UID:10006625-1571855400-1571862600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-10-23/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191024T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190716T034526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z UID:10006660-1571940000-1571945400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-10-24/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191025T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191025T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190905T033934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T033934Z UID:10006669-1572028200-1572039000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series\ndirected by Akira Kurosawa\nJapan\, 1960\, 150 minutes \nOne of three noirs made by Kurosawa\n \nA young executive hunts down his father’s killer in the scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune\, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan. \nThere is one point where a wedding cake arrives\,. It is in the shape of corporate headquarters. A rose protrudes from the office where Furuya\, a former Corporation employee\, committed suicide. Many people believe Furuya\, implicated in a scandal\, killed himself to keep from testifying against his superiors. \nPolice interrupt the wedding to arrest corporate assistant officer Wada (Kamatari Fujiwara) on charges of bribery\, and they question him about a kickback scheme. After Wada is released\, Nishi must prevent him from committing suicide. \nHis motives are not kind. Nishi wants to use Wada and also contract officer Shirai (Ko Nishimura) to exact revenge on the Corporation. He reveals to Wada and Shirai that Furuya was his father. According to Nishi\, he only married Yoshiko to get close to the family. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kurosawas-the-bad-sleep-well/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BadPlanWellSleepSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191026T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191026T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190703T034719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T051548Z UID:10006655-1572087600-1572098400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each. \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc. \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital. \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two). \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1: \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’ URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-10-26/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006636-1572289200-1572296400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-10-28/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191030T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191030T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190629T231708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z UID:10006626-1572460200-1572467400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-10-30/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191030T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190818T075634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190818T075833Z UID:10006665-1572462000-1572469200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Melancholia Africana DESCRIPTION:The Caribbean Philosophy Association and The Marxist Education Project present \nMelancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition\nWith author Nathalie Etoke and conversation with fellow panelists Lewis R. Gordon and Souleymane Bachir Diagne\nThis year marks the publication of the English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition. In richly poetic prose Etoke considers pain singing the happiness to come\, memories of forgetting\, and on va faire comment? She argues that Africana melancholy is distinct. Rooted in collective and historical experiences of enslavement\, colonization\, and neocolonialism marked by loss of land\, freedom\, language\, culture\, and self. Put differently\, expropriation of labor and of land also annihilated age-old cycles of life. Considering what to do in the wake of such annihilation\, Etoke explores how diasporic Africans reconcile that which has been destroyed with what is newly introduced\, framing this inherent tension as the character of Africana historical becoming. On October 30th\, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon\, who authored its new foreword\, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses. \nNathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures\, French Politics and Culture\, Nouvelles Études Francophones\, Présence Francophone\, International Journal of Francophone Studies\, and Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. She is the author of L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and of Melancholia Africana l’indispensable dépassement de la condition noire\, which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011\, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities\, a documentary on race\, identity and citizenship in contemporary France. \nLewis R. Gordon co-edits Rowman & Littlefield International’s Global Critical Caribbean Thought series.  He is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; the 2018–2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra\, Portugal; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  His public Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/LewisGordonPhilosopher/ and he is on Twitter @lewgord. \nSouleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor and Chair of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and recipient of the Edouard Glissant Prize. He is the author of Boole\, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour (a book on Boolean algebra); Islam and the Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal; African Art as Philosophy: Senghor\, Bergson\, and the Idea of Negritude; The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa; and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition. An English version of his book\, Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal\, which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011\, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press. \nAll tickets are sliding scale URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/melancholia-africana/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/MelancholiaAfricana_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191031T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191031T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190716T034526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z UID:10006661-1572544800-1572550200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-10-31/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191104T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006637-1572894000-1572901200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-11-04/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191106T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191106T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190629T231708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z UID:10006627-1573065000-1573072200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-11-06/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191107T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191107T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190716T034526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z UID:10006662-1573149600-1573155000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-11-07/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191109T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191109T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20191024T141325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150149Z UID:10006673-1573313400-1573324200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The State and Strategies for Socialism DESCRIPTION:Zones of Liberation: 2nd Session\nOn developing and defending areas of opposition and building a broad and lasting anti-capitalist socialist movement\nA panel with Paul Christopher Gray\, Rafael Khachaturian and Stephen Maher\nModerated by Caroline Sykora\nAt this late and moribund stage of capitalist development nothing is sacred to profit-making as the capitalists deforest the Amazon and exploit the deepest marine life of the Marianas Trench. Meanwhile\, the working classes the world over are engaged of necessity in an array of movements in opposition to these life-destroying practices. Nonetheless\, workers deliver through their labors—which they must sell in order to survive\, losing control over the use of their labor power in this act of selling—the means by which capital is digitally speeding us towards a metabolic endgame. Each decade going forward will lead to the demise of ever more species from the microbial to fully sentient beings like ourselves\, all the result of the insatiable proliferation of the capitalists pursuit for ever-greater profit and continuous expanding accumulation of their money capital even if to do so requires the end of life on this planet as we know it. \nIn response to this\, The Marxist Education Project is continuing the Zones of Liberation series this November 9th. The Socialist Project of Canada has been publishing a series on Socialist Strategy and the State over the past year. All of the published pieces are essential for those active in the anti-capitalist movement to be reading and discussing. Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian’s essay Socialist Strategy and the Democratic Capitalist State examines the the state in its liberal-democratic form\, arguing that we should move beyond both vanguardist and social democratic models toward a view of the state as a contradictory site of class and social struggles.  Paul Christoher Gray’s article on Socialist Project is taken from his recently published From the Streets to the State: Changing the World by Taking Power\, where he takes on the limitations of dual power and extra-parliamentarism and the flaws inherent in the electoralist approaches and where there can be some reconciliation of the best aspects of these tendencies. \nPaul Christopher Gray is a professor in Brock University’s Department of Labor Studies in St. Catharines\, Ontario. The link to Paul’s work is here: https://socialistproject.ca/2019/06/transforming-capitalist-power-from-streets-to-state/ \nRafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. \nStephen Maher is a social critic\, PhD candidate at York University in Toronto and Socialist Register Assistant Editor. \nThe link to Rafael and Stephen’s work is here: https://socialistproject.ca/2019/05/socialist-strategy-and-capitalist-democratic-state/ URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-state-and-strategies-for-socialism/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/StateStruggleSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191111T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006638-1573498800-1573506000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-11-11/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190629T231708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z UID:10006628-1573669800-1573677000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-11-13/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191114T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190716T034526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z UID:10006663-1573754400-1573759800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-11-14/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191116T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191116T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20191026T054838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z UID:10006674-1573902000-1573912800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-11-16/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SupplyChainSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191118T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006639-1574103600-1574110800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-11-18/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190629T231708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z UID:10006629-1574274600-1574281800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-11-20/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191123T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191123T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20191026T054838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z UID:10006675-1574506800-1574517600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-11-23/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SupplyChainSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191125T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006640-1574708400-1574715600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-11-25/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191129T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191129T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20191003T051108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T051108Z UID:10006672-1575052200-1575061200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Stuart Hall Project DESCRIPTION:A Film by John Akomfrah\nUK 99 minutes \n \nFrom the award winning documentarian John Akomfrah comes The Stuart Hall Project\, a ground-breaking film that pioneers a new archival and sonic approach to forgotten histories\, forgotten ideas and the untold stories of the politics of change. Visionary director John Akomfrah weaves between the musical archaeology of Miles Davis\, the political narratives of the new post-war Left and the life and works of key architect\, the cultural theorist Stuart Hall—one of the New Left’s most prominent and influential intellectuals. Akomfrah carefully constructs archival sequences of rare forgotten and long since seen historical material together with Hall’s extensive broadcasts and personal archives\, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the ideas and personal story of Stuart Hall. Imagined through a Miles Davis and an original sonic sound track\, Akomfrah creates a vivid cartography of the twentieth century’s defining political moments making a powerful portrait of Hall. \n“John Akomfrah’s film is a tribute to the critic and New Left Review founder Stuart Hall – a montage of existing documentary footage and Hall’s own words and thoughts on film. It has an idealism and high seriousness that people might not immediately associate with the subject Hall pioneered: cultural studies. This is not about\, say\, postmodern readings of Lady Gaga\, but a deeply considered project that reconsiders culture and identity for those excluded from the circles of power through race\, gender and class. His is the progressive tradition of Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams\, unfashionable since Margaret Thatcher dismantled the welfarist consensus. Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall’s own life story: a man who came from Jamaica – which Hall elegantly calls the “home of hybridity” – and found himself not really at home there\, nor in the postwar UK in which he began a brilliant academic career at Oxford. Akomfrah sees Hall as a calm figure who insists on the fundamental topic of equality – yet without getting angry at the surface flashpoints of history. I wondered sometimes at Hall’s view on racial identity: it could well be\, as he says\, that race is an ideological construct – but does that help victims of racism? Anyway\, an absorbing account.”   Peter Brahe Guardian\, September 5\, 2013 \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-stuart-hall-project/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/StuartAtRallySite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20190702T133418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z UID:10006641-1575313200-1575320400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-12-02/ LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011 CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20191115T071328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191126T063018Z UID:10006679-1575658800-1575666000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The People’s Uprising in Chile DESCRIPTION:Fighting Austerity\, Demanding Democracy\nwith J. Patrice McSherry and David Duhalde\n\nTaking to the streets by the millions and withstanding brutal police assaults\, the working people of Chile have beaten back austerity measures and forced the right-wing Piñera regime to accede to a new constitution to replace the restrictive one imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship. The struggle continues to assure that the new charter be drafted by a democratic process and contain safeguards to civil liberties and social welfare provisions. Join us to hear direct reports from Santiago. \nJ. Patrice McSherry\, professor of political science emerita at Long Island University and currently resident in Santiago as a researcher collaborating with the Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA). She is the author of Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America\, and her most recent book is Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music\, 1960s-1973. \nDavid Duhalde is a NYC-based activist involved with the international work of Democratic Socialists of America. He previously held roles at Our Revolution\, the Bernie Sanders-inspired grassroots organization\, and as DSA’s deputy director. David’s father came to the United States as a political exile following the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government\, and his American mother toured the country telling of her experiences in living through the coup.\nNo one turned away for inability to pay admittance.\nThere is a one drink minimum from The Commons Cafe. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-peoples-uprising-in-chile/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ChileFaceOff_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T121115 CREATED:20191026T054838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z UID:10006676-1575716400-1575727200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-12-07/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SupplyChainSite.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR