BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.15.19//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180712T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180712T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003918-1531422000-1531429200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-07-12/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180714T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180714T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003931-1531566000-1531576800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-07-14/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180716T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180716T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006292-1531767600-1531774800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-07-16/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180718T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180718T213000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180622T133530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T133530Z UID:10006289-1531940400-1531949400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Red/Green Revolution DESCRIPTION:The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism\nwith author Victor Wallis \nRed-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation in the last half-century. Victor Wallis argues that sound ecological policy requires a socialist framework\, based on democratic participation and drawing on the historical lessons of earlier efforts. \nIn the age of Trump and with a lack of sound U.S. ecological policies\, Wallis’s book could not come at a better time. Red-Green Revolution confronts the emergency produced by the accelerated devastation of the last half-century. The human species is in a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions that make a healthy existence possible. This task requires us to reconsider not only the type of energy that we use\, but also the institutions\, the technology\, and the social relationships that determine what is produced\, in what quantities\, by what methods\, and to what ends. \nAt the heart of Wallis’s call to action is the ever-vital debate of capitalism vs. socialism and their relationships to protecting ecological order. Arguing that proper ecological policy requires a socialist framework\, based on democratic participation and drawing on the historical lessons of earlier efforts\, Wallis writes about how the task of establishing such a framework may evolve through the convergence of popular struggles – against all forms of oppression – as these have emerged under conditions of crisis. \nVictor Wallis is a professor of Liberal Arts at the Berklee College of Music. For twenty years he was the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy and has been writing on ecological issues since the early 1990s. His writings have appeared in journals such as Monthly Review and New Political Science\, and have been translated into thirteen languages. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/red-green-revolution/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Red_GreenBook_newsSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180719T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180719T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003919-1532026800-1532034000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-07-19/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180721T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003932-1532170800-1532181600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-07-21/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180723T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180723T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006293-1532372400-1532379600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-07-23/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180726T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180726T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003920-1532631600-1532638800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-07-26/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180728T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180728T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003933-1532775600-1532786400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-07-28/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180730T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180730T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006294-1532977200-1532984400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-07-30/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180802T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180802T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003921-1533236400-1533243600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-08-02/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180804T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180804T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003934-1533380400-1533391200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-08-04/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180806T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180806T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006295-1533582000-1533589200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-08-06/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180809T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180809T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003922-1533841200-1533848400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-08-09/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180811T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003935-1533985200-1533996000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-08-11/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180813T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180813T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006296-1534186800-1534194000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-08-13/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180816T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180816T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003923-1534446000-1534453200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-08-16/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180818T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003936-1534590000-1534600800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-08-18/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180820T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180820T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006297-1534791600-1534798800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-08-20/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180823T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003924-1535050800-1535058000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-08-23/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180825T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180502T015537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T015537Z UID:10003937-1535194800-1535205600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-08-25/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AssemblyLibros2Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180827T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180827T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180628T035019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T035019Z UID:10006298-1535396400-1535403600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Prince and The Modern Prince DESCRIPTION:Machiavelli\, Gramsci: Political Power and 21st Century Capitalism \nNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is considered by many to be the father of modern political science and political philosophy. In his most famous work\, The Prince\, Machiavelli explores the nature of political power and the relationship between ruler and subjects.\nThe Prince is often viewed as being a handbook for authoritarian rulers while others argue that Machiavelli was in fact a “republican” who inspired the later Enlightenment theorists of political democracy. Machiavelli has also been studied by a range of Marxists\, most notably by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci who wrote The Modern Prince while still a prisoner of Italy’s fascist regime. Gramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?\nThis 7-week class will read Machiavelli’s The Prince along with several analyses of it starting with Gramsci but also including Marxist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood (Liberty and Property\, Chapter 3 “The Renaissance City State”) and political philosopher Antionio Negri (Insurgencies\, Chapter 2 “Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm)\nParticipants should come to the first class having read Chapter 3 (The Renaissance City State) in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Liberty and Property (available as a free PDF online). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-prince-and-the-modern-prince/2018-08-27/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Machiavelli_Gramsci_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180830T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180830T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180430T135232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T132301Z UID:10003925-1535655600-1535662800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way DESCRIPTION:Deals made in the shade by those packing heat\nSix noir novels for the Summer of 2018 \nNOTE THAT THE STARTING TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:00 PM \nRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)\nDrawn upon his experience as a Pinkerton strike breaker in the 1920 Anaconda miners strike\, Hammett creates the character of the Continental Op\, a detective hired by a copper boss to clear the town of the gangsters the boss originally hired to break a miners’ strike. The Continental Op knows the gangsters and he knows the cops and he knows how to set them against each other—all set in the town of Poisonville. \nFarewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)\nMoose Malloy just got out of prison and he’s looking for Velma\, his old flame. The big man drags Philip Marlowe into the search for Velma. By the end of the night\, Marlowe witnesses Malloy kill a man. The cops aren’t overly concerned to find Malloy because the dead man is black. Marlowe decides to keep looking for Velma. The search draws him into the seedy side of Hollywood: blackmailers\, drug peddling psychics\, crooked cops and a crooked city government.. \nThe Kill Off by Jim Thompson (1957)\nSet in a resort town which did not enjoy any kind of post-war boom. Not only is the town not getting enough summer visitors\, the richest lady in town is a mean gossip and everyone has a reason to kill her. When she’s found dead\, the question is\, which of the self-deceiving\, vicious\, and broke residents killed her? Jim Thompson\, honored as a “dimestore Dostoevsky” excels in writing the interior monologues of isolated and frustrated small town individuals. \nThe Mad and The Bad by Patrick Manchette (1972)\nThis\, like all good descendents of pulps\, is a quick\, violent story with an ending that is not a comfortable happy solution. Manchette\, a veteran of the events of France during May of 1968\, returned the French detective story to corruption and violence. In The Mad and The Bad thugs and a contract killer attempt to kill Julie\, a troubled young woman\, and her charge\, an unpleasant orphan. \nRipley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (1974) continues the successful career of the murderer and art forger Thomas Ripley who decides to amuse himself by manipulating a man who slighted him into committing murder. Ripley uses gossip and the unsavory characters who move art forgeries to break a sick man anxious for his family’s well-being after his death. \nThe Shadow of a Shadow by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (2006)\nFour friends gather to play dominoes in 1922. The Mexican Revolution has been betrayed and the four are trying to get by: the poet by writing patent medicine ad copy; the union organizer by silences and strikes; the lawyer by representing prostitutes; and the crime reporter by churning out copy. Left to their own devices\, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency\, but they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast\, greedy army officers\, and American industrialists. Taibo sets the four out to investigate with a great sense of humor\, despite the grisly realities. \nTHE ANTI-BOURGEOIS SUMMER READING GROUP is open to all. This is a second consecutive summer exploring noir/crime fiction. We spend two weeks on each book. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-in-the-dark-crime-and-the-capitalist-way/2018-08-30/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Summer18Noir_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T203000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180818T064739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T064739Z UID:10006335-1536258600-1536265800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx at 200: Capital\, Class and More DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Kevin B. Anderson \nAt Marx’s 200th anniversary\, it is clear that the emancipation of labor from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx’s concept of the worker is not limited to European white males\, but includes Irish and Black super-exploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers\, as well as women of all races and nations. But his research and his concept of revolution go further\, incorporating a wide range of agrarian noncapitalist societies of his time\, from India to Russia and from Algeria to Indigenous peoples of the Americas\, often emphasizing their gender relations. In his last\, still partially unpublished writings\, he turns his gaze eastward and southward. In these regions outside Western Europe\, he finds important revolutionary possibilities among peasants and their ancient communistic social structures\, even as these are being undermined by their formal subsumption under the rule of capital. In his last published text\, he envisions an alliance between these non-working-class strata and the Western European working class. \nKevin B. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology\, Political Science\, and Feminist Studies at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has worked in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Marxist humanism\, the Frankfurt School\, Foucault\, and the Orientalism debate. Among his most recent books are Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005) and Marx at the Margins: On Ethnicity\, Nationalism\, and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016)\, both published by University of Chicago Press. He is active in Los Angeles in the International Marxist-Humanist Organization and in the Coalition for Peace\, Revolution\, and Social Justice. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-at-200-capital-class-and-more/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marx200AndersonSite-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180915T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180915T170000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180913T051646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T051646Z UID:10006391-1536998400-1537030800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:4 Month Pass: September 15\, 2018 through January 20\, 2019 DESCRIPTION:Recent feature!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $150\, $200\, or $250 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 more ($200\, $250 or $300) bring a guest as often and you would like to the classes and events from now through January 12\, 2019. With payment a pdf voucher will be sent that you can present to an of the venues where activities will take place.\nThere are a number of new classes and events in the works including walking tours\, film showings and classes at The Brooklyn Commons and 2 new classes at The People’s Forum at 320 West 37th Street\, including Juliet Ucelli’s Introduction to Marxism for Women Only. Aaron Leonard and Mat Callahan will appear with DJ Denis O’Neill at The People’s Forum on October 17 for sounds\, talks\, and discussion of Music\, Rebellion and Repression. Capital Volume 1 continues on Saturdays along with the EcoSocialist studies taking on Capital\, Energy and Power. Richard Greeman returns to complete his Serge cycle of novels\, taking us on an intimate tour of Serge’s final novel Unforgiving Years beginning September 27. There is much more as you can see if you are on the site. \nThe way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from September 2018 through January 20\, 2019. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-month-pass-september-15-2018-through-january-20-2019/2018-09-15/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Fall2018SpreadSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T140000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180902T165052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T165052Z UID:10006365-1537614000-1537624800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume One DESCRIPTION:with Capital Studies Group \nClass & Discussion (12 week session) \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Marx’s Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-one/2018-09-22/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BookInsidePagesSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T170000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180817T124902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T124902Z UID:10006322-1537630200-1537635600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Daniel Campos \nDaniel’s book The End of the Corporations traces the crisis of capitalism since August 2007\, first in the U.S. with the fall of Bear Sterns\, AIG\, Lehman Brothers\, and then with the crisis spreading out to affect the whole world. This book examines the political changes brought to the U.S.\, Europe and the Middle East. It also draws a comparison between the current crisis and the one in 1929\, analyzes the subsequent evolution of capitalism in the twentieth century\, the post-war “boom”\, the rise of multinational corporations\, and the crisis of the ’70s. Globalization\, the emergence of multinational corporations\, the evolution of financial capital\, and the Investment Banks are also evaluated. Finally\, the book shows an analysis of capitalism throughout history\, which suffered major crises and its link to the social and political phenomena. Following the guidelines of Marx\, The End of the Corporations follows the history of capitalism\, from its birth\, in order to examine the facts and laws that explain how it came about and where the current crisis will go. In the face of the magnitude of the historic character of capitalism’s current crisis\, it may be well worthwhile to stop and ask ourselves: Has capitalism ever been through crises of similar importance? In what way have these crises been overcome? What political and social phenomena spawned the crisis? And on the other hand: what political and social phenomena did the crises produce? \nThis presentation will look at the General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation and their relevance to the underlying global economic crisis that took place in 2007 and what tendencies there are for a similar or more profound crisis than that of 11 years ago. \nDaniel Campos was born in Argentina. Previously he was the congressional representative of the United Left Block for the Province of Buenos Aires. Daniel has more than 35 years of uninterrupted militancy as a Marxist and the Argentinian left\, along with a long background of trade union and political struggle\, In addition\, he has written a number of Marxist economic books including The End of the Corporations\, Toward Theory of Crisis and The Imperialism Today. His next book The 21st Century American Revolution will soon be published\, and is also author of diverse articles on politics\, economy and history. Had given lectures and courses in the World Social Forum in Florence (Italy)\, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil)\, and different workshops in England\, Scotland\, Argentina\, Italy\, Chile\, and Brazil. Currently is member of leadership of Reagrupamiento Hacia el PST de Argentina\, and the Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR). \n“Multinationals are a higher form of accumulation\, containing and outperforming monopolies. With multinationals\, capitalism went from a lower form of accumulation and concentration of capital to a higher one\, but as we saw in Chapter I\, this process was not peaceful. To move from one form of accumulation and concentration of capital to another\, it took 30 years and 2 world wars\, with the balance of millions dead\, razed cities\, and nations and infrastructure destroyed.” (The End of the Corporations\, Chapter V: Forms) URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/general-law-of-capitalist-forms-of-accumulation/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DanInItalySite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180926T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180926T193000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180806T125709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T125709Z UID:10006302-1537984800-1537990200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Energy and Power DESCRIPTION:A 10-week Study Group with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThroughout the history of capitalism\, energy sources and especially fossil fuels—coal\, oil and natural gas—have been critical to the system’s economic viability. The crises associated with climate change are rooted in capital’s insatiable need to burn fuels in order to accumulate wealth and maximize profits. Competition and greed for readily extractable energy resources have fueled wars and evoked popular resistance\, especially in the Middle East. This study group will explore the history and political economy of oil\, energy and capitalism. We will read George Caffentzis’s recently published No Blood for Oil! and related work by Michael Klare\, Andreas Malm\, Timothy Mitchell\, and others. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nSTEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of MEP eco-socialist study groups since 2015. He is also a climate activist with the DSA and faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on eco-socialism for Marx & Philosophy URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-energy-and-power/2018-09-26/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CapitalEnergyPowerSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180927T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180904T040420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T142750Z UID:10006378-1538074800-1538082000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:“A Screaming Comes Across The Sky…” DESCRIPTION:2 Novels of World War II: Unforgiving Years and Gravity’s Rainbow\nThe sessions title can apply to sections of both works \nFirst 5 Thursdays\nSeptember 27 – October 25\nVictor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\nThese five sessions will be conducted with the guidance of Richard Greeman \n“ Unforgiving Years…has now at last been translated into electric English by the indefatigable Richard Greeman…It’s a seething\, hallucinatory novel…” —Harper’s \n“I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth. There have of course been many scrupulously honest writers. But for Serge the value of the truth extended far beyond the simple (or complex) telling of it.” –John Berger \nFrom Richard Greeman’s Introduction to Unforgiving Years: Unforgiving Years is divided into four sections\, four symphonic “movements\,” each of which evokes its distinctive time and place through its tone and atmosphere. The first movement\, entitled “The Secret Agent\,” expresses the sinister unreality of a Paris indifferent to the approach of war in a chill minor key. The second\, “The Flame Beneath the Snow\,” is discordant\, heroic\, and secret like one of Shostakovich’s wartime symphonies. It portrays a frozen\, starving Leningrad during the “thousand days” of the Nazi siege. The third movement\, “Brigitte\, Lightning\, Lilacs\,” imagines the final days of Berlin under Allied bombardment in a mode of Wagnerian Gotterdammerung\, while the final movement\, “Journey’s End\,” is a tragic requiem set in the stark\, volcanic Mexican selva where death and life repeat their endless cycle.\nCopyright © 1971 by The Victor Serge Foundation \nThe remaining 7 Thursdays\nThomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\nThursday\, November 1 through Thursday\, December 20 (no session on Thursday\, November 22)\nwith The MEP Lit Group\n \nGravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic\, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling\, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. \n“No\, it is not unreadable. For most of its 700-plus pages it’s so crazily\, scarily\, sumptuously readable that you hate to put it aside even as the last paragraph thunders down on your head. The unsummarizable plot centers\, to the extent that it centers at all\, on Tyrone Slothrop\, an American who comes to the attention of British intelligence during World War II when a map indicating the locales of his sexual encounters with London women shows that they correspond with the places struck by German V-2 missiles. Can his erections predict the random distribution of agents of death? From there we proceed into a massive continent-wide effort to construct a V-2\, which is itself an occasion for a fantastic multitude of meditations upon the human need to build systems of intellectual order even as we use the same powers of intellect to hasten our destruction. (Did we mention that this is also a comedy\, more or less?) Among American writers of the second half of the 20th century\, Pynchon is the undisputed candidate for lasting literary greatness. This book is why.” —Richard Pourier \nTwo works that demand our attention. Registration is open now.. \nRICHARD GREEMAN has led discussions of Balzac\, Stendahl\, Peter Weiss and especially Victor Serge with The MEP and Brecht Forum since 2012. He currently convenes the group Another World Is Possible with Fred Murphy and others. He is a scholar of the life of Victor Serge and is the translator of much of Serge’s works. \nThe MEP LIT GROUP has been meeting discussing literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group has recently completeda second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels relatedto World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s and more. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky/2018-09-27/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SergeUnforgiveSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180928T213000 DTSTAMP:20260408T160300 CREATED:20180731T132523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180731T132955Z UID:10006300-1538161200-1538170200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Choke Points DESCRIPTION:Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain\nA discussion with editors Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness \nPresented by The Marxist Education Project with The Left Front \nAn important new book from Pluto Press (plutobooks.com) \nGlobal capitalism is always a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world\, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazon depend on the work of millions in docks\, warehouses and logistics centers to keep goods moving. This is the global supply chain. If the chain is broken\, capitalism grinds to a halt. This talk concerns the book of the same name\, looking at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who\, despite their importance\, face extreme exploitation and economic violence. \nExperiencing first hand wildcat strikes\, organized blockades and boycotts\, the authors have explored a diverse range of organizing and related activities\, from South China dockworkers to the transformation of the port of Piraeus in Greece\, and from the Southern California logistics sector\, to dock and logistical workers in Chile and unions in Turkey. \nJoin us for an evening of discussion on the potential strength our class has the ability to utilize in facing capital dominance during our period where capital has of necessity created this points that really give us the means of “choking” their power. \n“This phenomenal collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the dire state of the contemporary global economy. It offers an unprecedented analysis of supply chain capitalism through case studies from around the world that are beautifully written and carefully researched.”—Deborah Cowen\, University of Toronto \n“Beyond analyzing logistical choke points as abstract sites for capital to route around or locations in which workers acquire untimely power\, this volume takes us straight into these crucial nodes of labor struggle. Choke points in global supply chains are revealed as spaces of hazard and calculation\, violence and negotiation\, victory and loss\, passion and organization.” —Brett Neilson\, Research Professor\, Institute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University \nJake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University\, Long Beach. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race\, Gender\, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books\, 2016) and co-author of Getting the Goods: Ports\, Labor\, and the Logistics Revolution (Cornell University Press\, 2008). \nImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency (Pluto\, 2015)\, Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism (Univ. of Illinois Press\, 2011)\, and numerous other works. He is editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/choke-points/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ChokePtsSite_FB3.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR