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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180825T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180825T140000
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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
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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
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180830T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T203000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T110000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T170000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180926T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180904T040420Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180928T213000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180929T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180929T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180902T165052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T165052Z
UID:10006366-1538218800-1538229600@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/2018-09-29/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BookInsidePagesSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181001T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181001T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180902T164009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T164009Z
UID:10006353-1538422200-1538429400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:1968 and After
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutionary Aspirations of the New Left\nRevolutions Study Group  \nFifty years ago\, the political-military blocs of the Cold War had ossified\, social democracy and labor unions in the West were tamed\, and struggles for change in Eastern Europe and Latin America seemed to have been controlled by combinations of sticks and carrots. Then\,  in the year 1968\, in France\, Italy\, the United States\, Czechoslovakia\, Mexico\, etc. there were immense uprisings against the status quo. This fall\, we will study this watershed period (1968-1974) considering the achievements and failures of the Left in the 1960s. We will read Chris Harman’s The Fire Last Time (2nd revised ed. 1998)\, linking the events of 1968 and what carried these events forward.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/1968-and-after/2018-10-01/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewLeftSectionA_Site.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180820T031704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z
UID:10006346-1538503200-1538510400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital?  \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today?      \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all.  \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-02/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180819T004938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z
UID:10006336-1538505000-1538512200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation.   \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.  \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-02/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181003T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180806T125709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T125709Z
UID:10006303-1538589600-1538595000@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/2018-10-03/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CapitalEnergyPowerSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181003T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180817T123032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T123032Z
UID:10006313-1538589600-1538596800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Degenerate Art and The State
DESCRIPTION:Part Ii: Notes of Discord \nAn 8-week study with Jeramy Turner and Jack Shneidman \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.\n—Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nArt can become an alternative form of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance. We will explore selected pieces of music\, visual art\, and including two exemplary\, radical films: Soleil O (dir. Mel Hondo\, France/Mauritania\, 1967)\, a scathing attack on colonialism and capitalism; and Council of the Gods\, (dir. Kurt Maetzig\, East Germany\, 1950) a fictional film linking Monsanto\, Rockefeller\, and Hitler. Music selections will include works by John Coltrane (1926-1967)\, American jazz saxophonist\, composer\, and civil rights activist; Charles Haden (1938-2014) of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra\, American jazz bassist and composer\, also engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist movements; and Frederic Rzewski (1938-  )\, American composer and pianist\, engaged in anti-prison industrial complex activity\, as well as being an anti-fascist agitator. Among visual art considered will be work by German muralist Werner Tuebke (1929-2004)\, including Peasant Wars panorama; Josep Renau (1907-1982) Spanish Civil War Communist\, with photomontages of great power and beauty; and Edward Keinholz (1927-1994)\, American anti-imperialist\, anti-U.S. sculptor from the 1960s. \nJACK SHNEIDMAN earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase\, and an MA from the City College of New York in music composition and jazz performance\, respectively. He is the author of the instructional book\, 1001 Jazz Licks published by the Cherry Lane Music Company (2000). He has led jazz ensembles in the New York area\, and has also performed in Japan and London. He lectured at LaGuardia Community College for seven years. \nJERAMY TURNER’s primary concern for many years has been the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of countering ruling class hegemony. From 1975-1992\, she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, Shattering Screen. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since. She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell University). Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\,  Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen (Norway)\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state-2/2018-10-03/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MuralForDegenArtSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180904T040420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T142750Z
UID:10006379-1538679600-1538686800@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/2018-10-04/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SergeUnforgiveSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181006T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181006T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180902T165052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T165052Z
UID:10006367-1538823600-1538834400@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/2018-10-06/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BookInsidePagesSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181008T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181008T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180902T164009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T164009Z
UID:10006354-1539027000-1539034200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:1968 and After
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutionary Aspirations of the New Left\nRevolutions Study Group  \nFifty years ago\, the political-military blocs of the Cold War had ossified\, social democracy and labor unions in the West were tamed\, and struggles for change in Eastern Europe and Latin America seemed to have been controlled by combinations of sticks and carrots. Then\,  in the year 1968\, in France\, Italy\, the United States\, Czechoslovakia\, Mexico\, etc. there were immense uprisings against the status quo. This fall\, we will study this watershed period (1968-1974) considering the achievements and failures of the Left in the 1960s. We will read Chris Harman’s The Fire Last Time (2nd revised ed. 1998)\, linking the events of 1968 and what carried these events forward.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/1968-and-after/2018-10-08/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewLeftSectionA_Site.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180820T031704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z
UID:10006347-1539108000-1539115200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital?  \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today?      \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all.  \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-09/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180819T004938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z
UID:10006337-1539109800-1539117000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation.   \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.  \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-09/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181010T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180806T125709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T125709Z
UID:10006304-1539194400-1539199800@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/2018-10-10/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181010T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180817T123032Z
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UID:10006314-1539194400-1539201600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Degenerate Art and The State
DESCRIPTION:Part Ii: Notes of Discord \nAn 8-week study with Jeramy Turner and Jack Shneidman \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.\n—Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nArt can become an alternative form of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance. We will explore selected pieces of music\, visual art\, and including two exemplary\, radical films: Soleil O (dir. Mel Hondo\, France/Mauritania\, 1967)\, a scathing attack on colonialism and capitalism; and Council of the Gods\, (dir. Kurt Maetzig\, East Germany\, 1950) a fictional film linking Monsanto\, Rockefeller\, and Hitler. Music selections will include works by John Coltrane (1926-1967)\, American jazz saxophonist\, composer\, and civil rights activist; Charles Haden (1938-2014) of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra\, American jazz bassist and composer\, also engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist movements; and Frederic Rzewski (1938-  )\, American composer and pianist\, engaged in anti-prison industrial complex activity\, as well as being an anti-fascist agitator. Among visual art considered will be work by German muralist Werner Tuebke (1929-2004)\, including Peasant Wars panorama; Josep Renau (1907-1982) Spanish Civil War Communist\, with photomontages of great power and beauty; and Edward Keinholz (1927-1994)\, American anti-imperialist\, anti-U.S. sculptor from the 1960s. \nJACK SHNEIDMAN earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase\, and an MA from the City College of New York in music composition and jazz performance\, respectively. He is the author of the instructional book\, 1001 Jazz Licks published by the Cherry Lane Music Company (2000). He has led jazz ensembles in the New York area\, and has also performed in Japan and London. He lectured at LaGuardia Community College for seven years. \nJERAMY TURNER’s primary concern for many years has been the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of countering ruling class hegemony. From 1975-1992\, she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, Shattering Screen. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since. She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell University). Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\,  Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen (Norway)\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state-2/2018-10-10/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180904T040420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T142750Z
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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/2018-10-11/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181012T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180927T001210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T001210Z
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SUMMARY:Birth of the Binge
DESCRIPTION:Serial TV\, Digital Accumulation and Distracted Audiences\nDennis Broe \nDennis Broe’new book Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure is an attempt to alter the way serial television is viewed by\, instead of starting with the shows themselves or with serial fandom\, first integrating the form\, which began at the opening of the neoliberal era in the early 1980s\, into ongoing processes of the digital economy. The book views serial television as a part of what Bernard Stiegler terms hyperindustrialism\, seeing the form and the delivery system which is part of its development as adapting itself to more harried workers on the go and utilizing both technological and narrative devices which foster addictive viewing and participate in the validation of a new corporate autistic personality.  \nStreaming television is seen not as a revolutionary break\, as many media critics describe it\, but as a continuation\, often by the same multinationals\, of the old network processes in different and sometimes more predatory forms. The form has also spawned series that critique both this process and the offline forms of extraction that are growing more and more deadly. Broe’s talk on the book will also encompass new developments in resistant cinema\, particularly in the case of Italian cinema which\, like serial television series\, operates in a constrained and dangerous atmosphere in truthtelling and which must then find ever more ingenious ways of deniability of the truth it is unfolding. This will be discussed in the context of the Yellow-Green of the far-right League and the Populist Five Star Parties. \nDennis Broe\, who has taught in the Television Studies Master’s Program at the Sorbonne\, is also the author of Maverick: Or How the West Was Lost; Class Crime and International Film Noir: Globalizing America’s Dark Art; Film Noir\, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood and Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception. His television series: TV on TV is on Art District TV in Paris and he is a critic for Arts Express on the Pacifica Radio Network.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/birth-of-the-binge/
LOCATION:United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Left CoLab":MAILTO:revsgroup@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181013T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181013T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180902T165052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T165052Z
UID:10006368-1539428400-1539439200@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/2018-10-13/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181015T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180913T051646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T051646Z
UID:10006392-1539590400-1539622800@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-20-2019/2018-10-15/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181015T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181015T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T134902
CREATED:20180902T164009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T164009Z
UID:10006355-1539631800-1539639000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:1968 and After
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutionary Aspirations of the New Left\nRevolutions Study Group  \nFifty years ago\, the political-military blocs of the Cold War had ossified\, social democracy and labor unions in the West were tamed\, and struggles for change in Eastern Europe and Latin America seemed to have been controlled by combinations of sticks and carrots. Then\,  in the year 1968\, in France\, Italy\, the United States\, Czechoslovakia\, Mexico\, etc. there were immense uprisings against the status quo. This fall\, we will study this watershed period (1968-1974) considering the achievements and failures of the Left in the 1960s. We will read Chris Harman’s The Fire Last Time (2nd revised ed. 1998)\, linking the events of 1968 and what carried these events forward.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/1968-and-after/2018-10-15/
LOCATION:United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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