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SUMMARY:Antonio Gramsci Studies
DESCRIPTION:The ongoing Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET.\n \nAt present we are reading and exploring: \n\nSelections from the Prison Notebooks\nSelections from Cultural Writings\nSelections from Political Writings\nGramsci’s writings on international politics\, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.\n\nParticipants may join in at any time. We share a vast archive of articles and secondary sources on Gramsci research and application of Gramsci’s approach to specific realities of our interest. \nPiruz Alemi\, PhD\, and Trudy Mercadal\, PhD\, facilitate this program. In addition\, all participants have the opportunity to lead discussions\, and we transcribe\, edit\, archive and share our discussion commentaries among the group. In effect\, we will collectively write on international issues of current interest\, applying Gramsci’s approach. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/antonio-gramsci-studies-2026-sessions/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall 2026,featured,Gramsci,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Get blood and consciousness moving with "Ring Shout"
DESCRIPTION:Next on Monday August 31\, 5-6:30 pm ET for Ring Shout \nReading Science Fiction Politically\, Midterms edition explores climate crisis\, artificial intelligence in politics\, a reawakened Klan\, and more by way of four recent novels and selected short stories. \nOur next book\, Ring Shout\, P. Djèlí Cleark\, poses a well-timed question: consider with us\, what if the monstrous\, demonic rebirthed KKK in the 1910s had actual demons for leaders? A non-stop thrill ride featuring three fearless and well-drawn women monster-fighters rallying their community to drive out the “Ku Kluxers.” \nHave  you noticed that\, as contemporary politics veers into the fantastical\, more writers have embraced the fantastical\, speculative\, visionary\, horror to explore politics realistically? If that contradiction intrigues you\, we welcome you to our twice-a-month reading group. \nJump in any time to sample the best of socially-conscious and political literature traditionally called science fiction. We read it to get ready for this year’s elections\, envision the futures we seek and empower our commitments\, enliven our reflection\, and energize our communities. \n\nNow reading: Ring Shout\, by P. Djèlí Clark (author event coming September 28)\nNext Up: Infomocracy\, Malka Ann Older\nOngoing: We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest\, Resistance\, and Hope\, edited by Malka Older\, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord (continuing to read from this wonderful new anthology of activist sf)Earlier this summer:\nThe Terraformers\, Annalee Newitz\nForfeiture\, JP Nebra\n\nAnd bookmark this page for coming selections
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-midterms-edition/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Fall 2026,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T203000
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SUMMARY:Topics in Political Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 7-9 pm ET Next on September 1\n \nAs we head toward the US fall elections\, the Topics in Political Strategy reading group will continue our mix of currently-published substantive analytical pieces and a monthly book-length treatment of important topics of political theory. \nThis fall\, we read two critical commentaries on two very different ends of the present moment and organizing responses to it. \nWe Still Here: Pandemic\, Policing\, Protest and Possibility\, by Marc Lamont Hill. We trace back to 2020 and the uprising that “marked a new phase in the Movement for Black Lives.” Hill “critically examines the “pre-existing conditions” that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval\, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities\, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future.” (from Bookshop.org listing) \nThe Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy\, by Gil Durán\, a journalist traces back from the rise of JD Vance\, to Peter Thiel\, and then further to the right. “These guys were never libertarians\,” says Durán. “Now that they are the government\, we see their true face: They’re fascists\, and they’re authoritarians.” (Quoted on Democracy Now!) \nWe study together to understand the wave of reaction which once again has washed over politics\, its reflection in both long historical currents and fast-changing global trends\, and ways to think strategically about advancing in new directions for the socialist left.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/topics-in-political-strategy-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence AI,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,featured,Gramsci,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T210000
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SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance\, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight against fascism. As the characters encounter each other clandestinely to discuss political questions\, they also discuss works of art and question how the art of the past can support their resistance to a horrific present: what can art suggest for a future they may not live to see? \nJust as Weiss’s characters rely upon group discussion\, readers of this trilogy have often formed reading groups to aid their understanding of the novelist’s ambitions. The MEP is joining this leftist tradition. We will read these challenging novels slowly and discuss themes such as strategy and tactics in the fight against fascism\, and the works of art that inspired the characters’ discussions. Familiarity with art history or with Europe in the 1930s is neither required nor expected. \nPublisher’s web pages for The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3\nSecond-hand bookstores\, online resellers\, and public libraries may have copies of these books available. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/aesthetics-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Fascism,Gender,Germany,historical materialism,History,Literary Studies,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Strategy,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,Spring 2026,War,War Fiction,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T130000
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SUMMARY:Planetary Crises: 'Anthropocene Communism'
DESCRIPTION:Next monthly session September 16\nThe MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group meets monthly to discuss important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency\, the nature of economic and ecological crises\, and related topics. On September 16 we will consider Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster\, by Paul Guillibert. \nIn Anthropocene Communism\, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a new communism to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism. In a highly original reading of Karl Marx’s exchanges with Russian populists\, and informed by the cultural studies of Raymond Williams\, the José Carlos Mariátegui\, and Ernst Bloch\, Guillibert develops a philosophical naturalism that rethinks our relations with the environment. For Guillibert\, if we are to move beyond the Anthropocene\, we must develop new strategies. Communism must become environmentalism\, and political ecology can only become truly revolutionary once it is communist. \nOther recent books of interest to this group are listed here. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, political economy\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research and reported from Latin America for several socialist publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/planetary-crises-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T180000
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Volume I - A Short Course on Capitalist Production
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, September 19 through December 5 \n\nHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1\, but hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-session study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer facilitates as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This study group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. Lisa will be using the new Reitter-North translation of Capital\, but participants are welcome to use any available edition.  \n\nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-short-course-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260920T140000
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SUMMARY:Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
DESCRIPTION:Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat. \nJoin editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter for a discussion of Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver\, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished\, translated\, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work\, class composition\, and the “inversion of the class perspective.” The book puts essential theoretical weapons into the hands of a new generation of militant workers and organizers re-energizing the class struggle. In these essays\, Cleaver rereads Marx to advance our collective search for points of departure from capitalism\, so we can end it before it ends us. \nRobert Ovetz holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas–Austin and is a senior lecturer in Political Science at San José State University\, where his work focuses on academic labor organizing and the labor movement. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back\, We the Elites\, and the forthcoming Rebels for the System. He writes on labor for Dollars & Sense and other publications. \nKevin Van Meter holds a PhD in Geography\, Environment and Society from the University of Minnesota\, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society\, and is a union organizer and labor educator who writes on contemporary labor issues\, labor history\, and working-class self-organization. He is author of Guerrillas of Desire and the forthcoming Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. His work has appeared in New Politics\, Notes from Below\, Dollars & Sense\, and other publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/writings-of-harry-cleaver/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,automation,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Fall 2026,featured,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Precarity,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T153000
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Baitalsky's 'Notebooks for the Grandchildren'
DESCRIPTION:Translator Marilyn Vogt-Downey presents a poignant memoir by Mikhail Baitalsky\, a Ukrainian survivor of the 1930s purges in Soviet Union. Notebooks for the Grandchildren: Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917. Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself\, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s\, Baitalsky recounts the Revolution’s hopes—and its tragic unraveling under Stalin. He narrates how Stalin rose to power and carried out the “political counterrevolution” that silenced so many. Arrested three times by the Stalin regime\, Baitalsky survived to tell this story. \nMarilyn Vogt-Downey translated for the Writings of Leon Trotsky series (1970s) for Pathfinder Press and Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition (1974) and was a contributor to the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism (1990s) as well as to Truthout and Counterpunch. She taught high school economics and foreign policy in NYC for 26 years and is currently a delegate to the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Chapter.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mikhail-baitalskys-notebooks-for-the-grandchildren/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Bolshevism,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,History,Radical Literature,Repression,Russia,Russian Revolution,Socialism,War,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T183000
DTSTAMP:20260828T153734Z
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SUMMARY:P DJeli Clark on 'Ring Shout'\, Writing Stories\, Building Worlds\, Usually Fantastic
DESCRIPTION:Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo\, Nebula\, Sturgeon\, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novel Ring Shout\, which MEP’s Speculative Fiction will read next. Clark also has written Abeni’s Song and A Master of Djinn\, and the novellas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins\, Ring Shout\, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com\, Daily Science Fiction\, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly\, Apex\, Lightspeed\, Fireside Fiction\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and in print anthologies including\, Griots\, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons. \nBorn in New York and raised mostly in Houston\, Texas\, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents\, Trinidad and Tobago. When not writing speculative fiction\, P. Djèlí Clark works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World. He melds this interest in history and the social world with speculative fiction\, and has written articles on issues ranging from racism and H.P. Lovecraft to critiques of George Schuyler’s Black Empire\, and has been a panelist and lecturer at conventions\, workshops and other genre events. \nJoin us for what promises to be a wide-ranging\, exhilarating conversation. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/p-djeli-clark-on-ring-shout-writing-stories-building-worlds-usually-fantastic/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Literature,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T153000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World. Today\, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism—it touches almost every aspect of our lives\, and most people alive have never known another. Yet a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things can’t stay this way forever: an economy built on infinite amassing and consumption of resources is at odds with a finite planet. How did this happen? As Jackson argues in this powerful book\, It wasn’t always capitalism\, it didn’t have to be capitalism\, and capitalism didn’t have to be this way. \nWith a firm grasp on history and economics and a keen eye for the telling anecdote\, Jackson explains where capitalism came from\, how it spread across the globe\, and how it came to be the dominant way of organizing life. He traces capitalism’s development from the accidental construction of an international monetary system to the creation of banking\, the emergence of a new form of slavery in the eighteenth century\, fossil-fuel industrialization\, and finally the global capitalist system spread by imperialism in the nineteenth century. Along the way\, readers learn about the surprising role of Chinese mulberry trees\, Dutch cheese\, whale blubber\, imperial gin and tonics\, Spanish conquistadors\, Mexican mine workers\, and English bankers in the history and development of capitalism. \nFull of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis\, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural\, permanent\, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people\, it can also be unmade by them.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/insatiable-machine/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Asia,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Imperialism,Modernity,Money,Political Economy,Slavery,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T173000
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SUMMARY:Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky's Contribution
DESCRIPTION:Carl Ratner presents a new edition of this six-week series\, in which we seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nThe most sophisticated approach to historical-materialist psychology was developed by the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” This was a comprehensive psychological theory that encompassed child development\, adolescence\, cognition\, perception\, personality/self. Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-psychology-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T153000
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SUMMARY:The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures
DESCRIPTION:We introduce the work of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre through four monthly lectures presented by cultural studies scholar Iván Zatz-Díaz. \nLecture 1—October 11\nMetaphilosophy: This introduction to Lefebvre’s work presents a framework to situate the overarching purpose of his thought as a form of political activism. Metaphilosophy sets an intent to move the act of thinking beyond itself and towards the living world\, beyond formal philosophy and sociology and towards the transformative. A brief look at Lefebvre’s work on Modernism\, Hegel\, Marx\, and Nietzsche will provide further context. \nLecture 2—November 15\nCritique of Everyday Life is Lefebvre’s overarching project from the immediate aftermath of WWII until his death in 1990. Volume 1 (1947) looks at Marx’s concept of alienation as a central explanation of life under capitalism. Volume 2 (1961) aims to set the path for a sociological analysis of late capitalist alienation. A brief account of his analysis of the French events of May-June 1968 will complete the presentation of this initial phase of the Critique. \nLecture 3—December 13\nThe Production of Space is Lefebvre’s best-known work in English and the reason he is often viewed reductively as an urban studies theorist\, especially in the United States. This presentation will approach the book rather as metaphilosophy\, highlighting its politically transformative intent. We will also address other Lefebvre writings on cities as an integral part of his look at everyday life. \nLecture 4—January 10\nCritique vol. 3 and Rhythmanalysis: In the last decade of his life\, Lefebvre returned to the Critique of Everyday Life in order to confront the imbrication of new technologies with the alienated life of latter-day capitalism. Rhythmanalysis\, his final work\, incorporates time into the analysis of everyday life\, particularly in the form of street rhythms seen from his window or observed in the spaces of Mediterranean cities. \nIván Zatz-Díaz is a retired Professor of Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in New York City. He has been a resident of three cities: Mexico City (by birth and upbringing)\, New York City (for much more than half his life)\, and Madrid (for the past two years and counting).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/four-lectures-lefebvre/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Fall 2026,featured,France,Hegel,historical materialism,Marx,Marxisms,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism
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SUMMARY:'The Future of Revolution' with Jasper Bernes
DESCRIPTION:How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Join us for a conversation with Jasper Bernes\, author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising (Verso\, 2026). Communism comes from the future\, but its hopes haunt our past. Bernes reads the revolutionary history of workers’ councils and communes in the light of thinkers from Karl Marx to Paul Mattick and C.L.R. James. \n“In this extraordinary study into revolutionary histories and possibilities\, Jasper Bernes does not let his reader off lightly. He pushes us to think hard alongside him about the logics and activities of collective emancipation—in this task\, we couldn’t ask for a more brilliant guide than Bernes. We need this book now\, and will continue to need it long into the future.” —Natasha Lennard\, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life \nJasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California\, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail\, he is the author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization and two books of poetry\, We Are Nothing and So Can You and Starsdown.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/future-of-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Bolshevism,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Fall 2026,featured,Italian history,Labor History,Marx,Organizing,Political Strategy,Revolutions,Rosa Luxemburg,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
DESCRIPTION:Volume III of Marx’s Capital – The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole – integrates and completes Marx’s analysis\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism. It is essential to understanding the current moment of late capitalist/imperialist development\, in which we see the rise of rentier and finance capital and the commodification of debt; continuously rising prices that bring still more poverty and starvation; new technologies turned into means of extracting rents; the privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; and the list goes on. \nIn this series of ten weekly sessions\, we will be guided through the key concepts in Capital III using Beverley Best’s highly praised companion volume\, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital. \nFred Murphy will facilitate this group. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research and reported from Latin America for several socialist publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/automatic-fetish-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Fall 2026,featured,Financialization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:'Beneath the Wage' with Annie McClanahan
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with author Annie McClanahan on Beneath the Wage: Tips\, Tasks\, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Zone Books\, 2026). Today\, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work\, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate? \n\nAlthough service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism\, this talk uses service work to challenge conventional assumptions about how work is waged\, regulated\, managed\, and automated. It explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor—superexploited tipwork\, deskilled clerical microwork\, and informalized gigwork—and argues that work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination and is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation. Yet service work has also begun to generate a new politics of solidarity\, one that rejects the compromises of industrial unionism and attends instead to the problem of reproduction in a low-wage economy. \nAnnie McClanahan is Professor of English at the University of California–Irvine. She directs the UC Marxist Institute for Research\, is Faculty Co-Director for UCI-LIFTED\, which offers a bachelors degree to incarcerated students\, and is the Vice President for the Council of UC Faculty Associations. She is also the author of Dead Pledges: Debt\, Crisis\, and 21st Century Culture (Stanford University Press\, 2017).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/beneath-the-wage-with-annie-mcclanahan/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Gender,Healthcare,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Political Economy,Precarity,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Solidarity
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