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  • Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory

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    A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: "in contradistinction to materialism, the active side 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.

  • Thea Riofrancos, 'Extractions'

    Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos

    Recording available on YouTube
    Virtual Event

    Thea Riofrancos, author of 'Extractions,' unpacks the challenges of "green capitalism" through the lens of lithium, a so-called "critical mineral" essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation.

  • Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer.

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Karl Marx only sketched the concept of social reproduction in very broad terms, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists, starting in the 1970s and 1980s. They argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. This reading group will look at one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work, Marxism and the Oppression of Women.

  • Protective Presence in the West Bank

    Recording available on YouTube
    Special Event

    Live event concluded, but you may watch the recording on YouTube. The only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are ... Read more

  • Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    A ten-session study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.

  • The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    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 ... Read more

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  • Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues ten sessions on Hegel’s 'Philosophy of Right', a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization.  Our study is inspired by the insight of Andy Blunden, in his recent book, 'The Capital-Logic Debate', that the key to understanding Marx’s dialectical method in his investigation of Capital lies in understanding the method Hegel employed in the Philosophy of Right.

  • Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
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    The ongoing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET. We are reading and exploring 'Selections from the Prison Notebooks', 'Selections from Cultural Writings', 'Selections from Political Writings', and Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.

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  • Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series

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    We are currently reading 'The Choice of Civil War' by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work "a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare."

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  • Planetary Crises: ‘The Alibi of Capital’

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
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    The MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, and related topics. We are moving to a monthly format and will be covering one book each month. At our next session on May 20 we will discuss The Alibi of Capital, by Timothy Mitchell.

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    Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series

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    The MEP Literature Group's new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our selection for May is 'Faraway the Southern Sky', by Joseph Andras: A narrator walks through contemporary Paris, identifying the locations where a young Vietnamese refugee/revolutionary lived and worked in a city marked by rebellions and massacres.

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