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Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupA 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.
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Immigration and Chicano/Latin American Liberation: Repression & Resistance
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for an overview study of the relationship between Mexican immigration and the United States: its colonial foundation, vibrant new communities, cyclical labor exploitation, and ... Read more
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Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos
FeaturedRecording available on YouTubeVirtual EventThea 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.
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Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupKarl 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.
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Protective Presence in the West Bank
Recording available on YouTubeSpecial EventLive 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
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupJoin 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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Planetary Crises: Extraction and the Costs of ‘Green Capitalism’
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupThe 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 ... Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.
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Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupThe MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the ... Read more
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Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
Reading GroupMeets monthly on Saturdays, 2-4 pm ET The MEP Literature Group hosts a new monthly series, meeting at 2 pm US ET on the last Saturday of each month. In ... Read more
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Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupThe continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political ... Read more
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Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupA 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.
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Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for a new format for the "Historical Roots..." study, reworked for 2026 as "topics in strategic studies." We will select and read one significant ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsReading GroupAlternate Mondays, next on April 13, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, ... Read more
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