Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Hegel’s Science of Logic

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Hegel’s Science of Logic is considered by many the most important and developed of all of Hegel’s works. It is essential for understanding Hegel’s other works and therefore it is essential for understanding the works of Marx and Engels as well.

$95 – $125

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx Volume 1

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

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.

$95 – $125

The Long French Revolution in Literature and Life: 1789-1871

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

For Marxist and democratic historians, France remains the ‘model’ country for the analysis of class struggles and political revolutions, which overthrew the established order in 1789, 1830, 1848 and 1871 (and profoundly threatened the bourgeois order again in 1968). We will examine these successive revolutions chronologically through the eyes of both radical historians and novelists.

$95 – $125

Spectres of the Dialectic from the Big Bang to the Multiverse: Explorations with Hegel, Marx & Engels on the Philosophy of Nature

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Through writings, videos, and other media we will engage in issues in modern physics and biology that get to the core of the current crisis in science and take us beyond the limitations of the mechanical picture of the world we have inherited.

$95 – $125

The Science and Politics of our Ecological Crisis

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

A Marxist approach will be taken to explain the origins of modern science as a cultural production of our socio-economic system, in order to examine the roots of our ecological crisis.

$75 – $95

Fanon Black Skin, White Masks with Kazembe Balagun

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

A Reading and Writing Group on the Seminal Work of Frantz Fanon With deft analysis and radical fervor, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was the patron saint of the revolutionary movements of the global south. As a psychiatrist and writer he played a key part in the liberation of Algeria. His seminal work Wretched of the Earth ... Read more

$95 – $125

The Origins and Development of Bolshevism: 1900-1914

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

11 Sessions Starts October 6, 2014 5:30-7:30pm at The Brooklyn Commons $95-125 (no one turned away for inability to pay) This course will explore the evolution of Bolshevik theory and organizational practice in the 15-year period leading up to the 1914 outbreak of World War One. We will seek to understand their praxis with reference ... Read more

$95 – $125

The Commons: An All-Day Seminar with Siliva Federici

While evoking a pre-capitalist past, the idea of the “common(s)” is embraced today by feminists, anarchists, greens, Marxists/socialists as the formative principle of a non-capitalist society. The workshop will examine : A. What the concept of “the common” has represented historically, especially in the Marxist/socialist as well as the anarchist and feminist traditions and the ... Read more

Precarious Labor, Precarious Lives Reading Group

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Since the 1990s, scholars and activists have written about the impact of practices like “flexible accumulation” on workers and communities. We experience this in a very empirical and existential way, as so many of us can no longer count upon having (or keeping) a stable, secure job with benefits, or maintaining a roof over our heads. “Contingent labor” is not an abstraction but a harsh reality.

$65 – $85

An Indigenous People’s Reading Group

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The Indigenous Peoples’ Reading Group has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America who were here before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this hemisphere and those peoples under their control and exploitation, following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz this past September.

$110

Jean Jaurès 100 Years Later: His Life and Legacy

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Jean Jaurès, who consistently countered the rise of militarism and opposed the war, was assassinated July 31, 1914, by a right-wing fanatic. Days later, World War I began the French socialists supported it.

$6 – $12

Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918

Hubert Harrison, (1883-1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, who was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time” and by A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem Radicalism.”

$6 – $12

Victor Serge: Midnight in the Century

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin’s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge’s searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin’s betrayal of the revolution.

$6 – $12