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SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-09-16/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-09-14/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190912T193000
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-09-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Les Temps Modernes: The Early Decades
DESCRIPTION:2 sessions with Mitch Abidor\n \nLes Temps Modernes\, founded by Sartre and Beauvoir in 1945\, ceased publication in December 2018. It had been one of the most prestigious intellectual\, political\, and cultural journals in the world\, in its heyday between 1945-1975 setting the terms of intellectual debate all over the world. \nThis class will examine the first decades of its existence\, when such important works as Sartre’s What is Literature appeared in it\, as well as the first installments of Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. It will focus on its political positions\, as Sartre first attempted to set up a third-way party\, became a fellow-traveler of the PCF (publishing The Communists and Peace)\, then rejected working with the Communists (publishing The Ghost of Stalin). It will trace the journal and its editors’ commitment to anti-colonialism\, particularity its courageous work in support of the Algerian FLN. Its role during May 68 and its aftermath will be examined\, as Les Temps Modernes espoused the cause of the Maoists and the far left all over the world. Finally\, it will look at its position on the conflict in the Middle East\, about which Les Temps Modernes published a 1000 page issue. \nMitch Abidor has published over a dozen volumes of translation\, including a collection of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender. His writings have appeared in the New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, and Cineaste. Mitch has been translated into German and Turkish. He is currently writing a history of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. \n  \nThis is a two week course. Fees below are suggested and are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/les-temps-modernes-the-early-decades/2019-09-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-09-07/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190905T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190905T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-09-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190905T203000
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SUMMARY:Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Nada
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the just published new translation of Nada\, with Donald Nicholson-Smith\, New York Review of Books and The MEP\nThis is a New York City reception for the latest translation of Nada\, a newly-translated work of Jean-Patrick Manchette\, to be published on August 27 by New York Review of Books. Donald Nicholson-Smith has been translating the work of Manchette for English-reading audiences for more than a decade. At this event at Unnamable Books we will celebrate the release of Nada\, but our subject will also include all the works of Manchette\, including other novels published by NYRB\, such as The Mad and The Bad\, Fatale\, and Ivory Pearl. Donald will consider the influences on Manchette and share his long-term relationship with many of Manchette’s works
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/jean-patrick-manchettes-nada/
LOCATION:Unnameable Books\, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190831T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190831T140000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-08-31/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-08-29/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Zones of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Global Capital and the Fight to End It\nPanel Discussion with Salonee Bhaman\, George Caffentzis\, Silvia Federici\, Gabriel Rockhill and others. with workshops on developing and defending areas of opposition to and transition from capital. \nAt this late and moribund stage of capitalist development nothing is sacred to profit making as the capitalists deforest the Amazon and exploit the deepest marine life of the Marianas Trench. Meanwhile\, the working classes the world over are engaged of necessity in an array of movements in opposition to these life-destroying practices. Nonetheless\, workers deliver through their labors—which they must sell in order to survive\, losing control over the use of their labor power in this act of selling—the means by which capital is digitally speeding us towards a metabolic endgame. Each decade going forward will lead to the demise of ever more species from the microbial to fully sentient beings like ourselves\, all the result of the insatiable proliferation of the capitalists pursuit for ever greater profit and continuous expanding accumulation of their money capital even if to do so requires the end of life on this planet as we know it. \nIn response to this\, The Marxist Education Project is closing this summer and revving up to meet the challenges of 2020 with an inaugural event on Global Capital and the Fight to End It. We will begin on August 24 with an afternoon panel with Salonee Bhaman\, George Caffentzis\, Silvia Federici\, Gabriel Rockhill and others\, followed by evening workshop discussions. \nThe focus of the workshop discussions is to identify what needs to be done to support\, build\, develop and defend the developing arenas of working class and dispossessed peoples resistance\, towards nurturing a unified counter-capitalist force that can be sustained locally\, nationally\, and in solidarity with the struggles of our brothers and sisters throughout the world. \nThe various workshops will be meeting grounds to identify areas where working classes the world over are organizing resistance and the new left re/formations as collectives\, parties\, and political spaces are forming. To do this\, in the workshops we will explore the array of struggles around such concerns as education\, housing\, healthcare\, jobs\, libraries\, preservation of natural resources and species\, climate\, poverty and hunger\, return of epidemics like measles\, the needs of the aging and physically or emotionally disabled\, and the continued divisions and discriminations within our class be it sexism\, race\, ethic/national/religious origins\, gender identity\, that only serve to enable increasing exploitation of the class as a whole. \nWe will also identify the existing and developing meeting spaces for collectives\, parties\, and political discussion and organizing like the many that are growing in New York City such as Verso Space\, Flux Factory\, The People’s Forum\, MayDay Space\, Woodbine\, Starr Bar\, Bluestockings\, The Base\, Interference Archive\, The Marxist Education Project\, Rosa Luxemburg Institute\, Brooklyn Institute\, Jacobin and Nation reading groups\, The Institute for the Radical Imagination\, Red Bloom\, Democracy at Work\, DSA\, the self-identified cadre political parties and other locales and organizations. \nTo counter this stage of a rapacious dying capitalism that requires ever-deeper exploitation of workers and nature\, we propose to explore where our class has been staking out\, claiming and defending zones of liberation. We look to movements such as our own Occupy movement to the current Yellow Vest movement in France\, the long-standing Zapatista opposition in Mexico that has secured liberated zones\, the ZAD in France\, and our own zones that we are staking out in our daily lives here\, and other instances that panelists and attendess/participants will bring attention to. \nSalonee Bhaman is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. Her research focuses on punitive welfare\, housing\, and austerity politics with particular attention towards questions of race\, gender\, migration\, and care. Her dissertation in progress explores the first years of the AIDS epidemic with regards to the American welfare state—thinking through issues of  care work\, immigration policy\, and intimate space. She has also done significant work on the struggles of women who are brought to the US for marriage\, very often to extra-exploitative and isolated situations with little or no community to turn to for support. \nGeorge Caffentzis is a political philosopher and autonomist Marxist. He was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and a founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He is the author of Clipped Coins\, Abused Words\, and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money\, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work\, Machines\, and the Crisis of Capitalism and the coeditor of A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities. George’s most recent book is No Blood For Oil! Essays on Energy\, Class Struggle and War 1998–2016\, published by Autonomedia. \nSilvia Federici is a long-time feminist\, writer\, and teacher living in Brooklyn\, NY. Her most recent book is Re-enchanting the World. Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press 2019). Other works include Caliban and the Witch Women\, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia 2004)\,  Revolution at Point Zero: Housework\, Reproduction\, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions/PM Press\, 2012)\, The New York Wages For Housework Committee : History\, Theory\, Documents. 1972-1977. (Autonomedia\, 2017)\, and Witch-hunting Witches and Women\, (PM Press\, 2018). Born in Italy\, Federici has lectured and taught widely in Europe\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the U.S. She has participated in numerous international movements and social struggles\, including feminist\, education\, anti-death penalty\, as well as anti-nuclear and anti-globalization movements. \nGabriel Rockhill is a philosopher\, cultural critic and political theorist. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop. His recent books include La guerre intellectuelle de la CIA (forthcoming)\, Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization\, Technology\, Democracy (2017)\, Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History\, Politics\, Aesthetics (2016) and Radical History & the Politics of Art  (2014). In addition to his scholarly work\, he has been actively engaged in extra-academic activities in the art and activist worlds\, as well as a regular contributor to public intellectual debate. For more information: https://gabrielrockhill.com. For some time Gabriel has been active with the Yellow Vests movement. You can listen to his take on the Yellow Vest movement on KPFA in an interview and read his coverage on the Counterpunch website. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/zones-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Verso Books\, 20 Jay Street #1010\, Brooklyn\, 11210
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-08-24/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-08-22/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-08-17/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190815T213000
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-08-15/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190810T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190703T034719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T051548Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-08-10/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190808T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190808T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190519T061606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-08-08/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190801T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-08-01/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190727T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190727T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190318T020507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T062325Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2
DESCRIPTION:The Process of Circulation of Capital\nEdited by Frederick Engels\n \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital —including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? By looking at capitalist social reproduction from this viewpoint\, in Volume II we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2/2019-07-27/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapitalVol2_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190726T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190520T142951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T142951Z
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SUMMARY:Final Friday Film: Happy-Go-Lucky
DESCRIPTION:Written and Directed by Mike Leigh\n(2008 UK 118 mins) \nThirty years old and single\, Pauline “Poppy” Cross shares a London flat with her best friend Zoe\, a fellow teacher. Poppy is free-minded\, high-spirited and kind-hearted. The film opens with Poppy trying to engage a shop employee in conversation. He ignores her\, yet his icy demeanour does not bother her. She maintains her good mood even when she discovers her bicycle has been stolen. Her main concern is not getting a new one or finding the bicycle\, but that she did not get a chance to say goodbye to it. This prompts her to decide to learn how to drive. \nWhen Poppy takes driving lessons for the first time\, her positive attitude contrasts starkly with her gloomy\, intolerant and cynical driving instructor\, Scott. He is emotionally repressed\, has anger problems and becomes extremely agitated by Poppy’s casual attitude towards driving. As Poppy gets to know him\, it becomes evident that Scott believes in conspiracy theories. His beliefs are partly attributable to his racist and misogynistic views\, which make it hard for him to get along with others. Scott seems to be angered by Poppy’s sunny personality and what he perceives as a lack of responsibility and concern for driving safety. Scott is exceptionally irritated by Poppy’s choice of footwear (a pair of high-heeled boots)\, which he feels compromises her ability to drive. From the outset\, he feels Poppy does not take her lessons seriously and is careless. \nFrom The Guardian (UK):\n“Happy Go Lucky has been extravagantly admired since it premiered at the Berlin film festival earlier this year\, and I find myself liking it more and more. Mike Leigh’s trademarked cartoony dialogue\, as ever lending a neo-Dickensian compression and intensity to the proceedings\, is an acquired taste and I have gladly acquired it\, though some haven’t. I am not quite sure what I think about the big\, final confrontation between Poppy and Scott. It is well-acted and composed\, and Marsan is ferociously convincing\, yet the episode is closed off a little too neatly\, and Poppy seems eerily unaffected by this or anything else. The effect is a kind of odd and steely invulnerability: not unattractive exactly\, but disconcerting. \n“Sally Hawkins plays it superbly though: exactly right for the part and utterly at ease with a role that is uniquely demanding. In the factory-farmed blandness of the movies\, Happy-Go-Lucky has a strong\, real taste.” \nLike other wholly original artists\, Mike Leigh has staked out his own territory. His London is as distinctive as Fellini’s Rome or Ozu’s Tokyo. In the 1970s and ’80s his career moved between theatre and making films for BBC Television\, many of which were characterized by a gritty kitchen sink realism style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas Life is Sweet (1990) and Career Girls (1997)\, the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film Topsy-Turvy (1999)\, and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are the black comedy-drama Naked (1993)\, for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/final-friday-film-happy-go-lucky/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190725T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190725T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190519T061606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-07-25/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190720T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190720T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190318T020507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T062325Z
UID:10006026-1563620400-1563629400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2
DESCRIPTION:The Process of Circulation of Capital\nEdited by Frederick Engels\n \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital —including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? By looking at capitalist social reproduction from this viewpoint\, in Volume II we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2/2019-07-20/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapitalVol2_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190718T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190718T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190519T061606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
UID:10006604-1563478200-1563485400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-07-18/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190609T210249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T210249Z
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SUMMARY:How America Became Capitalist
DESCRIPTION:Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West\nAn epic history of the formation of American capitalism\, focusing on gender\, race and empire. \nA presentation and discussion with author James Parisot\n“Parisot’s rich and lively analysis of the domestic history of US empire helps readers understand what it was about the development of US economic\, social and political institutions that made the American state so central in the making of global capitalism.”  —Leo Panitch \n“The historical transformation from a society with capitalism to a capitalist society\, then\, meant\, in the American case\, the two hundred and fifty or so year process through which bits and pieces of capitalist relations slowly came to predominate and incorporate non‐capitalist forms of social life. And this history of the rise of capitalist dominance was simultaneously a history of empire building. By empire I refer to the total structure of power over space and territory that emerged from the earliest days of white‐settler colonization through the extension of continental expansion and the globalization of US power.” —James Parisot\, 2017 \n \nHas America always been capitalist?Today\, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system\, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. Parisot’s book looks at the history of North America from the founding of the colonies to debunk the myth that America is ‘naturally’ capitalist. \nFrom the first white-settler colonies\, capitalist economic elements were apparent\, but far from dominant\, and did not drive the early colonial advance into the West. Society\, too\, was far from homogeneous – as the role of the state fluctuated. Racial identities took time to imprint\, and slavery\, whilst at the heart of American imperialism\, took both capitalist and less-capitalist forms. Additionally\, gender categories and relations were highly complex\, as standards of ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ shifted over time to accommodate capitalism\, and as there were always some people challenging this binary. \nBy looking at this fascinating and complex picture\, James Parisot weaves a groundbreaking historical materialist perspective on the history of American expansion. \nJames Parisot received his PhD in Sociology from Binghamton University. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals\, is co-editor of the book American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict? (Routledge\, 2017). \nPrices are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/how-america-became-capitalist/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/EarlyCapitalInUSA.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190713T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190713T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190318T020507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T062325Z
UID:10006025-1563015600-1563024600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2
DESCRIPTION:The Process of Circulation of Capital\nEdited by Frederick Engels\n \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital —including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? By looking at capitalist social reproduction from this viewpoint\, in Volume II we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2/2019-07-13/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapitalVol2_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190711T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190711T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190519T061606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
UID:10006603-1562873400-1562880600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-07-11/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190706T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190706T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190318T020507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T062325Z
UID:10006024-1562410800-1562419800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2
DESCRIPTION:The Process of Circulation of Capital\nEdited by Frederick Engels\n \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital —including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? By looking at capitalist social reproduction from this viewpoint\, in Volume II we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2/2019-07-06/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapitalVol2_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190629T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190629T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190318T020507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T062325Z
UID:10006023-1561806000-1561815000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2
DESCRIPTION:The Process of Circulation of Capital\nEdited by Frederick Engels\n \nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital —including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? By looking at capitalist social reproduction from this viewpoint\, in Volume II we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2/2019-06-29/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapitalVol2_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190628T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190628T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T110845
CREATED:20190520T012535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T012641Z
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SUMMARY:Final Friday Film: Camp de Thiaroye
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ousmane Sembène \nFrom a screenplay by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow \n(1987 Senegal 153 mins) \n \n“In this powerful and moving film Sembène\, in collaboration with Thierno Faty Sow\, who co-scripted and co-directed\, reclaims and tells to the world another of those fragments of history concealed by colonialism which he sees it as his task to disinter. Such stories are part of the history not only of Africa\, but of the colonial powers\, in this case France\, as well. “You don’t know natives or the colonies”\, Capt. Raymond is informed when\, at a meeting at the General’s H.Q.\, he insists that the Army should honour its obligations to the tirailleurs. France\, he argues\, cannot successfully reconstruct by “robbing natives”\, particularly those who have\, as he outspokenly reminds the assembled officers\, been fighting the war “in your place\, gentlemen”\, a reminder that the authorities in Senegal initially collaborated with Vichy. Ironically\, it is not his ignorance of “natives or the colonies” that limits Raymond\, but his naivety about his fellow Frenchmen: “An officer who does not keep his word is not worthy to wear the French uniform.” When he hears of the massacre in Diatta’s village he is quick to point out that it occurred in 1942\, under Vichy. (In Sembène’s 1971 film Emitai massacres in the Diola region from which Diatta comes are shown as continuing after the liberation of France\, and De Gaulle’s assumption of power.) Diatta argues that the mentality of colonial armies\, be they French or Nazi\, is the same\, going on to point out that collaborators are surrounding the leader of the Free French and being put in charge of the colonies. Despite his greater historical awareness (Raymond is\, in fact\, often prepared to defer to his erudition) Diatta too is taken in when the General apparently gives in to the tirailleurs‘ demands\, and offers his word “as a general officer”. \n“Secondly\, debate is very important in African cinema. It draws on the political rituals of traditional society\, which\, though feudal\, had its system of checks and balances\, which resulted in some degree of democratic exchange of opinion. In Camp de Thiaroye the tirailleurs use the traditional\, highly rhetorical\, almost theatrical\, mode of debate of their various societies\, but adapt this ritual form to the only language they have in common: the pidgin which the French insultingly call “petit nègre”\, a language which is both a result and a tool of colonial exploitation. Here it is revealed as having a potential for eloquence\, allowing it to become a moving medium for the articulation of feelings\, needs\, grievances and resistance\, and thus ultimately for the development of the tirailleurs‘ collective political awareness and consciousness of themselves as Africans. One consequence of the latter is the decision to choose their own leaders\, selecting a representative from each barracks\, rather than relying on their nonetheless much loved and respected Sergeant-Major\, who has been promoted by the whites. The structures they evolve grow out of their historical situation\, and compare strikingly with the rigid hierarchies of colonialism and the military: “The army is discipline. Obedience to your superiors”\, the General tells them. The formal pageantry of the parade-ground serves to stifle debate\, mask conflict\, hide betrayal and destruction\, whereas the theatrical exchanges of the traditional discourse offer a forum for debate\, evolution and reconciliation.”                    —James Leahy\, Sense of Cinema\, October\, 2003 \nOusmane Sembène was the son of a fisherman\, born in Ziguinchor in Casamance to a Lebou family. From childhood Sembène was exposed to Serer religion especially the Tuur festival\, in which he was made cult servant. Although the Tuur demands offerings of curdled milk to the ancestral spirits (Pangool)\, Sembène did not take his responsibility as cult servant seriously and was known for drinking the offerings made to the ancestors. Some of his adult work draws on Serer themes. His maternal grandmother reared him and greatly influenced him. Women play a major role in his works. \nIn 1944\, Sembène was drafted into the Senegalese Tirailleurs (a corps of the French Army). His later World War II service was with the Free French Forces. After the war\, he returned to his home country and in 1947 participated in a long railroad strike on which he later based his seminal novel God’s Bits of Wood. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/final-friday-films-camp-de-thiaroye/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:A Spring Fever of World Literature
DESCRIPTION:A Spring Fever of World Literature\n“The progression from a critical reading of literature to an expansive conception of politics proved not only increasingly persuasive intellectually\, but also compelling.” – Stuart Hall\, Familiar Stranger\nLooking at the last century through the lens of literature (and what it tell us about the present moment and those moments that are soon to come). \nG. by John Berger (UK)\nThe Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (UK)\nThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)\nGraceLand by Chris Abani (Nigeria) \n“Only in fiction can we share another person’s specific experiences. Outside fiction we have to generalize.” — John Berger\, The Success and Failure of Picasso \n“…when I write my novels\, I’m not writing them to make political points. I’m writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism\, and what I want to do is communicate that. But\, because I come at this with a political perspective\, the world that I’m creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. […] I’m trying to say I’ve invented this world that I think is really cool and I have these really big stories to tell in it and one of the ways that I find to make that interesting is to think about it politically. If you want to do that too\, that’s fantastic. But if not\, isn’t this a cool monster?” — China Miéville \n“It didn’t matter that the story had begun\, because Kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.”— Arundhati Roy\, The God of Small Things \nG.\nBerger sets the story of G. against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi and the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898\, the Boer War\, and the first flight across the Alps\, making G. a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in history’s private moments. \nGiovanni – G – the product of an Italian merchant’s adulterous fling is sent to cousins on a farm in England\, where a piano-playing governess awakens the lust that proves the keynote in a series of fragmented episodes set during the years before the first world war – a prospect G relishes on account of all the women it will widow. \nThe Last Days of New Paris\nChina Miéville\n1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille\, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group\, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats\, exiled revolutionaries\, and avant-garde artists\, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares\, changing the war and the world forever. \n“So there I am\, wondering what to do\, and I see you\, and I see what you’re carrying. And that is why I came running after you. Because I do not believe in coincidence.”  \n1950. A lone Surrealist fighter\, Thibaut\, walks a new\, hallucinogenic Paris\, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict\, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts—and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city\, he must join forces with Sam\, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins\, and make common cause with a powerful\, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. \nThe God of Small Things\nArundathi Roy\n“It didn’t matter that the story had begun\, because Kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.” \nIn addition to commentary on Indian history and politics\, Roy evaluates the Indian post-colonial complex\, or the cultural attitudes of many Indians toward their former British rulers. After Ammu calls her father a “[shit]-wiper” in Hindi for his blind devotion to the British\, Chacko explains to the twins Rahel and Estha\, that they come from a family of Anglophiles\, or lovers of British culture\, “trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps.” He goes on to say that they despise themselves because of this. Nearly all of the relationships in the novel are somehow colored by cultural and class tension. \nGraceLand\nChris Abani\nGraceLand is a 2004 novel by Chris Abani\, which tells the story of a teenager named Elvis\, who is trying to get out of the ghettos of Lagos\, Nigeria. Chris Abani depicts the poverty and violence in Lagos and how it affects the everyday lives of Elvis and his family. Having emigrated from Nigeria himself as a result of the Biafran War\, Abani’s novel touches on many issues relevant to corruption\, poverty\, and violence within the country. Elvis’s story also touches on issues related to globalization\, and how Nigeria’s impoverished communities are affected by this phenomenon. The main focus of this story is on Elvis and how he survives in the often harsh environment that is Nigeria’s largest city; Elvis himself is a complex and sympathetic character who clearly cares for his family despite a turbulent upbringing. However\, this is complicated by the numerous illegal and morally questionable jobs he takes part in with his friend Redemption. \n “The rain had cleared the oppressive heat that had already dropped like a blanket over Lagos; but the smell of garbage from refuse dumps\, unflushed toilets and stale bodies was still overwhelming. Elvis turned from the window\, dropping the threadbare curtain. Today was his sixteenth birthday\, and as with all the others\, it would pass uncelebrated. It had been that way since his mother died eight years before. He used to think that celebrating his birthday was too painful for his father\, a constant reminder of his loss. But Elvis had since come to the conclusion that his father was simply self-centered. The least I should do is get some more sleep\, he thought\, sitting on the bed. But the sun stabbed through the thin fabric\, bathing the room in sterile light. The radio played Bob Marley….”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-spring-fever-of-world-literature/2019-06-27/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA
DESCRIPTION:4-week reading and discussion group\nThe Revolutions Study Group\nThis group is for for anyone who wants to better understand why White and Black retain their significance in U.S. society for so many years after the abolition of slavery. W.E.B. DuBois’ groundbreaking Black Reconstruction\, and the recent PBS documentary on the same subject are both useful for these discussions. However\, we are now taking on two readings which are keys to unlocking the power of the color line in shaping the political economy our world and in shaping the lives of African Americans. Theodore Allen’s pamphlet “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” from 1975\, explores why and how skin color became the basis of a rigid caste system in the U.S. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk is his first important book\, takes readers into the world of racial caste as uniquely experienced by African Americans. \nOur four week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen\, “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” first published 1975\, 34 pages\, available as printed pamphlet and a downloadable PDF (http://readsettlers.org/settlers-data/ii/02_THEODOREWALLEN_ClassStruggleAndTheOriginsOfSlavery_Somerville1976_p34.pdf)\, and W.E.B Du Bois\, The Souls of Black Folk\, 1903\, available in all formats including free e-book\, 189 pages\, in the 1989 Bantam paperback\, available in libraries \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/racial-boundaries-the-origin-and-consequences-of-the-color-line-in-the-usa/2019-06-24/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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