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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-11-19/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-11-26/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-01/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-12-03/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Extreme Cities
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Ashley Dawson\nco-host: NYC DSA Climate Justice  \nJoin us as climate-justice activists engage in a dialogue with Ashley Dawson\, author of Extreme Cities \nAshley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change\, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere\, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. He offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities\, describing the efforts of Staten Island\, New York\, and Shishmareff\, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy.  \nAs Dawson sees it\, our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls but in urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. \nAshley Dawson is a professor of English at the City University of New York\, and also the author of Extinction: A Radical History.  \nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/extreme-cities/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-08/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-12-10/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T140000
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SUMMARY:Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain
DESCRIPTION:Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain: An insurgent mapping workshop \nSupply chains justify their increasing reach into our daily lives by claiming that they provide us with critical necessities when we most need them. But do they? What are the unseen forms of violence\, dispossession and exploitation that are concealed in the objects we buy with a simple click of the check-out button? Is there ethical consumption under capitalism? Does an ethical purchase at one site travel through multiple other sites of violence? How have logistical systems grown\, developed\, and shaped our spaces? Who funds them? Whose lives are considered expendable in their construction? This workshop will map the global supply chain through tracing the passage of everyday commodities from their point of production to your doorstep. In doing so\, we will examine the infrastructure and ‘externalized costs’—human\, economic\, social and environmental—of the international flow of things. We will explore the potential for our own insurgent mapping projects\, seeking to understand how supply chains are resilient yet vulnerable and fragile—and to identify where working-class solidarity has the greatest possibility to spread up and down the chain\, across sectors\, borders–and even oceans.   \nCharmaine Chua is a member of the Empire Logistics collective and Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. Her work examines the rise of logistics and containerized shipping in the context of the transPacific supply chain\, and seeks to uncover how supply chains that claim to provision life actually distribute inequality\, containment\, and ‘vulnerability to premature death’.\n\nLaurel Mei-Singh serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests include land and militarization\, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war\, and the Pacific. She is writing a book on military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Hawai’i. \nTickets are sliding scale: no one turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/counter-cartographies-of-the-global-supply-chain/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Immigration,Labor History,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-15/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20170712T024722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-22/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20170712T024722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2018-01-05/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180106T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20171102T070537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z
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SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-06/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20170712T024722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z
UID:10003801-1515780000-1515787200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2018-01-12/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180113T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180113T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20171102T070537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z
UID:10006243-1515841200-1515852000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-13/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20170712T024722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z
UID:10003802-1516384800-1516392000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2018-01-19/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20170712T024722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T022704Z
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through February 2\nNo session on Friday\, November 24\, December 29 or January 19 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas-2018-01-19/2018-01-19/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T123000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003846-1516444200-1516451400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-01-20/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222315
CREATED:20171102T070537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z
UID:10006244-1516446000-1516456800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-20/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20180118T024749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200528T000421Z
UID:10006263-1516458600-1516467600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Architecture of Doom
DESCRIPTION:Free Film showing of Architecture of Doom at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village \nArchitecture of Doom\n119 minutes\, color and b/w\, 1991\nMEP in Libraries\nJefferson Market Library in the Village\n425 6th Avenue\nSaturday\, January 20\, 2:30PM with discussion to follow \nNever before seen footage of Hitler’s “Degenerate Art” Exhibition\, an\nexperiment in propaganda against Jews and modern artists\, that\, instead of\nrepelling the population\, drew over 3 million patrons. \nThe film is a stunning documentary of Nazi art and aesthetics\, and how the\nstate uses\, and needs\, art to enhance its ideology. \nThis showing is open to all. It is also and opening to the course Degenerate!: Art and the State which begins on Monday\, January 22 at 6 pm at The Brooklyn Commons
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/architecture-of-doom/
LOCATION:Jefferson Market Library\, 425 6th Avenue\, New York\, NY
GEO:40.7345794;-73.9991481
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180121T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180121T123000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003847-1516530600-1516537800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-01-21/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SlaveRevolt_Caribbean.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180122T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171107T061109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171107T061109Z
UID:10006247-1516644000-1516649400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Degenerate!: Art and the State
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study with Jeramy Turner \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.  —Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nThe idea of this course is to reveal the state’s entrenchment in determining the direction and limitations of the visual art world in capital’s domination of society. We will be examining the extent to which the power structure will go to control our cultural imagination. For example\, the CIA and other governmental agencies energetically promoted abstract expressionism as an art movement that pointed to the limitless freedoms capitalism signified\, especially in its American form. \nThe course would begin with a free screening of Architecture of Doom (dir. Peter Cohen\, 1989\, 119 min\,)—a vivid documentary which presents the Nazi use of overt state control over visual art\, with the premise that art had political and ideological functions. This film showing will occur at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library on Saturday\, January 20\, 2:30 pm. For the Nazis\, modernist\, socialist\, Jewish artists were necessarily entartete (degenerate).  In Munich in 1937\, an enormous exhibition of Entartete Kunst was launched to express degeneracy and madness. Over 3 million people attended. We will project art from some of these designated artists such as Otto Dix\, Georg Grosz\, Max Beckmann in order to deepen an understanding of what was at stake. \nFrom here we travel to postwar America\, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function\, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan\, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible\, even hinted at\, socialist leanings. Abstraction\, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry. \nWe will discuss the trajectory of this upsurge upon museums and galleries\, and upon the artists themselves\, and its relevancy today. What is the underlying nature of political art today?  Who is funding it\, and why?  Has there been a radical reversal in art’s function since the postwar years?  Who owns the museums? Are they meant to inspire or to intimidate?  And\, most essentially: why are these questions important to society in general\, at this point in time? \nThere is a tremendous amount of material and resources\, opinions and visual sources that pertain to this subject. The course will not be a series of lectures\, but rather a guided discussion group\, accessible to political thinkers\, artists\, and art lovers. A multitude of opinions will only enrich our understanding. \nReadings: \n1. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art\, by Serge Guilbaut\, University of Chicago\, 1983\n2. Who Paid the Piper?  The CIA and the Cultural Cold War a.k.a. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stoner Saunders\, New Press\, 1999\n3. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920 -1950\, by Bram Dijkstra\, Abrams Press 2003 \nJeramy Turner’s primary concern has been for many years the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of ruling class hegemony. from 1975 through 1992 she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, “Shattering Screen”. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since.  She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell).  Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\, Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen\, Norway\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state/2018-01-22/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180122T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
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SUMMARY:Revolution in China: 1911-1949
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutions Study Group\n10 weeks \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January\, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle\, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco\, Origins of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, and Edgar Snow\, Red Star over China. \n“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets\, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools\, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers\, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages\, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia\, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”\n—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, 1938 \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual 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 European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-china-1911-1949/2018-01-22/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20180102T060157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180127T043454Z
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SUMMARY:Manuals On Organizing\, Version 1
DESCRIPTION:The 21st Century Anti-Capitalist Organizing Task Force presents a reading of Assembly and No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age \nHow can we develop a strong anti-capitalist movement as capitalists impose a level of austerity that the working class has not experienced since the Great Depression? Over the next several terms\, this reading group will read works that help explore a spectrum of theories and methods for raising class consciousness and general organizing. \nWe will read these books with a critical eye\, looking for what we can relate to our personal experiences and what is useful in our organizing work in the struggle for socialism and against bourgeois barbarism. \nWe will be reading Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts\, and Assembly by Michael Hart and Antonio Negri. The latter is the latest entry in their series of books about how to be effective during the current conjuncture and beyond. \n11 sessions remain. For January 30 read the Preface and Chapter 1 of Assembly along with the Introduction to No Shortcuts. Versions 2 (April – June)\, and 3 (September-December) and beyond will take up other significant works.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/manuals-on-organizing-version-1/2018-01-23/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171115T132956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T132956Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Crisis\, Climate Justice\, Climate Fiction
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week reading and discussion group\nwith Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThis study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate\, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria)\, New York (Sandy)\, and the Mideast (drought\, wars\, refugees)\, through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson\, Christian Parenti\, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction\,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-crisis-climate-justice-climate-fiction/2018-01-25/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180125T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180125T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171115T054212Z
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SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”   —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the  Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930)  The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931)  Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)  March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936)  Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936)  This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940)  Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-01-25/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
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SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through February 2\nNo session on Friday\, November 24\, December 29 or January 19 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas-2018-01-19/2018-01-26/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180127T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171102T070537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z
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SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-27/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180128T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180128T123000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-01-28/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
CREATED:20171107T061109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171107T061109Z
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SUMMARY:Degenerate!: Art and the State
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study with Jeramy Turner \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.  —Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nThe idea of this course is to reveal the state’s entrenchment in determining the direction and limitations of the visual art world in capital’s domination of society. We will be examining the extent to which the power structure will go to control our cultural imagination. For example\, the CIA and other governmental agencies energetically promoted abstract expressionism as an art movement that pointed to the limitless freedoms capitalism signified\, especially in its American form. \nThe course would begin with a free screening of Architecture of Doom (dir. Peter Cohen\, 1989\, 119 min\,)—a vivid documentary which presents the Nazi use of overt state control over visual art\, with the premise that art had political and ideological functions. This film showing will occur at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library on Saturday\, January 20\, 2:30 pm. For the Nazis\, modernist\, socialist\, Jewish artists were necessarily entartete (degenerate).  In Munich in 1937\, an enormous exhibition of Entartete Kunst was launched to express degeneracy and madness. Over 3 million people attended. We will project art from some of these designated artists such as Otto Dix\, Georg Grosz\, Max Beckmann in order to deepen an understanding of what was at stake. \nFrom here we travel to postwar America\, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function\, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan\, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible\, even hinted at\, socialist leanings. Abstraction\, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry. \nWe will discuss the trajectory of this upsurge upon museums and galleries\, and upon the artists themselves\, and its relevancy today. What is the underlying nature of political art today?  Who is funding it\, and why?  Has there been a radical reversal in art’s function since the postwar years?  Who owns the museums? Are they meant to inspire or to intimidate?  And\, most essentially: why are these questions important to society in general\, at this point in time? \nThere is a tremendous amount of material and resources\, opinions and visual sources that pertain to this subject. The course will not be a series of lectures\, but rather a guided discussion group\, accessible to political thinkers\, artists\, and art lovers. A multitude of opinions will only enrich our understanding. \nReadings: \n1. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art\, by Serge Guilbaut\, University of Chicago\, 1983\n2. Who Paid the Piper?  The CIA and the Cultural Cold War a.k.a. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stoner Saunders\, New Press\, 1999\n3. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920 -1950\, by Bram Dijkstra\, Abrams Press 2003 \nJeramy Turner’s primary concern has been for many years the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of ruling class hegemony. from 1975 through 1992 she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, “Shattering Screen”. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since.  She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell).  Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\, Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen\, Norway\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state/2018-01-29/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180129T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180129T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T222316
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T055027Z
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SUMMARY:Revolution in China: 1911-1949
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutions Study Group\n10 weeks \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January\, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle\, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco\, Origins of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, and Edgar Snow\, Red Star over China. \n“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets\, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools\, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers\, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages\, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia\, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”\n—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, 1938 \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual 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 European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-china-1911-1949/2018-01-29/
LOCATION:United States
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