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SUMMARY:Melancholia Africana
DESCRIPTION:The Caribbean Philosophy Association and The Marxist Education Project present \nMelancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition\nWith author Nathalie Etoke and conversation with fellow panelists Lewis R. Gordon and Souleymane Bachir Diagne\nThis year marks the publication of the English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition. In richly poetic prose Etoke considers pain singing the happiness to come\, memories of forgetting\, and on va faire comment? She argues that Africana melancholy is distinct. Rooted in collective and historical experiences of enslavement\, colonization\, and neocolonialism marked by loss of land\, freedom\, language\, culture\, and self. Put differently\, expropriation of labor and of land also annihilated age-old cycles of life. Considering what to do in the wake of such annihilation\, Etoke explores how diasporic Africans reconcile that which has been destroyed with what is newly introduced\, framing this inherent tension as the character of Africana historical becoming. On October 30th\, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon\, who authored its new foreword\, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses. \nNathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures\, French Politics and Culture\, Nouvelles Études Francophones\, Présence Francophone\, International Journal of Francophone Studies\, and Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. She is the author of L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and of Melancholia Africana l’indispensable dépassement de la condition noire\, which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011\, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities\, a documentary on race\, identity and citizenship in contemporary France. \nLewis R. Gordon co-edits Rowman & Littlefield International’s Global Critical Caribbean Thought series.  He is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; the 2018–2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra\, Portugal; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  His public Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/LewisGordonPhilosopher/ and he is on Twitter @lewgord. \nSouleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor and Chair of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and recipient of the Edouard Glissant Prize. He is the author of Boole\, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour (a book on Boolean algebra); Islam and the Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal; African Art as Philosophy: Senghor\, Bergson\, and the Idea of Negritude; The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa; and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition. An English version of his book\, Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal\, which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011\, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press. \nAll tickets are sliding scale
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/melancholia-africana/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191031T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191031T193000
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SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-10-31/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191104T210000
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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/2019-11-04/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191106T203000
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SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists
DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-11-06/
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/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190716T034526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z
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SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-11-07/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191109T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191109T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191024T141325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150149Z
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SUMMARY:The State and Strategies for Socialism
DESCRIPTION:Zones of Liberation: 2nd Session\nOn developing and defending areas of opposition and building a broad and lasting anti-capitalist socialist movement\nA panel with Paul Christopher Gray\, Rafael Khachaturian and Stephen Maher\nModerated by Caroline Sykora\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 continuing the Zones of Liberation series this November 9th. The Socialist Project of Canada has been publishing a series on Socialist Strategy and the State over the past year. All of the published pieces are essential for those active in the anti-capitalist movement to be reading and discussing. Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian’s essay Socialist Strategy and the Democratic Capitalist State examines the the state in its liberal-democratic form\, arguing that we should move beyond both vanguardist and social democratic models toward a view of the state as a contradictory site of class and social struggles.  Paul Christoher Gray’s article on Socialist Project is taken from his recently published From the Streets to the State: Changing the World by Taking Power\, where he takes on the limitations of dual power and extra-parliamentarism and the flaws inherent in the electoralist approaches and where there can be some reconciliation of the best aspects of these tendencies. \nPaul Christopher Gray is a professor in Brock University’s Department of Labor Studies in St. Catharines\, Ontario. The link to Paul’s work is here: https://socialistproject.ca/2019/06/transforming-capitalist-power-from-streets-to-state/ \nRafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. \nStephen Maher is a social critic\, PhD candidate at York University in Toronto and Socialist Register Assistant Editor. \nThe link to Rafael and Stephen’s work is here: https://socialistproject.ca/2019/05/socialist-strategy-and-capitalist-democratic-state/
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-state-and-strategies-for-socialism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/StateStruggleSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
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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/2019-11-11/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190629T231708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z
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SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists
DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-11-13/
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/2019/06/Good-imageSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191114T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190716T034526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z
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SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-11-14/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EarthCrisisSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191116T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191026T054838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions
DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-11-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
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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/2019-11-18/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191120T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190629T231708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z
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SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists
DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-11-20/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191123T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191123T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191026T054838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions
DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-11-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
UID:10006640-1574708400-1574715600@marxedproject.org
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/2019-11-25/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191129T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191003T051108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T051108Z
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SUMMARY:The Stuart Hall Project
DESCRIPTION:A Film by John Akomfrah\nUK 99 minutes \n \nFrom the award winning documentarian John Akomfrah comes The Stuart Hall Project\, a ground-breaking film that pioneers a new archival and sonic approach to forgotten histories\, forgotten ideas and the untold stories of the politics of change. Visionary director John Akomfrah weaves between the musical archaeology of Miles Davis\, the political narratives of the new post-war Left and the life and works of key architect\, the cultural theorist Stuart Hall—one of the New Left’s most prominent and influential intellectuals. Akomfrah carefully constructs archival sequences of rare forgotten and long since seen historical material together with Hall’s extensive broadcasts and personal archives\, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the ideas and personal story of Stuart Hall. Imagined through a Miles Davis and an original sonic sound track\, Akomfrah creates a vivid cartography of the twentieth century’s defining political moments making a powerful portrait of Hall. \n“John Akomfrah’s film is a tribute to the critic and New Left Review founder Stuart Hall – a montage of existing documentary footage and Hall’s own words and thoughts on film. It has an idealism and high seriousness that people might not immediately associate with the subject Hall pioneered: cultural studies. This is not about\, say\, postmodern readings of Lady Gaga\, but a deeply considered project that reconsiders culture and identity for those excluded from the circles of power through race\, gender and class. His is the progressive tradition of Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams\, unfashionable since Margaret Thatcher dismantled the welfarist consensus. Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall’s own life story: a man who came from Jamaica – which Hall elegantly calls the “home of hybridity” – and found himself not really at home there\, nor in the postwar UK in which he began a brilliant academic career at Oxford. Akomfrah sees Hall as a calm figure who insists on the fundamental topic of equality – yet without getting angry at the surface flashpoints of history. I wondered sometimes at Hall’s view on racial identity: it could well be\, as he says\, that race is an ideological construct – but does that help victims of racism? Anyway\, an absorbing account.”   Peter Brahe Guardian\, September 5\, 2013 \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-stuart-hall-project/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
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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/2019-12-02/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191115T071328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191126T063018Z
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SUMMARY:The People’s Uprising in Chile
DESCRIPTION:Fighting Austerity\, Demanding Democracy\nwith J. Patrice McSherry and David Duhalde\n\nTaking to the streets by the millions and withstanding brutal police assaults\, the working people of Chile have beaten back austerity measures and forced the right-wing Piñera regime to accede to a new constitution to replace the restrictive one imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship. The struggle continues to assure that the new charter be drafted by a democratic process and contain safeguards to civil liberties and social welfare provisions. Join us to hear direct reports from Santiago. \nJ. Patrice McSherry\, professor of political science emerita at Long Island University and currently resident in Santiago as a researcher collaborating with the Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA). She is the author of Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America\, and her most recent book is Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music\, 1960s-1973. \nDavid Duhalde is a NYC-based activist involved with the international work of Democratic Socialists of America. He previously held roles at Our Revolution\, the Bernie Sanders-inspired grassroots organization\, and as DSA’s deputy director. David’s father came to the United States as a political exile following the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government\, and his American mother toured the country telling of her experiences in living through the coup.\nNo one turned away for inability to pay admittance.\nThere is a one drink minimum from The Commons Cafe.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-peoples-uprising-in-chile/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191207T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191026T054838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions
DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-12-07/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191207T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191124T162016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T162433Z
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SUMMARY:Capital: A Review of Volumes 1 and 2
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS A 4 SESSION COURSE MEETING DECEMBER 7\, 14\, JANUARY 4\, 11 \nIn review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. In review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. These sessions are suggested as a good review for those who would like to join in for the coming sessions of our close reading of Volume 3 which will begin on January 18. Of course\, anyone interested in a review of Capital and/or would simply like to read and discuss the Fine and Saad-Filho book are encouraged to attend as well. \n“Marx’s Capital is an admirably clear explanation of complex ideas\, which has the rare virtue of saying something important to economists while being accessible to non-specialist readers. It also does a very good job of showing the urgent relevance of Marx’s Capital today.” —Ellen Meiksins Wood\, author of The Empire of Capital (2003) and The Origin of Capitalism (2002) \nFees are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-a-review-of-volumes-1-and-2/2019-12-07/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
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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/2019-12-09/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191116T072458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T072458Z
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2019-12-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191026T054838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T073336Z
UID:10006677-1576321200-1576332000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Third Sessions
DESCRIPTION:7 week session \nVolume 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-third-sessions/2019-12-14/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191029T065134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191102T032021Z
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SUMMARY:Spectatorship and Embodied Expression
DESCRIPTION:A Talk / A Performance / A Surreal Meal\nwith Florence Benichou\, Marija Krtolica and Despina Stamos\n“[C]ritical art is a type of art that sets out to build awareness of the mechanisms of domination to turn the spectator into a conscious agent of world transformation\,” writes philosopher Jacques Rancière in Aesthetics and its Discontents (2004). When as dance artists we decide to work critically with and through the body\, and at the same time enter the contested field of the history of psychiatric diagnosis\, our aim is to initiate spectator’s transformation. The intention is to make him/her into an active observer of the world outside a given theatrical event. For this to occur\, the spectator is asked to remain attentive during a relatively short time of a theatrical event. As artists we incite spectators to interpret\, and construct meanings out of the puzzles and expressive tropes we present in front of their eyes. The dancers find themselves in a unique position\, as their art has traditionally been linked with ephemerality\, poetics and abstraction. Paradoxically\, their medium of expression is the most material in a visceral sense. The medium is the body\, with its acquired skills\, aesthetic values attached to it\, pre-verbal histories\, but mainly its skeletal and muscular structure\, organs\, feelings\, drives\, and sensations. By researching the boundary that separates the avant garde artistic expression from the symptoms diagnosed as mental illnesses\, the dance makers become both provocateurs and witnesses who reproduce the visible bodily manifestations\, and give form to hidden realities of everyday encounters. However\, it is not the dancers who are “responsible” for making the theatrical encounter real. As the philosopher Alain Badiou points out\, the Spectator who enters the theater space is the one who presents “point of the real by which a spectacle comes into being.”—Rhapsody for the Theater: A Short Philosophical Treatise\, 1990. Badiou’s Spectator pays for his/her ticket\, but instead of being lulled into a state of pleasant passivity he/she is forced to “perform” the “real” work. That is\, he/she becomes responsible for developing meaning. In this way\, the spectator gradually gains an ability to transform the “real” world outside the theater. \n \nPRESENTERS/PERFORMERS\nAn introductory talk will be given by dance scholar\, choreographer and dancer MARIJA KRTOLICA\, Ph.D in dance Temple University\, and faculty in dance at Bloomsburg University. Her paper “Expression and Symptom” (published in Fall 2019 by Documenta\, Ghent University) examines the relationship between expression in modern dance\, psychiatric diagnosis\, and critico-theoretical re-interpretation of symptoms of mental illness. Her line of research starts with the nineteenth century hysteria and expands into the questions of dance labor\, artistic production\, and spectatorship in today’s society. As is part of each year’s presentation\, dance will be followed by a meal of the surreal. \nFLORENCE BENICHOU’s expansive repertoire includes site-specific performance – both as dancer and choreographer and voice over as well as acting work. She sees dance as a language and aims to use movement within various media to express individual and social relationships\, limitations\, conflicts and connections. She has worked with a variety of underground New York art and dance companies including Modern Dance Awareness Society\, Human Kinetics Movement Art\, and the Sanctuary of Hope before creating her own projects which were featured at Gallery138 in Chelsea\, New York\, France. \nDESPINA STAMOS is a dancer/choreographer in NYC since 1989. Her work has been presented throughout New York City at such venues as Dance Theater Workshop\, PS122\, PS1\, as well as internationally in Greece\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Austria and Puerto Rico. In 2006\, she initiated and collaborated on the community project\, passTRESpass\, a multimedia performance installation in a former community market place addressing immigration\, in Athens\, with the United African Women’s Organization of Greece. Stamos is founding member of the Modern Dance Awareness Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/spectatorship-and-embodied-expression/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191216T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
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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/2019-12-16/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191123T134511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191123T134511Z
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SUMMARY:Bertolucci’s 1900
DESCRIPTION:with Robert DeNiro\, Gerard Depardieu\, Dominique Sanda\, Stefania Sandrelli\, Laura Betti\, Donald Sutherland\, Burt Lancaster\, and Sterling Hayden. \nBoth born on the day of Verdi’s death at the beginning of the 20th Century\, the characters that as adults are played by DeNiro (Alfredo) and Depardieu (Olmo)\, grow up side by side as friends\, and during fascism as class enemies\, in this epic depiction of the class struggles in Italy leading up to the Eurocommunist moment in 1975\, focused primarily on the rise of fascism and the fight that led to end the dictates of the Italian right with Alfredo accommodating the fascists at his estate\, while Olmo organizes and takes part in the broad struggles including the armed resistance. \nThere are few films like 1900. “…told with an unyielding Marxist fervor\, 1900 overflows with an abundant love of life in all its beauty and pain\, sensuality and despair.” —The Los Angeles Times \n“1900 explores a vibrant familial identity existing between a group of socialist farmers\, the landowners they work for\, and fascist factions penetrating rural Parma\, Italy. Its half-century scope provides a raw macro/micro slant on psychological\, generational\, political\, and cultural changes in the region of Bertolucci’s birth. Compared with the contained\, at times claustrophobic\, expressionist style of Last Tango\, 1900 is a 180-degree turn into a wide open direction. For his thirteenth film Bertolucci wanted to express what he saw as Italy’s “multi-culture” society becoming a “mono-culture\,” due to the influence of the industrial revolution\, and capitalism more precisely. The thick-layered chronicle doesn’t sweep across time so much as it escorts the audience through indelible composite events that bristle with personal\, social\, and political characteristics….Since [when it was made] 1900 has come to stand as an organic cinematic journey through chapters of a rich apocryphal history that evinces an ongoing struggle between the world’s rich elite and everyone else.”—Cole Smithey
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/bertoluccis-1900/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200104T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200104T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191124T162016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T162433Z
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SUMMARY:Capital: A Review of Volumes 1 and 2
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS A 4 SESSION COURSE MEETING DECEMBER 7\, 14\, JANUARY 4\, 11 \nIn review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. In review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. These sessions are suggested as a good review for those who would like to join in for the coming sessions of our close reading of Volume 3 which will begin on January 18. Of course\, anyone interested in a review of Capital and/or would simply like to read and discuss the Fine and Saad-Filho book are encouraged to attend as well. \n“Marx’s Capital is an admirably clear explanation of complex ideas\, which has the rare virtue of saying something important to economists while being accessible to non-specialist readers. It also does a very good job of showing the urgent relevance of Marx’s Capital today.” —Ellen Meiksins Wood\, author of The Empire of Capital (2003) and The Origin of Capitalism (2002) \nFees are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-a-review-of-volumes-1-and-2/2020-01-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191116T072458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T072458Z
UID:10006681-1578592800-1578598200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2020-01-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200111T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200111T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191124T162016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T162433Z
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SUMMARY:Capital: A Review of Volumes 1 and 2
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS A 4 SESSION COURSE MEETING DECEMBER 7\, 14\, JANUARY 4\, 11 \nIn review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. In review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. These sessions are suggested as a good review for those who would like to join in for the coming sessions of our close reading of Volume 3 which will begin on January 18. Of course\, anyone interested in a review of Capital and/or would simply like to read and discuss the Fine and Saad-Filho book are encouraged to attend as well. \n“Marx’s Capital is an admirably clear explanation of complex ideas\, which has the rare virtue of saying something important to economists while being accessible to non-specialist readers. It also does a very good job of showing the urgent relevance of Marx’s Capital today.” —Ellen Meiksins Wood\, author of The Empire of Capital (2003) and The Origin of Capitalism (2002) \nFees are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-a-review-of-volumes-1-and-2/2020-01-11/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MarxCapitalFineRedCover2.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20191116T072458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T072458Z
UID:10006682-1579197600-1579203000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2020-01-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T213000
DTSTAMP:20260411T100630
CREATED:20190904T042630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200112T175034Z
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SUMMARY:Antiquity Now: 3 Robert Graves Novels
DESCRIPTION:To bring the dead to life\nIs no great magic.\nFew are wholly dead:\nBlow on a dead man’s embers\nAnd a live flame will start.\nLet his forgotten griefs be now\,\nAnd now his withered hopes;\nSubdue your pen to his handwriting\nUntil it prove as natural\nTo sign his name as yours…\n—To Bring the Dead to Life\, Robert Graves\n“Do we need Greek myths? In 2019\, we need justice more than anything else: racial justice\, gender justice\, economic justice. What Greek myths have going for them is that they can offer an imaginative road map by which we steer ourselves on the journey to equity. My cautious can places me in distinguished company. In Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths (2017)\, Emily Katz Anhalt presses that trusty helping verb into service too: ‘Right now in the twenty-first century\, Greek myths can arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.’ But if we’re to unlock the potential of these myths and turn possibility into actuality\, it won’t do to pretend that the myths themselves come to us free and unburdened…. Among the shades\, the World War I veteran Robert Graves stands taller than most—as does his provocative and irresistible take on the Argonauts…\, Throughout his long career\, Graves applied himself doggedly to teasing history out of the myths of the epic cycles\, hoping to reconstruct what Greece was…recreating a world of matriarchal communities\, all eventually to be swept away by invaders who enforced patriarchy at every level of society from family relations to religious cult.”\n—Dan-El Padilla Peralta\, Introduction to The Golden Fleece \nThis group begins with Graves’ The Golden Fleece\, a retelling of Jason and the Argonauts voyages throughout the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. They roam by ship as defined acquisitive individuals striving for heroics\, attempting to dominate the matriarchal societies Graves and others assert existed in no small number throughout the ancient world. Having stolen the fleece\, the return to what is Greece is one where title\, family and property take hold. We continue with Graves’ version of The Odyssey. Authored\, as Graves believed by Nausicaa of Sicily\, Homer’s Daughter is a “bold and presciently” told feminist novel about Nausicaa’s life and authorship. Both novels have recently been re-issued by Seven Stories Press in their Graves Project series. This first series of works by Graves will switch from considering the early antiquity of Greece to the days of Rome\, many centuries later. We finish with a reading of Graves most popular novel\, I\, Claudius (1934)\, with Claudius recounting the imperial aspects of the rule and daily lives of those who preceded him—Augustus\, Tiberius\, and Caligula—up to his own ascendancy as emperor. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/antiquity-now-3-robert-graves-novels/2020-01-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies
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