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Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupKarl Marx only sketched the concept of social reproduction in very broad terms, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists, starting in the 1970s and 1980s. They argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. This reading group will look at one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work, Marxism and the Oppression of Women.
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Protective Presence in the West Bank
Recording available on YouTubeSpecial EventLive event concluded, but you may watch the recording on YouTube. The only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupAlternate Mondays, next on April 13, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, ... Read more
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Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupA ten-session study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.
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Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for a new format for the "Historical Roots..." study, reworked for 2026 as Topics in Strategic Studies. We will select and read one significant ... Read more
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens ... Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.
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Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the ... Read more
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Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political ... Read more
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‘Black History Is for Everyone’ with Brian Jones
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingLongtime educator Brian Jones explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. In Black History Is ... Read more
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Planetary Crises: ‘The Alibi of Capital’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, and related topics. We are moving to a monthly format and will be covering one book each month. At our next session on May 20 we will discuss The Alibi of Capital, by Timothy Mitchell.
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Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
Reading GroupThe MEP Literature Group's new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our selection for May is Faraway the Southern Sky by Joseph Andreas. A narrator walks through contemporary Paris, identifying the locations where a young Vietnamese refugee/revolutionary lived and worked in a city marked by rebellions and massacres.
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