Capital’s 21st Century Endgame
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe conditions capital is making for all life on earth is playing out like a science fiction endgame. An international movement with profound social force that absolutely brings an end to this game is imperative. This critical reading/study is a beginning. Other related sessions will happen over the next few years.
Comrade Eli Messinger
Plaza Funeral Home 630 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY“A tireless activist for a wide range of anti-war, human rights, and revolutionary social change efforts. Eli was a committed fighter with a great sense of humor.”
Prague Spring: 50 Years Later
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYAlthough reformers within the Communist Party sought significant reforms to the overly centralized system copied from the Soviet Union, including advocacy of workers’ councils, there were significant differences between the more modest reforms put forth by Czechoslovak economists and the more thorough-going concepts of activists and workers themselves.
Capital’s 21st Century Endgame
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe conditions capital is making for all life on earth is playing out like a science fiction endgame. An international movement with profound social force that absolutely brings an end to this game is imperative. This critical reading/study is a beginning. Other related sessions will happen over the next few years.
Red/Green Revolution
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYAt the heart of Wallis’s call to action is the ever-vital debate of capitalism vs. socialism and their relationships to protecting ecological order.... Wallis writes about how the task of establishing a socialist framework may evolve through the convergence of popular struggles – against all forms of oppression – as these have emerged under conditions of crisis.
Capital, Volume I
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYBy unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity, intertwined with growing inequality and misery, alienation, stunting of human potential, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
The Prince and The Modern Prince
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYGramsci analyzes Machiavelli in the context of his trying to understand how power is exercised and maintained under capitalism. What does Machiavelli have to offer Marxists and why is he still relevant nearly 500 years after he wrote?
Summer In The Dark: Crime and the Capitalist Way
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYDeals made in the shade by those packing heat
Six noir novels for the Summer of 2018
Marx at 200: Capital, Class and More
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYIn the regions outside Western Europe, Marx found important revolutionary possibilities among peasants and their ancient communistic social structures, even as these are being undermined by their formal subsumption under the rule of capital. In his last published text, he envisions an alliance between these non-working-class strata and the Western European working class.
General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThis presentation will look at the General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation and their relevance to the underlying global economic crisis that took place in 2007 and what tendencies there are for a similar or more profound crisis than that of 11 years ago.
Choke Points
Join us for an evening of discussion on the potential strength our class has the ability to utilize in facing capital dominance during our period where capital has of necessity created this points that really give us the means of “choking” their power.
Birth of the Binge
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYBirth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure is an attempt to alter the way serial television is viewed by, instead of starting with the shows themselves or with serial fandom, first integrating the form, which began at the opening of the neoliberal era in the early 1980s, into ongoing processes of the digital economy.
Music, Rebellion, Repression
Folksingers and The FBI: Leonard uses music, video selections, news clippings, and records from extensive Freedom of Information Act filings showing the depth to which the FBI was out to stop the folk music explosion. In Explosion of Deferred Dreams, Callahan shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge.
Pictures of a Gone City
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases. It begins with the phenomenal concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley, the fabulous economic growth of the bay region and the unbelievable wealth piling up for the 1% and high incomes of Upper Classes—in contrast to the fate of the working class and people of color earning poverty wages and struggling to keep their heads above water.
Class, Race & Gender
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class, race, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all.