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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fascism,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. In this part 2\, we will be reading the “Surveys From Exile” section\, which begins with “The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850” and takes us through Marx’s articles on the Civil War in the United States. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-01-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T180000
DTSTAMP:20230202T185934Z
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SUMMARY:Capital's Terrorists in the Long Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:A video of this January 28\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nWith author Chad E. Pearson\nIn his new book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen\, Lawmen\, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century\, Chad E. Pearson details how US employers at the turn of the twentieth century deployed a variety of tactics to secure their power in and out of workplaces. Through the Ku Klux Klan\, Law and Order Leagues\, Stockgrowers’ organizations\, and Citizens’ Alliances\, they applied extralegal repressive techniques – including whippings\, kidnappings\, drive-out campaigns\, incarcerations\, arsons\, hangings\, and shootings – as well as less overtly illegal tactics such as shutting down meetings\, barring speakers from lecturing through blacklists\, and book burning. Driven by unambiguous economic and managerial interests\, the birth of law-and-order politics as we know it can be found in 19th-century campaigns of organized terror against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines.\nBook available from online sellers and from the publisher\, University of North Carolina Press \nChad E. Pearson is a labor historian at the University of North Texas and author of Capital’s Terrorists and Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement. He has published essays in Jacobin\, Counterpunch\, Monthly Review\, and other journals.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitals-terrorists/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Populism,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Syndicalism,Women,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T130000
DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z
CREATED:20220403T022414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z
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SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse  \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-01-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20230314T140146Z
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening: Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe winter 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group focuses on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver nine weeks we will read three novels set from the 1920s to the present: The Gardens of Consolation\, by Parisa Reza; Women Without Men\, by Shahrnush Parsipur; and Man of My Time\, by Dalia Sofer. In Part II\, our spring session\, we will begin with a novel set in 1979 and end with a novel set in contemporary Iran. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-seven-novels-by-iranian-women/2023-01-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-fascism,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,War Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230125T183000
DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z
UID:10007255-1674666000-1674671400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-01-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230123T183000
DTSTAMP:20230311T165256Z
CREATED:20221201T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230311T165256Z
UID:10007227-1674493200-1674498600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2023-01-23/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230122T143000
DTSTAMP:20230314T134552Z
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
UID:10007211-1674392400-1674397800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fascism,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230122T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230122T130000
DTSTAMP:20230407T234954Z
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
UID:10007265-1674385200-1674392400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. In this part 2\, we will be reading the “Surveys From Exile” section\, which begins with “The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850” and takes us through Marx’s articles on the Civil War in the United States. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-01-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230121T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230121T130000
DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z
CREATED:20220403T022414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z
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SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse  \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-01-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230119T203000
DTSTAMP:20230314T140146Z
CREATED:20221220T201257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T140146Z
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening: Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe winter 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group focuses on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver nine weeks we will read three novels set from the 1920s to the present: The Gardens of Consolation\, by Parisa Reza; Women Without Men\, by Shahrnush Parsipur; and Man of My Time\, by Dalia Sofer. In Part II\, our spring session\, we will begin with a novel set in 1979 and end with a novel set in contemporary Iran. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-seven-novels-by-iranian-women/2023-01-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-fascism,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,War Fiction,Women
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230118T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2023-01-18/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230118T183000
DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z
CREATED:20221211T182130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-01-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230116T183000
DTSTAMP:20230311T165256Z
CREATED:20221201T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230311T165256Z
UID:10007226-1673888400-1673893800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2023-01-16/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230115T143000
DTSTAMP:20230314T134552Z
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
UID:10007210-1673787600-1673793000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fascism,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230114T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230114T130000
DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z
CREATED:20220403T022414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z
UID:10007121-1673694000-1673701200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse  \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-01-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230111T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007199-1673460000-1673465400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2023-01-11/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230109T183000
DTSTAMP:20230311T165256Z
CREATED:20221201T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230311T165256Z
UID:10007225-1673283600-1673289000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2023-01-09/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230108T143000
DTSTAMP:20230314T134552Z
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
UID:10007209-1673182800-1673188200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-08/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fascism,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230107T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230107T130000
DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z
CREATED:20220403T022414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z
UID:10007120-1673089200-1673096400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse  \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-01-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230107
DTSTAMP:20230824T214901Z
CREATED:20210618T033341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T214901Z
UID:10007637-1672963200-1673049599@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2023-01-06/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230104T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007198-1672855200-1672860600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2023-01-04/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230102T183000
DTSTAMP:20230311T165256Z
CREATED:20221201T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230311T165256Z
UID:10007224-1672678800-1672684200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2023-01-02/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221231T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221231T130000
DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z
CREATED:20220403T022414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z
UID:10007119-1672484400-1672491600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse  \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2022-12-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221228T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007197-1672250400-1672255800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-28/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221227T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221227T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
UID:10006434-1672165800-1672171200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-12-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221226T183000
DTSTAMP:20230311T165256Z
CREATED:20221201T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230311T165256Z
UID:10007223-1672074000-1672079400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2022-12-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221221T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007196-1671645600-1671651000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-21/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221220T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221220T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-12-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2022-12-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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