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Event Series Degenerate!: Art and the State

Degenerate!: Art and the State

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

...we travel to postwar America, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible, even hinted at, socialist leanings. Abstraction, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry.

$75 – $95
Event Series Revolution in China: 1911-1949

Revolution in China: 1911-1949

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II.

$85 – $115
Event Series Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others.

$85 – $115
Event Series B. Traven’s Jungle Novels

B. Traven’s Jungle Novels

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

$95 – $125

Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas

Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.

Event Series Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

From the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).

$30 – $60
Event Series A People’s History of the World

A People’s History of the World

Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United States

Convened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The ... Read more

$60 – $80
Event Series Degenerate!: Art and the State

Degenerate!: Art and the State

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

...we travel to postwar America, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible, even hinted at, socialist leanings. Abstraction, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry.

$75 – $95
Event Series Revolution in China: 1911-1949

Revolution in China: 1911-1949

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II.

$85 – $115

Event Series Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others.

$85 – $115
Event Series B. Traven’s Jungle Novels

B. Traven’s Jungle Novels

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

$95 – $125

Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, Part 2

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

From the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).

$30 – $60
Event Series A People’s History of the World

A People’s History of the World

Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United States

Convened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The ... Read more

$60 – $80