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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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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/2019-12-09/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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/2019-12-14/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T183000
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191216T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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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/2019-12-16/
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:20260421T100238
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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:20260421T100238
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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/2020-01-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LatinAmerUprising1_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200111T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200111T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
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:20260421T100238
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20200112T174804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T135219Z
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SUMMARY:Any 2 Classes (Winter 2020 Discount)
DESCRIPTION:Another way to save your hard-earned dollars in NYC\nBeginning this January through April of 2020 any two classes may be attended for a reduced price. For example\, one may attend “Unearthing the Grundrisse” on Monday and “Capital Volume 3” on Saturday for a combined reduced price according to the level of sliding scale you wish to contribute. This offer is to assist those who want to take two classes but are hesitant to pay the four month sliding scale rates. All classes being offered between January and April are eligible for this reduced 2-class rate. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/any-2-classes-winter-2020-discount/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200118T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-01-18/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen 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-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen 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. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-01-21/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200123T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
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SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s 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 a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-01-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191231T140728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031424Z
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SUMMARY:American Writing: Changing Locations
DESCRIPTION:American Writing: 4 Seasons \nSeason 1: Changing Places in America\nHerman Melville\,  The Confidence-Man (1857). John Barth\, The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) Lisa Ko\, The Leavers (2017) \nIn his 1970 essay “Philosophy and the Form of Fiction\,” William Gass brought the term “metafiction” forward to the reading public as a way to characterize the work writers such as Borges\, Barth\, Flann O’Brien\, as well as the type of novels Gass himself would write. He described metafiction as writing “in which the forms of fiction serve as the material upon which further forms can be imposed”. Does metafiction provide escape for the committed writer from the bourgeois strictures that the novel form imposes? As critical readers we need to check out all the angles. The metafiction form will over time become incorporated as yet another aspect of modern fiction as ultimately there is no way to over-ride what happens when ink is committed to paper\, impulses to the interactive screen. \nAmerican fiction writers have lots to write about. We are introducing a four term look at writing by American authors who have novels appropriate to four themes important to critical thinkers of the broad American questions on nation\, class\, race and gender. Much of this fiction becomes part of what our unfolding reality is as a nation\, group of nations\, as aspiring internationalists. Many of the fictional works we will read are not as formally postmodern or would formally fall in the metafiction category as delineated by Barth. \nOur first thematic 12 week term concerns Change of Place. \nThis first session will begin with Melville. Though centered around the title character\, Melville’s The Confidence-Man portrays passengers on a steamboat with stories that are told as they travel to New Orleans down the Mississippi River. The narrative structure is reminiscent the Canterbury Tales.The novel is written as cultural satire\, and metaphysical treatise\, and deals with a number of themes including sincerity\, economic dislocation and materialism\, identity\, cynicism\, and more.Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Moby Dick and “Bartleby\, the Scrivener”  as precursors to 20th-century literary preoccupations around nihilism\, the absurd and existentialism. \nDale Jones citing R. W. B. Lewis\, who feels the necessity of defining a new genre for [The Confidence- Man] and its literary descendants: “it is the recognizable and awe-inspiring ancestor of several subse- quent works of fiction in America: Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger\, Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust\, Faulkner’s The Hamlet\, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man\, John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor\, Thomas Pynchon’s V. Melville bequeathed to those works . . . the vision of an apocalypse that is no less terrible for being enormously comic\, the self-extinction of a world characterized by deceit and thronging with imposters and masqueraders…” \nA worthy contender for the title of Great American Novel\, Barth’s masterpiece is a work of astonishing virtuosity and range to some. Others look at this\, as did the author himself\, as the end of the novel as known before it’s publication. Barth had changed midstream in the writing of The Sot-Weed Factor. Among American novels\, in terms of sheer linguistic brilliance\, it is surpassed only by Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon and Melville’s matchless Moby Dick. \nHere is Barth’s opening sentence: “In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy\, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke\, more ambitious than talented\, and yet more talented than prudent\, who\, like his friends-in-folly\, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge\, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over\, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship\, had learned the knack of versifying\, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day\, afroth with Joves and Jupiters\, aclang with jarring rhymes\, and string-taught with similes stretched to the snapping point.” \nThis Cooke does as an early settler\, bounding from London cafes to the “wilds” of Maryland\, in this novel depicting the consciousness\, in mid-20th century post-modernism\, the colonizing beings early on inhabiting the North American contenent. \nSet in New York and China\, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It’s a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away\, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past. \nOne morning\, Deming Guo’s mother\, Polly\, an undocumented Chinese immigrant\, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone\, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors\, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known\, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. \nTold from the perspective of both Daniel—as he grows into a directionless young man—and Polly\, Ko’s novel gives us one of fiction’s most singular mothers. Loving and selfish\, determined and frightened\, Polly is forced to make one heart-wrenching choice after another. \nUpcoming terms will include the following: William Gass\, Middle C\, Maxine Hong Kingston\,Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book\, Ishmael Reed\, Mumbo Jumbo\, Russell Banks\, Cloudsplitter\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Middlesex\, Gina Apostol\, Insurrecto and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/american-writing-changing-locations/2020-01-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-01-25/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191216T162243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200125T040505Z
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SUMMARY:Hispaniola in Revolt
DESCRIPTION:Critical Perspectives on Haiti and Santo Domingo\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Virgilio Oscar Aràn\, France Francois\, Lionel Legros and Amaury Rodriguez\n  \nCome to participate with presentations and discussion on the revolutionary legacies of Hispaniola\, the island shared by both Haiti and Santo Domingo. \nPanelists: \nMITCH ABIDOR has translated many of the key documents and accounts of the Haitian Revolution. His latest book is Down With the Law\, an anthology of French individualist anarchist writings. He will discuss the contradictions of the Haitian revolution. \nVIRGILIO OSCAR ARÁN is the National Field Home Care Organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Arán has participated in different forums to talk about the inhumane conditions Haitian immigrants suffer under in his native country\, the Dominican Republic. He will discuss race and class in the Dominican Republic. \nFRANCE FRANCOIS is the Founder and CEO of In Cultured Company\, an organization that works on conflict resolution and reconciliation between Haitians and Dominicans. She is a multi-passionate writer\, activist\, and change agent transforming communities of color around the globe by redefining the way their stories are told and how we impact their lives. France will also reconsider the Haitian revolts of 1946 and 1986. \nLIONEL LEGROS is a longtime NYC-based activist and educator originally from Haiti. He fought the Duvalier dictatorship and founded L’Heure Haitienne Radio in New York City in the 1960s. He will discuss the current Haitian revolt. \nModerator: AMAURY RODRIGUEZ is a Dominican-born translator and independent researcher. He is a frequent contributor to the Marxists Internet Archives (MIA) and co-author\, with Raj Chetty\, of Dominican Black Studies\, a special issue of The Black Scholar journal. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hispaniola-in-revolt/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200127T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20200107T061827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033800Z
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SUMMARY:Unearthing The Grundrisse (continuation)
DESCRIPTION:After the defeat of the 1848-50 revolutions in Europe\, Marx acknowledged that he failed to provide an adequate analysis of the economic foundation of society and turned from a focus on organizing to an intense\, life-long study of political economy. Catalyzed by the first global economic crisis in 1857 and after 10 years of concentrated study\, he started the first of seven notebooks to self-clarify his work up to that point. Not published or available outside the USSR until 1953\, Martin Nicolaus provided the first—and only —English translation of all seven notebooks in 1973 as the Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. As Nicolaus asserts\, Marx considered this effort to be ‘the first scientific elaboration of the theoretical foundations of communism’. Moreover\, represented by both brief and often lengthy segments of planned works\, it contains what Nicolaus argues is the only outline of the entire political economic project Marx hoped—but was mostly unable—to complete. As Nicolaus suggests\, the Grundrisse provides fresh insights into the ‘inner logic’ of Capital and perhaps the most important source for understanding Marx’s method; particularly as it develops and ‘turns Hegel’s philosophy on its feet’. Moreover\, it perhaps most clearly unites what some have\, instead\, argued is a separation between Marx’s early ‘humanism’ and his later economic work. Indeed\, in the Foreword to the Grundrisse\, Nicolaus argues that it “challenges and puts to the test every serious interpretation of Marx yet received”. \nThe second half of the MEP class focuses on the heart of the Grundrisse\, the second and final ‘Chapter on Capital’ that dissects the exploitation of labor and the contradiction between labor and capital. \nGIL GARDNER has interests in radical prisoner education and political economic analysis. He has taught in\, developed and administered college programs and in prisons for 40 years\, including initiating Marxist education in Colorado’s state prisons. Gil’s writing and research includes works on the history of prison industry in the U.S. and he is presently completing an introduction to the works of Marx.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/unearthing-the-grundrisse-2/2020-01-27/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen 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-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen 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. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-01-28/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli\nTHIS CLASS IS FOR WOMEN ONLY\nCapital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy\, politics and struggles. The MEP introduced the highlights format because\, over the past 40 years\, the lengthening of people’s work week along with increased job instability (issues that Marx analyzes) have made it harder for people to commit to longer studies. \nIn a continuing quest to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering the highlights class beginning this January for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nWhile Capital consists of three volumes\, a basic familiarity with the key concepts and sections of Volume I offers many tools for understanding the mode of production we live under. We’ll delve into: \n\nuse value\, value and surplus value;\nwhy capitalism has needed conquest\, enslavement and white supremacy and how it reshapes patriarchy;\nwhy capitalism drives technological innovation\, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;\nhow working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions. Participant reports and life experiences are welcome!\n\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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/highlights-of-marxs-capital-volume-1-2/2020-01-29/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s 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 a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-01-30/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200130T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191231T140728Z
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SUMMARY:American Writing: Changing Locations
DESCRIPTION:American Writing: 4 Seasons \nSeason 1: Changing Places in America\nHerman Melville\,  The Confidence-Man (1857). John Barth\, The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) Lisa Ko\, The Leavers (2017) \nIn his 1970 essay “Philosophy and the Form of Fiction\,” William Gass brought the term “metafiction” forward to the reading public as a way to characterize the work writers such as Borges\, Barth\, Flann O’Brien\, as well as the type of novels Gass himself would write. He described metafiction as writing “in which the forms of fiction serve as the material upon which further forms can be imposed”. Does metafiction provide escape for the committed writer from the bourgeois strictures that the novel form imposes? As critical readers we need to check out all the angles. The metafiction form will over time become incorporated as yet another aspect of modern fiction as ultimately there is no way to over-ride what happens when ink is committed to paper\, impulses to the interactive screen. \nAmerican fiction writers have lots to write about. We are introducing a four term look at writing by American authors who have novels appropriate to four themes important to critical thinkers of the broad American questions on nation\, class\, race and gender. Much of this fiction becomes part of what our unfolding reality is as a nation\, group of nations\, as aspiring internationalists. Many of the fictional works we will read are not as formally postmodern or would formally fall in the metafiction category as delineated by Barth. \nOur first thematic 12 week term concerns Change of Place. \nThis first session will begin with Melville. Though centered around the title character\, Melville’s The Confidence-Man portrays passengers on a steamboat with stories that are told as they travel to New Orleans down the Mississippi River. The narrative structure is reminiscent the Canterbury Tales.The novel is written as cultural satire\, and metaphysical treatise\, and deals with a number of themes including sincerity\, economic dislocation and materialism\, identity\, cynicism\, and more.Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Moby Dick and “Bartleby\, the Scrivener”  as precursors to 20th-century literary preoccupations around nihilism\, the absurd and existentialism. \nDale Jones citing R. W. B. Lewis\, who feels the necessity of defining a new genre for [The Confidence- Man] and its literary descendants: “it is the recognizable and awe-inspiring ancestor of several subse- quent works of fiction in America: Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger\, Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust\, Faulkner’s The Hamlet\, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man\, John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor\, Thomas Pynchon’s V. Melville bequeathed to those works . . . the vision of an apocalypse that is no less terrible for being enormously comic\, the self-extinction of a world characterized by deceit and thronging with imposters and masqueraders…” \nA worthy contender for the title of Great American Novel\, Barth’s masterpiece is a work of astonishing virtuosity and range to some. Others look at this\, as did the author himself\, as the end of the novel as known before it’s publication. Barth had changed midstream in the writing of The Sot-Weed Factor. Among American novels\, in terms of sheer linguistic brilliance\, it is surpassed only by Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon and Melville’s matchless Moby Dick. \nHere is Barth’s opening sentence: “In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy\, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke\, more ambitious than talented\, and yet more talented than prudent\, who\, like his friends-in-folly\, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge\, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over\, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship\, had learned the knack of versifying\, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day\, afroth with Joves and Jupiters\, aclang with jarring rhymes\, and string-taught with similes stretched to the snapping point.” \nThis Cooke does as an early settler\, bounding from London cafes to the “wilds” of Maryland\, in this novel depicting the consciousness\, in mid-20th century post-modernism\, the colonizing beings early on inhabiting the North American contenent. \nSet in New York and China\, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It’s a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away\, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past. \nOne morning\, Deming Guo’s mother\, Polly\, an undocumented Chinese immigrant\, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone\, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors\, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known\, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. \nTold from the perspective of both Daniel—as he grows into a directionless young man—and Polly\, Ko’s novel gives us one of fiction’s most singular mothers. Loving and selfish\, determined and frightened\, Polly is forced to make one heart-wrenching choice after another. \nUpcoming terms will include the following: William Gass\, Middle C\, Maxine Hong Kingston\,Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book\, Ishmael Reed\, Mumbo Jumbo\, Russell Banks\, Cloudsplitter\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Middlesex\, Gina Apostol\, Insurrecto and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/american-writing-changing-locations/2020-01-30/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Classes/Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200131T210000
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SUMMARY:Film and Discussion: State of Siege
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Films\nContinuing the Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\n“The problem is not to make political films but to make films politically.” —Godard / Gorin \nFrance\, 1973\, 121 minutes\nDirected by Costa-Gavras\nfeaturing Yves Montand \n \nState of Siege details the overt and covert practices of the Agency for International Development throughout the world\, with a particular emphasis on events that took place in Montevideo\, Uruguay in 1970. The actual taking of supposed American ambassador Daniel Mitrione by Tupamaro guerillas as a hostage for the release from prison of fellow Tupamaros\, details in interviews themany training exercises conducted by American forces in both the US and Latin America\, concerning psychological and physical torture techniques\, which were accompanied by broad austerity measures and implementation of anti-trade union measures and broad militaristic attacks on other working class organizations. \nIn State of Siege\, Mitrione is known as Philip Santore\, is well-played by Yves Montand. The rightist military government of Uruguay would never have allowed Costa-Gavras to film in Uruguay. Instead\, it was filmed in Chile\, in and around Santiago\, and in the coastal cities of Valparaíso and Viña del Mar. during the brief time of Salvador Allende\, just before the 1973 Chilean coup d’état\, planned with Nixon and Kissinger with Pinochet\, in much the same way in which American policy is detailed in the staged interviews in State of Siege. Costa-Gavras would later dramatize the Chilean coup in the film Missing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/film-and-discussion-state-of-siege/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200201T140000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-02-01/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200203T203000
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CREATED:20200107T061827Z
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SUMMARY:Unearthing The Grundrisse (continuation)
DESCRIPTION:After the defeat of the 1848-50 revolutions in Europe\, Marx acknowledged that he failed to provide an adequate analysis of the economic foundation of society and turned from a focus on organizing to an intense\, life-long study of political economy. Catalyzed by the first global economic crisis in 1857 and after 10 years of concentrated study\, he started the first of seven notebooks to self-clarify his work up to that point. Not published or available outside the USSR until 1953\, Martin Nicolaus provided the first—and only —English translation of all seven notebooks in 1973 as the Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. As Nicolaus asserts\, Marx considered this effort to be ‘the first scientific elaboration of the theoretical foundations of communism’. Moreover\, represented by both brief and often lengthy segments of planned works\, it contains what Nicolaus argues is the only outline of the entire political economic project Marx hoped—but was mostly unable—to complete. As Nicolaus suggests\, the Grundrisse provides fresh insights into the ‘inner logic’ of Capital and perhaps the most important source for understanding Marx’s method; particularly as it develops and ‘turns Hegel’s philosophy on its feet’. Moreover\, it perhaps most clearly unites what some have\, instead\, argued is a separation between Marx’s early ‘humanism’ and his later economic work. Indeed\, in the Foreword to the Grundrisse\, Nicolaus argues that it “challenges and puts to the test every serious interpretation of Marx yet received”. \nThe second half of the MEP class focuses on the heart of the Grundrisse\, the second and final ‘Chapter on Capital’ that dissects the exploitation of labor and the contradiction between labor and capital. \nGIL GARDNER has interests in radical prisoner education and political economic analysis. He has taught in\, developed and administered college programs and in prisons for 40 years\, including initiating Marxist education in Colorado’s state prisons. Gil’s writing and research includes works on the history of prison industry in the U.S. and he is presently completing an introduction to the works of Marx.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/unearthing-the-grundrisse-2/2020-02-03/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen 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-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen 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. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-02-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200205T203000
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli\nTHIS CLASS IS FOR WOMEN ONLY\nCapital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy\, politics and struggles. The MEP introduced the highlights format because\, over the past 40 years\, the lengthening of people’s work week along with increased job instability (issues that Marx analyzes) have made it harder for people to commit to longer studies. \nIn a continuing quest to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering the highlights class beginning this January for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nWhile Capital consists of three volumes\, a basic familiarity with the key concepts and sections of Volume I offers many tools for understanding the mode of production we live under. We’ll delve into: \n\nuse value\, value and surplus value;\nwhy capitalism has needed conquest\, enslavement and white supremacy and how it reshapes patriarchy;\nwhy capitalism drives technological innovation\, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;\nhow working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions. Participant reports and life experiences are welcome!\n\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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/highlights-of-marxs-capital-volume-1-2/2020-02-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100238
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
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SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s 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 a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-02-06/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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