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SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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SUMMARY:A Guide to The Communist Manifesto with Phil Gasper
DESCRIPTION:The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels \nA presentation with Phil Gasper \n“…All this attention to Marx’s ideas is certainly welcome. But – and of course there is a ‘but’ – with few exceptions\, recent commentators have restricted their praise of the Manifesto to what it says about the nature and workings of the capitalist system. Yet Marx and Engels did not write the Manifesto as a piece of abstract economic analysis. It was intended as a revolutionary call to action – an explanation not only of what is wrong with society\, but how it can be transformed to create “an association\, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” (Pt. II\, ¶ 74). Central to this strategy for change is their claim that in the modern working class – the proletariat – capitalism has produced “its own gravediggers” (Pt. I\, ¶ 53). That is\, that capitalism itself has created the instrument of its abolition – an oppressed class with both the capacity and the interest to fight for the overthrow of the existing system\, the emancipation of all humanity\, and which\, unlike previous oppressed classes\, Twas capable of democratic self-rule…. The claim that the proletariat is a revolutionary class is the heart and soul of  The Communist Manifesto.”      —Phil Gasper\, International Socialist Review\, Issue 5 \nHere\, at last\, is an authoritative introduction to history’s most important political document\, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. This beautifully organized and presented edition of The Communist Manifestois fully annotated\, with clear historical references and explication\, additional related texts\, and a glossary that will bring the text to life for students\, as well as the general reader. Since it was first written in 1848\, the Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. It has been banned\, censored\, burned\, and declared “dead.” But year after year\, the text only grows more influential\, remaining required reading in courses on philosophy\, politics\, economics\, and history. \nPHIL GASPER is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University and the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document (Haymarket\, 2005) and Imperialism and War: Classic Writings by V.I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukarin (Haymarket\, 2017). He is a co-editor of the journal New Politics and a member of DSA and of the Tempest Collective. He lives in Madison\, Wisconsin. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-guide-to-the-communist-manifesto-with-phil-gasper/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Engels,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Parade of the Old New with artist/author Zoe Beloff
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion of Booklyn’s important new accordion fold-out 40-panel book with painter and author Zoe Bellof\n \nA discussion by Zoe Beloff about her new 40-panel accordion book that reproduces\, Parade of the Old New\, an epic panorama on cardboard panels\, a 40 meter long  allegory of the American body politic. The title is taken from a 1938 poem by Bertolt Brecht that inspired the theme of this work; now more than ever\, we are not finished with the past and the past is not finished with us. The project was launched with Trump’s inauguration and continued until he was defeated at the ballot box. It begins with the president’s triumphal entry into Washington DC. Beyond stretches a country where the Mexican border walls meets Japanese internment camps from the 1940s at a vanishing point. It chronicles the desecration of public lands for profit\, the battle of Charlottesville\, the arrest of undocumented workers across the country and the detention of asylum seekers at the border. It illustrates the toll of COVID 19\, the work of the nurses\, the breadlines\, young people painting Black Lives Matter mapping a road ahead\, the storming of the Capitol and finally the flickering light of what might be a new beginning. Zoe will also talk about her essay also included in the book “The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World” in which she explores how painters have explored themes of social justice. She brings the writing of both Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to bear on how we can think through the representation of history and lived experience. \nZOE BELLOF is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. She aims to make radical art that educates\, entertains\, and provokes discussion. Most importantly\, as her work attests\, she believes protest should be vibrant\, humorous and colorful\, a carnival of resistance to light the way in dark times. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum\, Site Santa Fe\, the MHKA museum in Antwerp\, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. However she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. These have included in New York City; The Coney Island Museum\, Participant\, Momenta and The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been awarded fellowships from. The Graham Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at Queens College CUNY. \nBOOKLYN\, INC.  is a non profit organization founded in 1999 and located in Sunset Park\, Brooklyn. Their mission is to promote artists’ books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting\, exhibiting\, and distributing their artwork and archives. They specifically assist artists and organizations committed to environmental and social justice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/parade-of-the-old-new-with-artist-author-zoe-beloff/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Emancipation,Insurgency,Labor Organizing,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Poetry,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of Theodore W. Allen’s two volume work\nwith The Revolutions Study Group\nIn 1972\, after a lifetime of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Theodore W. 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 U.S. 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.] \n \nIt 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.” \nTheodore W. Allen spent the next 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes) which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The group has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction and this past winter and spring studied White Supremacy and Bourgeois Social Control.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race/2021-12-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Insurgency,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211209T210000
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SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211212T103000
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SUMMARY:Disputing the Deluge with Darko Suvin joined by Editor Hugh O’Connell and special guests
DESCRIPTION:Collected 21st-Century Writings on Utopia\, Narration\, and Survival by DARKO SUVIN\nwith Editor HUGH O’CONNELL\nwith guests Marc Angenot\, Gerry Canavan\, Patricia McManus\, & Eric D. Smith\n“Everything in here is of note\, from the essays early in this century on fascism and on fantasy to the most recent pieces on the enduring importance of communism; the growing danger of anti-utopian discourse; and especially the totalizing environmental\, economic\, political\, and cultural terror and destruction brought on by the systemic operations of the Capitalocene.” —Tom Moylan\, Glucksman Professor Emeritus at the University of Limerick\, Ireland\, and author of Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Bloomsbury\, 2020) \nFor over 50 years\, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of science fiction to utopian studies\, formalist and leftist critical theory\, and his broader engagement with what he terms “political epistemology.” Disputing the Deluge joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin’s work on science fiction and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 29 of Suvin’s most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century\, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O’Connell and a new preface by the author. \nBeginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy\, the essays collected here—each a brilliant example of engaged thought—highlight the value of science fiction for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin’s interrogations show how speculative fiction has responded to 9/11\, the global war on terror\, the 2008economic collapse\, and the rise of conservative populism\, along with contemporary critical utopian analyses of the Capitalocene\, the climate crisis\,COVID19\, and the decline of democracy. By bringing together Suvin’s essays  all in one place\, this collection allows new generations of students and scholars to engage directly with his work and its continuing importance and timeliness. \nDarko Suvin is Emeritus Professor of English at McGill University\, Canada\, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences\, since 1986. Darko has authored 25 books\, including the foundational study in science fiction Metamorphoses  of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre(1979\, 2016)\, Victorian Science Fiction in the U. K.: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power (1983)\, Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988)\, and In Leviathan’s Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time (2012). \nHugh C. O’Connell is Assistant Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Boston\, USA. He is editor of Legacies of Blade Runner\, special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television (2020; with Sarah Hamblin); Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction\, and a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review (2019; with David M. Higgins). \nMarc Angenot\, FRSC\, a professor in McGill’s French Language and Literature Department for over forty years\, has been awarded the Prix du Québec Léon-Gérin for his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. He is world-renowned for his research and is widely considered the founder of Social Discourse Theory. His vast body of work encompasses intellectual history\, linguistics\, politics\, semiotics\, rhetoric and informal logic\, as well as literary theory. Among his critically acclaimed works are Le Marxisme dans les grands récits (Paris\, 2005) and Dialogues de sourds (Paris\, 2008). In 2004\, The Yale Journal of Criticism published a special issue titled “Marc Angenot and the Scandals of History”.  Gerry Canavan is co-editor of special issues of American Literature and Polygraph on “speculative fiction” and “ecology and ideology\,” respectively and has edited (with Kim Stanley Robinson) the critical anthology\, Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction\, 2014 and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (co-edited with Eric Carl Link\, 2015. Dr\, Patricia McManus is a senior lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Brighton. She is the founder of the Dystopia Project. Her research interests are the novel —in particular the problems involved in understanding genre as a productive force in literary history — and Marxism as a methodology for utopianism. Eric D. Smith. is professor of modern and contemporary British and Anglophone literature at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Globalization\, Utopia\, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (Pagrave\, 2012) and editor of Darko Suvin’s career-spanning collection Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism in the Ralahine Utopian Studies Series (Peter Lang\, 2021).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/disputing-the-deluge-with-darko-suvin-joined-by-editor-hugh-oconnell-and-special-guests/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fantasy Fiction,Food and politics,Literary Studies,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Technology,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of Theodore W. Allen’s two volume work\nwith The Revolutions Study Group\nIn 1972\, after a lifetime of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Theodore W. 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 U.S. 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.] \n \nIt 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.” \nTheodore W. Allen spent the next 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes) which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The group has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction and this past winter and spring studied White Supremacy and Bourgeois Social Control.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race/2021-12-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Insurgency,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Labor under Neoliberal Authoritarianism\nEditors Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol joined by contributors Cosku Celik\, Ertan Erol\, and Elif Hacısalihoğlu\nA comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey\nDecades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change\, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life. This presentation will look at the historical and current outcomes brough about by the authoritarian\, militarized civil life for Turkish workers. What will be the long term consequences for workers in Turkey? \nMoving beyond the headlines and personalities\, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews\, this book offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace struggles\, trade unionism\, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism\, migration\, gender\, agrarian change and precarity\, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers. This volume also brings together a broad range of Turkish activists and scholars who consider what the dynamics and contradictions of working-class resistance against Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime have become; worker self-management\, organized labor\, and class struggles in rural areas are examined. \nÇağatay Edgücan Şahin is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Ordu\, Turkey. He has published various books including Human Capital and Human Resources: A Critical Approach (2011).\nMehmet Erman Erol is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge\, UK. He has contributed to journals and books on Turkish & Middle East political economy and labor market restructuring.\nCosku Celik (York University\, Visiting Assistant Professor). Her chapter entitled ‘The Making of the Rural Proletariat in Neoliberal Turkey’\nElif Hacısalihoğlu (Trakya University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor). Chapter ‘A View of Precarization from Turkey: Urban-rural Dynamics and Intergenerational Precarity’\nErtan Erol (Istanbul University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor) Chapter ‘Burden or a Saviour at a time of Economic Crisis: AKP’s ‘Open-Door Migration Policy’ and its Impact on Labor Market Restructuring in Turkey \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able  to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-turkey/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211216T210000
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SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211218T160000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy\, Ecology and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Himani Bannerji\, Michael Brie\, Gregory Claeys\, and Silvia Federici with editor Marcello Musto\n \nThis book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of 20th century Marxism. The dual aim of this collective volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion on Marx’s critique of political economy and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions\, like ecology and migration\, to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. \nContributions of globally renowned scholars\, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines\, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology\, migration\, gender\, the capitalist mode of production\, the labour movement\, globalization\, social relations\, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative. \nOrder the book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81764-0 \nThis event is sponsored by the Marxist Education Project\, Shelter & Solidarity\, The Community Church of Boston\, Encuentro5\, Hardball Press\, and Socialism & Democracy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/rethinking-alternatives-with-marx-economy-ecology-and-migration/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Migration,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211227T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211227T235900
DTSTAMP:20260407T184850
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SUMMARY:Book Special Redux! Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to offer Andy Merrifield’s 2020 book\, Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times with a total price of $12.50 including shipping.\n“This enchanting portrait of Marx at work\, with his legendary overcoat and shuffling ways\, is brilliant\,\ninformative\, and beautifully written. Merrifield then puts the insights he derives from reconnecting with\nMarx’s writing to work to illuminate everything from the writings of Gogol and Dickens to the\narchitectural disaster of New York’s Hudson Yards.”\n— David Harvey\, author\, A Companion to Marx’s Capital and Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-special-marx-dead-and-alive-reading-capital-in-precarious-times-with-shipping/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Socialism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220102T200000
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SUMMARY:We Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art\, Activism and Autonomous Zones
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. A later date in 2022 will be found.\nby Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan\nChronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend)\, a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project\nIn 2008\, as the storms of the financial crash blew\, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs\, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic\, otherwise known as the ZAD (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning\, illegally occupying 4\,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018\, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory\, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory\, inspired by a diverse array of approaches\, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology\, insurrectionary writings and radical art history. \nThis event considers one of a number of books from the new Pluto Books Vagabonds series. Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. Further info: https://vagabonds.xyz/wandi/  \nIsabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan\, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. \nJay Jordan is co-founder of Reclaim the Streets (1995-2000) and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army\, and co-author of We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (Verso\, 2003) and A User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible (Minor Compositions\, 2011). He is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. We have introduced a $2.50 rate (less than a one way transit fare) for those who want to contribute but have difficulty with all three levels of our sliding scale of $7 to $11. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Register with the “Cash at First Session” option if you are not able to pay. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/we-are-nature-defending-itself-entangling-art-activism-and-autonomous-zones/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Food and politics,Insurgency,Mutual Aid,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220103T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T184850
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College 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 on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics 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. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220106T210000
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SUMMARY:Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur's novel set in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:A novel by Justin Podur\nwith two weeks of group discussions*\nJustin made a presentation on Siegebreakers on Saturday\, September 18 with the Marxist Education Project’s Literary Studies Group \nUnder the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza\, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together\, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them\, Ari\, a brilliant Israeli spy\, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion\, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege\, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine. \n“Siegebreakers is at once a gritty\, violent thrill ride and the first book I would hand to someone who wants to understand Gaza today.” —Dr. Tarek Loubani\, emergency doctor and volunteer physician at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City \n“Based on an industrious research\, this dramatic and powerful tale shows once more the power of fiction to illuminate and expose what the media fails\, or is unwilling\, to disclose about life under siege in the Gaza Strip and its impact on the people incarcerated in it.”  —Ilan Pappe\, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine \nJustin Podur is the author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship. He has contributed chapters to Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan and Real Utopia. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. \n*Discount codes for purchase of book will be provided with registration \nAdmissions: All events are sliding scale—choose any of the stated to contribute to The MEP. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \nVery sorry. Not enough registrations. Please write for a refund. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/siegebreakers-author-presentation-with-justin-podur-with-two-weeks-discussion/2022-01-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,historical materialism,Insurgency,Israeli occupation,Palestine,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220108T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T184850
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of Detroit
DESCRIPTION:with authors Mark Jay and Philip Conklin\n \nRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile\, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services\, water shutoffs\, mass foreclosures\, and violent police raids. In A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit’s history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism’s mandates. \n“Jay and Conklin work backward before working forward. The authors first offer a people’s history of Detroit’s present\, subverting chronology to read the resurgence narrative of Detroit against the grain and reveal the erasure of Black Detroit via the myth of Detroit’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’30s\, ’40s\, and ’50s. This allows them\, and therefore us\, to understand the systemic problems facing contemporary Detroit first\, and then uncover their prehistory second\, instead of the other way around.” — Hannah Zeavin\, Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/hannah-zeavin/ \n\n\n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\,A People’s History of Detroitimagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\, Public Books \n\nMark Jay received his PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara.\nPhilip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nThey are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery. \n  \n  \nBOOKS AVAILABLE\nDUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220110T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T184850
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College 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 on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics 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. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220114T193000
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SUMMARY:Power Despite Precarity
DESCRIPTION:Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education\nwith authors Joe Berry and Helena Worthen\n“A masterful look at the challenges involved with organizing workers in higher education. Berry and Worthen provide excellent recommendations regarding vision and strategy\, making the book valuable beyond the field of higher education.” —Bill Fletcher\, Jr.\, author of They’re Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions\nHigher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work without basic job security\, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and\, if organized\, the power to shape the future of higher education. \nPower Despite Precarity is part history\, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four historical periods that led to major transitions in the work-lives of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the 30-year-long struggle by California State University lecturers to negotiate what is recognized as the best contract for contingents in the US. \nThe authors ask: what is the role of universities in society? Whose interests should they serve? What are the necessary conditions for the exercise of academic freedom?  Providing strategic insight for activists at every organizing level\, they also tackle ‘troublesome questions’ around legality\, union politics\, academic freedom and how to recognize friends (and foes) in the struggle. \nJoe Berry is a founder of the Chicago Coalition of Academic Labor and a long-time leader of the international COCAL and New Faculty Majority. He has served on many national contingent faculty committees. He is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly Review Press\, 2005). \nHelena Worthen is a novelist\, union activist and retired contingent faculty worker. Her book\, What Did You Learn at Work Today? The Forbidden Lessons of Labor Education (Hardball\, 2013) won the 2014 Best Book award from the United Association for Labor Education. \nBOOK AVAILABLE AT plutobooks.com\nUSE 30% DISCOUNT CODE: MEP \n  \nTHE TIMES LISTED ARE EASTERN US and CANADA Eastern Standard Time / This event will be 9:30 to 11:30 PM GMT \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/power-despite-precarity/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T184850
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College 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 on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics 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. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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SUMMARY:Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur's novel set in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:A novel by Justin Podur\nwith two weeks of group discussions*\nJustin made a presentation on Siegebreakers on Saturday\, September 18 with the Marxist Education Project’s Literary Studies Group \nUnder the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza\, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together\, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them\, Ari\, a brilliant Israeli spy\, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion\, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege\, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine. \n“Siegebreakers is at once a gritty\, violent thrill ride and the first book I would hand to someone who wants to understand Gaza today.” —Dr. Tarek Loubani\, emergency doctor and volunteer physician at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City \n“Based on an industrious research\, this dramatic and powerful tale shows once more the power of fiction to illuminate and expose what the media fails\, or is unwilling\, to disclose about life under siege in the Gaza Strip and its impact on the people incarcerated in it.”  —Ilan Pappe\, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine \nJustin Podur is the author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship. He has contributed chapters to Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan and Real Utopia. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. \n*Discount codes for purchase of book will be provided with registration \nAdmissions: All events are sliding scale—choose any of the stated to contribute to The MEP. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \nVery sorry. Not enough registrations. Please write for a refund. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/siegebreakers-author-presentation-with-justin-podur-with-two-weeks-discussion/2022-01-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,historical materialism,Insurgency,Israeli occupation,Palestine,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Lefebvre / Althusser: Humanist and Anti-Humanist Marxism
DESCRIPTION:Considerations for Opposition to Capital in the 21st Century\nwith Andy Merrifield\nAndy Merrifield has written two significant essays regarding the relationships of the lives and works of Henri Lefebvre and Louis Althusser\, their working together and apart\, both essays being important for conceiving next steps for an internationalist left now more than half a century past the events of 1968 in France and the Hot Autumn of 1969 shortly thereafter in Italy. Links to each essay is below the extracted quotes below. \n \n“LIKE MARX INVERTING HEGEL\, Lefebvre stands mainstream economic and sociological wisdom on its head: ‘we must consider industrialization as a stage of urbanization\,’ he says\, ‘as a moment\, an intermediary\, an instrument. In the double process (industrialization-urbanization)\, after a certain period the latter term becomes dominant\, taking over from the former.’ This is a bold\, provocative statement for any Marxist. For it suggests that the mainstay of the capitalist economy isn’t so much industrialization as urbanization\, that industrialization all along was but a special form of urbanization. Capitalism reigns\, Lefebvre says\, because it now manages and manufactures a very special commodity: urban space itself — an abundant source of surplus value as well as a massive means of production\, both a launch pad and rocket in a stratospheric global market.” —Andy Merrifield\, https://mronline.org/2021/03/28/lefebvre-in-the-age-of-covid/ \n“LEFEBVRE’S AND ALTHUSSER’S WORK OVER THAT DECADE [1970s]\, from differing tried to valorize for the Left a capitalist state in crisis. Could a unified Left leverage state power away from a disgruntled Right? Could it do so in the streets\, in the factories\, and through the ballot box? Could forces within the state be modified by organized pressure from the outside? Could pressure from the outside not only transform the inside but actually become that inside? ‘Ons’engage\,’ Althusser used to say\, ‘et puis on voit.’ And yet\, after engaging\, after jumping into the fray\, what one saw was a dramatic power shift\, a transition and renewal in the reverse direction. It was the Right who got its act together\, who closed ranks\, whose class power ‘condensed\,’ just as the Left’s fell apart\, as its unity fractured into disunity.” —Andy Merrifield\, https://mronline.org/2021/06/13/lefebvre-and-althusser-reinterpreting-marxist-humanism-and-anti-humanism/ \n“Dialectical Urbanism shows a fruitful direction for the Marxism of the future. Exploring the collision between abstract capitalist space and concrete human place\, Andy Merrifield offers a fresh vision of the totality of modern life.”   —Marshall Berman\, City University of New York \n“Exceptionally well written\, informative insightful\, thoughtful and thought-provoking\, Marx\, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times is an extraordinary study and one that should be a part of every community\, college\, and university library Contemporary Political Science and Theory collection.”       —Midwest Book Review \nAndy Merrifield is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books including his most recent Marx Dead and Alive (2020)\, of which his presentation with The MEP last year was one of our highlight events. His other books include Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review\, 2002)\, Magical Marxism (Pluto Press\, 2011)\, The Amateur (Verso Books\, 2018)\, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love) (OR Books\, 2018). \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lefebvre-althusser-humanist-and-anti-humanist-marxism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Urbanism
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France\, Russia and China
DESCRIPTION:An ongoing free offering \nA close reading of Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions\nConvened with Sam Salour\nStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France\, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol\, published by Cambridge University Press\, which explains the causes of social revolutions. In the book\, Skocpol performs a comparative historical analysis of the French Revolution of 1789 through the early 19th century\, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Skocpol argues that social revolutions occurred in these states because of the simultaneous occurrence of state breakdown and peasant revolution at the same time. \nSkocpol asserts that social revolutions are rapid and basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures. She distinguishes this from mere rebellions\, which involve a revolt of subordinate classes but may not create structural change\, and from political revolutions that may change state structures but not social structures. What is unique about social revolutions\, she argues\, is that basic changes in social structure and political structure occur in a mutually reinforcing fashion and these changes occur through intense sociopolitical conflict. A convergence of peasant rebellion on one hand and international pressures causing state breakdown on the other hand cause revolutionary social movements. \nThe book was highly influential in the study of revolutions\, and has been credited with ushering in a new paradigm. All who register will be put in touch with Sam for information on obtaining reading material. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. As stated above\, ADMISSION IS FREE. \n  \ninfo@marxedproject.org for more information and other events and classes. \nZoom info for these sessions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/states-and-social-revolutions-a-comparative-analysis-of-france-russia-and-china/2022-01-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:China,Chinese Revolution,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,French Revolution,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220124T133000
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College 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 on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics 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. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220131T133000
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College 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 on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics 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. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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SUMMARY:After Wampum\, the Evolution of Money in Colonial America
DESCRIPTION:with Peter Fay\nHow did money evolve? In Das Kapital Karl Marx says commodities emerged in early societies: “where communities have their boundaries\, at their points of contact with othercommunities.” Money then “comes to be attached either to the most important articles of exchange from outside… or to the object of utility which forms the chief element of indigenous alienable wealth.” \nDid this evolution also occur on boundaries of later empires?  We will travel back in time to colonial New England and New York to closely examine Marx’s views on money at the periphery of the British empire. Scarcity of British currency forced many commodities toward the role of “universal equivalent”: Indian corn\, tobacco\, pieces of eight. But it was colonial thirst for luxury commodities like beaver pelts that finally drove an explosive growth in the one money-commodity facilitating that trade: wampum. \nAll traditions in this world became inverted:  Indigenous nations who dominated the wealth in wampum and fur were soon its slave. Wampum had opposite meanings to different actors speaking a polyglot of Algonquian or European tongues. To Narragansettpeople it was a symbol of great spiritual power to bond tribes in fealty. To European fur traders it was a debaser of tribal customs to foster commodity production. To Puritan governors it was a ransom from tribes for penalties and treaties. But to all it was an indispensable bond\, constantly evolving and expanding\, without which society would unravel. \nFor twenty years\, PETER FAY has researched history across dozens of archives\, participating in public art and historical projects as a Marxist public historian at universities\, libraries\, and public forums across New England. He uncovered never-before known histories of Black and Indigenous Revolutionary War veterans\, early millworkers\, and mariners\, during the transformation of enslaved labor to wage slavery in Rhode Island. \nPeter is a co-founder of the Newport Middle Passage Project\, the Jamestown Friends of Black History and sits on the Board of the Jamestown Historical Society. Earlier he held leadership positions in the labor movement in steel\, electrical\, and health care. He retired after a 30-year career in software engineering in commercial and educational institutions\, most recently at Brown University. \nPictured above: European and indigenous fur traders in North America  (Fadden\, 1777\, Wikimedia Commons)\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wampum-and-the-evolution-of-money-in-colonial-america/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Grundrisse,historical materialism,Money,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220131T233000
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SUMMARY:The MEP Bookstore\, Fall 2021/Winter 2022 (inclusive of shipping—US and Puerto Rico only)
DESCRIPTION:These books are being offered at a discount to all of The MEP community with prices including books and shipping. Each book listed here is part of or related to a presentation\, reading group or series of presentations both ongoing and beginning during the 2021 terms of study. Descriptions of books are either in descriptions on the site or will be described on the site shortly. \nLeft Populism in Europe: Lessons from Corbyn to Podemos  by Marina Prentoulis \nA People’s Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier \nClass\, Party and Revolution\, A Socialist Register Reader \nThe Last Years of Karl Marx by Marcello Musto \nMarx Dead and Alive by Andy Merrifield \nSocialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living \nSocialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living \nPluto’s Wildcat Series: The High Cost of Free Shipping by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\, Organizing Insurgency by Immanuel Ness\, Amakomiti by Trevor Ngwane\, Worker’s Inquiry and Global Class Struggle\, edited by Robert Ovetz\, Augmented Exploitation\, Edited by Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\, Wobblies of the World\, edited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer. \nPluto’s FireWorks Series: Pandemic Solidarity\, edited by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar\, Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson\, Reinventing the Welfare State by Ursula Huws\, and Empire’s Endgame with contributions from Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani and more. \nThe Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks \nVoices of the Paris Commune translated by Mitch Abidor \nBen Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly\, edited by Peter Cole \nBookMarx Bookmarks \nUnfortunately\, we cannot calculate postage outside of the United States so the combined price  is only good for mailing addresses in the United States. If you would like to calculate the cost of book and shipping to another country\, write to info@marxedproject.org indicating your interest and what you estimate postage will be.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-mep-bookstore-january-2021-term-books-with-shipping-included/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Permaculture with Terry Leahy
DESCRIPTION:‘What is permaculture?’ \nIf you have just heard of the movement and do not know much about it\, you might well think that permaculture is about food growing and gardens. But if you have asked a permaculture afficionado you will have been told that that conception is a mistake. In fact\, there are a variety of different ways of defining permaculture. As a sustainable system of agriculture based on tree crops\, as a system of sustainable agriculture and settlement design\, as a design philosophy for a sustainable society. There is much to be gained from exploring these different conceptions in detail. Those are questions about the foundation of permaculture in ideas. But it is also important to explain permaculture as a social movement\, a body of people\, their actions and the ways that they think about the world. \nPermaculture is an environmental movement that makes us reevaluate what it means to be sustainable. Through innovative agriculture and settlement design\, the movement creates new communities that are harmonious with nature. It has grown from humble origins on a farm in 1970s Australia and flourished into a worldwide movement that confronts industrial capitalism. \nThe Politics of Permaculture is one of the first books to unpack the theory and practice of this social movement that looks to challenge the status quo. Drawing upon the rich seam of publications and online communities from the movement as well as extensive interviews with permaculture practitioners and organisations from around the world\, Leahy explains the ways permaculture is understood and practiced in different contexts. In the face of extreme environmental degradation and catastrophic climate change\, we urgently need a new way of living. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nTERRY LEAHY has been involved in the permaculture movement since its founding in 1978. He has lectured in universities since 1973 and retired at the end of 2016. His recent book\, Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First (Routledge\, 2018)\, outlines a permaculture strategy for Africa and shows how projects can be designed to make this work in practice. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-permaculture-with-terry-leahy/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Food and politics,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:A People's History of Detroit and Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussion for 4 weeks with the Capital Studies Group of the Marxist Education Project \nThese two books will be the focus:  A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin with Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. \nIn A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. \nDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. \n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\, A People’s History of Detroit imagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\,  Public Books \nTHE CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP is comprised of a group of instructors\, students\, activists\, and others who often engage with close readings of books and other texts that address issues central to the development of understanding how the class struggle between capital and labor has played out and is especially interested in the development of deep historical understandings of the development of capitalism globally\, nationally\, regionally\, and also in areas local to participants. Currently\, the Capital Studies Group convenes on Saturdays 11 am to 1 pm each week in discussion of Marx’s Grundrisse. \n  \nA discounted A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT is available from DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \nDETROIT: I DO MIND DYING is available from Haymarket Books (and they ship quickly) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to the Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit-and-detroit-i-do-mind-dying/2022-02-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Fordism,historical materialism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Late Capitalist Fascism
DESCRIPTION:What if fascism can no longer be confined to political parties or ultra nationalist politicians but has become something much more diffuse that is spread across our societies as cultural expressions and psychological states? This is the thesis developed by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen\, who argues that late capitalism has produced hollowed-out and exchangeable subjectivities that provide a breeding ground for a new kind of diffuse\, banal fascism. The overt and concentrated fascism of the new fascist parties thrives on the diffuse fascism present in social media and everyday life\, where the fear of being left behind and losing out has fuelled resentment towards foreigners and others who are perceived as threats to a national community under siege. Only by confronting both the overt fascism of parties and politicians and the diffuse fascism of everyday life will we be able to combat fascism effectively and prevent the slide into barbarism. \nMIKKEL BOLT RASMUSSEN is an art historian\, cultural critic and professor in Political Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. He has written books on the Situationist International\, politicized contemporary art and the revolutionary tradition. Previous books include Trump’s Counter-Revolution (Zero Books\, 2018) and After the Great Refusal (Zero Books\, 2018). \nPictured are: Estonian fascist Kaalep and French fascist LePen smiling together as they mutually display the fascist sign for white supremacy. LePen later asked Kaalep to take the image off his Facebook photo stream. More photos include a “White Way” protest in Plauen\, Germany\, a large fascist gathering in Poland\, the neo-Nazi Kotleba in Slovenia\, along with English fascists in the heart of London. \nOrder Mikkel’s book here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=late-capitalist-fascism–9781509547432. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/late-capitalist-fascism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,Late Capital and Fascism,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Seminars and Talks
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