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Last night: Seven Essential Steps in Marx’s Dialectical Method

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

“My aim throughout goes beyond explaining Marx’s method to helping people think, study and act more dialectically. ”
—Bertell Ollman

$6 – $15

Student, Worker and People’s Movements in South Africa

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

“There is no doubt therefore, that what we are witnessing is a revolutionary political moment in history. Midnight’s children are learning to walk and talk. ” —Camalita Naicker

$6 – $15

Living Radical, Living Female

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

We will examine how radical women have narrated their lives and imagined different futures through a consideration of both fictional and autobiographical works .

$95 – $125

Marx, Nature and Capital: A Study Group

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

This group will read and discuss works that bring Marxist theory to bear on the environmental crisis and climate change.

$75 – $95

Our Mother Ocean

I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.
—George Katsiaficas

$6 – $15

Mexican Workers and the Mexican Labor Movement: A History

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

This course will deal with the history of Mexican workers from ancient times until today. The course will look at the political economy and the organization of work from indigenous communal organizations of the pre-Columbian period through the era of the Porfiriate, the Mexican Revolution, and into the modern era including today.

$95 – $125

Latin America: Colonized and Post-Colonial Attempts at Liberation

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

A unique opportunity to read and discuss the documentary history of the massacre at Tlatelolco side by side with Bolaño’s novel of the same.

$95 – $125

Cambodia: Forced Eviction and the Violence of Law

In contrast to the standard critique that corruption has set the tone, this talk argues that evictions in Cambodia are often literally underwritten by the articles of law.

$6 – $15

Prison and Social Death

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

...social death does not end with prison. The condition is permanent, following people after they are released from prison...the mechanisms of social death, Price shows, are also informal and cultural.

$6 – $15

István Mészáros’ The Challenge & Burden of Historical Time

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

Capital cannot tolerate any limitations to its own mode of social metabolic reproduction...not even when the devastating consequences are already glaringly obvious both in the field of production and on the terrain of the ecology. The only modality of time in which capital can be interested is exploitable labor time.

$95 – $125

Hegel’s Philosophy of History (1837)

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

Marx and Engels's own theory of historical materialism was explicitly developed in opposition to Hegel's theory of history.

$95 – $125

Hillary Clinton: Born Again Progressive or Architect of Empire?

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

Doug notes of her review of a book by Henry Kissinger,

he praised his “breadth and acuity” and described him as “a friend,” on whose “counsel” she relied while Secretary of State. Her appreciation of her predecessor seems apt. There’s something reminiscent of Kissinger about Hillary – the ruthlessness, the admiration of toughness and force, the penchant for deception and secrecy, the view of diplomacy as war continued by other means.

$6 – $15

Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal

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

“Family, Welfare, and The State leaves no doubt that the New Deal was not only the last resort to save capitalism from the danger of working class revolution, but was also in essence a productivity deal that was structured to maintain a patriarchal and racist order.” —Silvia Federici, from the Preface

$6 – $15