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SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-05-06/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-05-05/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-03/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner
DESCRIPTION:William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel\, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press featuring the work 10 different critics. In addition to the criticism of Styron there were a number of African-American writers who were encouraged and praised Styron for his work\, most notably James Baldwin. Baldwin predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years. This remains true today. \nThis May\, our Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel\, the Beacon Press anthology\, William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\, as well as the essay Baldwin wrote in defense of Styron. Many profound questions concerning race\, class\, the rendering of historical presentation\, claims on sectors of our shared history\, etc. are raised in the novel and in the anthology. We will discuss as many of these questions as possible including having a careful read of Baldwin’s essay on the work. This class is also part of The MEP noting this being a half-century since the pivotal year of 1968. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/styrons-confessions-of-nat-turner/2018-05-03/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180430T193000
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-04-30/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-04-29/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Peddler’s Walking Tour of Wall Street
DESCRIPTION:The Aaron Burr Society’s Book Peddler’s Walking Tour of Wall Street\nMeet on the steps of Federal Hall\, 26 Wall Street\nDATE CHANGED BECAUSE OF WEATHER \nThe Aaron Burr Society is dedicated to exposing the myths of free markets and free trade\nwhile challenging the integrity of Wall Street and their corporate cronies. \nSelling the book (published by Autonomedia will be available):\nwall street in black & white: fotos & text of an occupier\nfor those of you who cannot attend visit autonomedia.org to purchase Jim’s book \nWalking tour (with book peddling) with Jim Costanzo \nJIM COSTANZO launched the Aaron Burr Society in the summer of 2008 with performances on Wall Street. This was before the Stock Market Crash that created the International Financial Meltdown which in turn was followed by the Great Recession and the return of strong tendencies towards fascism. As part of the walking tour\, Jim will play the People’s Horn and read from his book while commenting on the Common Good & Commonwealth in the context of why Burr killed Alexander Hamilton\, the hidden criminality of Wall Street and the Occupy Wall Street movement. \nFundraiser for The MEP: $10 / $20 / $30 sliding scale
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-peddlers-walking-tour-of-wall-street/
LOCATION:Federal Hall (Corner of Wall and Bond)\, 26 Wall Street\, New York\, NY\, 10005\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180428T110000
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SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-04-28/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180427T200000
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SUMMARY:Friday Noir: Women and Murder
DESCRIPTION:Genre Fiction: Women and Murder \nLast Fridays of each Month\nJacqueline Cantwell\nMarch 30 and April 27 \nThe March 30 author will be Shirley Jackson\, notorious for writing The Lottery and the gothic The Haunting of Hill House. From 1943 until her death in 1965\, she was popular and published by major magazines. Her stories of women’s social unease\, inadequacy\,  and exclusion are the interior dialogues of victims limited by overbearing mothers and local gossips. Jackson also has a wicked wit. Her murderous children belong to the original Grimm’s fairy tales.  \nFor April’s 27th meeting\, we will leave Jackson’s domestic and white world of unhappy women\, murderous children\, and local gossips and return to the American noir setting of social crime by reading Nella Larsen. Unlike the prolific Jackson\, Larsen  published a few short stories and only two novels between 1920 and 1930. We will read her second novel\, Passing. Unlike Jackson’s women\, Larsen’s women are not limited because they are over-sensitive; racism denies them the ability to act upon their ambitions. In Passing\, two mixed-race women\, who had known each other in childhood\, meet as married women who have chosen very different lives. Clare’s black working class background denied her the advantages of the black bourgeoisie\, but her light skin conceals her African-American background sufficiently so that she is able to marry a wealthy and racist white man. Irene has married a black man\, a highly regarded doctor. The tensions that arise from their re-acquaintance end in either a crime\, accident\, or suicide.  \nNella Larsen’s life did not allow her to write much\, but much has been written on her and about her in turgid academic prose. In this reading group\, let’s look upon Nella Larsen as a woman involved in the writing and the issues of her day. She was an acclaimed modernist who wrote about racism\, the major crime of American society.  \nNo one turned away for inability to pay\n$10 per single session \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/friday-noir-women-and-murder/2018-04-27/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180426T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180426T213000
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-26/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180423T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180423T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-04-23/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180423T213000
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Columbia University Struggle of 1968
DESCRIPTION:THE BATTLE FOR HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION WITH LESSONS FOR TODAY’S MOVEMENT \nA word from Eric and Channing of the Labor/Community Strategy Center: \nDear New York Friends of the Strategy Center.  \nWe are excited to be coming to New York on April 23 for Eric Mann’s talk on the Columbia Strike of 1968 in which he played an active role as a national organizer for SDS.  Channing Martinez and Komozi Woodard will be part of the conversation. Today\, 50 years later\, we are in South L.A. still fighting the U.S. government. In 1968 Columbia University was a slumlord and gentrifier in Harlem—building a racist gym\, that the movement called Gym Crow. Columbia faculty were making weapons to be used against the people of Vietnam in a Defense Department Institute for Defense Analyses. The movement of the Black community\, the Student Afro-American Society and Students for a Democratic Society forced Columbia to stop construction of the gym and withdraw from the IDA. \nToday the Strategy Center is charging the Democratic Party ruling elite with a genocidal gentrification in South LA. We are fighting for Free Public Transportation\, No Police on the trains and buses\, and end to MTA attacks on Black Passengers. We call on the U.S. government to stop drone attacks and close down its 800 military bases all over the world.   Columbia was a great workshop where The Movement challenged U.S. ruling circles and won a major struggle. We believe today’s movement needs to teach\, learn\, and make history. Please join us and purchase tickets below and please forward this to friends in New York. And please email us to let us know you can help! Our great appreciation to Michael Lardner of the Marxist Education Project for organizing this event. \nEric and Channing \n \nHow the Black Movement in Harlem\, Student Afro-American Society and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia ruling class representatives\, Mayor Lindsay\, The New York Times and the New York Police Department and Won.\nEric Mann\, Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center\, Veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality\, Newark Community Union Project\, Students for a Democratic Society\, the Columbia University Struggle and the United Auto Workers\, author of Playbook for Progressives: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer\nIn Conversation with\nKomozi Woodard\, author of Nation within a Nation:  Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics\nand\nChanning Martinez\, lead organizer\, Labor/Community Strategy Center\, and Manager\, Strategy and Soul Movement Center
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolutionary-columbia-university-struggle-of-1968/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180422T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180422T173000
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SUMMARY:May Made Me
DESCRIPTION:An oral history of the 1968 uprising in France\nWith author Mitch Abidor\nat New Perspectives Studio\n456-458 West 37th Street (near 10th Avenue)/Manhattan \nThe mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting\, dangerous\, creative and influential\, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated\, workers went on general strike\, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its momentum\, the protests brought the entire national economy to a halt. The protests reached such a point that the French and international bourgeoisie feared civil war or revolution. \nFifty years later\, here are the eye-opening oral testimonies of those young rebels. By listening to the voices of students and workers\, as opposed to those of their leaders\, May ’68 appears not just as a mass event\, but rather as an event driven by millions of individuals\, creating a mosaic human portrait of France at the time.  \nPublished on the 50th anniversary of those days in the spring of 68\, May Made Me presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed the individuals who participated and their lives as lived since then. \nMitch Abidor is a translator from Brooklyn whose  many translations include A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès and Anarchists Never Surrender and other works by Victor Serge.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/may-made-me/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180422T103000
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-04-22/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180421T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180421T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003871-1524308400-1524319200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-04-21/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180419T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180419T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180319T043327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T043327Z
UID:10003903-1524166200-1524173400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-19/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
UID:10006274-1523907000-1523914200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-04-16/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180416T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180111T054610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T054942Z
UID:10003900-1523901600-1523907000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Universe: Past\, Present\, Future
DESCRIPTION:Alex Steinberg \n10 WEEK SERIES: NO CLASS ON FEBRUARY 19\nThis class is for all who desire to explore together the mysteries and fascinations of our universe. No prior knowledge of astrophysics or mathematics is required. We will have two books from which we will read selected essays: Welcome to the Universe by Neil DeGrasse Tyson\, Michael A. Strauss and  J. Richard Gott and Now: The Physics of Time by Richard A. Muller \nNote: There is also a problem book supplement to Welcome to the Universe. We will be using the initial Welcome to the Universe book and not the supplement in this class series. Of course some students may wish to get the problem book on their own.  \nTogether we will get to the bottom of a number of concepts that are widely discussed but poorly understood. \nWe will ask and look for answers to such questions as: \n1. Is our universe finite or infinite?\n2. Is it heading for a final state of entropy known as heat death\n3. What exactly is meant by entropy?\n4. What do we mean when we say two events happen at the same time?\n5. Can you go backwards in time?\n6. What was before the Big Bang?\n7. How does understanding our galaxy\, other galaxies\, this broad universe\, inform our living on our planet Earth? \nThe facilitator of this class\, Alex Steinberg\, has previously taught widely including on the philosophy of Hegel and Marx\, the dialectics of nature\, the implications of dialectics for contemporary science\, and contemporary philosophical trends on the left and right inspired by Nietzsche. He recently conducted a walking tour centered on what Leon Trotsky did in his few months living in New York City prior to the Russian Revolution.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-universe-past-present-future/2018-04-16/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/universeBookCovers_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180415T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180415T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003859-1523788200-1523795400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-04-15/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SlaveRevolt_Caribbean.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180414T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180414T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003870-1523703600-1523714400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-04-14/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180412T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180412T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180319T043327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T043327Z
UID:10003902-1523561400-1523568600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-12/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180412T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180412T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20171115T054212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z
UID:10003825-1523561400-1523568600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”   —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the  Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930)  The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931)  Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)  March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936)  Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936)  This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940)  Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-04-12/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180410T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180410T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180102T060157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180127T043454Z
UID:10003889-1523388600-1523395800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Manuals On Organizing\, Version 1
DESCRIPTION:The 21st Century Anti-Capitalist Organizing Task Force presents a reading of Assembly and No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age \nHow can we develop a strong anti-capitalist movement as capitalists impose a level of austerity that the working class has not experienced since the Great Depression? Over the next several terms\, this reading group will read works that help explore a spectrum of theories and methods for raising class consciousness and general organizing. \nWe will read these books with a critical eye\, looking for what we can relate to our personal experiences and what is useful in our organizing work in the struggle for socialism and against bourgeois barbarism. \nWe will be reading Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts\, and Assembly by Michael Hart and Antonio Negri. The latter is the latest entry in their series of books about how to be effective during the current conjuncture and beyond. \n11 sessions remain. For January 30 read the Preface and Chapter 1 of Assembly along with the Introduction to No Shortcuts. Versions 2 (April – June)\, and 3 (September-December) and beyond will take up other significant works.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/manuals-on-organizing-version-1/2018-04-10/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OrganizingBooksSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180409T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180409T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
UID:10006273-1523302200-1523309400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-04-09/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180409T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180111T054610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T054942Z
UID:10003899-1523296800-1523302200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Universe: Past\, Present\, Future
DESCRIPTION:Alex Steinberg \n10 WEEK SERIES: NO CLASS ON FEBRUARY 19\nThis class is for all who desire to explore together the mysteries and fascinations of our universe. No prior knowledge of astrophysics or mathematics is required. We will have two books from which we will read selected essays: Welcome to the Universe by Neil DeGrasse Tyson\, Michael A. Strauss and  J. Richard Gott and Now: The Physics of Time by Richard A. Muller \nNote: There is also a problem book supplement to Welcome to the Universe. We will be using the initial Welcome to the Universe book and not the supplement in this class series. Of course some students may wish to get the problem book on their own.  \nTogether we will get to the bottom of a number of concepts that are widely discussed but poorly understood. \nWe will ask and look for answers to such questions as: \n1. Is our universe finite or infinite?\n2. Is it heading for a final state of entropy known as heat death\n3. What exactly is meant by entropy?\n4. What do we mean when we say two events happen at the same time?\n5. Can you go backwards in time?\n6. What was before the Big Bang?\n7. How does understanding our galaxy\, other galaxies\, this broad universe\, inform our living on our planet Earth? \nThe facilitator of this class\, Alex Steinberg\, has previously taught widely including on the philosophy of Hegel and Marx\, the dialectics of nature\, the implications of dialectics for contemporary science\, and contemporary philosophical trends on the left and right inspired by Nietzsche. He recently conducted a walking tour centered on what Leon Trotsky did in his few months living in New York City prior to the Russian Revolution.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-universe-past-present-future/2018-04-09/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/universeBookCovers_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180408T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180408T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003858-1523183400-1523190600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-04-08/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SlaveRevolt_Caribbean.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180407T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180407T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003869-1523098800-1523109600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-04-07/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180405T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180405T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20180319T043327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T043327Z
UID:10003901-1522956600-1522963800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-05/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180405T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180405T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223629
CREATED:20171115T054212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z
UID:10003824-1522956600-1522963800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”   —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the  Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930)  The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931)  Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)  March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936)  Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936)  This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940)  Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-04-05/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Manuals On Organizing\, Version 1
DESCRIPTION:The 21st Century Anti-Capitalist Organizing Task Force presents a reading of Assembly and No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age \nHow can we develop a strong anti-capitalist movement as capitalists impose a level of austerity that the working class has not experienced since the Great Depression? Over the next several terms\, this reading group will read works that help explore a spectrum of theories and methods for raising class consciousness and general organizing. \nWe will read these books with a critical eye\, looking for what we can relate to our personal experiences and what is useful in our organizing work in the struggle for socialism and against bourgeois barbarism. \nWe will be reading Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts\, and Assembly by Michael Hart and Antonio Negri. The latter is the latest entry in their series of books about how to be effective during the current conjuncture and beyond. \n11 sessions remain. For January 30 read the Preface and Chapter 1 of Assembly along with the Introduction to No Shortcuts. Versions 2 (April – June)\, and 3 (September-December) and beyond will take up other significant works.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/manuals-on-organizing-version-1/2018-04-03/
LOCATION:United States
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