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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 16\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nIn her new book Free Gifts\, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to place value on nature. She argues that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified\, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. Why have some things come to have value under capitalism—and why have others not. Recovering and reinterpreting classical economists’ idea of “free gifts of nature\,” Battistoni builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. She addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought\, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry\, pollution in the environment\, reproductive labor in the household\, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing\, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers\, including Friedrich Hayek\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Garrett Hardin\, Silvia Federici\, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately\, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present\, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world\, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts. \nAlyssa Battistoni is assistant professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writing has appeared in The Nation\, the Guardian\, Boston Review\, n+1\, Dissent\, The New Statesman\, Jacobin\, and New Left Review.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/freegifts-battistoni/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Book talks,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Fall 25,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA book talk by David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally injects new life into Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor\, presenting a new\, systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature\, planter records and diaries\, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \n“David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ‘constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers.”—Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class \nDavid McNally is the author of many works of Marxist analysis and history\, including Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance and Empire; Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance; and Monsters of the Market: Zombies\, Vampires and Global Capitalism. David is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. Earlier he taught political economy at York University Toronto for over thirty years. David is the editor-in-chief of Spectre\, a biannual and online journal of Marxist theory\, strategy\, and analysis. \nJoin our five-week reading group on Slavery and Capitalism starting December 1.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mcnally-slavery-capitalism/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 25,featured,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Slavery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T180000
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Volume I - A Short Course on Capitalist Production
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, September 20 through December 13 \n\nHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital\, Vol 1\, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-session study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer will facilitate as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This reading group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. \n\nLisa Maya Knauer\, our facilitator\, has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nEnrollment in this series is now closed – please watch for future sessions on Marx’s Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-short-course/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Fall 25,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T183000
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SUMMARY:Octavia Butler: ‘Positive Obsession’ and ‘Wild Seed’
DESCRIPTION:Alternate Mondays\, Next on December 8\, 5-6:30 pm ET \nWatch for new selections coming soon\, featuring Frankenstein and the Chicano Frankenstein. \nJoin us for a new appreciation of Octavia Butler\, beginning with Susana M. Morris’s pathbreaking new biography\, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler followed by Butler’s prophetic Wild Seed and other short selections. Offered by the Speculative and Visionary Fiction reading group. \nMorris’s just published biography blends commentary on Butler’s work and life against the social and political conditions she lived and wrote in. Butler developed her literary powers during the Reagan years while living a far from easy life.  As Dana A. Williams notes in her New York Times review\, “One of the biography’s most compelling themes is Butler’s sustained critique of American imperialism. From the scorched landscapes in Parable of the Sower to the uneasy alliances between humans and the Oankali (an “alien” race in the Xenogenesis series) to the entanglement of history and power in Kindred\, Butler’s fiction exposes the toll of empire (and its illusion of progress) on the body\, on the planet and on humanity.” \nWhether you have read a lot or a little of Butler’s fiction\, we encourage you to join with the MEP’s long-running reading group for a new introduction to Butler’s pivotal role in reshaping science\, visionary and speculative fiction\, helping inspire the emergence of Afro-Futurism\, and influencing a new generation of younger writers. We will accompany our reading of the biography with short selections from Butler’s fiction and other related materials. \nConvened by Steve Backman \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/read-positive-obsession-the-life-and-times-of-octavia-e-butler/
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Dystopian literature,Fall 25,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction,Women
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T130000
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SUMMARY:Hegel's Preface to the 'Phenomenology'
DESCRIPTION:(ends on December 13) \nThis eight-session course with Alex Steinberg concludes our ongoing studies of Hegel’s mysterious work\, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will do a close reading of the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit\, a work that can be read on its own and is considered the most succinct and comprehensive statement of Hegel’s philosophy. \nThese sessions introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nThere are 3 acceptable translations of the Phenomenology of Spirit available:\nOne by A.V. Miller published by Oxford University Press\, another by Terry Pinkard from Cambridge University Press\, and another translation that includes only the Preface\, by Yirmiyahu Yovel from Princeton University Press with a detailed commentary. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-preface-to-the-phenomenology/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall 25,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T184309Z
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
DESCRIPTION:Final session\, December 16 \nA study group on nonhuman animals’ relationship with capital as living\, breathing\, “commodified” beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. A vibrant discourse is currently emerging around the question of nonhuman labor and the ways in which non-waged forms of labor contribute to value accumulation under capitalism. In this study group\, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies\, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism. We will consider how harnessing and enhancing the metabolic labor of nonhuman animals is connected to fields such as waste management\, biomedical research\, big data\, and the reproduction of the human labor force. \nConvened by Gizem Haspolat and Terike Haapoja. Gizem holds a PhD in Anthropology and specializes in critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human-nonhuman animal relations. In her dissertation research\, she explored live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of live cattle imports in Turkey. Her current research project examines the application of ‘smart’ technologies and artificial intelligence in industrial agricultural settings. Terike is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings\, and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her current research on animal labor and multispecies anticapitalist struggle\, with an extensive open bibliography\, can be found on animalcapitalism.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/metabolic-labor/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Fall 25,featured,Labor Process,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T203000
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SUMMARY:Hegel\, Marx\, and Capital
DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 17\, 2025 event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAndy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx’s use of Hegel’s Logic in the writing of Capital. The Capital/Logic Debate offers a critique of the discourse around the relation between the two thinkers. Previous writers have looked for homologies between the Logic and Capital\, despite the fact that the Logic has no definite content\, while any positive science\, political economy included\, does have definite content originating from some problem or phenomenon with its own logic. In Marx’s Capital: Hegelian Sources\, Blunden explores the three-layered structure of Capital\, where each layer has a basis in Hegel. The distinct ethical strata of Capital – bourgeois society\, productive capitalism\, and finance capital –  parallel Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Marx applies a Hegelian syllogism in which the immediate production of capital (volume 1) and the circulation of capital (volume 2) combine to yield capitalist production as a whole (volume 3). These two synthetic processes are built on 15 “units” – unique products of analysis\, as detailed in the penultimate chapter of Hegel’s Logic\, “The Idea of Cognition.” \nAndy Blunden has long been active on the Left as an activist and educator. Since the early 2000s he has been Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org). Andy has presented courses on Activity Theory\, Marx and Hegel at summer schools at Melbourne University. currently retired from waged work\, he has worked as a teacher\, a technician\, or an engineer\, and has been an active trade unionist throughout. Among his other books are Hegel for Social Movements; Hegel\, Marx\, and Vygotsky; and Concepts: A Critical Approach. All are available from Haymarket Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-marx-blunden/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Fall 25,featured,Hegelianism,historical materialism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Philosophy,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T200000
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SUMMARY:Reading 'Karl Marx in America'
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman’s recently published Karl Marx in America.  To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nFacilitated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-karl-marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Fall 25,historical materialism,Housing,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Reading Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T210000
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SUMMARY:New Studies on the Left: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Contributors Erica Carter\, Jay Jurie\, Paul Krehbiel\, Harry Targ\, Janet Tucker\, Meta Van Sickle join editor Carl Davidson for a discussion of the latest New Studies on the Left. Contributors to this edition address four related themes: “Analysis and Global Reach\,” “Labor Rising Helps Everyone Else\,” and “Civil Society and Campaigns on Social Terrain\,” and “Theory for Our Time.” Our panel will tie these themes together to explore where we stand\, particularly in the United States\, in reaching a critical point in peaceful non-cooperation with the present regime’s policies at home and worldwide. Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism publishes this new series in tribute to the original\, early 1960s New Studies on the Left.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-studies-on-the-left-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Book talks,Fall 25,Present Moment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T200000
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally’s recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally’s book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Over the past decade\, Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nEnrollment for this study group is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/slavery-and-capitalism-a-reading-group/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 25,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Slavery,Social Reproduction,US History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Venezuela\, Oil\, and Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:A video of this January 21\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation’s oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of “blood for oil.” Steve Maher assesses the implications for global political economy\, Christy Thornton offers analysis of the diverse effects on – and responses by – Mexico and other Latin American states\, and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo explores the relationship between U.S imperial aggression in Latin America and terror against migrants at home. \nMatt Huber is Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University and the author of Lifeblood: Oil\, Freedom\, and the Forces of Capital\, and Climate Change as Class War. \nSteve Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. With Scott Aquanno he is the co-author of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Steve also authored Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power. \nChristy Thornton is Associate Professor of History at New York University\, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Christy is also the co-director\, with Quinn Slobodian\, of the History and Political Economy Project. She served for five years as Executive Director of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). \nCamilo Pérez-Bustillo is the co-founder and coordinator of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement (Mexico City). He is also the leading translator into English of work by Argentine/Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel\, including The Theological Metaphors of Marx (Duke\, 2024)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/venezuela-oil-politics/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Extractivism,Immigration,Imperialism,Latin America,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Political Economy,Populism,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T160000
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SUMMARY:Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
DESCRIPTION:A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner\, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nBridging political economy and psychology\, we will review Marx’s writings on the structure of social systems that encompass cultural emergents such as religion. As emphasized by Wendy Brown in her Foreword to the Reitter-North translation of Capital\, “Marx developed an understanding of political economy as the distinctive mode through which we build entire worlds through our singular cooperative powers—transforming nature\, elaborating divisions of labor and organizations of ownership\, producing wealth\, creating ways of life\, institutions\, social forms\, subjects\, and subjectivities… Capital brings into being not only particular kinds of markets\, technologies\, and industries\, but classes\, families\, and political structures; race and gender orders; relations with ‘nature’; new formations of space and time; and legal codes and conflicts.” \nTurning to the field of cultural psychology\, we will explore how cultural forms stimulate and organize human psychology. Here we will focus on the work of the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” Vygotsky was a dedicated Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. Vygotsky said\, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science\, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-psychology-ratner/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Immigration and Chicano/Latin American Liberation: Repression & Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 7-9 pm ET\n \nJoin us for an overview study of the relationship between Mexican immigration and the United States: its colonial foundation\, vibrant new communities\, cyclical labor exploitation\, and state-sanctioned repression\, liberation struggles. The Chicano liberation movement emerged as a direct response to this\, and its legacy is critical to understanding immigration struggles today and modern nativist and fascist-aligned counter-responses. Convened by the MEP Political Strategy Study Group\, including Steve Backman\, Fred Murphy\, and new volunteers Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and others. \nOur primary reading is No One Is Illegal\, by Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis (Haymarket Books\, 2018 Updated Edition). We supplement this with additional recommended readings for which we will provide links or copies\, and\, based on initial discussion\, we may recommend a second book as “primary.” \nWe have planned for six weeks\, optionally extending to eight. Given the richness of the topics and based on interest\, we may plan for follow-on study in the spring. \nThis study continues the long-running “Historical Roots of American Fascism” series and takes it in a new direction. Our historical readings first focused on the 1830s and 1840s counter-revolution of Texan settlers against native peoples\, Mexico\, and people of Mexican origins with long traditions in the Southwest. This study brings our focus forward to the patterns of life and struggle in the twentieth century and twentieth-first century.  Using the lens of Chicano political traditions\, we expect it to provide insight on national conditions throughout the US. \nWe continue to have three points of reference:  \n\nSources\, strengths\, and strategies of recurring waves of popular struggle\, beginning with the theme of “Abolition Democracy” introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois and now embracing Chicano liberation and other traditions of struggle. \nEvolving forms of reaction and repression\, especially their roots in white supremacy and internal settler-colonialism in the Southwest and West. \nReflections on the present moment in the US\, framed by immigration and other pivotal struggles\, especially (though not limited to) in California and the Southwest. \n\nWe will make available a new syllabus while continuing to update our long-term bibliography of supplementary readings.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/historical-roots/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall 25,featured,Multi-session Classes,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T203000
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SUMMARY:Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nWill green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment\, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. \nThea Riofrancos\, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism\, unpacks these challenges through the lens of lithium\, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand\, exceeding existing supplies\, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to “secure” lithium\, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. \nMeanwhile\, Global South governments are attempting to leverage critical mineral deposits into sustainable and sovereign economic development. And\, across the world\, environmental and Indigenous movements contest the rapid expansion of extraction\, defending ecosystems\, livelihoods\, and waterways already under pressure from global warming from a new boom in mining. It is in the play of these forces\, unfolding amidst geopolitical rivalry and economic turbulence\, that the energy transition will be forged. To conclude\, Riofrancos will explore the possibility of a less mining-intensive pathway to zero-carbon transportation. \nThea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College\, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute\, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction\, renewable energy\, climate change\, the global lithium sector\, green technologies\, social movements\, and the Latin American left. She is also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writings have appeared in scholarly journals and in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, n+1\, and Dissent.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/extraction-a-book-talk-with-author-thea-riofrancos/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,featured,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T173000
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SUMMARY:Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer
DESCRIPTION:This six-week reading group\, facilitated by Lisa Maya Knauer\, will focus on one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work\, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory. Marx argued that capital accumulation depends not only upon the production of goods and the extraction of surplus value\, but also on the reproduction of capitalist social relations and above all of the class of people who have nothing to sell but their labor power. Social reproduction theory analyzes the processes whereby working classes and their conditions of life are sustained over time. Marx only sketched the concept in very broad terms\, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. Vogel and others argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. We will supplement Vogel’s classic work with some early writings by the Wages for Housework campaign and more recent scholarship\, including a newly published collection of Lise Vogel’s essays\, The Contested Domain. Some familiarity with Marxist and/or feminist theory is helpful but not essential. \nLisa Maya Knauer stumbled across the writings of the Wages for Housework campaign in the mid-1970s when she was a college student. A few years later\, she started reading Marx’s Capital at the MEP’s predecessor\, the School for Marxist Education. She is a co-founder of the MEP and has led our Capital Volume I reading groups for the past few years. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nRegistration for this group is now closed. Contact info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/social-reproduction-theory-with-lisa-maya-knauer/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,featured,Gender,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Winter 2026,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T191623Z
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SUMMARY:Protective Presence in the West Bank
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nThe only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence\, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and with their flocks and confronting settlers who are far less likely to kill and even attack Palestinians if protective presence activists are on the ground. Mitch and Celeste will be discussing their experiences and their new organization\, Protective Presence USA\, which is assisting Americans in joining this effort to fight off the annexation of Palestinian land. \nMitch Abidor is a writer and translator. His latest book is Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary. He’s currently working on an oral history of the Israeli socialist anti-Zionist organization Matzpen. \nCeleste Marcus is the executive editor of Liberties Journal and the author of Chaim Soutine: Genius\, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art. She has written widely about settler terrorism in the West Bank.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/protective-presence/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Colonialism,Imperialism,Israeli occupation,Organizing,Palestine,Present Moment,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Special Event,Spring 2026,Video Available,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance\, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight against fascism. As the characters encounter each other clandestinely to discuss political questions\, they also discuss works of art and question how the art of the past can support their resistance to a horrific present: what can art suggest for a future they may not live to see? \nJust as Weiss’s characters rely upon group discussion\, readers of this trilogy have often formed reading groups to aid their understanding of the novelist’s ambitions. The MEP is joining this leftist tradition. We will read these challenging novels slowly and discuss themes such as strategy and tactics in the fight against fascism\, and the works of art that inspired the characters’ discussions. Familiarity with art history or with Europe in the 1930s is neither required nor expected. \nPublisher’s web pages for The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3\nSecond-hand bookstores\, online resellers\, and public libraries may have copies of these books available. Since such delivery may be slow\, orders for Volume One should be placed as soon as possible. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/aesthetics-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Fall 25,Gender,Germany,historical materialism,History,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Strategy,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,Spring 2026,War,War Fiction,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Planetary Crises: Extraction and the Costs of 'Green Capitalism'
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency\, the nature of economic and ecological crises\, the status of freedom with respect to environmental constraints\, and related topics. Beginning March 25\, we will take up Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism\, by Thea Riofrancos. \nExtraction addresses the question\, Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment\, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. Riofrancos unpacks these challenges through the lens of lithium\, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. \nOther recently published books we have read or will be reading include: \n\nAgainst the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World\, by Ståle Holgersen\nFree Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature\, by Alyssa Battistoni\nAnthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster\, by Paul Guillibert\nOvershoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown\, by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm\nThe Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late\, by Carton and Malm\nThe Alibi of Capital\, by Timothy Mitchell\n\nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, political economy\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research and reported from Latin America for several socialist publications. \nThese sessions are dedicated to the memory of Steve Knight\, who co-led the Ecosocialist Working Group for nearly ten years\, guiding our conversations on degrowth and ecomodernism\, world-ecology and the metabolic rift\, science\, technology and capitalism\, and related topics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/planetary-crises-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
DESCRIPTION:Join Russell Dale to read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. As of January 2026\, the group is reading Book 2 of Smith’s The Wealth of Nations\, which takes up the nature and functioning of capital. Smith’s notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx’s understanding of capital\, and Marx frequently quoted from Book 2 in his discussions in “Capital” and other writings.\n \nWe will read the Oxford University Press edition of the work; the full title is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1976; General editors: R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner; textual editor: W. B. Todd). The book has been republished by The Liberty Fund and made widely available in a two-volume photographic reproduction edition. \nRussell Dale taught philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY\, for many years but is now retired. He has been a collaborator of the Marxist Education Project since its inception. He is on the Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/adam-smith/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Spring 2026,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.  This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization.  We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and show the truly radical view that Hegel championed under difficult conditions of censorship and political persecution\, much like those of our own time. This study of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right is inspired by the insight of Andy Blunden\, in his recent book\, The Capital-Logic Debate\, that the key to understanding Marx’s dialectical method in his investigation of Capital lies in understanding the method Hegel employed in the Philosophy of Right. \nFor the main text the preferred version is Outlines of the Philosophy of Right\, edited by Stephen Houlgate (Oxford University Press\, 2008). Also acceptable is Elements of the Philosophy of Right\, edited by Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press\, 1991). \nPrevious classes in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and/or the Science of Logic will be helpful but are not a requirement for these sessions. Each participant will be expected to make at least one presentation during the ten-week seminar. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this supremely concrete application of Hegel’s dialectical method. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex has also been involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-philosophy-of-right/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Reading Group,Science and Method,Spring 2026,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
DESCRIPTION:Meets monthly on Saturdays\, 2-4 pm ET \nThe MEP Literature Group hosts a new monthly series\, meeting at 2 pm US ET on the last Saturday of each month. In our new format\, we discuss a single book each month. Selections are not limited to fiction – we are branching out to include memoir\, biography\, essays\, and other forms that investigate and challenge literary norms. We encourage participants to recommend books and topics. (Note that our weekly series on Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance will also continue for now). \nApril 4 My Country\, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria\, by Andrée Blouin\, in collaboration with Jean MacKellar (Verso Books\, 2025\, 288 pages). We suggest reading this book while streaming Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. The Literature Group has read a number of fictions set in Africa; Blouin’s memoir gives background on the turbulent postcolonial period in Africa and the unrecognized contributions of women to national liberation movements. \nApril 25 Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel\, by Joseph Andreas (Verso Books\, 2024\, 82 pages). A narrator walks through contemporary Paris\, identifying the locations where a young Vietnamese refugee/revolutionary lived and worked in a city marked by rebellions and massacres. This novel will resonate with MEP members who read The Sorrow of War. \nMay 30 The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise\, by Georges Perec (Verso Books\, 2025\, 80 pages). All wage slaves resent the humiliation of the yearly self-evaluation to justify the request for a pay raise. Perec\, a noted literary avant-gardist and member of Oulipo\, had a lowly job as a library clerk that he used to advantage when IBM asked for writers to experiment with computer algorithms. \nJune 27 Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile\, by Eden Medina (MIT Press\, 2014\, 326 pages). Allende’s Chile attempted not only a political change\, but a technological change. As we deal with the AI bros proclaiming a world of their own making\, this study of a socialist government applying technology provides an alternative. \nJuly 29 The Glass Key\, by Dashiell Hammett (various publishers). Published in 1930\, Dashiell Hammett wrote a scathing description of small-town corruption in which capitalism supported local economies and power elites. The novel has inspired many movies\, all worth watching and worth discussing in this session. \nPrevious discussions: \nFebruary 28 Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary\, by Mitchell Abidor (Pluto Press\, 2025\, 424 pages). On November 3\, 2025\, Mitch Abidor spoke at the MEP on how his biography of Victor Serge could disturb readers who have a romantic view of Serge’s dissidence. We will discuss how this biography brings out the difficulties of Serge’s living within defeat and poverty and whether Abidor’s reportage changes our assessment of Serge’s novels. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/literature-group-new-2026-monthly-series/
CATEGORIES:Literature,Multi-session Classes,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260405T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260405T123000
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SUMMARY:Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
DESCRIPTION:The continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: \n\nSelections from the Prison Notebooks\nSelections from Cultural Writings\nSelections from Political Writings\nGramsci’s writings on international politics\, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.\n\nParticipants may join in at any time. We share a vast archive of articles and secondary sources on Gramsci research and application of Gramsci’s approach to specific realities of our interest. \nPiruz Alemi\, PhD\, and Trudy Mercadal\, PhD\, facilitate this program. In addition\, all participants have the opportunity to lead discussions\, and we transcribe\, edit\, archive and share our discussion commentaries among the group. In effect\, we collectively will write and apply Gramsci’s approach to international issues of our interest. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/antonio-gramsci-studies-2026-sessions/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Gramsci,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T030020
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SUMMARY:Topics in Strategic Studies - Spring 2026 Series
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 7-9 pm ET\n \nJoin us for a new format for the “Historical Roots…” study\, reworked for 2026 as “topics in strategic studies.” We will select and read one significant book of political theory or history a month\, focused on understanding the stresses and directions for change in the present moment. Each week\, we will invite one of us or a guest to present a current topic along with optional readings. This new format will enable us to dig into break-through studies and analyses while also ensuring continuing new and lively discussions on topics of interest. \nThis month\, we are reading Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism:  Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Verso Publishers presents this important study: “Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism\, Toscano makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kind of political violence experienced by past European regimes. Rather than looking for analogies from history\, we should see fascism as a mutable process\, one anchored in racial and colonial capitalism\, which both predates and survives its crystallization in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.” \nAs we confirm additional readings for the spring and summer\, we will add them to a new syllabus which you can request\, while continuing to update our long-term bibliography of supplementary readings.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-strategy/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically - Spring 2026 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Alternate Mondays\, next on April 13\, 5-6:30 pm ET \nMEP’s alternative literature group begins a new series of novels\, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction\, reborn from traditional science fiction\, and also known by its alter ego “visionary fiction” and other identities\, including horror\, more than ever offers space for exploration of class\, race\, gender\, freedom struggles and authoritarian repression. Join with us to sample the best of this socially conscious and political literature. We read it to envision the futures we seek and empower our commitments\, enliven our reflection\, and energize our communities. Our new list\, with two short stories first and then three longer selections: \n“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience\,” Rebecca Roanhorse\n“Delhi\,” Vandana Singh\n\nShikasta\, Recolonized Planet 5\, Doris Lessing\nThe Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist\, Emile Habibi\nWe Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest\, Resistance\, and Hope\, edited by Malka Older\, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord \n\nConvened by the Science and Speculative Fiction Reading Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/speculative-fiction-politically-spring-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Dystopian literature,featured,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Spring 2026,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction,Women
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SUMMARY:'Black History Is for Everyone' with Brian Jones
DESCRIPTION:Longtime educator Brian Jones explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race\, nation\, and the stories we tell about who we are. In Black History Is for Everyone\, Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history\, using his own experiences as a lifelong learner and classroom teacher to question everything — from the radicalism of the American Revolution to the meaning of “race” and “nation.” With warmth and immersive storytelling\, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history\, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high\, the effort is worth it. \nBrian Jones has taught many ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History\, his writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, the Guardian\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-history-jones/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Book talks,Civil War,Colonialism,Du Bois,featured,History,Labor History,Race and Class,Special Event,Spring 2026,US History,Working Class History
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