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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-1930-1949/2018-04-02/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180402T193000
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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/2018-04-02/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180401T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180401T123000
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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-2/2018-04-01/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180331T160000
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SUMMARY:Tales of the 1%: The Organizer
DESCRIPTION:In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin\, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout\, which becomes a long strike\, developing into an occupation. The capitalists summon in the army. The organizer (Marcello Mastrioanni) rallies the workers\, converting fear into strength through collective action. \nThe Organizer is a dramatically political statement from director Mario Monicelli. More commonly known for lighter films like Big Deal on Madonna Street\, Monicelli created an expression of the necessity of collective action that is both gritty and entertaining. In making this period piece about a factory strike in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin (the rapidly industrializing Italian city that would come to be called “Italy’s Detroit”)\, Monicelli strove for the utmost realism\, casting the film with actual workers and shooting on location in one of the area’s huge textile factories. \n“I wanted to show all of that. The truth about what happens in the working world.”\n—Mario Monicelli\, interviewed in 2006 \nDiscussion with the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\, 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/irish-resistance-special-2/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180331T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180331T140000
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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-1/2018-03-31/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180330T200000
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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/2018-03-30/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180329T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180329T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z
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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/2018-03-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180329T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T132956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T132956Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Crisis\, Climate Justice\, Climate Fiction
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week reading and discussion group\nwith Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThis study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate\, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria)\, New York (Sandy)\, and the Mideast (drought\, wars\, refugees)\, through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson\, Christian Parenti\, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction\,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-crisis-climate-justice-climate-fiction/2018-03-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180327T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180327T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180102T060157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180127T043454Z
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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-1/2018-03-27/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180326T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
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-1930-1949/2018-03-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180326T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T055027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T055027Z
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SUMMARY:Revolution in China: 1911-1949
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutions Study Group\n10 weeks \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. Beginning this January\, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle\, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco\, Origins of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, and Edgar Snow\, Red Star over China. \n“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets\, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools\, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers\, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages\, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia\, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”\n—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, 1938 \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. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-china-1911-1949/2018-03-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180326T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180111T054610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T054942Z
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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/2018-03-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180325T103000
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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-2/2018-03-25/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180324T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180324T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180115T051443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180115T051443Z
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SUMMARY:Remembering Bill Koehnlein
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, March 24\, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm family\, friends and comrades are invited to gather to celebrate the life of Bill Koehnlein\, a long-term supporter of our efforts at The New York Marxist School\, Brecht Forum and a core builder and activist of the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/remembering-bill-koehnlein/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180324T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180324T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003867-1521889200-1521900000@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-1/2018-03-24/
LOCATION:NY\, 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180322T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180322T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T054212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z
UID:10003822-1521747000-1521754200@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/2018-03-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180322T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180322T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T132956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T132956Z
UID:10003844-1521741600-1521747000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Climate Crisis\, Climate Justice\, Climate Fiction
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week reading and discussion group\nwith Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThis study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate\, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria)\, New York (Sandy)\, and the Mideast (drought\, wars\, refugees)\, through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson\, Christian Parenti\, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction\,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-crisis-climate-justice-climate-fiction/2018-03-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sand5-march_Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180320T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180320T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180102T060157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180127T043454Z
UID:10003886-1521574200-1521581400@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-1/2018-03-20/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OrganizingBooksSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180319T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T055027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T055027Z
UID:10003834-1521487800-1521495000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Revolution in China: 1911-1949
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutions Study Group\n10 weeks \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. Beginning this January\, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle\, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco\, Origins of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, and Edgar Snow\, Red Star over China. \n“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets\, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools\, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers\, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages\, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia\, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”\n—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, 1938 \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. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-china-1911-1949/2018-03-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/strikers1925_site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180319T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180111T054610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T054942Z
UID:10003896-1521482400-1521487800@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/2018-03-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/universeBookCovers_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180318T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180318T123000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003855-1521369000-1521376200@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-2/2018-03-18/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180317T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180317T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180226T053219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T053219Z
UID:10006267-1521300600-1521316800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Irish Resistance Special
DESCRIPTION:A benefit for The Independent and Marxist Education Project\nFilm / Beer / Food / Music\n4pm Film\nThe Limerick Soviet\na documentary produced by Frameworks Films of Cork\, Ireland with the collaborative support of the Limerick Council of Trade Unions\nThe Limerick Soviet tells the story of a revolution on the streets of Limerick\, Ireland in April 1919 when the first soviet in Ireland was declared. It occurred as workers in the city refused the imposition of martial law in Limerick\, which had been declared  by the police and Brits following the police murder of a trade unionist and IRA member. This hard-line approach by the British authorities backfired and resulted in Limerick workers calling of a general strike and for control of the city to be taken by the workers. The workers then held the city for twelve days before the soviet was broken by the occupying Brit military.\nThe Limerick Soviet was produced with the support of the Sound and Vision scheme\, an initiative of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.\nFor further information on purchasing this and other films from Frameworks\, please contact Frameworks Films on 021-4211010\, or info@frameworkfilms.com.\nSpecial thanks to Frameworks and the Limerick Council of Trade Unions\n5:30 pm (READINGS) from the historyof Irish resistance\n6:30 pm (MUSIC) THE BUSY BUSY Celtic Punky and Western
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/irish-resistance-special/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IrishResistance_Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180317T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180317T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003866-1521284400-1521295200@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-1/2018-03-17/
LOCATION:NY\, 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180315T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180315T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T054212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z
UID:10003821-1521142200-1521149400@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/2018-03-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180315T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T132956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T132956Z
UID:10003843-1521136800-1521142200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Climate Crisis\, Climate Justice\, Climate Fiction
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week reading and discussion group\nwith Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThis study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate\, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria)\, New York (Sandy)\, and the Mideast (drought\, wars\, refugees)\, through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson\, Christian Parenti\, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction\,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-crisis-climate-justice-climate-fiction/2018-03-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sand5-march_Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180313T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20180102T060157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180127T043454Z
UID:10003885-1520969400-1520976600@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-1/2018-03-13/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OrganizingBooksSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180312T213000
DTSTAMP:20260418T170357
CREATED:20171115T055027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T055027Z
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SUMMARY:Revolution in China: 1911-1949
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutions Study Group\n10 weeks \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. Beginning this January\, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle\, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco\, Origins of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, and Edgar Snow\, Red Star over China. \n“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets\, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools\, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers\, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages\, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia\, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”\n—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution\, Harold Isaacs\, 1938 \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. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-china-1911-1949/2018-03-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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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/2018-03-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Degenerate!: Art and the State
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study with Jeramy Turner \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.  —Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nThe idea of this course is to reveal the state’s entrenchment in determining the direction and limitations of the visual art world in capital’s domination of society. We will be examining the extent to which the power structure will go to control our cultural imagination. For example\, the CIA and other governmental agencies energetically promoted abstract expressionism as an art movement that pointed to the limitless freedoms capitalism signified\, especially in its American form. \nThe course would begin with a free screening of Architecture of Doom (dir. Peter Cohen\, 1989\, 119 min\,)—a vivid documentary which presents the Nazi use of overt state control over visual art\, with the premise that art had political and ideological functions. This film showing will occur at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library on Saturday\, January 20\, 2:30 pm. For the Nazis\, modernist\, socialist\, Jewish artists were necessarily entartete (degenerate).  In Munich in 1937\, an enormous exhibition of Entartete Kunst was launched to express degeneracy and madness. Over 3 million people attended. We will project art from some of these designated artists such as Otto Dix\, Georg Grosz\, Max Beckmann in order to deepen an understanding of what was at stake. \nFrom here we travel to postwar America\, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function\, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan\, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible\, even hinted at\, socialist leanings. Abstraction\, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry. \nWe will discuss the trajectory of this upsurge upon museums and galleries\, and upon the artists themselves\, and its relevancy today. What is the underlying nature of political art today?  Who is funding it\, and why?  Has there been a radical reversal in art’s function since the postwar years?  Who owns the museums? Are they meant to inspire or to intimidate?  And\, most essentially: why are these questions important to society in general\, at this point in time? \nThere is a tremendous amount of material and resources\, opinions and visual sources that pertain to this subject. The course will not be a series of lectures\, but rather a guided discussion group\, accessible to political thinkers\, artists\, and art lovers. A multitude of opinions will only enrich our understanding. \nReadings: \n1. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art\, by Serge Guilbaut\, University of Chicago\, 1983\n2. Who Paid the Piper?  The CIA and the Cultural Cold War a.k.a. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stoner Saunders\, New Press\, 1999\n3. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920 -1950\, by Bram Dijkstra\, Abrams Press 2003 \nJeramy Turner’s primary concern has been for many years the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of ruling class hegemony. from 1975 through 1992 she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, “Shattering Screen”. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since.  She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell).  Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\, Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen\, Norway\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state/2018-03-12/
LOCATION:NY\, 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-2/2018-03-11/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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