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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Robert Brenner’s The Economics of Global Turbulence
DESCRIPTION:The Economics of Global Turbulence: A Close Reading and Discussion\nConvened by Sam Salour\n\nRobert Brenner’s The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn\, 1945-2005 (1998\, rev. 2006) remains among the best accounts of the evolution of advanced capitalist economies since the Second World War. His analysis of the long downturn\, although strongly criticized by certain Marxists\, proved able to account not only for the great recession but also for the global economic stagnation ever since. Even bourgeois scholars of different persuasions – whether neoclassical\, neo-Keynesian\, post-Keynesian or Kaleckian – now acknowledge that the dynamism of the advanced capitalist economies has been slowing dynamism ever since the 1980s.\n\nWe are engaging in a close reading of the text with extensive discussion. We read 10 to 15 pages in each session and expect to finish the book in 6 months. We will follow up with a reading of Brenner’s The Boom and The Bubble and his article “What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America\,” in which he extends his analysis to account for the Great Recession.\nRobert Brenner is professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. His influential article\, “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe\,” imprinted his name on a central debate concerning the origins of capitalism – the Brenner Debate. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. There is no charge for this class. Click here to register.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/robert-brenners-the-economics-of-global-turbulence/2022-09-18/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-09-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Robert Brenner’s The Economics of Global Turbulence
DESCRIPTION:The Economics of Global Turbulence: A Close Reading and Discussion\nConvened by Sam Salour\n\nRobert Brenner’s The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn\, 1945-2005 (1998\, rev. 2006) remains among the best accounts of the evolution of advanced capitalist economies since the Second World War. His analysis of the long downturn\, although strongly criticized by certain Marxists\, proved able to account not only for the great recession but also for the global economic stagnation ever since. Even bourgeois scholars of different persuasions – whether neoclassical\, neo-Keynesian\, post-Keynesian or Kaleckian – now acknowledge that the dynamism of the advanced capitalist economies has been slowing dynamism ever since the 1980s.\n\nWe are engaging in a close reading of the text with extensive discussion. We read 10 to 15 pages in each session and expect to finish the book in 6 months. We will follow up with a reading of Brenner’s The Boom and The Bubble and his article “What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America\,” in which he extends his analysis to account for the Great Recession.\nRobert Brenner is professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. His influential article\, “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe\,” imprinted his name on a central debate concerning the origins of capitalism – the Brenner Debate. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. There is no charge for this class. Click here to register.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/robert-brenners-the-economics-of-global-turbulence/2022-09-25/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-09-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T183000
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DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Facebooking the Anthropocene with Bob Ostertag
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this September 27\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nBob Ostertag’s new book\, Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century\, offers a deeply intimate portrait of the cataclysmic shifts between humans\, technology\, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse\, he explores how we are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music\, to how we have sex\, to what we do to survive\, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though the environmental crisis terrifies and technology overwhelms\, Ostertag finds enough creativity\, compassion\, and humor in our evolving behavior to keep us laughing and inspired as the world we are building overtakes the world we found. \nBob Ostertag is a true polymath who has covered wars in Central America\, recorded dozens of music projects\, and published books on startlingly eclectic subjects. He fuses his travels as a touring musician with his journalist’s eye for detail and the long view of a historian. \nBook available from PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/facebooking-the-anthropocene-with-robert-ostertag/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Crisis,Cultural Resistance,Emancipation,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-10-03/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-10-07/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Social Classes\, Revolution\, and Human Freedom
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group will read and discuss original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system – the class that has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the recently published anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings with introduction by David Fernbach (Verso – 3 volumes in one\, in paperback and e-book). We will also read extensively from Hal Draper’s Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution\, vol. 2\, The Politics of Social Classes (MR Press; paper-back and e-book). Note that the Marx writings are available in many other places. \nModerated 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/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-social-classes-revolution-and-human-freedom/2022-10-09/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Engels,England,French Revolution,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221011T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221011T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
UID:10006423-1665513000-1665518400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220829T213220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T155654Z
UID:10006456-1665594000-1665599400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Climate\, Class\, and Degrowth
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group as we reconvene to consider two new Verso titles that are provoking wide discussion and debate: Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet\, and The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism\, by Matthias Schmelzer\, Aaron Vansintjan\, and Andrea Vetter. As one reviewer noted\, “Both take as foundational premises that we must move beyond capitalism to solve the climate crisis\, yet they critique political economy in fundamentally different ways. While The Future is Degrowth argues for abolishing the capitalist growth imperative\, Climate Change as Class War argues against degrowth and advocates for a decommodified Green New Deal.” We will address such questions as: What do advocates of “degrowth” mean by this term? How and why do capitalist growth and accumulation threaten human survival? What are the most useful frameworks to help us organize movements for climate justice? What demands should we prioritize and what lessons can we draw from previous historical movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in what must be a massive fight for a more sustainable future? Where does working-class organizing come into the picture\, and what other allies and social forces can be mobilized? \nTen weekly sessions\, convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-class-and-degrowth/2022-10-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/climate-class-degrowth-banner.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007158-1665687600-1665694800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-13/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221016T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220830T011900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T170224Z
UID:10006468-1665918000-1665925200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Social Classes\, Revolution\, and Human Freedom
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group will read and discuss original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system – the class that has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the recently published anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings with introduction by David Fernbach (Verso – 3 volumes in one\, in paperback and e-book). We will also read extensively from Hal Draper’s Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution\, vol. 2\, The Politics of Social Classes (MR Press; paper-back and e-book). Note that the Marx writings are available in many other places. \nModerated 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/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-social-classes-revolution-and-human-freedom/2022-10-16/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Engels,England,French Revolution,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221016T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220915T163935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T192318Z
UID:10007168-1665925200-1665939600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Celebrate the Life of Michael Lardner
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this October 16\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nMichael Lardner\, longtime organizer with the Marxist Education Project\, died on July 21\, 2022\, following a brief but valiant struggle with an aggressive cancer. \nMichael was a long-time activist\, starting as an organizer with the United Farm Workers in his early 20s\, eventually working as a typesetter for Win magazine\, published by the War Resisters League\, where he honed his skills in type\, graphic design\, and printing. \nThroughout his life he believed in the importance of studying history\, politics\, philosophy\, economics\, the visual arts and music\, and relished conversation and discussion with many friends\, new and old\, who joined him at classes and events\, over dinner and drinks\, and during the last few years using the Internet to never cease exchanging ideas with his many friends and comrades. \nMichael remained committed to promoting non-sectarian progressive educational opportunities through his involvement with the New York Marxist School\, The Brecht Forum\, and the Marxist Education Project. He loved literature\, always finding beauty and an expansive understanding in the language\, type styling\, graphic design\, and of course a good book cover! \nLiving in New York City and Montclair\, New Jersey for over 45 years\, Michael never stopped loving his home state of Michigan\, Port Huron where he grew up\, and his hometown Detroit sports teams. He traveled around the world\, making lasting friendships. He communicated his passion and commitments with grace\, humor\, and intense interest in the world around him. \nIf you would like to make a monetary contribution in Michael’s memory\, Alana\, Nora\, and Dan (Michael’s partner and children) suggest the Marxist Education Project\, Brooklyn Animal Action\, NARAL\, or an organization of your choice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/celebrate-the-life-of-michael-lardner/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Video Available
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221018T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
UID:10006424-1666117800-1666123200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221019T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220829T213220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T155654Z
UID:10006457-1666198800-1666204200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Climate\, Class\, and Degrowth
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group as we reconvene to consider two new Verso titles that are provoking wide discussion and debate: Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet\, and The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism\, by Matthias Schmelzer\, Aaron Vansintjan\, and Andrea Vetter. As one reviewer noted\, “Both take as foundational premises that we must move beyond capitalism to solve the climate crisis\, yet they critique political economy in fundamentally different ways. While The Future is Degrowth argues for abolishing the capitalist growth imperative\, Climate Change as Class War argues against degrowth and advocates for a decommodified Green New Deal.” We will address such questions as: What do advocates of “degrowth” mean by this term? How and why do capitalist growth and accumulation threaten human survival? What are the most useful frameworks to help us organize movements for climate justice? What demands should we prioritize and what lessons can we draw from previous historical movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in what must be a massive fight for a more sustainable future? Where does working-class organizing come into the picture\, and what other allies and social forces can be mobilized? \nTen weekly sessions\, convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-class-and-degrowth/2022-10-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/climate-class-degrowth-banner.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007159-1666292400-1666299600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-20/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221022T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220929T183504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T191824Z
UID:10007169-1666447200-1666454400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Adventure Capitalism: Raymond Craib Looks at 'Libertarian Exit'
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this October 22\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nThe past half century is littered with the remains of experiments in “libertarian exit.” Raymond Craib‘s new PM Press book Adventure Capitalism traces the history history of individualist\, property-oriented “escape” projects pursued by the likes of Michael Oliver\, Peter Thiel\, and Bitcoin bros. Based on research in archives in the US\, the UK\, and Vanuatu\, as well as in FBI files\, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism\, decolonization\, empire\, and oceans and islands. \nRaymond Craib teaches History at Cornell University. His research interests lie at the intersection of geography\, politics\, and everyday practice. His other works include The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile; Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes; and\, with Barry Maxwell\, No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/adventure-capitalism-raymond-craib-looks-at-libertarian-exit/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221023T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221023T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220830T011900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T170224Z
UID:10006469-1666522800-1666530000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Social Classes\, Revolution\, and Human Freedom
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group will read and discuss original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system – the class that has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the recently published anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings with introduction by David Fernbach (Verso – 3 volumes in one\, in paperback and e-book). We will also read extensively from Hal Draper’s Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution\, vol. 2\, The Politics of Social Classes (MR Press; paper-back and e-book). Note that the Marx writings are available in many other places. \nModerated 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/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-social-classes-revolution-and-human-freedom/2022-10-23/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Engels,England,French Revolution,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221024T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220930T201147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221113T150432Z
UID:10007171-1666630800-1666636200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Envisioning Social Change: New Voices in Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:In order to build a better world\, we have to envision it first. Join us to read more science fiction through the lens of social change. Readings this fall will include \nSelections from Octavia’s Brood\, edited by adrienne marie brown and Walida Imarisha\, who conceptualized Visionary Fiction and this book to honor Octavia Butler.\nEmily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven\, winner of the 2015 Arthur C Clark award and recent streamed series.\nSelections from NK Jemisin\, Ted Chiang other related fiction and non-fiction selected by the Science Fiction-Visionary Fiction reading group \n(Photo: Octavia E Butler Landing on Mars)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/science-and-visionary-fiction-fall-reading-group/2022-10-24/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/jpegPIA24485.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
UID:10006425-1666722600-1666728000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-10-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20220929T215452Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Jaurès and the Socialist History of the French Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video from this October 25\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nJean Jaurès’s magisterial work\, A Socialist History of the French Revolution\, has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts ever published. Mitchell Abidor‘s abridged translation of the original six-volume work makes this new edition truly accessible to an Anglophone audience. Geoff Kurtz\, author of a 2014 biography of Jaurès\, joins Mitch for a conversation about the History and the author’s life and times.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/jean-jaures-and-the-socialist-history-of-the-french-revolution/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,French Revolution,historical materialism,Literature,Marx,Marxisms,Modernity,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Video Available,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
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SUMMARY:Climate\, Class\, and Degrowth
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group as we reconvene to consider two new Verso titles that are provoking wide discussion and debate: Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet\, and The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism\, by Matthias Schmelzer\, Aaron Vansintjan\, and Andrea Vetter. As one reviewer noted\, “Both take as foundational premises that we must move beyond capitalism to solve the climate crisis\, yet they critique political economy in fundamentally different ways. While The Future is Degrowth argues for abolishing the capitalist growth imperative\, Climate Change as Class War argues against degrowth and advocates for a decommodified Green New Deal.” We will address such questions as: What do advocates of “degrowth” mean by this term? How and why do capitalist growth and accumulation threaten human survival? What are the most useful frameworks to help us organize movements for climate justice? What demands should we prioritize and what lessons can we draw from previous historical movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in what must be a massive fight for a more sustainable future? Where does working-class organizing come into the picture\, and what other allies and social forces can be mobilized? \nTen weekly sessions\, convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-class-and-degrowth/2022-10-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-10-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-27/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T060817
CREATED:20221005T181929Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part II - Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week course presented by Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx turned Hegel on his head.  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Spring of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s Philosophy of History. We will dive directly into that mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make Hegel’s book less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \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/hegel-for-radicals-part-ii-phenomenology-of-spirit/2022-10-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,historical materialism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T160000
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SUMMARY:Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 29\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nIt’s in our food\, our cosmetics\, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil\, found in half of supermarket products\, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir. With a sweeping\, experimental narrative\, Haiven takes us on a global journey that includes looted treasures\, the American system of mass incarceration\, the history of modern art and the industrialisation of war. Beyond simply calling for more consumer boycotts\, Haiven argues for recognising in palm oil humanity’s profound potential to shape our world beyond racial capitalism and neo-colonial dispossession. \nMax Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in Culture\, Media and Social Justice. His most recent books are Art after Money\, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). Max also edits VAGABONDS\, a series of short\, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University\, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/palm-oil-the-grease-of-empire/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Migration,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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