The German Revolution 1918-1924
In it’s beginnings, the revolution in Germany appears very similar to the events in Russia the year before. Why was the outcome so different? We will try to answer many questions in the course of this reading group, but that is the essential question.
Highlights of Marx’s Capital, Volume I
A 9 Session Class and Discussion with Juliet Ucelli Thursdays, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Over the past 40 years, many of us have needed to work longer and longer hours—and ... Read more
Contemporary Native American Fiction
Join the Indigenous Studies Literature and History Group for a 10-week study of three award-winning contemporary Native American novelists—Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich’s and Sherman Alexie.
Capital, Volume 3: A Reading Group
"The process of capitalist production as a whole," this volume is concerned primarily with issues such as the internal differentiation of the capitalist class, the division of surplus value among individual capitals, and the definition and role of merchants' capital, interest-bearing capital, and landed capital. In Part 3 Marx analyzes the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.
Victor Serge: The Novels of Resistance
From Victor Serge's arrest by the GPU in 1933 through his experience of the fall of France in 1941, he wrote the three novels we will examine this term. No prior knowledge of Victor Serge or his work in required.
Transnational Feminism
In this talk, writer and researcher Basuli Deb will discuss some of the issues addressed in her book, Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture, which offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror.
We Make Our Own History: On Marxism and Social Movements
We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way.
Black Marxism
As always, capitalism has crises. Again, a new generation turns toward Marxism. How do we apply this wide ranging and controversial revolutionary tradition to our current times? Writer and professor, Cedric Robinson’s magnum opus, Black Marxism will be our lodestar for this class.
Heavy Radicals
As a result of research conducted by author and historian Aaron Leonard and Conor Gallagher, including systematic filings of Freedom of Information Act requests, we now know that this “investigation” included: office break-ins, poison-pen letters, ‘bad-jacketing’ (claiming dedicated members were police agents), deportations, firings, setting organizations and individuals against one another through rumor and provocation, and informant penetration into the very top of the group’s leadership.
Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, & the Crisis of Capitalism
Jason W. Moore and Christian Parenti introduce a new essay collection, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. The book challenges the theory and history offered by proponents of the “Anthropocene” and stresses how climate change and related crises are rooted in the rise and domination of capital.
Augusto Boal’s Marxism
This talk by Geo Britto, a long-time collaborator with Augusto Boal and practitioner of Theater of the Oppressed, will look at how Boal formulated and created that methodology called Theater of the Oppressed. Britto will look at Boal's early exposure, as a student in New York, to the ideas of people like Irwin Piscator, Langston Hughes, Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio, Harold Clurman and others....
Current Prospects for a Socialist Movement in the USA
Victor Wallis, who has been Socialism and Democracy’s managing editor for almost 20 years, reflects on the recent major surge in popular receptivity to socialism in the United States.
Left for the Holidays: 2nd Annual Book and Print Fair
Support our publishers, magazines, writers and artists that keep us informed with great writing, research and beautiful and striking prints and posters to carry us, our friends and families into the coming year. Free admission.
Organizing in the Era of The Gig Economy
...as Silicon Valley is turning back the clock on workers rights and fracturing moments of class unity, workers all over the world are organizing and fighting back. Come to consider how we can become more organized as a class here in the New York City area.
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Whether discussing the politics of the Civil War or recounting his relationships with Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, Douglass’s towering voice sounds anything but dated. An introductory essay examines the intricate ties between Douglass and Brooklyn abolitionists, while brief chapter introductions and annotations fill in the historical context.