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Contributors Erica Carter, Jay Jurie, Paul Krehbiel, Harry Targ, Janet Tucker, Meta Van Sickle join editor Carl Davidson for a discussion of the latest New Studies on the Left. Contributors to this edition address four related themes: "Analysis and Global Reach," "Labor Rising Helps Everyone Else," and "Civil Society and Campaigns on Social Terrain," and ... Read more
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Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally's recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally's book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history, ... Read more |
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Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for an overview study of the relationship between Mexican immigration and the United States: its colonial foundation, vibrant new communities, cyclical labor exploitation, and state-sanctioned repression, liberation struggles. The Chicano liberation movement emerged as a direct response to this, and its legacy is critical to understanding immigration struggles today ... Read more
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The MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, the status of freedom with respect to environmental constraints, and related topics. The recently published books we are reading include: ... Read more
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Join us for a timely conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation's oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of "blood for oil." Steve Maher assesses the implications for global political economy, and Christy Thornton offers analysis of the diverse effects on - and responses by - Mexico and other Latin American states.
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Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more
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Read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.
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A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: "in contradistinction to materialism, the active side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such." Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon.
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The continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political Writings Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts. Participants may join in at any time. We share a vast ... Read more
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