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60 Years Since the April Revolution in Santo Domingo
60 Years Since the April Revolution in Santo Domingo
Join us on May 3 for a panel to commemorate the 6oth anniversary of the April Revolution in Santo Domingo and discuss its political implications, the role of working-class Afro-Dominicans, women, LGBTQ people, Haitian internationalist fighters, socialists, writers and artists as well as the worldwide international solidarity movement that ensued in the face of imperialist onslaught.
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Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song: Speculative Fiction for Today
Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song: Speculative Fiction for Today
"To build a better future, we have to envision it first." Reading science fiction, discussing it together, and reading it politically, offers one tool for "envisioning" a future worth building. We continue our explorations of diverse points of view of social conflict and resolution, possible and imagined just worlds, here on Earth and perhaps afar.
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Karl Marx and Republicanism: Reading ‘Citizen Marx’
Karl Marx and Republicanism: Reading ‘Citizen Marx’
What better time than the present moment to revisit Karl Marx’s commitment to the democratic republic as a necessary (if not sufficient) step on the path to human freedom? Over five weekly meetings we will read and discuss Bruno Leipold’s recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought.
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Exploring the Literature of Afro-Surrealism
Exploring the Literature of Afro-Surrealism
Thursdays, 7-9 pm ET, beginning April 24 This spring, the MEP Literature Reading Group takes up novels loosely grouped as "Afro-Surrealism." Borrowing from use by Amiri Baraka in the 1970s, D. Scot Miller encouraged use of the term through his 2009 essay, “Afrosurreal Manifesto." Writers and artists in the African diaspora have now reclaimed the ... Read more
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Reading ‘Human Acts’ by Han Kang
Reading ‘Human Acts’ by Han Kang
Thursday, May 15 - 7 pm ET MEP's Literature Reading Group will commemorate the 1980 South Korean pro-democracy uprising with a reading of Han Kang's Human Acts. On May 18, 1980, the citizens of Gwangju, South Korea rose up in a ten-day revolt against the imposition of martial law. Factory workers, university and high ... Read more
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‘Roses for Gramsci’ with Andy Merrifield
‘Roses for Gramsci’ with Andy Merrifield
Author Andy Merrifield presents 'Roses for Gramsci,' a remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci.
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Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III
A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism.
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Darkest Los Angeles
Darkest Los Angeles
Dennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality, have never been resolved, only continually papered over, and so they resound today.
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
Adam Smith deals with such issues as the so-called labor-theory of value, the equalization of the rate of profit, and the determination of commodity prices in important ways that anticipate Marx or require the corrections Marx provides. So, in this group, we will dive headlong into Smith's opus, The Wealth of Nations.
Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Over 16 Saturdays, beginning March 8, we will read and discuss one of the most influential books of all time, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. This massive retelling of humanity defies traditional divisions between history, philosophy, comedy, and tragedy.
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Antonio Gramsci Studies: Special Presentation by Negar Mottahedeh
Antonio Gramsci Studies: Special Presentation by Negar Mottahedeh
On Sunday, May 25, the Gramsci Studies group will hear a presentation by Negar Mottahedeh on her book Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran. Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. ... Read more
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Historical Roots of American Fascism: Manisha Sinha – Rise and Fall
Historical Roots of American Fascism: Manisha Sinha – Rise and Fall
Take part in the Political Strategy Study Group’s sweeping look at the history and political significance of the major waves of struggle and counter-revolution in the United States. Our Winter-Spring study of Reconstruction focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and Manisha Sinha’s The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 We will use ... Read more
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