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SUMMARY:Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Nada
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the just published new translation of Nada\, with Donald Nicholson-Smith\, New York Review of Books and The MEP\nThis is a New York City reception for the latest translation of Nada\, a newly-translated work of Jean-Patrick Manchette\, to be published on August 27 by New York Review of Books. Donald Nicholson-Smith has been translating the work of Manchette for English-reading audiences for more than a decade. At this event at Unnamable Books we will celebrate the release of Nada\, but our subject will also include all the works of Manchette\, including other novels published by NYRB\, such as The Mad and The Bad\, Fatale\, and Ivory Pearl. Donald will consider the influences on Manchette and share his long-term relationship with many of Manchette’s works
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/jean-patrick-manchettes-nada/
LOCATION:Unnameable Books\, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-09-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-09-07/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Les Temps Modernes: The Early Decades
DESCRIPTION:2 sessions with Mitch Abidor\n \nLes Temps Modernes\, founded by Sartre and Beauvoir in 1945\, ceased publication in December 2018. It had been one of the most prestigious intellectual\, political\, and cultural journals in the world\, in its heyday between 1945-1975 setting the terms of intellectual debate all over the world. \nThis class will examine the first decades of its existence\, when such important works as Sartre’s What is Literature appeared in it\, as well as the first installments of Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. It will focus on its political positions\, as Sartre first attempted to set up a third-way party\, became a fellow-traveler of the PCF (publishing The Communists and Peace)\, then rejected working with the Communists (publishing The Ghost of Stalin). It will trace the journal and its editors’ commitment to anti-colonialism\, particularity its courageous work in support of the Algerian FLN. Its role during May 68 and its aftermath will be examined\, as Les Temps Modernes espoused the cause of the Maoists and the far left all over the world. Finally\, it will look at its position on the conflict in the Middle East\, about which Les Temps Modernes published a 1000 page issue. \nMitch Abidor has published over a dozen volumes of translation\, including a collection of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender. His writings have appeared in the New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, and Cineaste. Mitch has been translated into German and Turkish. He is currently writing a history of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. \n  \nThis is a two week course. Fees below are suggested and are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/les-temps-modernes-the-early-decades/2019-09-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190912T213000
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SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-09-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SummerLit2019Site.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190914T140000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-09-14/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg
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SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-09-16/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Les Temps Modernes: The Early Decades
DESCRIPTION:2 sessions with Mitch Abidor\n \nLes Temps Modernes\, founded by Sartre and Beauvoir in 1945\, ceased publication in December 2018. It had been one of the most prestigious intellectual\, political\, and cultural journals in the world\, in its heyday between 1945-1975 setting the terms of intellectual debate all over the world. \nThis class will examine the first decades of its existence\, when such important works as Sartre’s What is Literature appeared in it\, as well as the first installments of Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. It will focus on its political positions\, as Sartre first attempted to set up a third-way party\, became a fellow-traveler of the PCF (publishing The Communists and Peace)\, then rejected working with the Communists (publishing The Ghost of Stalin). It will trace the journal and its editors’ commitment to anti-colonialism\, particularity its courageous work in support of the Algerian FLN. Its role during May 68 and its aftermath will be examined\, as Les Temps Modernes espoused the cause of the Maoists and the far left all over the world. Finally\, it will look at its position on the conflict in the Middle East\, about which Les Temps Modernes published a 1000 page issue. \nMitch Abidor has published over a dozen volumes of translation\, including a collection of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender. His writings have appeared in the New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, and Cineaste. Mitch has been translated into German and Turkish. He is currently writing a history of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. \n  \nThis is a two week course. Fees below are suggested and are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/les-temps-modernes-the-early-decades/2019-09-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SartreBeauvoirVians1952.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190519T061606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T061606Z
UID:10006613-1568921400-1568928600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A Summer of Further Discontent: Noir Fiction and the City
DESCRIPTION:The powers of corruption rife in every pore surrounding the practice of capital accumulation will sell us the spikes we pump heroin into our veins with\, made from steel similar to the bullets thugs and cops will use to enforce what capital takes from within and without of shifting what is legality\, threatening each and all in cities large and small all over the world who would stand up to the corruption or seek to upend any contour of business as usual. An \nJuly 11 and 18\nNarcopolis\nJeet Thayil\nWritten in poetic and affecting prose\, Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich\, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor\, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs\, sex\, death\, perversion\, addiction\, love\, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all\, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. \nJuly 25 and August 1\nThe Expendable Man\nDorothy B. Hughes\n“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated\, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore\, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix\, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged\, would seem to have the world at his feet\, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \nDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man\, first published in 1963\, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. \nAugust 8 and 15\nThe Instant Enemy\nRoss Macdonald\nGenerations of murder\, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance\, it’s an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett\, a local millionaire industrialist. Now\, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs\, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? \nAugust 22 and 29\nThe End of the Wasp Season\nDenise Mina\nWhen wealthy Sarah Erroll is murdered at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned. Heavily pregnant with desperately-wanted twins\, DS Alex Morrow is called into a scene so violent that experienced officers can hardly bear to look. \nOn the other side of town\, Thomas Anderson is told by the headmaster at his boarding school that his tyrannical father – a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession – has hanged himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of shock. The head of the household is dead\, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief\, but relief. As Alex Morrow makes the connections between the two cases\, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. \nSeptember 12 and 19\nNada\nJean-Patrick Manchette\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith\,\nwith an introduction by Luc Sante \nNada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s dark thrillers\, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California\, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette’s fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet\, however\, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette’s writing\, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls “behaviorist\,” will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada. \n The MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group last year completed a second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, borders and migration\, and the literature of mutually assured destruction and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-summer-of-further-discontent-noir-fiction-and-the-city/2019-09-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190703T034719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T051548Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-09-21/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190923T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190923T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
UID:10006631-1569265200-1569272400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-09-23/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190925T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190925T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190629T231708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014604Z
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SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists
DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-09-25/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190926T193000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190716T034526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T013832Z
UID:10006656-1569520800-1569526200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-09-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190927T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190819T054643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190819T054716Z
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SUMMARY:Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Films—an anti-bourgeois film series\n“The problem is not to make political films but to make films politically.” —Godard / Gorin \nMORGAN: A Suitable Case for Treatment\nUK\, 1966\, 97 Min\nDirected by Karel Reisz \n \nRed diaper baby Morgan Delt (David Warner) is failing as an artist. Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave)\, his bourgeois wife\, is divorcing him in order to marry fellow bourgeois Charles Napier (Robert Stephens)\, an art gallery owner. Locked into a personal world of fantasy\, Morgan begins an all-out campaign to win back Leonie\, performing all kinds of stunts\, including putting a skeleton in her bed and much else to demonstrate what will ultimately be a meaningless life with her return to a bourgeois existence. When the stunts fail\, Morgan plots to kidnap Leonie\, who still nurtures residual feelings of love tinged with pity for Morgan. The plan fails\, and Morgan is arrested and imprisoned but does not give up—he remains committed to revolutionary ideals. The final scene of the film was a calling to revolutionary youth the world over in 1966\, particularly in England. \n“Released in April 1966 – the month Time magazine’s Swinging London issue was published – His madness\, therefore\, is like the state celebrated by RD Laing: insanity not as a state worthy of condign treatment but as a rebellion\, the only possible act of sanity in a mad\, mad world.”   —Jon Savage\, The Guardian\, February\, 2011
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/morgan-a-suitable-case-for-treatment/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190928T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190928T140000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190703T034719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T051548Z
UID:10006651-1569668400-1569679200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-09-28/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CapitalVol2PT2_Site.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190930T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T113549
CREATED:20190702T133418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T014419Z
UID:10006632-1569870000-1569877200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-09-30/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WhiteSupremeeSite.jpg
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