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SUMMARY:Chile's 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Weekly reading group in progress\, ending 2/8/24.   \nSeptember 2023 marked fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government on September 11\, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people\, the MEP’s Literature Group dedicates this reading group to Chilean writers active before\, during\, and since the Pinochet dictatorship. In addition to the justly well-known writings of Roberto Bolaño\, many of our readings will be from translations by Megan McDowell. McDowell has worked with US and British independent publishers to promote a diverse group of writers largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Our aim\, to quote McDowell\, is “to expand our circles of empathy.” \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here.\nTo participate\, send email to info@marxedproject.org \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chile-literary-resistance-2-3/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,History,Insurgency,Latin America,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Radical Literature,Socialism
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SUMMARY:The Fall and Rise of American Finance
DESCRIPTION:huhVideo available here for this February 10\, 2024\, event \nIt is today all but taken for granted by critical political economists – and by political figures from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders – that finance is parasitic on industry. Financialization\, in this view\, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state\, hollowing out the “real” economy\,  and thereby hastening the decline of capitalism. But Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno pose a bold challenge to this hypothesis in their new book\, The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Surveying the last century of capitalist development\, they insist that\, despite the costs to workers and the middle class\, financialization has boosted competitiveness and strengthened capital – all with the support of an ever stronger and more authoritarian state. This has culminated since the 2008 crisis in a new economic regime – “a new finance capital” – marked by unprecedented concentration and centralization in the hands of the “Big Three” asset management firms (BlackRock\, Vanguard\, Fidelity). \nUnlike most recent MEP programming\, this event will be presented live and in-person at The People’s Forum in New York City\, with an online Zoom option for remote participants and a live stream on YouTube. Get your ticket below. \nStephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. He is also the author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Palgrave\, 2022). \nScott Aquanno is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ontario Tech University\, and a Visiting Associate at the Global Labour Research Centre at York University. He is the author of Crisis of Risk: Subprime Debt and US Financial Power from 1944 to Present (Edward Elgar\, 2021). \nThe book is available from the publisher\, Verso Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/maher-aquannozzz/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Globalization,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Marx for Cats with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this February 24\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“All history is the history of cat struggle.” In Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary\, our guest speaker Leigh Claire La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory\, its colonialist and imperialist ages\, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism\, and the communist revolutions that opposed it. Attending to myriad archival appearance of lions\, tigers\, wildcats\, and other felines\, La Berge argues that these creatures have been central to Marxist understandings of the economy and politics. Asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis\, La Berge joins current debates about ecosocialism. This playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration. \nThis event is held in conjunction with the MEP’s reading group Multispecies Marxism where we are discussing the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, historically and today. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Marx for Cats as well as Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. \nRegister for the Zoom event and you will receive a 40% discount code to purchase Marx for Cats from Duke University Press. Participants are encouraged to read some or all of the book beforehand.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-for-cats/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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