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Reading Science Fiction Politically – Spring 2024 Season
Reading Science Fiction Politically – Spring 2024 Season
The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group meets weekly to read and discuss science, visionary and speculative fiction that bears on politics, the environment, and the struggle for a better future for all. We focus on the concept of visionary fiction, emerging from Octavia Butler's writings and beautifully articulated ten years ago by Walidah Imarisha, ... Read more
The Circulation of Capital: Reading Volume II of Marx’s Capital
The Circulation of Capital: Reading Volume II of Marx’s Capital
A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. In this volume, Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.
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Annual Pass
This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example, a pass purchased on January 7, 2023, will be valid until January 31, 2024.)
If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
Why has the worldwide wave of mass protest in the decade of the 2010s given way to such a strong tide of reaction? And even with that counter-trend, what accounts for what some have called the Marxist revival, a new trend of theorizing and strategizing on the left. Join us this winter to read and reflect on what went right in the last decade, what new organizing now reflects its legacy, and what remains unfulfilled.
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Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates
Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates
The MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism's catastrophic impact on the Earth's climate and other critical systems, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice.
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Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I
Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I
Participants in this class are closely reading and discussing Volume I of Karl Marx’s 'Capital, A Critique of Political Economy.' The second 10-week series starts April 6 with Chapter 6, 'The Sale and Purchase of Labor Power.'
Classical Political Economy and Marx’s Critique: Theories of Surplus-Value
Classical Political Economy and Marx’s Critique: Theories of Surplus-Value
Following up on the MEP's long-running study group on Marx's Grundrisse, we are now engaged in a close reading of Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (sometimes referred to as Volume 4 of Capital), supplemented by chapters from I.I. Rubin's History of Economic Thought.
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Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks – Spring 2024
Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks – Spring 2024
In this ongoing weekly reading group, we continue to read and learn from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. We explore key themes and concepts related to politics and civil society, including race, class and gender, religion, linguistic and other methods of analysis, critical theory, mass media, the arts and cinema, hegemony, and subaltern studies.
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Animals, Capitalism, Marxism: A Conversation
Animals, Capitalism, Marxism: A Conversation
Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm.
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Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
Socialists and Immigrants in the Lower East Side Join Alex Steinberg for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917. We will explore the culture of the radicalized immigrant communities of Yiddish-speaking ... Read more
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Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements – Spring 2024
Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements – Spring 2024
Join us this spring to study Antonio Gramsci's works. We will explore Gramsci's themes and concepts, including state-civil society relations, historic block, hegemony, spontaneity, strategy and tactic, and language. We will follow Gramsci’s philological method drawing on linguistics, cinema, critical theory, literature, journalism, comics, animation, plastic arts, mass media and Machiavellian political studies. We will ... Read more
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David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
David McNally joins our 10th anniversary celebration of the MEP with a keynote talk on "Marx and Colonialism: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey."
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Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
Palestine +100 editor Basma Ghalayini In Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini, as well as other recent books, Palestinian authors have begun to discover the power of science fiction. "Everyday life, for is a kind of dystopia." In this situation, "The real future --the actual future -- is ... Read more
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