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Reading Science Fiction Politically: Envision the Future We Seek
Reading Science Fiction Politically: Envision the Future We Seek
"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. This fall, 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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Historical Roots of American Fascism and Political Strategy Today
Historical Roots of American Fascism and Political Strategy Today
The Political Strategy reading group will take a sweeping look at the history and political significance of six major waves of struggle and counter-revolution in the United States, from the early decades of the republic to the present. With each new era, we will use readings and discussion to address three major points of analysis: ... Read more
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Celebrating 75 Years of Palestinian Literature – New Series
Celebrating 75 Years of Palestinian Literature – New Series
Fifteen weekly sessions on Thursdays at 7 pm US ET, Oct 3 - Jan 30 The Marxist Education Project Literature Group will continue reading Palestinian literature this fall. We will use our grief over the daily news reports of death and suffering to develop an understanding of Palestinians as more than victims of the moment, ... Read more
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Translating ‘Capital’ for the 21st Century
Translating ‘Capital’ for the 21st Century
The appearance of a new English-language edition of Marx's Capital, Volume I, translated and edited by Paul Reitter and Paul North, has been a momentous occasion. Join a conversation with Reitter, North, and noted Marx scholar Michael Heinrich on the challenges of translating Marx for 21st century readers, the weaknesses and strengths of earlier translations, and the ways the new edition can help us understand Marx's analyses of capital and value.
Hegel’s ‘Science of Logic’ – An Epilogue and a Prologue
Hegel’s ‘Science of Logic’ – An Epilogue and a Prologue
Hegel for Radicals concludes the current series with a nine-week course co-hosted by Alex Steinberg and Matthew Strauss. We are reading the Introduction and Preliminary Concepts from Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic, sometimes called “The Shorter Logic.” This material can stand alone as an Introduction to Hegel’s magnum opus, The Science of Logic. But for those who have already studied the Science of Logic with us this can serve as completion of the Circle of the dialectic.
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Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements
Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements
An ongoing study group on the Prison Notebooks and other works of Antonio Gramsci. We explore Gramsci's themes and concepts, including state-civil society relations, historical bloc, hegemony, spontaneity, strategy and tactic, and language. We follow Gramsci’s philological method, addressing such areas as linguistics, cinema, critical theory, literature, journalism, comics, animation, plastic arts, mass media and Machiavellian political studies.
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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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Marx Miniseries: The ‘Resultate’
Marx Miniseries: The ‘Resultate’
The MEP's Capital Studies Group presents a miniseries on the chapter Marx omitted from published editions of Capital. Titled "Results of the Immediate Process of Production" and often referred to by the German 'Resultate', this long chapter can be read as a bridge between volumes 1 and 2 of Capital.