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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-15/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paradoxes of Exchange Society
DESCRIPTION:News from Ideological Antiquity:\nMarx–Eisenstein–Capital\nPart 3. Paradoxes of Exchange Society\na film by Alexander Kluge  \nThe Verso Loft\n20 Jay Street • Suite 1010\nBrooklyn DUMBO / transit: A to High Street\, F to York \n3:00-6:45 pm (200 min)\nwith intermission\nDiscussion to follow \nThe third part\, “Paradoxes of Exchange Society\,” inquires into the social contract that is both presupposed and reproduced in all human exchange. As the title of Kluge’s film indicates\, the exposition of Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike (News from Ideological Antiquity) seeks to constitute an antiquity appropriate to today’s challenges. Its strong argument for a return to Marx is best captured by Fredric Jameson: “Marx is neither actual nor outmoded: he is classical.” \n“… important devices should be added: Russian Formalist defamiliarization and Brechtian distancing. Never very far from didactic methods\, Kluge insists: “We must let Till Eulenspiegel [a trickster figure in German folklore] pass across Marx and Eisenstein both\, in order to create confusion allowing knowledge and emotions to be combined together in new ways.”  — Julia Vassilieva\, Screening The Past \nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/paradoxes-of-exchange-society/
LOCATION:Verso Books\, 20 Jay Street #1010\, Brooklyn\, 11210
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Literature: Breaking bonds before and after betrayed revolutions
DESCRIPTION:10 Weeks beginning October 12 through December 21 \nA reading and discussion group with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nDuring this term we will begin with Aimé Césaire’s cultural statement from the 30s\, issued from the Caribbean to all those colonized by the capitalist powers\, primarily of Europe. Following our discourse on his groundbreaking discourse we will consider three novels on the colonized Caribbean\, long engaged in revolutionary struggle with just as long gains towards liberation and the centuries long experiences of counter-revolution\, and the consequences of compromise and collaboration with former colonizers and the colossus US that treats the Caribbean like a backyard swimming pool and those of the islands\, whether local agent of capital or exploited worker\, as servants by that pool.  \n“I admit that it is a good thing to place different civilizations in contact with each other that it is an excellent thing to blend different worlds; that whatever its own particular genius may be\, a civilization that withdraws into itself atrophies; that for civilizations\, exchange is oxygen; that the great good fortune of Europe is to have been a crossroads\, and that because it was the locus of all ideas\, the receptacle of all philosophies\, the meeting place of all sentiments\, it was the best center for the redistribution of energy.\nBut then I ask the following question: has colonization really placed civilizations in contact? Or\, if you prefer\, of all the ways of establishing contact\, was it the best?\n“I answer no.\n“And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken\, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up\, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries\, there could not come a single human value.”\n`	—Aimé Césaire\, Discourse on Colonialism \nDiscourse on Colonialism\nAimé Fernand David Césaire\nThis classic work\, first published in France in 1955\, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa\, Latin America\, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later\, when published for the first time in English\, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements. \nAll Souls Rising \nMadison Smartt Bell \n1995\nThe slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery\, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom\, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal\, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.  \nA Small Place\nJamaica Kincaid\nAntigua\, 2000\nIn A Small Place\, Kincaid calls attention to the fact that in many ways\, conditions in Antigua worsened with the achievement of independence; she communicates her frustration with her people and capitalism. In a nation free from colonialism\, Antiguans “do to [themselves] the very things [colonists] used to do to [them]”. Through her critique of colonialism and the development of an exploitative tourist industry in A Small Place\, Kincaid addresses several other major themes which include the influence of homeland on identity\, culture\, and the desire for independence. \nA Brief History of Seven Killings \nMarlon James\nJamaica\, 2014\nWinner of the Man Booker Prize\nThe first part of the novel is set in Kingston\, Jamaica\, in the build-up to the Smile Jamaica Concert\, and describes politically motivated violence between gangs associated with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP)\, especially in the West Kingston neighborhoods of Tivoli Gardens and Mathews Lane (renamed in the novel as Copenhagen City and Eight Lanes)\, including involvement of the CIA in the Jamaican politics of the time. As well as Marley (who is referred to as “the Singer” throughout)\, other real life characters depicted or fictionalized in the book include Kingston gangsters Winston “Burry Boy” Blake and George “Feathermop” Spence\, Claude Massop and Lester Lloyd Coke (Jim Brown) of the JLP and Aston Thomson (Buckie Marshall) of the PNP. \nThe Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group\, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/caribbean-literature-breaking-bonds-before-and-after-betrayed-revolutions/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies
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SUMMARY:The October Revolution of 1917
DESCRIPTION:The October Revolution of 1917\nA seven-week overview featuring China Miéville’s October\nMondays\, October 9 through November 20\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm\nThe Revolutions Study Group \nFew historical events have been as widely misrepresented as the Russian Revolution of November\, 1917 (called the “October Revolution”\, according to the old Russian calendar). Especially since the collapse of the USSR in 1991\, defenders of the capitalist order\, including respectable academic scholars\, have attempted to portray it as a coup d’état by a small minority of revolutionary zealots\, bent on imposing an authoritarian regime. These falsehoods have the aim of discrediting not only this revolution and its leaders\, but the idea of revolution in general. The Revolutions Study Group—which has recently taken an in-depth look at the events that brought Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power—is marking the centennial of the October Revolution by offering an eight-week course for anyone interested in finding out what actually happened at this defining moment of the twentieth century\, and beyond. \nWe will read Verso Books’ recently published October\, by China Miéville\, along with other short readings\, where appropriate. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2008. Individual 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 European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy in 1969\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The group has just this past June completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-october-revolution-of-1917/2017-10-09/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-08/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels
DESCRIPTION:Lessons for Today’s Politics\nA reading group convened by Lisa Maya Knauer\nSaturdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m.\nOctober 7-December 9 (no meeting November 25)\n9 Session class \n“It was the first time that the bourgeoisie showed to what insane cruelties of revenge it will be goaded the moment the proletariat dares to take its stand against them as a separate class\, with its own interests and demands.” \nThis sentence was written by Karl Marx in 1871\, just weeks after the French bourgeoisie crushed the Paris Commune\, but it is just as applicable to today’s political situation in the U.S. and elsewhere. This reading group will delve into a selection of Marx and Engels’ political writings to gain both a better understanding of the history of working-class and socialist struggles of their times\, and explore lessons for our political organizing now. This tasks takes on a special urgency in light of the events in Charlottesville and the increased visibility of racist\, anti-Semitic and white supremacist ideologies. \nThe reading group offers a very accessible entry-point into the works of Marx and Engels\, so no previous study of Marxism is necessary. But it is also a good complement to the study of Capital and other more complex theoretical works. \nWe will start with Marx and Engels’ writings about the Paris Commune and its aftermath\, and collectively decide which other works to explore in our 10-week session. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water.  In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-writings-of-marx-and-engels/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Institute For Radical Imagination Fall Term Begins
DESCRIPTION:Begins October 7 \nThe Institute can be reached via: \nEmail: info@radicalimagination.institute \nPhone: 718–687-0864 \nhttps://radicalimagination.institute/events-directory/ \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/3333/
LOCATION:Long Island University
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Marx’s Capital\, Volume One
DESCRIPTION:A 9 Session Class and Discussion with Juliet Ucelli\nWednesdays\, 6:00 to 7:30 pm\nOctober 4-December 6\, 2017 \nCapital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy\, politics and struggles. Many of us have less time to study it because\, as Marx predicted\, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately\, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of Volume I offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics. With current conditions\, we’ve been offering this highlights approach\, breaking down key concepts and sections: \n• use value\, value and surplus value;\n• why capitalism has needed conquest\, enslavement and white supremacy;\n• why capitalism drives technological innovation\, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;\n• how working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions. \nParticipant reports and life experiences are welcome! \nThe course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies\, which Marx calls its laws of motion. Suggested fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for labor unions\, and was a public high school social worker. She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, the politics of inner city public schooling and Marxist understandings of human development.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/highlights-of-marxs-capital-volume-one/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Whose Cities? Our Cities!
DESCRIPTION:10 sessions\nOrganized with the Urban Class Struggles group by Thomas Wensing\nOctober 3 to December 12—no session November 21\n\nIn New York City\, the self-proclaimed ‘real estate capital of the world’\, working class housing has become either unaffordable or as cramped as 19th century conditions. The class that built\, and continues to build New York and metropolises around the globe can no longer afford to live near where they work\, while an international bourgeoisie of hyper-capital accumulation perch themselves in luxurious\, multi-roomed occasional real estate. Whether it be New York\, Tokyo\, Paris\, London\, Rome or Lagos\, the pattern repeats itself worldwide. Interconnectedness of global markets\, deregulation of capital and mortgage markets\, increased financialization of society\, have all led to real estate in the metro centers serving as a prime instrument in the accumulation of global capital. Joining the mobile elite of hedge fund investors\, Russian and Chinese oligarchs\, oil sheiks\, and billionaires are their criminal partners engaged in laundering\, smuggling and multiple other illicit activities\, all united hiding their identities and the source of their wealth through shell companies. These market forces that push the working classes out of the city and some into the ultimate austerity of homelessness are being met with growing resistance.  \nOur group will read Friedrich Engels’ “The Housing Question”\, David Harvey’s Rebel Cities\, David Madden and Peter Marcuse’s In Defense of Housing\, Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein and conclude with Zoned Out\, edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse. \nOur aim is to gain the historical and theoretical understanding that can inform our fight to wrest control of our cities from the capitalist class\, and to discuss how cities can be reorganized to meet our human needs with a sustainable urban ecology. \nThomas Wensing works on residential and commercial projects at Morris Adjmi Architects. He holds licenses as an architect in both the UK and the Netherlands. He grew up in Den Helder\, The Netherlands\, and graduated from Delft University and Columbia University. His teaching experience includes the AA in London\, Eindhoven University\, and the University of Kent\, in Canterbury. Thomas is a regular contributor to Blueprint Magazine and other publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/whose-cities-our-cities/
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SUMMARY:The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Dance/Last Supper
DESCRIPTION:The Politics of the Unconscious: Hysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nThe Last Dance meets the Last Repast\nPresented by Marija Krtolica \nSurreal Meal à la Dalí  \nSchedule:\n2 p.m. Arrivals\n2:15 a surprise improvisational event\n2:45 discussion time\, preparation for the meal\n3-4 pm food is served\, reflected on\, and consumed\n4 pm bye bye \nThe event investigates the embodied self as a site of personal and cultural memories evoked through sense based experiences. It proposes a conscious engagement with the aesthetic dimension of viewing\, hearing\, consuming\, and digesting happenings\, thoughts\, and nutrients. \nOn the one hand\, we will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and makers. On the other\, we will open up the concept of the unconscious and re-create it through imaginative practices.  \nMottos for a Sunday Afternoon: \nThe jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion.\nThe sensual intelligence housed in the tabernacle of my palate beckons me to pay greatest attention to food.\nI only like to eat what has a clear and intelligible form.\n—Salvador Dali\, Gastro Esthetics \nThe spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which the commodity completes the colonization of social life.\nGuy Debord\, Society of the Spectacle \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious-last-dancelast-supper/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Session
DESCRIPTION:Hysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nMarija Krtolica\nOctober 1\, 2017\, 2:00 to 4:00 pm \nThrough theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière\, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology\, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated. On September 17 we will look at the images of the mental patients of this period\, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. Next\, we will examine the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art\, film and poetry and discuss grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era)\, and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). On the one hand\, we will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and makers. On the other\, we will open up the concept of the unconscious and re-create it through imaginative practices. Performance practices will be related to the texts by Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière. \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently\, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance\, NCSA Caucus in Charleston\, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015)\, ACLA 2015 in Seattle\, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014)\, and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014)\, At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015)\, the University of Arts Belgrade (2015)\, and at the  Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011)\, and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra.  \nFees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
CREATED:20170814T043506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z
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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-01/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
CREATED:20170828T015106Z
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value
DESCRIPTION:September 28 to December 14\nNo session November 23 \n“A philosopher produces ideas\, a poet poems\, a clergyman sermons\, a professor compendia and so on. A criminal produces crimes. If we take a closer look at the connection between this latter branch of production and society as a whole\, we shall rid ourselves of many prejudices. The criminal produces not only crimes but also criminal law\, and with this also the professor who gives lectures on criminal law and in addition to this the inevitable compendium in which this same professor throws his lectures onto the general market as ‘commodities’.” —Karl Marx\, Theories of Surplus Value  \nIn this group we will read the three volumes of Theories of Surplus Value sometimes known as the 4th volume of Capital. These notebooks written in the years 1861-63 are perhaps one of the first and most thorough analysis of the history of economic thought. We will enter Marx’s laboratory to see how he reads and criticizes other writers from Hobbes and Locke in early bourgeois ideological formation to the physiocrats\, Smith\, Ricardo\, Malthus\, Bailey and many others. There is even a critique of Necker\, finance and war minister for Louis XVI whose policies and mistakes and mountains of state debt laid much of the ground for the early stages of the French Revolution. \nContinuing on Thursday\, September 28\, we will read from the first volume of Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value.  \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. $10 per individual class session.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-theories-of-surplus-value/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170925T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170925T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
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SUMMARY:Science\, Politics\, and Culture in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Science\, Politics\, and Culture in the Anthropocene\nFred Murphy and Steve Knight\nA Reading Group\, September 25 through November 20\n9 sessions remain \n“Thinking the Anthropocene\,” say Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, authors of Shock of the Anthropocene\, “means taking the measure of industrialization and commodification\, which have derailed the Earth beyond the stable parameters of the Holocene\, and of the need to give our freedom different material foundations; it means mobilizing new environmental humanities and new political radicalisms (movements for common goods\, transition\, degrowth\, eco-socialism and many more) in order to escape the blind alleys of industrial modernity.” This study group will take up three recent works on the scientific\, political\, and cultural implications of global warming and the crisis of the Earth system: Birth of the Anthropocene\, by Jeremy Davies; Shock of the Anthropocene; and Richard Smith’s Green Capitalism: The God That Failed. \nFred Murphy has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.\nSteve Knight has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/science-politics-and-culture-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170924T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170924T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
CREATED:20170814T043506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z
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SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible?
DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades •  GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author:  Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-09-24/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170923T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170923T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, 11 am to 2 pm\nBeginning September 23 through December 16 \n“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse  \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of The German Ideology and the Grundrisse. These works are perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.  \nThe Grundrisse (1857) is considered by many scholars to be the first draft of Capital. It was followed by the Manuscripts of 1861-63 and the Manuscripts of 1863-65\, the second and third drafts\, respectively. What we now refer to as Capital Volume I (1867) is effectively the fourth draft with Volumes II and III\, which were edited by Engels and published after Marx’s death in 1883\, drawing on the work developed by Marx in the earlier drafts.\nStarting September 16 we will read from Notebook Six of The Chapter on Capital from the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse.  \nThese three-hour sessions will have a 30 minute break at 12:30 \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. $10 per session suggested fee.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170923T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170923T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
CREATED:20170611T054420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170611T054420Z
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:In Downtown Newark \nConvened by Branden Rippey\nSaturdays throughout 2017-2018 school year\nFall (12 weeks):  September 23rd to December 16th\nSpring (16 weeks): January 20th to May 12th\n10:30-12:30pm\nSliding scale fees\nBoth sessions (28 weeks) $100 / $120 / $140\nFall session $45 / $55 / $65\nSpring Session: $65 / $75 / $85\n$5 or $10 per session\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street \nUsing A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman\, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world\, from early human civilization to the near present.  From September through May we will read the book in its entirety\, with participant presentations of chapters followed by thorough discussion and additional context.  The goal of the course is not to understand every moment or every place in global history\, but to use a Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, and how those trends and junctures have shaped our present. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and active in socialist politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170922T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170922T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141438
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170901T112704Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural vision of the modern age\nFall Semester Part I \nSeptemter 22 to December 1\nFridays\, 8:00 – 9:30 PM\n10 sessions. \nThis class series will explore Hegel’s most influential and least understood work.\nWhile conceived as an Introduction to his system of logic and science\, this work stands on its own as a masterpiece of the Western philosophical tradition. It is safe to say that many of the themes in the Phenomenology of Spirit have defined how we understand the modern world even though this work was written 210 years ago.  \nSome of the themes we will discuss: \nHow to Begin\nThe Inverted World\nSkeptics and Stoics\nThe Lord of the World\nThe Dialectic of Master and Slave\nThe Cynical Bohemian\nThe Beautiful Soul\nMadness and Suicide\nThe Age of Reason\nThe Enlightenment\nFreedom and Terror\nThe Moral Imperative\nGrace and Redemption\nSpirit Externalized as Nature and History\nThe Absolute  \nWe will travel from the Ancient world\, from the drama of Antigone to the Jacobin Terror of the French Revolution and the realization of the idea of Freedom and the World Historical Individual. At the end of this journey that Hegel likened to a philosophical “Stations of the Cross” we will gain an understanding of what it means to say “The True is the Whole”.\nWe will discuss how this still has relevance for us in the 21st century\, what is living in Hegel today and how this legacy was appropriated by Marx and the movement for human liberation. \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught the philosophy of Hegel and Marx at the New Space\, the Brecht Forum and most recently the Marxist Education Project. He also taught classes ranging from the dialectics of nature\, the implications of dialectics for contemporary science\,  and contemporary philosophical trends on the left and right inspired by Nietzsche. He has presented papers on Marx and Hegel at the Left Forum and  Historical Materialism Conferences. He has also organized events for the Marxist Education Project including a Trotsky in New York Walking Tour. Alex is a member of the Local Board of Radio station WBAI and its parent organization the Pacifica National Board.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-phenomenology-of-spirit-2/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170916T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170916T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141439
CREATED:20170627T034044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T034044Z
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SUMMARY:Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital\, Volume I\, as Seen from a Multilinear\, Peripheral Angle \nIt is often said that Capital\, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form\, with many dialectical twists and turns\, but not with revolution. However\, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact\, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution: (1) a working class uprising that rises as a form of revolutionary negation of the centralized productive apparatus of modern industrial capitalism\, but posed at a high level of abstraction; (2) four other notions of revolution that connect a class uprising to race\, ethnicity\, colonialism\, and the need to abolish the state.  \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has worked in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, the Frankfurt School\, Foucault\, and the Orientalism debate. Among his books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He has also contributed to For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics (ed. D. Alderson and R. Spencer\, 2017) and the Transition from Capitalism (ed. S. Rahnema\, 2017)\, and is the coeditor of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (with Peter Hudis\, 2004)\, Karl Marx (with Bertell Ollman\, 2012)\, and the Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence (2012\, with Russell Rockwell). He is a member of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/five-explicit-and-implicit-notions-of-revolution-in-capital-volume-i/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170827T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170827T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141439
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T014602Z
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SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Each Saturday\n11 am to 2 pm\nBeginning September 16 and concluding December 16\n13 Sessions \n“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse  \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of The German Ideology and the Grundrisse. These works are perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.  \nThe Grundrisse (1857) is considered by many scholars to be the first draft of Capital. It was followed by the Manuscripts of 1861-63 and the Manuscripts of 1863-65\, the second and third drafts\, respectively. What we now refer to as Capital Volume I (1867) is effectively the fourth draft with Volumes II and III\, which were edited by Engels and published after Marx’s death in 1883\, drawing on the work developed by Marx in the earlier drafts. \nStarting September 16 we will read from Notebook Six of The Chapter on Capital from the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse.  \nThese three-hour sessions will have a 30 minute break at 12:30 \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. $10 per session suggested fee.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170725T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170725T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141439
CREATED:20170719T051749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170719T061538Z
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SUMMARY:Women’s Liberation Movement: The Power of History
DESCRIPTION:The Power of History: This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories\, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. We will read analyses from Women’s Liberation Movement organizers written after the height of the movement’s power. \nJenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and has been involved in feminist theory and organizing since 1988\, first with Gainesville Women’s Liberation in Gainesville\, Florida and then with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action\, a movement think-tank and archive based in New York. She co-authored the Redstockings book\, Women’s Liberation and National Healthcare: Confronting the Myth of America and the Labor Notes book How to Jump Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers along with numerous essays and articles. She was also a co-chair of a Labor Party Local Organizing Committee in Gainesville\, Florida and is a former editor of Labor Notes. \nReadings provided by Jenny for this series: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_eXN8wqn-HgaEpVaVlLOU1UTVk \nThose who have enrolled in the ongoing New Left series are already registered for this event. \nPrices below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/womens-liberation-movement-the-power-of-history/
LOCATION:United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170720T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T141439
CREATED:20170714T054456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T054810Z
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SUMMARY:Thursday Noirs: Summer fiction
DESCRIPTION:SPILLING THE BEANS\, SPLATTERING BLOOD \nA 10-week group convened with the\nIndigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nHard-boiled fiction and noir confirm capitalism’s violence with glaring facts\, subtle twists of mind and plenty of broken bones and lives in between. Verbal sparring\, physical clashes\, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives\, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine\, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital. These summer fictions we will read and discuss give voice to some of what we already know and shine light into the corners of stark realities these writers have taken on with twists and turns that surprise whether we are ready or not. \nWe have just discussed Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses\, Don’t They? (1935) which used truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. \nJuly 20 and 27\nThe Big Clock (1946)\, an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing\, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and murderous chief executive. \nAugust 3 and 10\nWith In a Lonely Place (1947)\, Dorothy B. Hughes created one of the first full-scale literary portraits of a serial murderer. The streets of Los Angeles become a setting for random killings\, and Hughes ventures\, with unblinking exactness\, into the mind of the killer. In the process she conjures up a potent mood of postwar dread and lingering trauma. \nAugust 17 and 24\nIn The Blunderer (1954)\, Patricia Highsmith tracks two men\, strangers to each other\, whose destinies become intertwined when one becomes obsessed with a crime committed by the other. Highsmith’s gimlet-eyed portrayals of failed marriages and deceptively congenial middle-class communities lend a sardonic edge to this tale of intrigue and ineptitude. \nAugust 31 and September 7\nTwo teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’ Fools’ Gold (1958) and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders\, Fools’ Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a shelteredof young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America’s two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s\, edited by Sarah Weinman. \nSeptember 14 and 21\nWith its gritty realism\, unrestrained violence and frequently outrageous humor\, The Real Cool Killers (1959) is among the most powerful of Chester Himes’s series of novels about the Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/thursday-noirs-summer-fiction/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Reading Capital Politically Continues
DESCRIPTION:5 More Sessions: July 19\, 26\, & August 2\, 16\, 23 (no class August 9) \n“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave\, patrician and plebian\, lord and serf\, guild-master and journeyman\, in a word\, oppressor and oppressed\, stood in constant opposition to one another\, carried on an uninterrupted\, now hidden\, now open fight\, a fight that each time ended\, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large\, or in the common ruin of contending classes.” —Karl Marx\, The Communist Manifesto \nFor 150 years\, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital has fascinated\, frustrated and or confounded readers. It is most often read as a work of political economy whose aim is to understand how the capitalist economy works or even philosophically for its method (the influence of Hegel and his method continues to be debated). However Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read Capital politically? To answer this question\, this class will examine Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (the most well known American exponent of what has come to be labelled “class struggle” or “Autonomist” Marxism after the Italian “Autonomia” movement of the 1970s). For the autonomists\, Marx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And\, how should we read Capital politically? \nReading for this class will include: \nReading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (https://libcom.org/files/cleaver-reading_capital_politically.pdf)\nCapital Volume 1\, Chapter 1 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm)\nCyberMarx by Nick Dyer-Witheford Chapter 4 (on Autonomist Marxism) https://libcom.org/library/cyber-marx-nick-dyer-witheford \nDan Karan has been studying Marxism for 40 years and was a student of John Gerassi\, Jean-Paul Sartre’s official biographer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-politically-continues/
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SUMMARY:Women’s Liberation Movement: 1968-1975
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Brown\nTuesday\, July 18 and 25\, 7:30-9:30 pm \nReadings provided by Jenny for this series: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_eXN8wqn-HgaEpVaVlLOU1UTVk \nJULY 18 Origins & Theory: The Women’s Liberation Movement is rooted in the Black-led Southern Civil Rights Movement and most of its theory pioneers\, white and Black\, were full-time workers in that movement. They also drew from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. As the Black Freedom movement turned to Black Power\, feminists took theory from Black Power and applied it to their newborn movement. We’ll read original sources from both the Black-led and majority-white branches of women’s liberation.  \nJULY 25 The Power of History: This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories\, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. We will read analyses from Women’s Liberation Movement organizers written after the height of the movement’s power. \nJenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and has been involved in feminist theory and organizing since 1988\, first with Gainesville Women’s Liberation in Gainesville\, Florida and then with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action\, a movement think-tank and archive based in New York. She co-authored the Redstockings book\, Women’s Liberation and National Healthcare: Confronting the Myth of America and the Labor Notes book How to Jump Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers along with numerous essays and articles. She was also a co-chair of a Labor Party Local Organizing Committee in Gainesville\, Florida and is a former editor of Labor Notes. \nThose who have enrolled in the ongoing New Left series are already registered for these two sessions \nPrices below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/womens-liberation-movement-1968-1975/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Hard Boiled Thursdays: Summer Fiction Series
DESCRIPTION:SPILLING THE BEANS\, SPLATTERING BLOOD:  \nAn 11-week group convened with the\nIndigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nHard-boiled fiction and noir confirm capitalism’s violence with glaring facts\, subtle twists of mind and plenty of broken bones and lives in between. Verbal sparring\, physical clashes\, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives\, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine\, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital. These summer fictions we will read and discuss give voice to some of what we already know and shine light into the corners of stark realities these writers have taken on with twists and turns that surprise whether we are ready or not.  \nJuly 13\nHorace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses\, Don’t They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. \nJuly 20 and 27\nThe Big Clock (1946)\, an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing\, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and murderous chief executive. \nAugust 3 and 10\nWith In a Lonely Place (1947)\, Dorothy B. Hughes created one of the first full-scale literary portraits of a serial murderer. The streets of Los Angeles become a setting for random killings\, and Hughes ventures\, with unblinking exactness\, into the mind of the killer. In the process she conjures up a potent mood of postwar dread and lingering trauma. \nAugust 17 and 24\nIn The Blunderer (1954)\, Patricia Highsmith tracks two men\, strangers to each other\, whose destinies become intertwined when one becomes obsessed with a crime committed by the other. Highsmith’s gimlet-eyed portrayals of failed marriages and deceptively congenial middle-class communities lend a sardonic edge to this tale of intrigue and ineptitude. \nAugust 31 and September 7\nTwo teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’ Fools’ Gold (1958) and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders\, Fools’ Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a shelteredof  young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America’s two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s\, edited by Sarah Weinman. \nSeptember 14 and 21\nWith its gritty realism\, unrestrained violence and frequently outrageous humor\, The Real Cool Killers (1959) is among the most powerful of Chester Himes’s series of novels about the Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hard-boiled-thursdays-summer-fiction-series/
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SUMMARY:No Blood for Oil!
DESCRIPTION:An author presentation with discussion\, co-sponsored with Autonomedia \nNo Blood For Oil!\nEssays on Energy\, Class Struggle and War 1998–2016\nGeorge Caffentzis \nThe oil industry is at the center of the major struggles of our time\, but is Marxist theory able to explain its behavior? The oil industry presents a paradox to Marxist theory.  How is it that oil companies employ relatively few workers and invest in a relatively large amount of machinery\, but still are the largest and most profitable companies on the planet? It should be otherwise\, if profits come from exploiting worker’s labor. In his book\, No Blood for Oil\, George Caffentzis shows how Marxism resolves this paradox and accounts for the peculiar role that the oil industry plays in contemporary capitalism as generator of ecological devastation\, war and exploitation. Come to discuss the struggle over the exchange of blood for oil. \nGeorge Caffentzis is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He has taught courses on oil and class struggle in many venues in Africa\, South America and Europe. He is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and is the author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work\, Machines\, and the Crisis of Capitalism (2013) and Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money (2000).  \n“The papers in this collection are weapons we use to deconstruct the politics of war and oil\, to uncover the multilayered class meaning of contemporary energy policy\, and are the treasure that gives us a different sense of alternatives. Caffentzis’ critical understanding dissolves the fatalism of peak-oil arguments and posits our struggles to reclaim the commons as the real limit of capitalist use of energy.” — Massimo de Angelis\, author of The Beginning of History
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/no-blood-for-oil/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Intro to Marxism—in Newark\, New Jersey
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey and Rust Gilbert\nFive more Wednesdays\nJuly 12th to August 9th\n6:00 to 8:00 pm\nDowntown Newark on Orchard Street (email info@marxedproject.org for more info) \nUsing Marx’s own writings and some accessible writing by interpreters\, this course will introduce participants to basic Marxist concepts and analyses. With short readings\, focused presentations\, and discussions\, we will look at the rise of industrial capitalism and nationalism\, the general characteristics of capitalist political economy and class\, and the state\, imperialism and war\, workers organizations and collective power\, and\, finally\, political action and questions of reform or revolution.\nSliding scale: $15 / $20 / $25\n$5 per single session\nno one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/an-intro-to-marxism-in-newark-new-jersey/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading Capital Politically
DESCRIPTION:A Six Session class: July 12\, 19\, 26\, & August 2\, 16\, 23 (no class August 9) \n“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave\, patrician and plebian\, lord and serf\, guild-master and journeyman\, in a word\, oppressor and oppressed\, stood in constant opposition to one another\, carried on an uninterrupted\, now hidden\, now open fight\, a fight that each time ended\, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large\, or in the common ruin of contending classes.” —Karl Marx\, The Communist Manifesto \nFor 150 years\, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital has fascinated\, frustrated and or confounded readers. It is most often read as a work of political economy whose aim is to understand how the capitalist economy works or even philosophically for its method (the influence of Hegel and his method continues to be debated). However Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read capital politically? To answer this question\, this class will examine Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (the most well known American exponent of what has come to be labelled “class struggle” or “Autonomist” Marxism after the Italian “Autonomia” movement of the 1970s). For the autonomists\, Marx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And\, how should we read capital politically? \nReading for this class will include: \nReading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (https://libcom.org/files/cleaver-reading_capital_politically.pdf)\nCapital Volume 1\, Chapter 1 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm)\nCyberMarx by Nick Dyer-Witheford Chapter 4 (on Autonomist Marxism) https://libcom.org/library/cyber-marx-nick-dyer-witheford \nDan Karan has been studying Marxism for 40 years and was a student of John Gerassi\, Jean-Paul Sartre’s official biographer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-politically/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Kluge’s News From Ideological Antiquity. Part 2: All Things Are Bewitched People
DESCRIPTION:When Eisenstein had the idea to film Capital\, he thought that the literary methods found in Joyce’s Ulysses would be helpful for his project. According to Fredric Jameson\, what Eisenstein had in mind here is “something like a Marxist version of Freudian free association—the chain of hidden links that leads us from the surface of everyday life and experience to the very sources of production itself. Eisenstein’s idea was use the structure of Ulysses\, a ‘day in the life’ narrative interrupted by stream-of-consciousness\, together with his theories of montage to depict a narrative film version of Capital. ” (See New Left Review\, No 58 for Jameson’s review)\n“… important devices should be added: Russian Formalist defamiliarisation and Brechtian distancing. Never very far from didactic methods\, Kluge insists: “We must let Till Eulenspiegel [a trickster figure in German folklore] pass across Marx and Eisenstein both\, in order to create confusion allowing knowledge and emotions to be combined together in new ways.” — Julia Vassilieva\, Screening The Past\n Kluge’s film is divided into three parts: Part III. Paradoxes of Exchange Society will be scheduled at a future July date.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kluges-news-from-ideological-antiquity-part-2-all-things-are-bewitched-people/
LOCATION:Verso Books\, 20 Jay Street #1010\, Brooklyn\, 11210
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170624T140000
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SUMMARY:Gowanus Canal Walking Tour: Where Environmental Justice and Housing Justice Meet
DESCRIPTION:With Michael Higgins\nMeet on the steps of the of Brooklyn Public Library. \nAlthough people around the world are increasingly living in cities such as New York City\, we still exist in and are dependent on the natural environment. Whether we live in rural or urban places\, we are greatly influencing Earth system processes\, such as how water cycles between places\, how soils are intricately linked to the movement of water\, exchange of gases\, and growth of plants even on the Whole Foods rooftop garden along the Gowanus Canal\, and how the composition of the atmosphere affects incoming and outgoing energy\, which then impacts global climate change. \nCome join in for a walk from Prospect Park to the Gowanus Canal.  \nGowanus is an intensely contaminated community that is simultaneously undergoing multiple processes of environmental remediation and gentrification.  The tour will explore these dynamics and the challenges and opportunities posed by the Gowanus Canal Superfund Clean Up\, the rapid disappearance of commercial establishments and services that are affordable to low- and moderate-income households and the recently announced housing authority plan to build market-rate apartments at Wyckoff Gardens. Tour attendees will also learn about the Turning the Tide initiative\, a multi-neighborhood effort that focuses on building social and environmental resiliency in five Brooklyn public housing developments. \nMichael Higgins\, Jr. is a member turned organizer at FUREE\, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality. A native of Fort Greene\, Michael works with public housing tenants in developments around Downtown Brooklyn\, building power in low-income communities around issues of accountable development\, environmental justice and municipal governance. \nThis tour will benefit The MEP and FUREE
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/gowanus-canal-walking-tour/
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