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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.
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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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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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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/
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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/
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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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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/
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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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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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SUMMARY:Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein–Capital\nPart I. Marx and Eisenstein in the Same House\nSaturday\, June 17\, 3-6:30 pm\nIntermission with discussion to follow\nVerso Loft\n20 Jay Street\, Suite 1010\, Brooklyn \nWhen 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. ”\nKluge’s film is divided into three parts: I. Marx and Eisenstein in the Same House; II. All Things are Bewitched People; III. Paradoxes of Exchange Society.\nIf there is sufficient interest in this Part I showing\, subsequent screenings of Parts II and III will be scheduled.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kluges-news-from-ideological-antiquity/
LOCATION:Verso Books\, 20 Jay Street #1010\, Brooklyn\, 11210
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SUMMARY:Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:With Jim Creegan and Alex Steinberg\nMeet in front the main entrance of The Great Hall of Cooper Union\, behind the statue of Peter Cooper\, East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues\nA walking tour benefit for the Marxist Education Project \nQ: Where was one of the future leaders of the October Revolution and founder of the Red Army when the Tsar was overthrown in the first (February) Russian Revolution?\nA: New York City—living in the Bronx and working for a Russian-language newspaper on the Lower East Side.  \nJoin Alex Steinberg and Jim Creegan 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 100 years ago. Trotsky’s sojourn in New York\, while brief\, had lasting historical significance for both the future of Russia and the United States. We will explore the culture of the radicalized immigrant communities of Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe\, of German\, Russian\, Italian and Greek immigrants who supported a thriving socialist movement in New York in 1917. This was a culture that sustained about a dozen foreign language daily newspapers\, many of them having a radical socialist political orientation. The Yiddish language Jewish Daily Forward had a daily circulation of 200\,000 at the time\, rivaling the circulation of the New York Times. It was also a time of increasing ferment and struggle as America entered World War I on April 6\, 1917 and Russia’s revolutionary wave was about to explode a few months later. \nAfter beginning at Cooper Union\, we will walk to 77 St. Marks Place\, where the offices of the Russian language newspaper Novy Mir\, were housed in 1917. Here Trotsky and other future Bolshevik leaders worked daily. From there the tour will take a walk to the building of the Jewish Daily Forward in Seward Park\, which was the scene of a dramatic confrontation between Trotsky and more conservative socialists. As we walk we will pass by a number of places that were important in understanding the history of the social struggles of immigrants in a New York very different than the city we know today.  \nAlex Steinberg is an educator who has taught a number of classes with the Marxist Education Project. He wrote a review of the book\, Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution\, by Kenneth D. Ackerman\, Counterpoint Press\, Berkeley\, 2016 \nJim Creegan is a participant in the Marxist Education Project\, and a student of Marxism and Russian revolutionary history?
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trotsky-in-new-york-walking-tour/
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SUMMARY:Marxism / Leninism • Reform / Revolution • Role of a Vanguard Party
DESCRIPTION:Abhinav Sinha\, India (Mazdoor Bigul- “Workers Bugle”)\nImmanuel Ness\, Journal of Labor and Society\nJackie Di Salvo\, Baruch College \nOur panelists assert that the failure of the socialist movement in the US is rooted in a binary\nbetween the opportunism of right wing reformism and ultra-leftist utopianism. As the storm\nclouds of fascism grow more ominous\, and right wing reformists and their social democratic allies\njoin forces with the Democratic Party sectarian ultra-leftists also offer no concrete vision for the\nfuture—leading to a dead end for any practical social transformation. Anarchists and syndicalists\nmay document the militancy and spontaneity of the working class\, but have no sense of building\nclass power to counter the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Today\, as most political efforts are\nmoribund\, disciplined and principled anti-capitalist socialist organization is more urgent than at\nany time in the US since the 1930s. How do we develop a political organization capable of\navoiding the same traps of the past? Are communist parties inevitably social democratic and\nbureaucratic? Can existing parties in the US be saved? In this panel\, Marxist organizations come\ntogether to learn from the experience in India and elsewhere. This public event is both a\nworkshop and a frank and sober discussion about the road ahead. \nNo one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxism-leninism-%e2%80%a2-reform-revolution-%e2%80%a2-role-of-a-vanguard-party/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:A New Left Forms\, June and July sessions on the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:with Jenny Brown and others\n6 Tuesdays\, 7:30 – 9:30pm:  June 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18 and 25 (no class July 4) \nJune 13-27. The music didn’t die.\nWe will consider the many cultural influences of the first generation born who at day one were facing the bomb and the looming threat of mutually assured destruction. Reading and discussion of Jeff Nuttal’s Bomb Culture\, and Tariq Ali’s Street Fighting Years\,  where Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical.\nJuly 11. Mexico’s 68 Experience. Tlatelolco.\nA look at the 1968 student movement in Mexico and the Tlatelolco Massacre in which a popular uprising was attacked by the Mexican military killing nearly 400 students\, sympathizers and bystanders\, just weeks before the 1968 Olympics.\nJuly 18 and 25. 60s Women’s Liberation Movement\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
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-new-left-forms-june-and-july-sessions-on-the-1960s/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Creating an Ecological Society
DESCRIPTION:A reading group\nFive more Tuesdays \nWe will read and discuss the just-published book by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams\, Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation. Sickened by the contamination of water\, air\, and the Earth itself\, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is\, quite literally\, killing us – and indeed\, degrading the Earth’s very ability to support all forms of life. The authors identify the root causes of the global environmental crisis in capitalism’s imperative to make profits at all costs and expand without end. They lay out a program for building a society that is genuinely democratic\, equitable\, and ecologically sustainable. \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 Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History and the Crisis of Capitalism appeared last year in the journal Marx & Philosophy. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. Stated fees are sliding scale.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creating-an-ecological-society/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170612T193000
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SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in England
DESCRIPTION:by Frederick Engels\nA reading and discussion group convened with Lisa Maya Knauer\nFour more Mondays\, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm\nJune 12\, 19\, 26 and July 3 \nEverywhere barbarous indifference\, hard egotism on one hand\, and nameless misery on the other\, everywhere social warfare\, every… house in a state of siege\, everywhere reciprocal plundering under the protection of the law\, and all so shameless\, so openly avowed that one shrinks before the consequences of our social state as they manifest themselves here undisguised\, and can only wonder that the whole crazy fabric still hangs together. \nThis sounds like a description of our contemporary moment\, when so many communities around the globe are reeling from the havoc wrought by unfettered neoliberal capitalism\, from structural adjustment to cuts in social spending to “free trade” agreements to the gig economy and the loss of affordable housing on a global scale. \nBut this paragraph was written by Frederick Engels\, in his 1845 book\, The Condition of the Working Class in England. This reading group will take a close look at Engels’ master work\, to help understand how the formation of industrial capital and the industrial working class in the nineteenth century has led us to the current conjuncture in contemporary capitalism — characterized by growing inequality\, increasing precariousness for nearly everyone except the capitalist elite\, and incessant attacks on the most vulnerable — and explore its lessons for our revolutionary politics in the twenty-first century. This class is open to those reading Marx and Engels for the first time\, and would provide an excellent background for in-depth study of historical materialism. While this is a self-contained five-week session\, it will also serve as a prelude to an exploration of Marx and Engels’ political writings in the fall.  \nLisa Maya Knauer is a lifelong radical who came of age politically in the 1960s and 1970s. She was active in the anti-war\, civil rights\, women’s\, farmworkers support\, anti-apartheid and other movements. She moved to New York in 1977 and quickly immersed herself in the New York left. She found the School for Marxist Education in the phone book and joined the Marxist Education Collective\, and has been involved with this educational undertaking through its various incarnations\, including the Marxist Education Project. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university and does research on indigenous resistance in Guatemala and immigrant worker organizing in the U.S.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-england/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Paris\, May 1968
DESCRIPTION:Mitch Abidor\nTuesday\, May 30\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm \nThis second talk will investigate the events May 1968 in France through an analysis of the writings of Daniel Cohn-Bendit\, one of the most important and interesting of its leaders\, as well as the experiences of rank and file militants interviewed by Mitch Abidor for his forthcoming oral history\, May Made Me. \nMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published several collections of his translations. Mitch recently translated Jean Jáurès’ Socialist History of the French Revolution and A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove and is currently working on translations of further unpublished works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guérin. \nThose enrolled in the New Left history course are already registered for these to sessions. \nFees listed below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/paris-may-1968/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:The German Revolution: False Hope or Missed Chance
DESCRIPTION:Postscript\, 1924-1933\nRevolutions Study Group\nFour more Mondays\, 7:30-9:30 p.m.\, Brooklyn Commons\, May 29–June 19\n(sliding scale: no one is turned away for an inability to pay) \nIn November 1923\, with the Weimar Republic reeling from the French occupation of the Rhineland and the destruction of its economy by the Great Inflation\, the Communist Party of Germany failed in its third attempt since 1919 to lead a workers revolution. Over the next nine years\, while the German Left became more bitterly divided than ever\, the extreme nationalist and revanchist element in Germany was coalescing around a new mass party\, the Nazis\, who found increasing numbers of powerful supporters in the army and among the capitalists. When the next potentially revolutionary moment occurred with the Great Depression of 1929\, it was fascism that was poised to seize power. Taking off from our readings this past winter\, the group will explore why and how this looming tragedy took over Germany\, and looks for lessons for our own world.  \nReadings will include: Richard Evans\, The Coming of the Third Reich (1st two chapters; book is readily available in public libraries and reasonably priced as a paperback). Daniel Guerin\, Fascism and Big Business (2 chapters; also readily available). L. Trotsky\, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (Introduction by Ernest Mandel and essays 7\,8\, 10\, and 19; can be purchased online; may be in some public libraries) \nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. 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 the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. \nImage: combo of two works by John Heartfield
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-german-revolution-false-hope-or-missed-chance/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Syriza Wave with Helena Sheehan
DESCRIPTION:Helena Sheehan\, author of the new book The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left will speak. She will be joined by Nantina Vgontzas\, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology\, NYU; Member\, GSOC-UAW 2110 and AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement. Welcome: Molly Nolan\, Professor of History\, NYU\, and Brooklyn for Peace; Chair: Thomas Harrison\, Co-Director\, Campaign for Peace and Democracy. Sponsored by the NYU Department of History\, co-sponsored by Campaign for Peace and Democracy\, AKNY-Greece Solidarity Movement\, Monthly Review Press\, and The Marxist Education Project. https://www.facebook.com/events/1671073319855435/ \nA seasoned activist and participant-observer\, Helena Sheehan adroitly places us at the center of the whirlwind beginnings of Syriza\, its jubilant victory at the polls\, and finally at Syriza’s surrender to the very austerity measures it once vowed to annihilate. Along the way\, she takes time to meet many Greeks in tavernas\, on the street\, and in government offices\, engage in debates\, and compare Greece to her own economically blighted country\, Ireland. Beginning as a strong Syriza supporter\, Sheehan sees Syriza transformed from a horizon of hope to a vortex of despair. But out of the dust of defeat\, she draws questions radiating optimism. Just how did what was possibly the most intelligent\, effective instrument of the Greek left self-destruct? And what are the consequences for the Greek people\, for the international left\, for all of us driven to work for a better world? The Syriza Wave is a page-turning blend of political reportage\, personal reflection\, and astute analysis. \nHelena Sheehan is Professor Emerita at Dublin City University\, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books\, including Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History and Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories\, as well as magazine articles on politics\, culture\, and philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/syriza-wave-with-helena-sheehan/
LOCATION:King Juan Carlos 1 Center at NYU\, 53 Washington Square South\, New York\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T193000
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SUMMARY:Fascism: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Fascism Then and Now: A Community Roundtable \nFriends of the MEP and the Left community at large are invited to discuss the meaning and signficance of fascism and how to recognize it and struggle against it in world politics today. We hope to debate questions such as: What is the nature of fascism in relation to nationalism/racism\, misogyny\, social/community dissolution? Is or is not the Trump phenomenon an example or at least a precursor of fascism in the USA? Are there important political movements in other countries that could be called fascist? Is the social psychology of fascism the same today as it was in the 20th century? Are theAre there other forms of authoritarian capitalism that are not fascism\, and why might it matter? Current facilitators are Peter Bratsis\, Michael Pelias\, Dan Karan\, Alex Steinberg\, David Worley (moderator).  \nOthers are welcome to join as facilitators; each facilitator will offer a three minute (no longer) opening statement\, after which the floor will be open for general discussion. \nThe image is from a deck of anti-fascist playing cards created during the Siege of Leningrad in 1943
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-syriza-wave/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170520T180000
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SUMMARY:Challenging Militarism\, Climate Change\, and Human Nature
DESCRIPTION:Challenging Militarism\, Climate Change\, and Human Nature: Revolutionary Mothering and A Politics of Responsibility\nJudith Deutsch\n \nOur ability to address urgent threats to our existence like climate change and nuclear weapons is hampered and undermined by questionable assumptions about “human nature” that underlie much political thought and action. In the book Revolutionary Mothering an anthology by Alexis Pauline Gumbs\, China Martens\, Mai’a Williams\, and Loretta J. Ross\, women of color start from the interdependence of the child and the mothering person to propose a very different perspective on human experience\, and the interface between individuals and institutions. Mothering and revolution are messy – there are no pat formulas or fixed paradigms. They propose a politics of necessity and responsibility\, emphasizing needs rather than rights: “There will be no liberation without us knowing how to depend on each other\, how to be encumbered with and responsible for each other.” \nJudith Deutsch is a columnist for Canadian Dimension Magazine\, former president of Science for Peace\, and a psychoanalyst by profession. For reading prior to this presentation\, please refer to Judith’s March 1 article in The Bullet: http://socialistproject.ca/bullet/1376.php
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/challenging-militarism-climate-change-and-human-nature/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170516T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170516T213000
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SUMMARY:Existentialism\, Anti-Psychiatry: 1960s and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement:\nConsiderations on Laing\, Cooper\, Schizoid-analysis and Radio Alice\nSecond presentation by Michael Pelias\nTuesday\, May 16\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm \nBehind the anti-psychiatry movement that blossomed during the 1970s was the fundamental post-Freudian work of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential psychoanalysis. This highly creative approach by Sartre was named “existential psychoanalysis” and was first articulated at the end of the classic\, Being and Nothingness (1943). We will read a selection of this new approach to psychic individuation alongside the Laing/Cooper nexus that sprung the anti-psychiatry movement and resulted in open psychiatric institutions\, mental health liberation activity\, and an on-going critique of “bourgeois” psychiatry and contemporary behaviorism\, cognitive and psycho-pharmacological approaches to the question of what is mental health. We will also look at Laing’s famous proposition that schizophrenia is the sanest reaction to capitalism and engage the schizoid analysis of Deleuze and Guattari alongside the anti-psychiatry moment of Basaglia and Radio Alice in Italy.  \nAt minimum\, please read this section from Laing’s Politics of Experience at Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm \nMichael Pelias teaches both ancient and modern Philosophy at Long Island University\, Brooklyn and is one of the co-founders of the Institute for the Radical Imagination and co-managing editor of the journal Situations.  \nThose who are participating in the New Left course on Tuesday evenings are already enrolled for these two sessions. \nFees listed below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nFees paid are applicable to ongoing Foundations of New Left\, 1960-70 course which will continue until the end of July
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/existentialism-anti-psychiatry-1960s-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170513T120000
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SUMMARY:2 More Lectures With Stanley Aronowitz are postponed
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored and presented by the Institute for the Radical Imagination  \nMay 13 Lecture: The Labor Question in the 21st century\nMay 20 Lecture: Political Organization?  \nBoth lectures will take place at a later date \nPlease visit: https://radicalimagination.institute \nfor more information
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-lectures-with-stanley-aronowitz/
LOCATION:2067 Broadway\, between 71st and 72nd Streets\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170509T193000
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SUMMARY:Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement
DESCRIPTION:Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement:\nConsiderations on Laing\, Cooper\, Schizoid-analysis and Radio Alice\nA two-week presentation by Michael Pelias\nTuesday\, May 9 and 16\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm \nBehind the anti-psychiatry movement that blossomed during the 1970s was the fundamental post-Freudian work of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential psychoanalysis. This highly creative approach by Sartre was named “existential psychoanalysis” and was first articulated at the end of the classic\, Being and Nothingness (1943). We will read a selection of this new approach to psychic individuation alongside the Laing/Cooper nexus that sprung the anti-psychiatry movement and resulted in open psychiatric institutions\, mental health liberation activity\, and an on-going critique of “bourgeois” psychiatry and contemporary behaviorism\, cognitive and psycho-pharmacological approaches to the question of what is mental health. We will also look at Laing’s famous proposition that schizophrenia is the sanest reaction to capitalism and engage the schizoid analysis of Deleuze and Guattari alongside the anti-psychiatry moment of Basaglia and Radio Alice in Italy.  \nAt minimum\, please read this section from Laing’s Politics of Experience at Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm \nMichael Pelias teaches both ancient and modern Philosophy at Long Island University\, Brooklyn and is one of the co-founders of the Institute for the Radical Imagination and co-managing editor of the journal Situations.  \nThose who are participating in the New Left course on Tuesday evenings are already enrolled for these two sessions. \nFees listed below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/existentialism-and-the-anti-psychiatry-movement/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170506T170000
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SUMMARY:Reading “Finally Got The News”: 3rd Sessions\, Part 4
DESCRIPTION:The 3rd Four-Week Session\nA reading group facilitated by Lisa Maya Knauer of The Marxist Education Project and members of Interference Archive \nAll are welcome to join at any session! \nThe 70s were a turbulent decade for the left\, both in the U.S. and worldwide – from the student protests against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia in 1970\, through the Nicaraguan and Iranian revolutions.  \nThis reading group\, designed to accompany Interference Archives’ exhibit Finally Got The News will explore some of the key liberation movements of the 1970s U.S. through the lens of written documents included in the exhibition\, as well as excerpts from publications by the activists and intellectuals who led\, chronicled and theorized about them. This is not a nostalgia trip\, but an opportunity to critically examine some important and often-overlooked threads of our collective history in order to inform our own politics of liberation in the 21st century.  \nOur reading will be divided into three four-week sessions\, using key protest events as entry points into the larger issues that they embodied.In each session\, we will try to put the social movements we examine into dialogue with each other — as they generally were at the time. Often\, individuals became politicized through one specific protest or movement\, which then opened up an array of questions and issues\, so there were a lot of flows of people and ideas between and among movements. Reading sessions will take place at Interference Archive on the Saturdays listed below\, from 3-5pm. Please email info@interferencearchive.org if you would like to participate\, so that we can provide access to reading material. All who pre-register will receive reading materials for the first session in advance. \nThe reading group is a collective undertaking\, and we welcome those whose entry in radical politics came long after the events we are studying as well as veterans of those movements. \nPart One: (February 25 remaining session—come join in at any time!) \nWe’ll start with the Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)\, the role of race in the formation of the U.S. working class\, and trade union radicalism as an alternative to business unionism. We will then read about the prisoners’ revolt and brutal put-down at Attica\, looking at the naked exercise of militarized state power and the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Saturday\, February 25 will be a discussion of the politics\, writings and assassination of George Jackson and the aftermath. \nPart Two: (March 11\, 18\, 25\, and April 1) \nNext\, we turn to the American Indian Movement and the 1973 stand-off at Wounded Knee\, echoes of which resonated through the encampments at Standing Rock. We’ll then continue to talk about the interaction of social movements and the state while looking at the New York City fiscal crisis\, the politics of austerity\, grassroots responses\, and anti-authoritarianism. The role of finance capital in imposing deep cuts on working people’s lives in 1975 will begin in the second part of the discussion on March 25. \nPart Three: (April 15\, 22\, 29\, and May 6) \nThinking broadly about decolonization\, we’ll look at how the 1975 Portuguese revolution and the independence struggle Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau provide an opportunity to explore the relationship between colonialism and national liberation. The 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua opens a window into Latin American revolutionary struggles and the challenges to U.S. imperialism in former client-states. We will then delve into radical feminism and its sometimes uneasy relationship with Marxism and socialism\, and we’ll continue our discussion of sexual politics in the gay and lesbian movements. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a lifelong radical who came of age politically in the 1960s and 1970s. She was active in the anti-war\, civil rights\, women’s\, farmworkers support\, anti-apartheid and other movements. She moved to New York in 1977 and quickly immersed herself in the New York left. She found the School for Marxist Education in the phone book and joined the Marxist Education Collective\, and has been involved with this educational undertaking through its various incarnations\, including the Marxist Education Project. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university and does research on indigenous resistance in Guatemala and immigrant worker organizing in the U.S. \nThe Marxist Education Project (MEP) has been formed as a place to study\, and to work to consciously identify what questions we must address and together answer\, each bringing to the discussion our diverse locations and experiences within society as a whole. We are confronting great possibilities and great challenges which require that we socially and politically find common ground while embracing not only our own but also each others different needs as our own into one organized emancipatory voice that represents the needs and aspirations of all humanity with social and political programs to begin the remediation of ourselves and our relations to each other and the ecology of our planet. In this first quarter of the 21st Century it has become clear that we as a species have a great challenge and responsibility—to bring together all our different needs and knowledge into an organized and diverse political force that can not only impede the prerogatives of an imperialist capitalism but also start to put in place means for transitioning to different ways of producing while in doing so we take into account all the needs of nature. In the next year we will begin offering classes and events in other boroughs and neighboring cities including Saturday morning sessions in Newark. \nInterference Archive: The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection\, publications\, a study center\, and public programs\, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements. \nThe archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters\, flyers\, publications\, photographs\, books\, tee shirts and buttons\, moving images\, audio recordings\, and other materials. \nThrough our programming\, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions. \nAs an all-volunteer organization\, all members of our community are welcome and encouraged to shape our collection and programming; we are a space for all volunteers to learn from each other and develop new skills. We work in collaboration with like-minded projects\, and encourage critical as well as creative engagement with our own histories and current struggles. \nAs an archive from below\, we are a collectively run space that is people powered\, with open stacks and accessibility for all. We are supported by the community that believes in what we’re doing. \nAdmission to the reading group is free to all. Contributions are accepted.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-finally-got-the-news-2/
LOCATION:Interference Archive\, 131 8th Street\, No. 4\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Science and Technology,Socialism
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