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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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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170614T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170613T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170612T180000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170530T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011807
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170529T213000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170525T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170525T210000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T213000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170520T200000
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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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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170509T213000
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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/
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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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SUMMARY:60s New Left: National and International
DESCRIPTION:A New Left Begins\n2nd sessions\nBeginning Tuesday\, May 2 — sessions continue through July\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Jenny Brown\, Michael Pelias and others \nMay 2\, a reading and discussion of Marat/Sade. Watch the film if you have the opportunity\nMay 9 and 16\, RD Laing\, counter-psychiatric / anti-psychiatry. The Politics of Experience and more. Presentations and discussion with Michael Pelias on May 9 and May 16.\nMay 23 and 30. Paris. May\, 1968. These talks will investigate the events May 68 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\, among them Jean Jaurès’ Socialist History of the French Revolution and A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove\, and previously untranslated works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guerin\, as well as writings from the French Revolution\, are forthcoming. His May Made Me will appear in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the May events in France.\nJune 6 and 13. The music didn’t die. A look at the many cultural influences of the first generation born with the bomb and mutually assured destruction from day one. An overview and music and a reading and discussion of Jeff Nuttal’s Bomb Culture.\nThe growth of Women’s liberation and the experience of the growth of this mass movement in the 1960s and what this meant for the new left. Jenny Brown from National Women’s Liberation will select and help focus these our discussion at dates to be determined.\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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mills-port-huron-the-u-s-new-left-begins/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Creating An Ecological Society
DESCRIPTION:Towards a revolutionary transformation \nWhy Capitalism Must Go to Save the Earth\nCapitalism is the problem and creating a new society is both possible and essential. \nFred Magdoff is Professor Emeritus of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. Among his recent books are  What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with John Bellamy Foster) and Agriculture and Food in Crisis (edited with Brian Tokar). \nno one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creating-an-ecological-society-part-1/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T140000
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SUMMARY:The Grundrisse\, The Chapter on Capital
DESCRIPTION:Saturday sessions on essential works of Marx\nReading and discussion sessions with Sam Salour and others\nThis group will meet on Saturdays until June 17 \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. Starting April 1 we will read from The Chapter on Capital from the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. These 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/the-grundrisse-the-chapter-on-capital/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170427T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170427T213000
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SUMMARY:African Literature: Post-Colonial Struggles
DESCRIPTION:A 9-week reading group\nThursdays\, April 27 through June 22\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm\nOrganized with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \n“Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty.” ― Ousmane Sembène  \nDuring this term we will begin with Egypt with Mahfouz\, visit West Africa with Chris Abani then travel south to South Africa with Zakes Mda then conclude in June with NoViolet Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Again we examine four different areas of Africa as the peoples there emerge first from European colonization\, then face the forces of global domination in the long neoliberal phase we yet endure.  \nRespected Sir\nNaguib Mahfouz\nEgypt\, 1975\n With this portrait of a misanthropic civil servant\, Mahfouz devises a cunning send-up of egregious ambition\, stodgy bureaucracy and cloying piety. The novel’s overblown language mirrors the grandiose aspirations of protagonist Othman Bayyumi\, an archives clerk who schemes for a lofty appointment as Director General\, expounding that “a government position is a brick in the edifice of the state\, and the state is an exhalation of the spirit of God\, incarnate on earth.” \nSong for Night\nChris Abani\nNigeria\, 2007\nSong for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier’s lyrical\, terrifying\, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. Our guide is a voiceless protagonist who\, as part of a land mine-clearing platoon\, had his vocal chords cut\, a move to keep these children from screaming when blown up\, and thereby distracting the other minesweepers. The book is written in a ghostly voice\, with each chapter headed by a line of the unique sign language these children invented.  \nThe Heart of Redness\nZakes Mda\nSouth Africa\, 2007\nIn Mda’s novel\, there is Camugu\, who left for America during apartheid\, and has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy\, he follows his “famous lust” to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops\, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. A failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers\, dividing brother from brother\, wife from husband\, with devastating consequences. 150 years later\, the two groups’ decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village\, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their struggles for a future worth living for. \nWe Need New Names\nNoViolet Bulawayo\nZimbabwe\, 2012\nDarling is only ten years old\, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe\, Darling and her friends steal guavas\, try to get the baby out of young Chipo’s belly\, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen\, before the school closed\, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America’s famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. \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/african-literature-post-colonial-struggles/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:The Explosion of Deferred Dreams
DESCRIPTION:The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965–1975\nMat Callahan \nAs the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \n“All too often\, people talk about the ’60s without mentioning our music and the fun we had trying to smash the state and create a culture based upon love. Mat Callahan’s book is a necessary corrective.” —George Katsiaficas\, author of The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-explosion-of-deferred-dreams/
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SUMMARY:Sartre’s Search For A Method
DESCRIPTION:Five More Sessions with Dan Karan\nApril 25-May23\nA series within the Emergence of A New Left Programming \nJohn Paul Sartre was one of the most important radical intellectuals of the 20th century yet he is largely forgotten or ignored by most Marxists and others on “the left.” This\, despite the fact that as a philosopher\, playwright\, novelist\, essayist and political activist Sartre’s primary concerns surrounded questions of individual freedom\, choice and action (in his early career) and the relationship between individual freedom and collective good (in his later career) and developing a method for understanding history\, the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements and popular revolt. Ronald Hayman\, one of Sartre’s biographers\, summarizes Sartre’s intellectual project as follows: \n“As a Marxist he wanted to believe that dialectical materialism offered a complete interpretation of history – that all the contradictions\, conflicts\, heterogeneities\, anomalies could be subsumed in a single totalization. Sartre is simultaneously concerned to provide Marxism with an adequate theory of knowledge\, both Marx and Lenin had worked without one – and to combat the Heideggarian existentialism which consistently makes Being its point of departure. Sartre insists that history is the history of human initiatives. What emerges as the crucial problem is how to map the jungle of obscure connections between historical movements and individual actions.”  \nThis class will focus on Sartre’s 1957 text\, Search For A Method\, which reflects his growth from existentialist philosopher concerned with individual freedom to an anti-authoritarian existential Marxist who believed that individual freedom can only come about via one’s commitment to the collective good. Search for a Method consists of three major parts: The first part discusses Marxist and existentialist views of the world; the second\, how the individual relates to structures; and\, the third develops a methodology for understanding the individual\, history and structures. \nDan Karan has been studying Marxism for 40 years and was a student of John Gerassi\, Sartre’s official biographer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/sartres-search-for-a-method/
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SUMMARY:Money and Totality
DESCRIPTION:MONEY AND TOTALITY:\nA Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic In Capital and the End of the “Transformation Problem”\na book discussion with author Fred Moseley\nat Unnameable Books\n600 Vanderbilt Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY \nCorrecting a longstanding misinterpretation\, Moseley argues that there is no ‘transformation problem’ in Marx’s economic theory. This ambitious book presents a comprehensive new ‘macro-monetary’ interpretation of Marx’s logical method in Capital which emphasizes two points: (1) Marx’s theory is primarily a macroeconomic theory of the total surplus-value produced in the economy as a whole; and (2) Marx’s theory is a monetary theory and the circuit of money capital\, M-C-M\, is its logical framework. \n“The complete form of the process is therefore M-C-M’\,  where M =M + ∆M\, i.e. the original sum advanced plus an increment. This increment or excess over the original value I call ‘surplus-value’.”\n—Karl Marx\, Capital\, Volume 1 \n“The capitalists\, like hostile brothers\, divide among themselves the loot of other people’s labor\, so that on an average one receives the same amount of unpaid labor as another.”\n—Karl Marx\, Theories of Surplus-Value\, Volume 2 \nFred Moseley is Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of The Falling Rate of Profit in the Postwar United States Economy and editor of Marx’s Logical Method: A Reappraisal\, New Investigations of Marx’s Method\, Heterodox Economic Theories: True or False?\, and Marx’s Theory of Money: Modern Reappraisals.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/money-and-totality/
LOCATION:Unnameable Books\, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marxist Method
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SUMMARY:Small is Necessary: Shared Housing on a Shared Planet
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with activist-scholar Anitra Nelson\, whose forthcoming book from Pluto Press argues for smaller homes with shared spaces and facilities \nHouses and apartments in countries like Australia and the US grew larger in the 20th century as household sizes shrank. Not only does this make housing less environmentally sustainable but contributes to the housing affordability crisis. The US mortgage fiasco triggered the Global Financial Crisis and many countries have experienced fluctuating or skyrocketing house prices since. Meanwhile\, the withdrawal of state support for social and public housing means private ownership or rental seem like the only options for most people. \nThe solutions analyzed are not just smaller dwellings in compact settlements but also shared spaces and facilities. The presentation will look at a range of practical options from co-living in a household to cohousing and ecovillages\, weighing up the pros and cons of the tiny house movement and assessing the potential and limits of radical squats along the way. Anitra considers collaborative housing/living futures managed by quite different drivers: governments\, market developers and sharing economy initiatives\, and grassroots communities. Anitra has had ten years’ experience living in two distinctive Australian housing collectives but her forthcoming book is research-based\, especially drawing on ecological footprint studies. \nAnitra Nelson is an activist-scholar whose research interests focus on housing and community-based sustainability\, environmental justice and non-monetary futures. Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research\, RMIT University (Melbourne\, Australia)\, in 2016–2017 she was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich completing Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (forthcoming). She co-edited Planning After Petroleum: Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil (2016)\, Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and Practice (2016) and Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/small-is-necessary-shared-housing-on-a-shared-planet/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Frederick Douglass Walk in Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:Conducted and led by Ted Hamm\nWE HAVE MOVED THE WALKING TOUR TO APRIL 8 @ 11 AM BECAUSE THE WEATHER ON THE 18th WILL NOT DO OUR WALKING TOUR WELL. THE INITIAL APRIL 1 MOVE WAS IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER EVENTS FOR SOME ATTENDEES \nMeet on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall \nFrederick Douglass came to Brooklyn to work and speak with Brooklyn abolitionists. Ted Hamm\, editor of Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn\, will conduct this tour\, visiting where Douglass did before and after the Civil War. We will visit the original locations of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and a nearby church where Frederick Douglass spoke in 1886; then Plymouth Church; then head over to Bridge Street (near Manhattan Bridge)\, where the Gloucesters lived\, then see the original location of Bridge Street AME (where Douglass spoke in 1863)\, and from there go to Livingston Street where Tilton lived\, then head back to Borough Hall.  \nA fundraiser for the Marxist Education Project. All participants who pay $30 or $40 will receive a copy of Ted’s book. \n“A fascinating collection of Frederick Douglass’s controversial speeches in Brooklyn\, N.Y.\, this volume compiles original source material that illustrates the relationship between the abolitionist and the then city of Brooklyn.” —Publishers Weekly \nTHEODORE HAMM is chair of journalism and new media studies at St. Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill\, Brooklyn. His previous books include Rebel and a Cause\, The New Blue Media\, and Pieces of a Decade (coedited with Williams Cole). Hamm’s writings about New York City history and politics have appeared recently in the Village Voice\, Vice News\, the New York Daily News\, and Jacobin. He lives in Sunset Park\, Brooklyn.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/frederick-douglass-walk-in-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Borough Hall Steps
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SUMMARY:The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A book-launch and discussion with Ingo Schmidt (editor) and Mariano Féliz (contributor) \nCapitalists’ permanent pressure on the working and living conditions of the popular classes guarantees an equally permanent demand for social protections. Curiously enough\, around the same time capitalists turned from class compromise to an all-out offensive against Western European welfare states\, until then the showcase of social democratic success\, popular classes in a number of post-colonial and post-communist countries turned to social democracy. Though the 1990s are usually seen as nothing but an age of neoliberal globalization\, it is more accurate to say that the same decade also saw the globalization of social democracy. With Third Worldism in retreat under the pressure of the international debt crises and counterinsurgency measures and Soviet communism finally collapsing after an extended period of stagnation\, social democracy was the last remaining project of the 20th century left. \nThe ANC in South Africa\, the Workers Party in Brazil\, Communists in India and the former ruling parties in Eastern Europe eventually turned onto the social democratic road. But they did that at a time when social democracy in Western Europe was relabeled as a Third Way somewhere between the redistributive welfare state of the past and the present of unfettered global competition. However\, the globalization of this Third Way turned out to be a dead-end. Wherever parties were elected on a moderately social democratic platform\, soon after taking office the same parties would tell their voters that it was belt-tightening time. Ensuing anger\, disappointment and frustrations opened the way for left- and right-wing alternatives to social democracy but also a quest for social democracy before the Third Way. \nThe Three Worlds of Social Democracy presents the experiences of parties and governments of social democracy from Western and Eastern Europe\, Latin America\, India\, and South Africa. The book offers cutting-edge case studies to present a truly global exploration of the methods\, meanings\, and limits of social democracy. It also explores the potential for left alternatives to social democracy and the dangers of surging right-wing populism.  \nMariano Féliz is an economist at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient.ficas y Técnicas\, Universidad Nacional de La Plata\, Argentina. \nIngo Schmidt is the coordinator of the Labour Studies Programme at Athabasca University\, Canada.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-three-worlds-of-social-democracy/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marxist Method,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Emergence of a New Left: The Black Panther Party (extended to April 11)
DESCRIPTION:Noble Bratton will conduct a 3-week reading and discussion of the essential history of the Black Panther Party\, Black Against Empire. Please read the first two sections for March 21.\nNoble Bratton is a graduate of Cornell University and is on the editorial board of Working USA/Labor and Society. He taught a class on the US Presidency at The Brecht Forum. He has participated with the Leo Downes Harlem Y Study Group. He is also a former member of District Council 65 of the UAW\, UNITE Local 169.\nReadings for the next three weeks will include chapters from Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin. \nA special price of $15 for April 4 and 11
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emergence-of-a-new-left-the-black-panther-party/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:The Emancipation of Labor
DESCRIPTION:The Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class\nA talk and discussion with author Mark Lause \nMark A. Lause will provide an overview of his widely acclaimed book Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class (2016) and discuss his current project on the origins of American socialism\, taking up little-known aspects of the emergence of a class-struggle perspective on the American left. He will consider why those dimensions have thus far received little attention from historians and socialists. Northern workers “took up arms because they understood the importance of the conflict in shaping the future value of ‘free labor\,’” and a “rolling strike of the slaves” in the South became “the great incontrovertible and irreversible fact of the war”. \nMark A. Lause is a professor of history at the University of Cincinnati who focuses on U.S. labor movements in the nineteenth century. A lifelong radical\, his Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class (2016) is the most recent in a series of works on the Civil War era. Others include studies of land reform\, spiritualism\, secret societies\, and bohemianism\, and Race & Radicalism in the Union Army\, on the tri-racial experience of the Federal Army of the Frontier. A forthcoming book will address The Great Cowboy Strike and western labor struggles in the 1880s. His reviews and essays on contemporary politics have appeared in Against the Current\, Counterpunch\, Jacobin\, and The North Star\, where he serves on the editorial board.  A veteran of SDS and the radicalization of the 1960s\, Lause has joined various socialist organizations over the last half century – most expelled him and all disappointed him. Long interested in environmental issues\, he has been identified with the Green Party since the 1990s and served on the state committee of the Ohio party.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-emancipation-of-labor/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:The Life and Thought of Louis-Auguste Blanqui
DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Doug “Enaa” Greene \nIn the revolutionary tradition\, the name of the nineteenth-century French communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) is remembered either with derision or—at best—as a noble failure. Yet during his lifetime\, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. His first street fight was in 1827. Blanqui inspired an uprising in 1839 by the League of the Just\, a forerunner of the Communist League of which Marx was a member in Paris. He was imprisoned for his role in the revolutionary wave of activity in 1848. During the Commune of 1871\, his ability to inspire was felt to be so strong that Thiers would not exchange him for the captured archbishop of Paris. He is known well for his phrase that we have inherited as “No Gods\, No Masters”. Blanqui’s perspective was diametrically opposed to the reformers and utopians who abhorred revolution. Rather\, he thought earnestly and without illusions about what it would take to actually make a revolution. In a time like today\, when the old formulas of following the lesser evil\, social democracy\, and other such schemes are falling short\, it is worthwhile to take a fresh look at Blanqui. \nDoug “Enaa” Greene is a Marxist writer and historian living in the greater Boston area. He is the author of Specters of Communism: Blanqui and Marx\, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-life-and-thought-of-louis-auguste-blanqui/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T213000
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SUMMARY:Popular Struggles in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:Popular Struggles in South Africa:\nUrban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South and The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa \nA report on current and future liberation movements in South Africa with\nTrevor Ngwane\, Luke Sinwell and Manny Ness \nOn 16th August 2012\, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. Luke Sinwell’s The Spirit of Marikana tells the story of the uncelebrated leaders at the world’s three largest platinum mining companies who survived the barrage of state violence\, intimidation\, torture and murder which was being perpetrated during this tumultuous period. What began as a discussion about wage increases between two workers in the changing rooms at one mine became a rallying cry for economic freedom and basic dignity. This gripping ethnographic account is the first comprehensive study of this movement\, revealing how seemingly ordinary people became heroic figures who transformed their workplace and their country. \nThe urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world’s population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to the urban cores\, resulting in the vast expansion of mega-cities with 10 to 20 million people in the global South. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums particularly in the global south have created the conditions in which urban areas have become the principal sites of social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions. Drawing from case studies in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia\, the various chapters in Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context. \nTrevor Ngwane and Luke Sinwell will discuss the current situation in South Africa where trade union militancy has spread more broadly in the five years since Marikana\, the anti-austerity student movement remains strong at most universities and other schools\, and socialist parties are experiencing growth and are at times uniting to fight the neoliberalism of the post-apartheid state. \nMgcineni ‘Mambush’ Noki (imagined in the wall painting wearing a green blanket) was one of the 34 mineworkers killed by the South African police on August 2016 while on strike demanding a ‘living wage’ in the most potent episode of state violence against civilians in the post-apartheid period. Mambush and the others live on as the insurgency grows broader and deeper in South African society and beyond. \nThrough detailed case studies\, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level. \n“A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations.” —Patrick Bond\, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique \nThe urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world’s population. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to mega-cities. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums\, particularly in the Global South\, have created conditions ripe for social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions and win basic human rights. Drawing from case studies in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia\, the chapters in this book map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context.\n“What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance\, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation…. The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity.”\n—Leo Zeilig\, African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence \n“Capitalism itself is in crisis so it means\, as Marx said\, the CEOs of the world\, government leaders\, have now become personifications of capital. They no longer have any control. They speak for capital. They are just meant to trample on our rights willy nilly. They did that in Greece until a left party took over and then now they are turning the screws on that left party. It’s harder in countries such as the USA where socialism is a swear word as it is in Eastern Europe.”\n—Trevor Ngwane\, Counterfire\, 2015 \n“Fanon somewhere quotes Marx on how the social revolution “cannot draw its poetry from the past\, but only from the future.” The EFF\, the student movement and the working class movement has to find a way forward without going back to nationalism as an ideology of struggle. The struggle against imperialism has to break out of the discourse of colonialism without denying this history and its legacy…at its heart will be proletarian internationalism rather than bourgeois nationalism.”  —Trevor Ngwane\, 2016 \nTrevor Ngwane is a scholar-activist who is active in the Socialist Group and the United Front\, organizations that seek a pro–working class pro-poor future for South Africa and the world. His PhD thesis recently awarded by the University of Johannesburg is titled “Amakomiti as democracy on the margins: Popular committees in South Africa’s informal settlements.” \nLuke Sinwell is a senior researcher with the South African Research Chair in Social Change\, University of Johannesburg. He has published widely on social movements and popular protest. His latest book is an ethnography called\, The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa (Pluto Press\, 2016). \nImmanuel Ness is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He has authored and edited of many books including: Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press\, 2015) and Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket Books\, 2011). Ness is co-editor of the third world political economy quarterly\, Journal of Labor and Society. \nCopies of Urban Revolt\, The Spirit of Marikana and Southern Insurgency will be available for purchase.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/insurgent-south-africa-the-spirit-of-marikana/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Emergence of a New Left: Civil Rights from Reform to Revolution
DESCRIPTION:We begin with Malcolm\nNoble Bratton\nTwo more sessions prior to One-Dimensional Man: February 28 and March 7 \nNoble Bratton will conduct a 3-week history of the Civil Rights movement with CORE\, SNCC and analyzing the growing militancy in African-American life that led to the revolutionary politics of The Black Panther Party as the 60s developed.\nNoble Bratton is a graduate of Cornell University and is on the editorial board of Working USA/Labor and Society. He taught a class on the US Presidency at The Brecht Forum. He has participated with the Leo Downes Harlem Y Study Group. He is also a former member of District Council 65 of the UAW\, UNITE Local 169.\nReadings for the next two weeks will include chapters from Manning Marable’s Race\, Reform and Rebellion.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emergence-of-a-new-left-civil-rights-from-reform-to-revolution/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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