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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-06-11/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:Class & Discussion with Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i/2018-06-09/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-06-07/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180605T193000
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SUMMARY:Climate Leviathan
DESCRIPTION:The Political Challenge of Global Warming \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nHow will anthropogenic climate disruption transform alter the world’s basic political arrangements? In their new book Climate Leviathan\, Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright warn that global warming will push capitalist elites toward an authoritarian imposition of “planetary sovereignty” to confront the crisis. In this four-week reading group we will examine their argument and the alternative they present: “a global\, grassroots\, and broad-based network … driven by a desire for a deeper form of democracy\, one that provides communities with real control over those resources that are most critical to collective survival—the health of the water\, air\, and soil.” \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. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-leviathan/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ClimateLeviathanSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180604T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180604T213000
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-06-04/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180531T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180531T213000
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-31/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180531T193000
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SUMMARY:Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner
DESCRIPTION:William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel\, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press featuring the work 10 different critics. In addition to the criticism of Styron there were a number of African-American writers who were encouraged and praised Styron for his work\, most notably James Baldwin. Baldwin predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years. This remains true today. \nThis May\, our Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel\, the Beacon Press anthology\, William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\, as well as the essay Baldwin wrote in defense of Styron. Many profound questions concerning race\, class\, the rendering of historical presentation\, claims on sectors of our shared history\, etc. are raised in the novel and in the anthology. We will discuss as many of these questions as possible including having a careful read of Baldwin’s essay on the work. This class is also part of The MEP noting this being a half-century since the pivotal year of 1968. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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/styrons-confessions-of-nat-turner/2018-05-31/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TurnerRevoltSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180529T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180529T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180505T142036Z
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SUMMARY:Small Is Necessary
DESCRIPTION:Shared Living on a Shared Planet\nwith author Anitra Nelson \nA presentation and discussion with activist-scholar Anitra Nelson\, whose new book Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto Press) argues for ‘eco-collaborative housing’\, i.e. smaller homes with shared spaces and facilities. \nHouses and apartments in countries like the US\, Canada and Australia grew larger in the 20th century even as household sizes shrank. This has made housing less environmentally sustainable and it contributes to the housing affordability crisis. Since the US mortgage fiasco triggered the Global Financial Crisis many countries have experienced skyrocketing house prices. Meanwhile\, the withdrawal of state support for social and public housing means that private ownership or rental are the only options. \nSmall is Necessary advocates not only for smaller dwellings in compact settlements but for shared spaces and facilities. Anitra presents a range of practical options from co-living in a household to co-housing and eco-villages. She weighs the pros and cons of the tiny house movement and assesses the potential and limits of radical squats along the way. She considers the future of eco-collaborative housing managed by various different drivers—governments\, market developers\, and sharing economy initiatives\, and grassroots communities.  \nAnitra has had ten years’ experience living in two different Australian housing collectives\, but her new book is research-based\, especially drawing on ecological footprint studies. \nThe author will sign books at the end of the program. \nAnitra Nelson is an activist-scholar whose research interests focus on housing and community-based sustainability\, environmental justice and non-monetary futures. She is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research\, RMIT University (Melbourne\, Australia). She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2016–2017) and was a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (2012). She is a co-editor of Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011) and Housing for Degrowth: Principles\, Models\, Challenges and Opportunities (forthcoming).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/small-is-necessary/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SmallIs_Cover_site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180524T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180524T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-24/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180524T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180524T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T125001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T125001Z
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SUMMARY:Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner
DESCRIPTION:William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel\, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press featuring the work 10 different critics. In addition to the criticism of Styron there were a number of African-American writers who were encouraged and praised Styron for his work\, most notably James Baldwin. Baldwin predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years. This remains true today. \nThis May\, our Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel\, the Beacon Press anthology\, William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\, as well as the essay Baldwin wrote in defense of Styron. Many profound questions concerning race\, class\, the rendering of historical presentation\, claims on sectors of our shared history\, etc. are raised in the novel and in the anthology. We will discuss as many of these questions as possible including having a careful read of Baldwin’s essay on the work. This class is also part of The MEP noting this being a half-century since the pivotal year of 1968. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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/styrons-confessions-of-nat-turner/2018-05-24/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TurnerRevoltSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180521T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180521T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
UID:10006279-1526931000-1526938200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-05-21/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180519T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180519T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
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SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-05-19/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180517T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180319T043327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T043327Z
UID:10003907-1526585400-1526592600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-17/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180517T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
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SUMMARY:Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner
DESCRIPTION:William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel\, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press featuring the work 10 different critics. In addition to the criticism of Styron there were a number of African-American writers who were encouraged and praised Styron for his work\, most notably James Baldwin. Baldwin predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years. This remains true today. \nThis May\, our Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel\, the Beacon Press anthology\, William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\, as well as the essay Baldwin wrote in defense of Styron. Many profound questions concerning race\, class\, the rendering of historical presentation\, claims on sectors of our shared history\, etc. are raised in the novel and in the anthology. We will discuss as many of these questions as possible including having a careful read of Baldwin’s essay on the work. This class is also part of The MEP noting this being a half-century since the pivotal year of 1968. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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/styrons-confessions-of-nat-turner/2018-05-17/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TurnerRevoltSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180514T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180514T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
UID:10006278-1526326200-1526333400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-05-14/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180512T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180512T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003874-1526122800-1526133600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-05-12/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180510T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180319T043327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T043327Z
UID:10003906-1525980600-1525987800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-10/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180510T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T125001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T125001Z
UID:10006283-1525980600-1525987800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner
DESCRIPTION:William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel\, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press featuring the work 10 different critics. In addition to the criticism of Styron there were a number of African-American writers who were encouraged and praised Styron for his work\, most notably James Baldwin. Baldwin predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years. This remains true today. \nThis May\, our Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel\, the Beacon Press anthology\, William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\, as well as the essay Baldwin wrote in defense of Styron. Many profound questions concerning race\, class\, the rendering of historical presentation\, claims on sectors of our shared history\, etc. are raised in the novel and in the anthology. We will discuss as many of these questions as possible including having a careful read of Baldwin’s essay on the work. This class is also part of The MEP noting this being a half-century since the pivotal year of 1968. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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/styrons-confessions-of-nat-turner/2018-05-10/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TurnerRevoltSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180509T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180509T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180327T131113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T131113Z
UID:10003912-1525894200-1525901400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Archive That Comrade!
DESCRIPTION:Left Memory Politics\, Toxic  Fame  and the Populist Archive\nA talk with author Phil Cohen  \n“Don’t mourn\, organize!” was a favored campaign slogan  of the old Left\, part of a commitment to struggles of long duration against social injustice and a belief in the ultimate triumph of socialism. But with the rise of identity politics\, the importance of memory work\, of recording and celebrating hitherto hidden and  ignored life histories\, has been widely recognized  along with a nostalgic tendency in some quarters to mourn the “world we have lost” where working class culture\, tied to the labor movement\, was a major and progressive political force.  But are the do-it-yourself archival practices of the me-too generation really an effective tool for building a shared sense of culture and community in which feelings of anger and loss can be addressed\, so that grief does not have to be sublimated in grievance? \nBy the same token\, how successful has the New Left been in challenging the multi-media apparatus of fame and celebrity which has come to dominate the politics of public commemoration? How far can the rise of the populist archive\, designed to communicate ‘positive images’ of maligned minorities\, be seen as a response both to the death of the collective hero\, and as a reaction against the competitive individualism promoted by the fame academy? \nIn this talk Phil will address these questions by looking at some recent controversies surrounding public memorials\, monuments and archives in both the UK and USA and by arguing for an alternative democratic politics of the archive.  \nPhil Cohen is a scholar activist who has worked for over 40 years with working class and immigrant communities in the East End of London as they respond to the impact of large scale demographic and socio-economic change linked to globalization and de-industrialization. As an urban ethnographer he is especially interested in how political and cultural values are transmitted between generations—or not. Among his many books are Knuckle Sandwich: Growing Up in the Working Class City (Penguin 1978)\, Re-thinking the Youth Question (Palgrave 1998)\, Reading Room Only: Memoir of a Radical Bibliophile (Five Leaves 2013)\, Graphologies (Mica Press 2015) and Archive That Comrade: Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance (PM Press 2018). Website and blog: www.philcohenworks.com \nTickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/archive-that-comrade/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ArchiveThatFlyerSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180507T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
UID:10006277-1525721400-1525728600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-05-07/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180506T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180506T123000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003862-1525602600-1525609800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\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 today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-05-06/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SlaveRevolt_Caribbean.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180505T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180505T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003873-1525518000-1525528800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-05-05/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180503T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180503T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180319T043327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T043327Z
UID:10003905-1525375800-1525383000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-03/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FinanceMoney_Site.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180503T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180503T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T125001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T125001Z
UID:10006282-1525375800-1525383000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner
DESCRIPTION:William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel\, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press featuring the work 10 different critics. In addition to the criticism of Styron there were a number of African-American writers who were encouraged and praised Styron for his work\, most notably James Baldwin. Baldwin predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years. This remains true today. \nThis May\, our Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel\, the Beacon Press anthology\, William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\, as well as the essay Baldwin wrote in defense of Styron. Many profound questions concerning race\, class\, the rendering of historical presentation\, claims on sectors of our shared history\, etc. are raised in the novel and in the anthology. We will discuss as many of these questions as possible including having a careful read of Baldwin’s essay on the work. This class is also part of The MEP noting this being a half-century since the pivotal year of 1968. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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/styrons-confessions-of-nat-turner/2018-05-03/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TurnerRevoltSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180430T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180430T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180314T042243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T042243Z
UID:10006276-1525116600-1525123800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-04-30/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FightersSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180429T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180429T123000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20171206T020839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171222T064302Z
UID:10003861-1524997800-1525005000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:A People’s History of the World
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Branden Rippey\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 today. We will complete the book during this term\, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history\, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle\, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development. \nBranden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark\, New Jersey\, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus)\, and is active in socialist politics.  \nSliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80\n$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/2018-04-29/
LOCATION:Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ classroom\, Orchard Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SlaveRevolt_Caribbean.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180428T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180428T173000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180226T054908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180404T125031Z
UID:10006268-1524929400-1524936600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Book Peddler’s Walking Tour of Wall Street
DESCRIPTION:The Aaron Burr Society’s Book Peddler’s Walking Tour of Wall Street\nMeet on the steps of Federal Hall\, 26 Wall Street\nDATE CHANGED BECAUSE OF WEATHER \nThe Aaron Burr Society is dedicated to exposing the myths of free markets and free trade\nwhile challenging the integrity of Wall Street and their corporate cronies. \nSelling the book (published by Autonomedia will be available):\nwall street in black & white: fotos & text of an occupier\nfor those of you who cannot attend visit autonomedia.org to purchase Jim’s book \nWalking tour (with book peddling) with Jim Costanzo \nJIM COSTANZO launched the Aaron Burr Society in the summer of 2008 with performances on Wall Street. This was before the Stock Market Crash that created the International Financial Meltdown which in turn was followed by the Great Recession and the return of strong tendencies towards fascism. As part of the walking tour\, Jim will play the People’s Horn and read from his book while commenting on the Common Good & Commonwealth in the context of why Burr killed Alexander Hamilton\, the hidden criminality of Wall Street and the Occupy Wall Street movement. \nFundraiser for The MEP: $10 / $20 / $30 sliding scale
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-peddlers-walking-tour-of-wall-street/
LOCATION:Federal Hall (Corner of Wall and Bond)\, 26 Wall Street\, New York\, NY\, 10005\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/costanzo_WS_BW_Site.jpg
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180428T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180428T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180101T041555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T223445Z
UID:10003872-1524913200-1524924000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital: Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. In this way\, Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1/2018-04-28/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-25-at-2.54.40-PM.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180427T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T060405
CREATED:20180129T053510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T142110Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Noir: Women and Murder
DESCRIPTION:Genre Fiction: Women and Murder \nLast Fridays of each Month\nJacqueline Cantwell\nMarch 30 and April 27 \nThe March 30 author will be Shirley Jackson\, notorious for writing The Lottery and the gothic The Haunting of Hill House. From 1943 until her death in 1965\, she was popular and published by major magazines. Her stories of women’s social unease\, inadequacy\,  and exclusion are the interior dialogues of victims limited by overbearing mothers and local gossips. Jackson also has a wicked wit. Her murderous children belong to the original Grimm’s fairy tales.  \nFor April’s 27th meeting\, we will leave Jackson’s domestic and white world of unhappy women\, murderous children\, and local gossips and return to the American noir setting of social crime by reading Nella Larsen. Unlike the prolific Jackson\, Larsen  published a few short stories and only two novels between 1920 and 1930. We will read her second novel\, Passing. Unlike Jackson’s women\, Larsen’s women are not limited because they are over-sensitive; racism denies them the ability to act upon their ambitions. In Passing\, two mixed-race women\, who had known each other in childhood\, meet as married women who have chosen very different lives. Clare’s black working class background denied her the advantages of the black bourgeoisie\, but her light skin conceals her African-American background sufficiently so that she is able to marry a wealthy and racist white man. Irene has married a black man\, a highly regarded doctor. The tensions that arise from their re-acquaintance end in either a crime\, accident\, or suicide.  \nNella Larsen’s life did not allow her to write much\, but much has been written on her and about her in turgid academic prose. In this reading group\, let’s look upon Nella Larsen as a woman involved in the writing and the issues of her day. She was an acclaimed modernist who wrote about racism\, the major crime of American society.  \nNo one turned away for inability to pay\n$10 per single session \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/friday-noir-women-and-murder/2018-04-27/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-26/
LOCATION:United States
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