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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume One
DESCRIPTION:with Capital Studies Group \nClass & Discussion (12 week session) \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\, Marx’s Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-one/2018-12-08/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Power of the Healthcare Wedge
DESCRIPTION:Medicare for All and Working Class Consciousness\nWith Jenny Brown\, Mark Dudzic and Christie Offenbacher\nat The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)\, NYC \nThe working class of the United States — all those still working and all those of the class discarded\, disenfranchised and deemed redundant by the capitalists — is suffering a multitude of nightmares and insecurity because the basic human right to complete healthcare is denied. Our bodies and minds have long been deemed territory to mine for profit seeking by capitalists including the health and hospital corporations\, pharmaceuticals\, insurance companies\, financiers\, and numerous other sectors. \nAs necessary services required by women continue to be taken away\, and deaths by opioids and suicide\, including children\, grow larger every year\, the bourgeoisie’s life expectancy extends while that of millions of working Americans declines. And now we are at a point in the US where some capitalists have laid claim to owning the DNA sequences of individuals. \nBringing together lab workers\, doctors\, physicians assistants\, maintenance staff at hospitals\, those who construct our places of treatment and recovery\, mental\, dental and visual health workers with the class at large\, and left movement organizations — all of whom have real interests in taking on this fight — could break the lock-hold American capital has ideologically\, legislatively\, and juridically\, and begin to open the way for further empowerment against the barbarous interests of these ruling neo-liberal capitalists. To accomplish this requires a national movement that can step up and unify us into a grand struggle. We of the MEP are just a small organization; it is the issue that is grand. We are committed to do our part through our programs to encourage dialogue\, discussion and debate\, and learning from each other and history\, towards advancing the struggle for universal health care and movement building in the US. \nFollowing presentations by Christie\, Jenny and Mark\, we can address some of the many questions facing our movement including: \n\nWhat are the principal opportunities and threats facing the Medicare for All movement at this time?\nHow does our understanding of these opportunities and threats inform our work in our unions\, communities and in society at large to help us realize our organizing priorities towards broadening this movement?\n\nAbout the Speakers: \nJENNY BROWN is a women’s liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work\, forthcoming from PM Press in March. She writes\, teaches\, and organizes with the dues-funded feminist group National Women’s Liberation (womensliberation.org). \nMARK DUDZIC has a long history in the labor movement. He has had jobs such as sanitation worker near Buffalo\, NY\, cannery worker in Alaska and warehouse worker and taxi driver in NYC\, eventually graduation from CUNY in 1982. He became the National Organizer of the Labor Party after the death of Tony Mazzocchi in 2002. He is currently the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare. \nCHRISTIE OFFENBACHER is a clinical social worker and therapist in Brooklyn. She serves on the political education committee in her branch of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America\, and as a Regional Coordinator with DSA’s national Medicare for All campaign. \n  \nSuggested donation: $6 / $10 / $15 / sliding scale  *  No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/power-of-the-healthcare-wedge-december-9-at-the-peoples-forum/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:1968 and After
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutionary Aspirations of the New Left\nRevolutions Study Group  \nFifty years ago\, the political-military blocs of the Cold War had ossified\, social democracy and labor unions in the West were tamed\, and struggles for change in Eastern Europe and Latin America seemed to have been controlled by combinations of sticks and carrots. Then\,  in the year 1968\, in France\, Italy\, the United States\, Czechoslovakia\, Mexico\, etc. there were immense uprisings against the status quo. This fall\, we will study this watershed period (1968-1974) considering the achievements and failures of the Left in the 1960s. We will read Chris Harman’s The Fire Last Time (2nd revised ed. 1998)\, linking the events of 1968 and what carried these events forward.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/1968-and-after/2018-12-10/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181213T210000
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SUMMARY:“A Screaming Comes Across The Sky…”
DESCRIPTION:2 Novels of World War II: Unforgiving Years and Gravity’s Rainbow\nThe sessions title can apply to sections of both works \nFirst 5 Thursdays\nSeptember 27 – October 25\nVictor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\nThese five sessions will be conducted with the guidance of Richard Greeman \n“ Unforgiving Years…has now at last been translated into electric English by the indefatigable Richard Greeman…It’s a seething\, hallucinatory novel…” —Harper’s  \n“I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth. There have of course been many scrupulously honest writers. But for Serge the value of the truth extended far beyond the simple (or complex) telling of it.” –John Berger \nFrom Richard Greeman’s Introduction to Unforgiving Years: Unforgiving Years is divided into four sections\, four symphonic “movements\,” each of which evokes its distinctive time and place through its tone and atmosphere. The first movement\, entitled “The Secret Agent\,” expresses the sinister unreality of a Paris indifferent to the approach of war in a chill minor key. The second\, “The Flame Beneath the Snow\,” is discordant\, heroic\, and secret like one of Shostakovich’s wartime symphonies. It portrays a frozen\, starving Leningrad during the “thousand days” of the Nazi siege. The third movement\, “Brigitte\, Lightning\, Lilacs\,” imagines the final days of Berlin under Allied bombardment in a mode of Wagnerian Gotterdammerung\, while the final movement\, “Journey’s End\,” is a tragic requiem set in the stark\, volcanic Mexican selva where death and life repeat their endless cycle.\nCopyright © 1971 by The Victor Serge Foundation \nThe remaining 7 Thursdays\nThomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\nThursday\, November 1 through Thursday\, December 20 (no session on Thursday\, November 22)\nwith The MEP Lit Group\n \nGravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic\, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling\, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. \n“No\, it is not unreadable. For most of its 700-plus pages it’s so crazily\, scarily\, sumptuously readable that you hate to put it aside even as the last paragraph thunders down on your head. The unsummarizable plot centers\, to the extent that it centers at all\, on Tyrone Slothrop\, an American who comes to the attention of British intelligence during World War II when a map indicating the locales of his sexual encounters with London women shows that they correspond with the places struck by German V-2 missiles. Can his erections predict the random distribution of agents of death? From there we proceed into a massive continent-wide effort to construct a V-2\, which is itself an occasion for a fantastic multitude of meditations upon the human need to build systems of intellectual order even as we use the same powers of intellect to hasten our destruction. (Did we mention that this is also a comedy\, more or less?) Among American writers of the second half of the 20th century\, Pynchon is the undisputed candidate for lasting literary greatness. This book is why.”  —Richard Pourier \nTwo works that demand our attention. Registration is open now..  \nRICHARD GREEMAN has led discussions of Balzac\, Stendahl\, Peter Weiss and especially Victor Serge with The MEP and Brecht Forum since 2012. He currently convenes the group Another World Is Possible with Fred Murphy and others. He is a scholar of the life of Victor Serge and is the translator of much of Serge’s works. \nThe MEP LIT GROUP has been meeting discussing literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group has recently completeda second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels relatedto World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky/2018-12-13/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181215T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass: September 15\, 2018 through January 20\, 2019
DESCRIPTION:Recent feature!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $150\, $200\, or $250 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 more ($200\, $250 or $300) bring a guest as often and you would like to the classes and events from now through January 12\, 2019. With payment a pdf voucher will be sent that you can present to an of the venues where activities will take place.\nThere are a number of new classes and events in the works including walking tours\, film showings and classes at The Brooklyn Commons and 2 new classes at The People’s Forum at 320 West 37th Street\, including Juliet Ucelli’s Introduction to Marxism for Women Only. Aaron Leonard and Mat Callahan will appear with DJ Denis O’Neill at The People’s Forum on October 17 for sounds\, talks\, and discussion of Music\, Rebellion and Repression. Capital Volume 1 continues on Saturdays along with the EcoSocialist studies taking on Capital\, Energy and Power. Richard Greeman returns to complete his Serge cycle of novels\, taking us on an intimate tour of Serge’s final novel Unforgiving Years beginning September 27. There is much more as you can see if you are on the site. \nThe way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from September 2018 through January 20\, 2019.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-month-pass-september-15-2018-through-january-20-2019/2018-12-15/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181215T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume One
DESCRIPTION:with Capital Studies Group \nClass & Discussion (12 week session) \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\, Marx’s Capital offers the reader a methodology for doing our own analysis of current developments. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-one/2018-12-15/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181217T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181217T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
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SUMMARY:1968 and After
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutionary Aspirations of the New Left\nRevolutions Study Group  \nFifty years ago\, the political-military blocs of the Cold War had ossified\, social democracy and labor unions in the West were tamed\, and struggles for change in Eastern Europe and Latin America seemed to have been controlled by combinations of sticks and carrots. Then\,  in the year 1968\, in France\, Italy\, the United States\, Czechoslovakia\, Mexico\, etc. there were immense uprisings against the status quo. This fall\, we will study this watershed period (1968-1974) considering the achievements and failures of the Left in the 1960s. We will read Chris Harman’s The Fire Last Time (2nd revised ed. 1998)\, linking the events of 1968 and what carried these events forward.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/1968-and-after/2018-12-17/
LOCATION:United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181220T210000
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SUMMARY:“A Screaming Comes Across The Sky…”
DESCRIPTION:2 Novels of World War II: Unforgiving Years and Gravity’s Rainbow\nThe sessions title can apply to sections of both works \nFirst 5 Thursdays\nSeptember 27 – October 25\nVictor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\nThese five sessions will be conducted with the guidance of Richard Greeman \n“ Unforgiving Years…has now at last been translated into electric English by the indefatigable Richard Greeman…It’s a seething\, hallucinatory novel…” —Harper’s  \n“I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth. There have of course been many scrupulously honest writers. But for Serge the value of the truth extended far beyond the simple (or complex) telling of it.” –John Berger \nFrom Richard Greeman’s Introduction to Unforgiving Years: Unforgiving Years is divided into four sections\, four symphonic “movements\,” each of which evokes its distinctive time and place through its tone and atmosphere. The first movement\, entitled “The Secret Agent\,” expresses the sinister unreality of a Paris indifferent to the approach of war in a chill minor key. The second\, “The Flame Beneath the Snow\,” is discordant\, heroic\, and secret like one of Shostakovich’s wartime symphonies. It portrays a frozen\, starving Leningrad during the “thousand days” of the Nazi siege. The third movement\, “Brigitte\, Lightning\, Lilacs\,” imagines the final days of Berlin under Allied bombardment in a mode of Wagnerian Gotterdammerung\, while the final movement\, “Journey’s End\,” is a tragic requiem set in the stark\, volcanic Mexican selva where death and life repeat their endless cycle.\nCopyright © 1971 by The Victor Serge Foundation \nThe remaining 7 Thursdays\nThomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\nThursday\, November 1 through Thursday\, December 20 (no session on Thursday\, November 22)\nwith The MEP Lit Group\n \nGravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic\, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling\, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. \n“No\, it is not unreadable. For most of its 700-plus pages it’s so crazily\, scarily\, sumptuously readable that you hate to put it aside even as the last paragraph thunders down on your head. The unsummarizable plot centers\, to the extent that it centers at all\, on Tyrone Slothrop\, an American who comes to the attention of British intelligence during World War II when a map indicating the locales of his sexual encounters with London women shows that they correspond with the places struck by German V-2 missiles. Can his erections predict the random distribution of agents of death? From there we proceed into a massive continent-wide effort to construct a V-2\, which is itself an occasion for a fantastic multitude of meditations upon the human need to build systems of intellectual order even as we use the same powers of intellect to hasten our destruction. (Did we mention that this is also a comedy\, more or less?) Among American writers of the second half of the 20th century\, Pynchon is the undisputed candidate for lasting literary greatness. This book is why.”  —Richard Pourier \nTwo works that demand our attention. Registration is open now..  \nRICHARD GREEMAN has led discussions of Balzac\, Stendahl\, Peter Weiss and especially Victor Serge with The MEP and Brecht Forum since 2012. He currently convenes the group Another World Is Possible with Fred Murphy and others. He is a scholar of the life of Victor Serge and is the translator of much of Serge’s works. \nThe MEP LIT GROUP has been meeting discussing literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project. The group has recently completeda second summer of readings of noir\, considering works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels relatedto World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s and more.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky/2018-12-20/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190124T193000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences ... and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences … and Beyond\nThe Ecosocialism Group convened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \n8 Sessions \nThe Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group — now completing its third year — devotes the winter 2019 term to Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi’s Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Join us for a close reading of this new work\, which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity\, production and social reproduction\, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals. Such “boundary struggles” can help us better grasp capitalism’s contradictions and elaborate strategies for moving beyond it. Supplementary readings will be drawn from related work by David Harvey\, Silvia Federici\, and others. \n  \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental groups.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-causes-conditions-consequences-and-beyond/2019-01-24/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190124T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190124T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-01-24/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190125T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
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SUMMARY:Dread Poetry and Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Dread Poetry and Freedom:\nLinton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution \nDavid Austin\nwith an introduction by Lewis Gordon \nWhat is the relationship between poetry and social change? \nStanding at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s\, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism\, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’. For Johnson\, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series\, writing has always been ‘a political act’ and poetry ‘a cultural weapon’. \nIn Dread Poetry and Freedom — the first book dedicated to the work of this ‘political poet par excellence’ – David Austin explores the themes of poetry\, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible\, reggae and Rastafari\, and surrealism\, socialism and feminism\, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon\, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney\, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika\, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study. \nIn the process\, Austin demonstrates why art\, and particularly poetry\, is a vital part of our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread. \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \nLewis Gordon teaches in the United States and in South Africa\, where he is the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of Politics and International Studies\, and in Toulouse\, France\, where he holds the European Union Visiting Chair in philosophy. His recent book What Fanon Said has become a primary source on understanding the work of Fanon. He is known not only for his writings on Frantz Fanon\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Steve Bantu Biko\, and many others\, but also his work in philosophy\, politics\, and varieties of thought in the global south. \nTickets are sliding scale / No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/dread-poetry-and-freedom/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190127T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T055805Z
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SUMMARY:Weekend Special Pass: Austin\, Gordon\, Marx
DESCRIPTION:For a special price of $10 you can attend all three weekend activities of January 25\, 26 and 27. \na. Friday\, January 25\, 7 to 9:30 pm at The Peoples Forum: Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution\nauthor David Austin\nwith an introduction by Lewis Gordon \nIn Dread Poetry and Freedom — the first book dedicated to the work of this ‘political poet par excellence’ – David Austin explores the themes of poetry\, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible\, reggae and Rastafari\, and surrealism\, socialism and feminism\, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon\, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney\, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika\, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study. \nb. Saturday\, January 26\, 12 noon to 3 pm at Unnameable Books\, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue\, Brooklyn\, Capital\, Volume 1 with the 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. \nc. Sunday\, January 27\, 1 to 3:30 pm at The Peoples Forum: Moving Against the System:The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\nWith author and editor David Austin \n  \nThis is a special one ticket price of $10 which is admission to two events and one class. Both Friday and Sunday at The Peoples Forum\, Saturday class at Unnameable Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/weekend-special-pass-austin-gordon-marx/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190127T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181214T143338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181214T143338Z
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SUMMARY:Moving Against the System
DESCRIPTION:Moving Against the System:\nThe 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\nWith editor and author David Austin \nIn 1968\, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam\, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their Black brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968\, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era. \nAgainst a backdrop of widespread racism in the West\, and colonialism and imperialism in the ‘Third World’\, this group of activists\, writers and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power. \nWith never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael\, Walter Rodney and C.L.R. James\, these documents will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought\, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968. \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \n  \nTickets are sliding scale / No one is turned away for inability to pay \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/moving-against-the-system/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181218T045246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181218T160333Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences ... and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences … and Beyond\nThe Ecosocialism Group convened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \n8 Sessions \nThe Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group — now completing its third year — devotes the winter 2019 term to Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi’s Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Join us for a close reading of this new work\, which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity\, production and social reproduction\, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals. Such “boundary struggles” can help us better grasp capitalism’s contradictions and elaborate strategies for moving beyond it. Supplementary readings will be drawn from related work by David Harvey\, Silvia Federici\, and others. \n  \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental groups.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-causes-conditions-consequences-and-beyond/2019-01-31/
LOCATION:United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-01-31/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190111T053528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140647Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1
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. We will conclude Volume One this term and begin our first 12-week session on Volume Two on Saturday\, April 27. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-2/2019-02-02/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181222T164750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T165306Z
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SUMMARY:The Last Dance Meets The Last Repast
DESCRIPTION:The Politics of the Unconscious: HYSTERIA\, SURREALISM\, & AVANT-GARDE DANCE\nOur Guide: Marija Krtolica\nWinter 2019 Version\nPresentation with discussion\nThe talk examines the historico-political relationships between: the psychiatric transformation of madness into mental illness\, the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious\, the surrealist anti-psychiatric art\, and dance-theater’s embodied expression stripped of narrative development. Hysteria as one of the most theatrical of mental illnesses\, presents a point of departure for a discussion of the ways in which since modernism the artists resisted psychiatric diagnosis based on a reductive reading of symptoms. The talk will place the artistic explorations from modernism and post-modernism in a dialogue with the ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis. \nPerformance: Theorizing Symptomatic Expression\nGroup movement improvisation:  Hystero-Grotesque Mode\nIntermission \nA surreal meal à la Dalí will be served \nTheorizing Symptomatic Expression \n“The jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion.\nThe sensual intelligence housed in the tabernacle of my palate\nbeckons me to pay greatest attention to food.\nI only like to eat what has a clear and intelligible form.”\n—Salvador Dali\, Gastro Esthetics \n“The spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which\nthe commodity completes the colonization of social life.”\n—Guy Debord\, Society of the Spectacle \nMARIJA KRTOLICA (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, PhD\, Dance\,Temple University). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit\, the University of Arts\, Belgrade\, and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-dance-meets-the-last-repast/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190109T164958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140844Z
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SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Black Reconstruction: An American Revolutionary Period\nwith the Revolutions Study Group \n13-week session \nSome have called the U.S. Civil War the “second American revolution” or the completion of the first American revolution. Others claim that the war of independence and Civil War were not revolutions\, but had tremendous revolutionary potential. By whichever historical claim\, the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935)\, W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states. DuBois is concerned to refute the multiple slanders imputed to “Reconstruction” during the counter-revolutionary “Jim Crow” period that followed and to record the real advancements of democracy and social reform made under Reconstruction and partly lost when it was defeated. We will read DuBois’ Black Reconstruction (Oxford University Press\, 2007) in whole\, and for more recent research\, the middle part of Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South (Harvard University Press\, 2003). Both books are readily available new and used\, as e-books\, and in libraries. Email to info@marxedproject.org for a reading syllabus. \n \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting for 10 years. 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\, the German revolutionary period of 1918-1924\, and the Chinese revolutionary process of the 20th Century. \nThe listed fees are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. \n  \nTONIGHT\, FEBRUARY 11 ONLY: The class will meet at The Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue. A or G trains to Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop is a short walk from this venue.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction/2019-02-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T191500
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190112T034008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z
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SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World?
DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \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. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-07/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181218T045246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181218T160333Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences ... and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences … and Beyond\nThe Ecosocialism Group convened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \n8 Sessions \nThe Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group — now completing its third year — devotes the winter 2019 term to Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi’s Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Join us for a close reading of this new work\, which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity\, production and social reproduction\, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals. Such “boundary struggles” can help us better grasp capitalism’s contradictions and elaborate strategies for moving beyond it. Supplementary readings will be drawn from related work by David Harvey\, Silvia Federici\, and others. \n  \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental groups.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-causes-conditions-consequences-and-beyond/2019-02-07/
LOCATION:United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
UID:10006410-1549567800-1549575000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-02-07/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190209T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190111T053528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140647Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1
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. We will conclude Volume One this term and begin our first 12-week session on Volume Two on Saturday\, April 27. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-2/2019-02-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190109T164958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140844Z
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SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Black Reconstruction: An American Revolutionary Period\nwith the Revolutions Study Group \n13-week session \nSome have called the U.S. Civil War the “second American revolution” or the completion of the first American revolution. Others claim that the war of independence and Civil War were not revolutions\, but had tremendous revolutionary potential. By whichever historical claim\, the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935)\, W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states. DuBois is concerned to refute the multiple slanders imputed to “Reconstruction” during the counter-revolutionary “Jim Crow” period that followed and to record the real advancements of democracy and social reform made under Reconstruction and partly lost when it was defeated. We will read DuBois’ Black Reconstruction (Oxford University Press\, 2007) in whole\, and for more recent research\, the middle part of Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South (Harvard University Press\, 2003). Both books are readily available new and used\, as e-books\, and in libraries. Email to info@marxedproject.org for a reading syllabus. \n \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting for 10 years. 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\, the German revolutionary period of 1918-1924\, and the Chinese revolutionary process of the 20th Century. \nThe listed fees are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. \n  \nTONIGHT\, FEBRUARY 11 ONLY: The class will meet at The Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue. A or G trains to Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop is a short walk from this venue.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction/2019-02-11/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190112T034008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z
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SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World?
DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \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. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-11/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190214T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190214T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181218T045246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181218T160333Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences ... and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism: Causes\, Conditions\, Consequences … and Beyond\nThe Ecosocialism Group convened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \n8 Sessions \nThe Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group — now completing its third year — devotes the winter 2019 term to Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi’s Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Join us for a close reading of this new work\, which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity\, production and social reproduction\, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals. Such “boundary struggles” can help us better grasp capitalism’s contradictions and elaborate strategies for moving beyond it. Supplementary readings will be drawn from related work by David Harvey\, Silvia Federici\, and others. \n  \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental groups.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-causes-conditions-consequences-and-beyond/2019-02-14/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190214T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-02-14/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190216T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194509
CREATED:20190111T053528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140647Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1
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. We will conclude Volume One this term and begin our first 12-week session on Volume Two on Saturday\, April 27. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-2/2019-02-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CapitalAccumulationSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194510
CREATED:20190109T164958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140844Z
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SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Black Reconstruction: An American Revolutionary Period\nwith the Revolutions Study Group \n13-week session \nSome have called the U.S. Civil War the “second American revolution” or the completion of the first American revolution. Others claim that the war of independence and Civil War were not revolutions\, but had tremendous revolutionary potential. By whichever historical claim\, the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935)\, W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states. DuBois is concerned to refute the multiple slanders imputed to “Reconstruction” during the counter-revolutionary “Jim Crow” period that followed and to record the real advancements of democracy and social reform made under Reconstruction and partly lost when it was defeated. We will read DuBois’ Black Reconstruction (Oxford University Press\, 2007) in whole\, and for more recent research\, the middle part of Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South (Harvard University Press\, 2003). Both books are readily available new and used\, as e-books\, and in libraries. Email to info@marxedproject.org for a reading syllabus. \n \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting for 10 years. 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\, the German revolutionary period of 1918-1924\, and the Chinese revolutionary process of the 20th Century. \nThe listed fees are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. \n  \nTONIGHT\, FEBRUARY 11 ONLY: The class will meet at The Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue. A or G trains to Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop is a short walk from this venue.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction/2019-02-18/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194510
CREATED:20190112T034008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z
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SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World?
DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \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. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-18/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CanWorkingClassSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190220T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194510
CREATED:20190108T043707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T152959Z
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SUMMARY:Punk Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The Global Punk Rock Revolution\nwith author Ray Patton\nIn March 1977\, Johnny Rotten Lydon of the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey\, militarized landscape of East Berlin. He then went up to the wall and gave it the finger. He didn’t know it at the time\, but the Sex Pistols’ reputation had preceded his gesture\, as young people in the Second World busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after\, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw’s nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England\, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert\, which brought together 100\,000 First World UK punks and Third World Caribbean immigrants who contributed their cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War’s worlds. \nThe first global narrative of punk\, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War\, blurring the boundaries between East and West\, North and South\, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. Raymond Patton studies the relationship between popular culture\, aesthetics\, identity\, and politics in the modern world\, with an emphasis on reexamining the relationship between the “first\,” “second\,” and “third” worlds of the Cold War era. As a History professor\, he has taught on a wide range of subject matter\, including World History\, Fascism and Nazi Germany\, East European and Soviet history\, Music and Resistance\, The Meaning of Life\, and Global Foundations: Consumerism. He has also played sax in a 3rd wave ska punk band. He currently serves as Director of Educational Partnerships and General Education at John Jay College\, CUNY.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/punk-crisis/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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