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SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation.   \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.  \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181119T193000
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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/2018-11-19/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181117T170000
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SUMMARY:Scientific Materialism I
DESCRIPTION:Antiquity to the 18th Century\nAlex Steinberg\nSix Sessions\n(No session November 24) \nThis series will introduce seminal moments in the search by humans for understanding the natural world. If there is interest\, we will continue in the winter and spring of 2019 considering developments from the Enlightenment to the present day. \nWeeks one and two: Science begins. Ancient speculation on the nature of reality in Greek. Thales\, Heraclitus\, Parmenides\, Zeno\, Pythagoras\, Democritus.  We will also discuss some non-Western traditions in early speculation about the nature of reality \nWeeks three and four: The first scientists and ancient astronomy. Egyptian and Babylonian contributions.  The first Greek scientists: Anaximander\, Aristotle\, Aristarchus\, Euclid\, Ptolemy.\n\nWeeks five and six: Scientific Revolution – Copernicus to Newton\, Descartes\, Diderot and the materialism of the Enlightenment.  \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught Engels and the Dialectics of Nature at the Brecht Forum.  At the Marxist Education Project he has taught Spectres of the Dialectic\,  Nietzsche\, Heidegger\, Fascism and the Left Nietzscheans and Dialectics 101\, along with organizing a discussion of recent events in Greece and special events on The Radicalism of James Joyce.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/scientific-materialism-i/2018-11-17/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181117T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181117T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
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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/2018-11-17/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
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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/2018-11-15/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181115T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
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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-20-2019/2018-11-15/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
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SUMMARY:Degenerate Art and The State
DESCRIPTION:Part Ii: Notes of Discord \nAn 8-week study with Jeramy Turner and Jack Shneidman \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.\n—Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nArt can become an alternative form of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance. We will explore selected pieces of music\, visual art\, and including two exemplary\, radical films: Soleil O (dir. Mel Hondo\, France/Mauritania\, 1967)\, a scathing attack on colonialism and capitalism; and Council of the Gods\, (dir. Kurt Maetzig\, East Germany\, 1950) a fictional film linking Monsanto\, Rockefeller\, and Hitler. Music selections will include works by John Coltrane (1926-1967)\, American jazz saxophonist\, composer\, and civil rights activist; Charles Haden (1938-2014) of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra\, American jazz bassist and composer\, also engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist movements; and Frederic Rzewski (1938-  )\, American composer and pianist\, engaged in anti-prison industrial complex activity\, as well as being an anti-fascist agitator. Among visual art considered will be work by German muralist Werner Tuebke (1929-2004)\, including Peasant Wars panorama; Josep Renau (1907-1982) Spanish Civil War Communist\, with photomontages of great power and beauty; and Edward Keinholz (1927-1994)\, American anti-imperialist\, anti-U.S. sculptor from the 1960s. \nJACK SHNEIDMAN earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase\, and an MA from the City College of New York in music composition and jazz performance\, respectively. He is the author of the instructional book\, 1001 Jazz Licks published by the Cherry Lane Music Company (2000). He has led jazz ensembles in the New York area\, and has also performed in Japan and London. He lectured at LaGuardia Community College for seven years. \nJERAMY TURNER’s primary concern for many years has been the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of countering ruling class hegemony. From 1975-1992\, she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, Shattering Screen. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since. She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell University). Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\,  Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen (Norway)\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state-2/2018-11-14/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T125709Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Energy and Power
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week Study Group with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThroughout the history of capitalism\, energy sources and especially fossil fuels—coal\, oil and natural gas—have been critical to the system’s economic viability. The crises associated with climate change are rooted in capital’s insatiable need to burn fuels in order to accumulate wealth and maximize profits.  Competition and greed for readily extractable energy resources have fueled wars and evoked popular resistance\, especially in the Middle East. This study group will explore the history and political economy of oil\, energy and capitalism. We will read George Caffentzis’s recently published No Blood for Oil! and related work by Michael Klare\, Andreas Malm\, Timothy Mitchell\, and others. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\,  and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.  \nSTEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of MEP eco-socialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist with the DSA and faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on eco-socialism for Marx & Philosophy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-energy-and-power/2018-11-14/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CapitalEnergyPowerSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180819T004938Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation.   \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.  \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-13/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180902T164009Z
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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/2018-11-12/
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:20181110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181110T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T005421Z
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SUMMARY:Scientific Materialism I
DESCRIPTION:Antiquity to the 18th Century\nAlex Steinberg\nSix Sessions\n(No session November 24) \nThis series will introduce seminal moments in the search by humans for understanding the natural world. If there is interest\, we will continue in the winter and spring of 2019 considering developments from the Enlightenment to the present day. \nWeeks one and two: Science begins. Ancient speculation on the nature of reality in Greek. Thales\, Heraclitus\, Parmenides\, Zeno\, Pythagoras\, Democritus.  We will also discuss some non-Western traditions in early speculation about the nature of reality \nWeeks three and four: The first scientists and ancient astronomy. Egyptian and Babylonian contributions.  The first Greek scientists: Anaximander\, Aristotle\, Aristarchus\, Euclid\, Ptolemy.\n\nWeeks five and six: Scientific Revolution – Copernicus to Newton\, Descartes\, Diderot and the materialism of the Enlightenment.  \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught Engels and the Dialectics of Nature at the Brecht Forum.  At the Marxist Education Project he has taught Spectres of the Dialectic\,  Nietzsche\, Heidegger\, Fascism and the Left Nietzscheans and Dialectics 101\, along with organizing a discussion of recent events in Greece and special events on The Radicalism of James Joyce.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/scientific-materialism-i/2018-11-10/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PtolemySite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181110T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180902T165052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T165052Z
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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/2018-11-10/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BookInsidePagesSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180904T040420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T142750Z
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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/2018-11-08/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SergeUnforgiveSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180817T123032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T123032Z
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SUMMARY:Degenerate Art and The State
DESCRIPTION:Part Ii: Notes of Discord \nAn 8-week study with Jeramy Turner and Jack Shneidman \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.\n—Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nArt can become an alternative form of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance. We will explore selected pieces of music\, visual art\, and including two exemplary\, radical films: Soleil O (dir. Mel Hondo\, France/Mauritania\, 1967)\, a scathing attack on colonialism and capitalism; and Council of the Gods\, (dir. Kurt Maetzig\, East Germany\, 1950) a fictional film linking Monsanto\, Rockefeller\, and Hitler. Music selections will include works by John Coltrane (1926-1967)\, American jazz saxophonist\, composer\, and civil rights activist; Charles Haden (1938-2014) of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra\, American jazz bassist and composer\, also engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist movements; and Frederic Rzewski (1938-  )\, American composer and pianist\, engaged in anti-prison industrial complex activity\, as well as being an anti-fascist agitator. Among visual art considered will be work by German muralist Werner Tuebke (1929-2004)\, including Peasant Wars panorama; Josep Renau (1907-1982) Spanish Civil War Communist\, with photomontages of great power and beauty; and Edward Keinholz (1927-1994)\, American anti-imperialist\, anti-U.S. sculptor from the 1960s. \nJACK SHNEIDMAN earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase\, and an MA from the City College of New York in music composition and jazz performance\, respectively. He is the author of the instructional book\, 1001 Jazz Licks published by the Cherry Lane Music Company (2000). He has led jazz ensembles in the New York area\, and has also performed in Japan and London. He lectured at LaGuardia Community College for seven years. \nJERAMY TURNER’s primary concern for many years has been the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of countering ruling class hegemony. From 1975-1992\, she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, Shattering Screen. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since. She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell University). Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\,  Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen (Norway)\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state-2/2018-11-07/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MuralForDegenArtSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180806T125709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T125709Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Energy and Power
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week Study Group with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThroughout the history of capitalism\, energy sources and especially fossil fuels—coal\, oil and natural gas—have been critical to the system’s economic viability. The crises associated with climate change are rooted in capital’s insatiable need to burn fuels in order to accumulate wealth and maximize profits.  Competition and greed for readily extractable energy resources have fueled wars and evoked popular resistance\, especially in the Middle East. This study group will explore the history and political economy of oil\, energy and capitalism. We will read George Caffentzis’s recently published No Blood for Oil! and related work by Michael Klare\, Andreas Malm\, Timothy Mitchell\, and others. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\,  and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.  \nSTEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of MEP eco-socialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist with the DSA and faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on eco-socialism for Marx & Philosophy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-energy-and-power/2018-11-07/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CapitalEnergyPowerSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180819T004938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation.   \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.  \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-06/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180820T031704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z
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SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital?  \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today?      \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all.  \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-11-06/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181105T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181105T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180902T164009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T164009Z
UID:10006358-1541446200-1541453400@marxedproject.org
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/2018-11-05/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NewLeftSectionA_Site.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180927T005421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T005421Z
UID:10003954-1541257200-1541264400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Scientific Materialism I
DESCRIPTION:Antiquity to the 18th Century\nAlex Steinberg\nSix Sessions\n(No session November 24) \nThis series will introduce seminal moments in the search by humans for understanding the natural world. If there is interest\, we will continue in the winter and spring of 2019 considering developments from the Enlightenment to the present day. \nWeeks one and two: Science begins. Ancient speculation on the nature of reality in Greek. Thales\, Heraclitus\, Parmenides\, Zeno\, Pythagoras\, Democritus.  We will also discuss some non-Western traditions in early speculation about the nature of reality \nWeeks three and four: The first scientists and ancient astronomy. Egyptian and Babylonian contributions.  The first Greek scientists: Anaximander\, Aristotle\, Aristarchus\, Euclid\, Ptolemy.\n\nWeeks five and six: Scientific Revolution – Copernicus to Newton\, Descartes\, Diderot and the materialism of the Enlightenment.  \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught Engels and the Dialectics of Nature at the Brecht Forum.  At the Marxist Education Project he has taught Spectres of the Dialectic\,  Nietzsche\, Heidegger\, Fascism and the Left Nietzscheans and Dialectics 101\, along with organizing a discussion of recent events in Greece and special events on The Radicalism of James Joyce.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/scientific-materialism-i/2018-11-03/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PtolemySite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181103T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181103T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180902T165052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T165052Z
UID:10006371-1541242800-1541253600@marxedproject.org
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/2018-11-03/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BookInsidePagesSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180904T040420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T142750Z
UID:10006383-1541098800-1541106000@marxedproject.org
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/2018-11-01/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SergeUnforgiveSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181031T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181031T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180817T123032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T123032Z
UID:10006317-1541008800-1541016000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Degenerate Art and The State
DESCRIPTION:Part Ii: Notes of Discord \nAn 8-week study with Jeramy Turner and Jack Shneidman \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.\n—Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nArt can become an alternative form of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance. We will explore selected pieces of music\, visual art\, and including two exemplary\, radical films: Soleil O (dir. Mel Hondo\, France/Mauritania\, 1967)\, a scathing attack on colonialism and capitalism; and Council of the Gods\, (dir. Kurt Maetzig\, East Germany\, 1950) a fictional film linking Monsanto\, Rockefeller\, and Hitler. Music selections will include works by John Coltrane (1926-1967)\, American jazz saxophonist\, composer\, and civil rights activist; Charles Haden (1938-2014) of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra\, American jazz bassist and composer\, also engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist movements; and Frederic Rzewski (1938-  )\, American composer and pianist\, engaged in anti-prison industrial complex activity\, as well as being an anti-fascist agitator. Among visual art considered will be work by German muralist Werner Tuebke (1929-2004)\, including Peasant Wars panorama; Josep Renau (1907-1982) Spanish Civil War Communist\, with photomontages of great power and beauty; and Edward Keinholz (1927-1994)\, American anti-imperialist\, anti-U.S. sculptor from the 1960s. \nJACK SHNEIDMAN earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase\, and an MA from the City College of New York in music composition and jazz performance\, respectively. He is the author of the instructional book\, 1001 Jazz Licks published by the Cherry Lane Music Company (2000). He has led jazz ensembles in the New York area\, and has also performed in Japan and London. He lectured at LaGuardia Community College for seven years. \nJERAMY TURNER’s primary concern for many years has been the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of countering ruling class hegemony. From 1975-1992\, she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, Shattering Screen. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since. She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell University). Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\,  Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen (Norway)\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state-2/2018-10-31/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MuralForDegenArtSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181031T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181031T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180806T125709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180806T125709Z
UID:10006307-1541008800-1541014200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Energy and Power
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week Study Group with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nThroughout the history of capitalism\, energy sources and especially fossil fuels—coal\, oil and natural gas—have been critical to the system’s economic viability. The crises associated with climate change are rooted in capital’s insatiable need to burn fuels in order to accumulate wealth and maximize profits.  Competition and greed for readily extractable energy resources have fueled wars and evoked popular resistance\, especially in the Middle East. This study group will explore the history and political economy of oil\, energy and capitalism. We will read George Caffentzis’s recently published No Blood for Oil! and related work by Michael Klare\, Andreas Malm\, Timothy Mitchell\, and others. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\,  and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.  \nSTEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of MEP eco-socialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist with the DSA and faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on eco-socialism for Marx & Philosophy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-energy-and-power/2018-10-31/
LOCATION:United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CapitalEnergyPowerSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205932
CREATED:20180819T004938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only
DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation.   \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.  \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-30/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T200000
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SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital?  \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today?      \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all.  \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-30/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181029T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181029T213000
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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/2018-10-29/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181027T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181027T170000
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SUMMARY:Scientific Materialism I
DESCRIPTION:Antiquity to the 18th Century\nAlex Steinberg\nSix Sessions\n(No session November 24) \nThis series will introduce seminal moments in the search by humans for understanding the natural world. If there is interest\, we will continue in the winter and spring of 2019 considering developments from the Enlightenment to the present day. \nWeeks one and two: Science begins. Ancient speculation on the nature of reality in Greek. Thales\, Heraclitus\, Parmenides\, Zeno\, Pythagoras\, Democritus.  We will also discuss some non-Western traditions in early speculation about the nature of reality \nWeeks three and four: The first scientists and ancient astronomy. Egyptian and Babylonian contributions.  The first Greek scientists: Anaximander\, Aristotle\, Aristarchus\, Euclid\, Ptolemy.\n\nWeeks five and six: Scientific Revolution – Copernicus to Newton\, Descartes\, Diderot and the materialism of the Enlightenment.  \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught Engels and the Dialectics of Nature at the Brecht Forum.  At the Marxist Education Project he has taught Spectres of the Dialectic\,  Nietzsche\, Heidegger\, Fascism and the Left Nietzscheans and Dialectics 101\, along with organizing a discussion of recent events in Greece and special events on The Radicalism of James Joyce.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/scientific-materialism-i/2018-10-27/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181027T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181027T140000
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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/2018-10-27/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181025T210000
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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/2018-10-25/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181024T200000
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SUMMARY:Degenerate Art and The State
DESCRIPTION:Part Ii: Notes of Discord \nAn 8-week study with Jeramy Turner and Jack Shneidman \nIt is not our fellow artist who is the enemy\, but those who have made art the booty of exploitation\, and who use it as a deodorant for war and fascism.\n—Arnold Blanch\, First American Artists Congress\, 1936 \nArt can become an alternative form of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance. We will explore selected pieces of music\, visual art\, and including two exemplary\, radical films: Soleil O (dir. Mel Hondo\, France/Mauritania\, 1967)\, a scathing attack on colonialism and capitalism; and Council of the Gods\, (dir. Kurt Maetzig\, East Germany\, 1950) a fictional film linking Monsanto\, Rockefeller\, and Hitler. Music selections will include works by John Coltrane (1926-1967)\, American jazz saxophonist\, composer\, and civil rights activist; Charles Haden (1938-2014) of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra\, American jazz bassist and composer\, also engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist movements; and Frederic Rzewski (1938-  )\, American composer and pianist\, engaged in anti-prison industrial complex activity\, as well as being an anti-fascist agitator. Among visual art considered will be work by German muralist Werner Tuebke (1929-2004)\, including Peasant Wars panorama; Josep Renau (1907-1982) Spanish Civil War Communist\, with photomontages of great power and beauty; and Edward Keinholz (1927-1994)\, American anti-imperialist\, anti-U.S. sculptor from the 1960s. \nJACK SHNEIDMAN earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase\, and an MA from the City College of New York in music composition and jazz performance\, respectively. He is the author of the instructional book\, 1001 Jazz Licks published by the Cherry Lane Music Company (2000). He has led jazz ensembles in the New York area\, and has also performed in Japan and London. He lectured at LaGuardia Community College for seven years. \nJERAMY TURNER’s primary concern for many years has been the appropriation of visual art and film for the purpose of countering ruling class hegemony. From 1975-1992\, she directed alternative movie theaters in Chicago and Minneapolis\, and edited the cinema journal\, Shattering Screen. In 1986 she taught herself oil painting so as to visually depict the vulnerability of capitalism\, and has been painting in this mode ever since. She established the radical feminist art collective\, Sister Serpents in 1989\, which Jesse Helmes decried as a “hate group” against unborn children. She has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US (Chicago\, Boulder\, Jersey City\, Cornell University). Her work has been exhibited in London\, Berlin\, Vienna\,  Stockholm\, Hamburg\, Bergen (Norway)\, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. She lives in Brooklyn and Aigen\, Austria. Her paintings can be seen at www.jeramyturner.com.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/degenerate-art-and-the-state-2/2018-10-24/
LOCATION:United States
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