BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20200823T210138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203438Z UID:10006801-1607022000-1607029200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \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 rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-12-03/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2ndSiteWomenAgainst.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201205T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201022T153520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201230T022431Z UID:10006807-1607166000-1607173200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Considerations on Bolshevism Before Stalinism DESCRIPTION:Worker’s Control and Trade Union Independence\, Freedom of The Press\, Repression and Socialist Legality\nwith The MEP’s Revolutions Study Group\n \nThis group has been organized around the reading of Samuel Farber’s Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy\, (Verso\, 1990) that critically looks at the Bolshevik rise to power\, their attitude towards the soviets\, ideas on bourgeois and proletarian democracy\, factory committees and worker control of production. There will also be readings from a wide variety of writes (some very critical of Farber) such as David Mandol\, Eric Marot\, Alexander Rabinowitch\, Paul LeBlanc\, Lars Lih\, Kevin Murphy\, Steve Smith\, and if time\, participant contemporaries to the Russian Revoution such as Victor Serge. On January 9 we begin examining from Chapter 2 of Farber’s book. The book is organized and written in such a fashion that there is no problem joining the group for the reading and discussion from that point forward. \nWhile considering questions such as: Were the Bolsheviks inherently authoritarian? What was ‘democratic centralism’? Is the Bolshevik type organization necessary for revolutionary change? What exactly was the role of the Bolsheviks in the revolution? What were the Soviets? How did the soviets come into being? Did soviets represent a higher form of democracy? What was the attitude of the Bolsheviks towards them? Should the left today strive towards building similar institutions? What was dual power? What does worker control of production mean? We are now meeting for 10 to 12 more sessions. All should feel free to join. \n10 to 12 Sessions: January 9 through at least March 13. Admissions are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write info@marxedproject.org for the zoom link and you will receive within 24 hours. Books are available from Verso. Those who prefer a new copy of the book please write to info@marxedproject.org for a discount code from Verso. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/considerations-on-bolshevism-before-stalinism/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Bolshevism,Class,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Social Democracy,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bolsheviks_1921_Site.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201205T140000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201023T163335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T163335Z UID:10006808-1607169600-1607176800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Origins of Geopolitical Economy in Marx’s Remarks on Carey and Bastiat DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Radhika Desai\nCo-sponsored with GERG ( The Geopolitical Economy Research Group)\nIn recent years\, geopolitical economy has become a term for the properly historical-materialist analysis of international affairs that can successfully comprehend the evolution of the capitalist world order down to the contemporary age of multi-polarity by placing the nation-state as centrally in the analysis of capitalism as class. This interpretation is embedded in Karl Marx’s thinking\, though not fully developed there. Perhaps its clearest expression can be found in his fragmentary comments on the “Yankee” mercantilist economist\, Henry Carey\, in the final pages of the Grundrisse. In this lecture\, I reflect on how geopolitical economy emerges from Marx’s ideas\, specifically his comments in the section on Bastiat and Carey\, though related points and comments pervade Marx’s writings. \nRADHIKA DESAI is professor at the Department of Political Studies\, and Director\, Geopolitical Economy Research Group\, University of Manitoba\, Winnipeg\, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony\, Globalization and Empire (2013)\, Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed\, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: “Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994)\, a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month\, and editor or co-editor of Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century\, Revolutions (2020)\, Russia\, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism\, an issue of International ‘Critical Thought (2016)\, Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015)\, Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015)\, Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today’s Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). Currently she is working on several books: The Coming Crash of the Dollar Creditorcracy (with Michael Hudson)\, Marx as a Monetary Theorist and The Making of the Indian Capitalist Class. \n  \nAll lectures are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org if you cannot afford to pay so that you can have the link for entry to the lecture and discussion. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-origins-of-geopolitical-economy-in-marxs-remarks-on-carey-and-bastiat/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Intro to Marxism,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/BastiatCareySocialMedia.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201205T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201205T173000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20200907T165815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203202Z UID:10006140-1607182200-1607189400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1 DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nCapital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nBook I: The Process of Production of Capital\nTHE NEW PRICING IS FOR THE REMAINING FOUR CLASSES. \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental process that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Our concepts about what constitutes the economy\, the state\, politics\, the individual\, class\, and our relation to nature are filtered through the lens of the dominant ideology and the realities of the everyday life where buying and selling is the norm and vehicle by which we must adapt in order to survive. This is simply how the world works. The notion that a market economy based on money making more money is a natural state of affairs and is good for society as a whole is generally accepted—including by members of the working class. This has been especially so in the U.S.\, in spite of the fact that they must each individually sell their capacity to work to a particular capitalist in order to acquire their means of subsistence or face homelessness\, destitution or criminality. \nMarx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, our first task will be to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form. This begins the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nIf you are joining this class after November 1\, you can write to info@marxedproject.org and request the PDFs for this Capital\, Vol. 1 class. There will be two more Volume 1 classes following this with the goal being to finish all of Volume One by mid-June. \nMARY BOGER\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of The MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \n  \nAll tickets are sliding scale. As there have already been several sessions there is a fee reduction reflected on the site. No one denied participation for inability to pay. Email to info@marxedproject.org for the link to these sessions. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-3/2020-12-05/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AssemblyLibros3jpg.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201207T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201207T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20200802T052040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T021457Z UID:10006780-1607365800-1607373000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Blood and Money DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-12-07/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006792-1607452200-1607459400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-12-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201017T005258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203323Z UID:10006152-1607454000-1607461200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:3 Event Pass: 5th Edition DESCRIPTION:Admission to all three of these events: \n1. Trotsky in Tijuana with Dan La Botz\, Tuesday\, December 8 \n2. A People’s Guide to Capitalism with Hadas Thier\, Sunday\, December 13 \n3. The Last Years of Karl Marx with Marcello Musto\, Andy Merrifield and Robert Ware\, Sunday\, December 20 \nSliding scale admissions to attending all four events at a discount! Regular pricing sliding scale pricing would be $21\, $27\, $33. \nInformation for these events is available on this same site where you are seeing this offer. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. Information on getting the links for these events is available at marxedproject.org URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-event-pass/2020-12-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ThreeEvent.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201018T131737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201018T131737Z UID:10006153-1607454000-1607461200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Trotsky in Tijuana: A new novel by Dan La Botz DESCRIPTION:Dan La Botz in conversation with Alan Wald and Suzi Weissman\nWho was the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky? What did he believe and do? What was his legacy? Dan La Botz’s new novel. Trotsky in Tijuana\, examines these questions in fiction. The novel’s premise is that Trotsky was not assassinated in August 1940 but survived and was relocated to Tijuana where he lived on until 1953 dying on the same day as his rival and political opponent Joseph Stalin. We learn of Trotsky’s past and watch him live on into a future he never knew\, dealing with new political situations\, with a new lover\, with his wife\, and with his old friend Victor Serge\, being called to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy. You can learn more about the book by clicking this link trotskyintijuana.com and browsing the site. \nDAN LA BOTZ formerly taught at the School of Labor and Urban Studies of the City University of New York. In the 1970s\, he was a founding member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). From 1994 to 2014\, he was the editor and principal writer of Mexican Labor News and Analysis\, a publication supported by the United Electrical Workers Union (UE)\, a U.S. union\, and the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT)\, a Mexican labor union. He is a member of both Solidarity and the Democratic Socialists of America and a co-editor of New Politics (newpol.org). In 2010\, he was the Socialist Party candidate in Ohio for the U.S. Senate. He is the author of a dozen books on labor\, social movements\, and politics in the United States\, Mexico\, and Nicaragua\, most recently the non-fiction books are What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis and Le nouveau populisme Américain Résistances et alternatives à Trump. \n ALAN WALD\, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan\, is a cultural historian of the United States Left from the 1930s to the1950s. He most recently authored a trilogy about Communism and writers from the University of North Carolina Press: Exiles from a Future Time\, Trinity of Passion\, and American Night. His book The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s has become a classic of literary and cultural studies. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity and an editor of the journals Against the Current and Science & Society. \n SUZI WEISSMAN is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California and an editor of Critique and Against the Current. Her books include Victor Serge: A Political Biography\, and she is currently Co-Producer of the Lindy Laub and David Weiss film about Trotsky\, The Most Dangerous Man in the World. She broadcasts the weekly public affairs program Beneath the Surface with Suzi Weissman on KPFK\, and the Jacobin Radio podcast. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trotsky-in-tijuana-a-new-novel-by-dan-la-botz/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tijiuana_1940WithCoverSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201210T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20200823T210138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T203438Z UID:10006802-1607626800-1607634000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \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 rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-12-10/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2ndSiteWomenAgainst.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201116T152744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T152744Z UID:10006819-1607864400-1607871600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Opening presentation: A People’s Guide to Capitalism DESCRIPTION:with Hadas Thier \nA lively\, accessible\, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath\, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, growing numbers of us are questioning why this system of reproducing ourselves has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for the environmental destruction inherent that capital accumulation requires. Hadas Thier’s book offers answers to the many questions in the form of a radical economic theory\, as in the subtitle of the book\, “An Introduction to Marxist Economics”. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/opening-presentation-a-peoples-guide-to-capitalism/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PeoplesGuideSocialMedia.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201208T003620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201216T051152Z UID:10006838-1607864400-1607871600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Two Events Special: A People’s Guide to Capitalism and The Last Years of Karl Marx DESCRIPTION:Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\nSunday\, December 13\, 1-3 pm \nMarcello Musto’s The Last Years of Karl Marx\nwith Andy Merrifield and Robert Ware\nSunday\, December 20\, 1-3 pm \nSpecial sliding scale pricing below \n  \nNo one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject for codes to gain entry to these on-line presentations. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/two-events-special/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2EventThierMusto.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201220T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201220T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201130T055642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201130T055642Z UID:10006836-1608469200-1608476400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Last Years of Karl Marx DESCRIPTION:with Author Marcello Musto\nJoined in discussion with Andy Merrifield and Robert Ware\nAn innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.\nIn the last years of his life\, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries\, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies\, supporting the populist movement in Russia\, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883\, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx’s life\, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life\, and that he was a rEurocentric and economistic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. \nWith The Last Years of Karl Marx\, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx\, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings\, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism\, his ideas on non-Western societies\, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts\, notebooks\, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. As Marx currently experiences a significant rediscovery\, this volume fills a gap in the popularly accepted biography and suggests an innovative reassessment of some of his key concepts. \nMARCELLO MUSTO is Professor of Sociology at York University\, Toronto. His most recent books are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and\, as editor\, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020) and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation (2020). ANDY MERRIFIELD writes in Monthly Review\, New Left Review\, The Guardian\, Jacobin\, and more. He has authored many books\, most recently Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times. ROBERT WARE is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Calgary and co-editor (with Kai Nielsen) of Analyzing Marxism (1989) and most recently the author of Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals (2019). \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to gain access to this panel presentation if you cannot pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-years-of-karl-marx/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BookCoverPrintQuality.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201230T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201230T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201218T061930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201219T011433Z UID:10006852-1609351200-1609362000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:MEP Open House: Eve of New Year's Eve with The Red Microphone and more DESCRIPTION:Goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 \nThe MEP will host a 3 hour open house via zoom. There will be 2 sets of music by The Red Microphone \nAt least 2 sets (one at 6:30 the other at 8:00) \nEssential Music provided by The Red Microphone \nThe Red Microphone’s music is based in improvisation and incorporates melodies of Hanns Eisler\, Charles Mingus and originals as well as revolutionary anthem “L’Internationale” infused with poetry repertoire including Pietaro’s original verse as well as that of masters Langston Hughes\, Amiri and Amina Baraka\, John Reed\, Kenneth Fearing\, Woody Guthrie\, Walter Lowenfels as well as Brecht and others. The quartet also came together in an expanded form as the septet Whispers to record And I Became of the Dark\, to be released on ESP-Disk in 2021. The quartet is: John Pietaro\, writer\, spoken word artist\, percussionist and cultural organizer. Rocco John Iacovone\, saxophonist\, composer\, and educator. Ras Moshe Burnett\, saxophonist\, flutist and musical adventurer\, has been a perennial of NYC’s free jazz circle since the 1980s. He leads ensembles under the Music Now! banner. Laurie Towers\, electric bassist\, publicist\, business owner and healthcare professional hosts andproduces feminist podcast She’s Raising the Bar. Towers is currently writing Xx-centric Behavior: Women Defying Stereotypical Gravity. LaurieTowers.net \nRe-Inventing Love: Brief Segments\nA work is inspired by the writing of philosopher Alain Badiou.\nDance Selections Choreographed by Marija Krtolica in collaboration with the performers\npsychoanalyst Julie Fotheringham\ndancer\, artist and chef Michael Mangieri\n“Re-Inventing Love” looks at  the relationships during the time of a socio-economic crisis. The focus is on how the desire for connection appears within alienated urban landscapes. The work comments on the contemporary dating scene with reference to the philosophical concept of love\, and depictions of love scenes in the arts. \nMakina will come to explain the significance of soupe jamou in the centuries of resistance in Haiti \nMiryam Yatoco will read from Quecha poems she has translated into English \nwith much more and all of you… URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mep-open-house-eve-of-new-years-eve-with-the-red-microphone-and-more/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/OpenZoomHouse-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T003000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T233000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20200924T055234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210123T032405Z UID:10006146-1609720200-1609803000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:4 Month Pass: DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and May 31\, 2021. We are hosting many new series including a new literature class\, MAD Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War  beginning on January 14\, a continuation of Capital\, Volume 1 class\, a repeat of the popular Blood and Money\, Considerations on Bolshevism before Stalinism\, a reading and discussion group of Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\, a multi-session series covering the Socialist Register 2021 annual\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\, and  the 4 new events related to the Pluto Press Fireworks Series which begins on January 23 with Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar on Pandemic Solidarity\, the first book to be presented. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through May 21. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. You can also attend the new series sponsored by Palsgrave on Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms along with Rowan and Littlefield’s new Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series of events. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/until-mid-winter-pass-now-through-january-31-2021/ LOCATION:All Venues CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Capital_Rivera2ForSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210118T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210118T200000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201118T180700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210117T182446Z UID:10006835-1610992800-1611000000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx Dead and Alive: two more sessions DESCRIPTION:In Marx\, Dead and Alive—a book that begins and ends beside Marx’s recently violated London graveside—Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinating examples of literature and history\, from Shakespeare and Beckett\, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers\, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective—and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who we once were—and who we might become. \nSix Session Reading and Discussion with the Capital Studies Group through February 1\, 2021. \nAll pricing is sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to the 5-week discussion group. \nThe book can be purchased at the same time saving some dollars for those who purchase both Andy’s book and come to the seven sessions of reading through Marx Dead and Alive. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/presentation-by-andy-merrifield-4-week-class-special-combined-pricing/2021-01-18/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/marxSignInBritishMuseum.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201229T220210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210109T171826Z UID:10006853-1611399600-1611406800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author Sam Farber\nBefore Stalinism is a historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. Sam Farber has assembled and synthesized a wealth of historical material so as to assess the extent to which the disappearance of Soviet democracy was due to objective circumstances such as the Civil War and how much of the magnitude of this was the result of Bolshevik politics and ideology. There will be a presentation on the book as well as plenty of time for attendees to pose questions on this important work\, published by Verso Books. \nSAM FARBER was born and raised in Marianao\, Cuba\, coming to the United States in February 1958. He was active in the Cuban high school student movement against Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s\, and has been involved in socialist politics for nearly 60 years\, authoring numerous studieson Cuba before and after the Revolution\, along with Before Stalinism. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the code to the event if you are unable to contribute at this time. \nNOTA BENE: This event which originates in New York City\,  begins at 11:00 am US Eastern Standard Time (New York City) which is 4:00 pm GMT. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/before-stalinism-the-rise-and-fall-of-soviet-democracy/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Bolshevism,Class and Gender,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SamFarber_SocMedImage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210123T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210123T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20210112T154428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065023Z UID:10006873-1611406800-1611414000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marina Sitrin on Pandemic Solidarity with Colectiva Sembrar DESCRIPTION:Pandemic Solidarity:\nMutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis\nedited by Marina Sitrin with Colectiva Sembrar\nMarina Sitrin (editor) joins key contributors Eleanor Finley and Lais Gomes Duarte (Colectiva Sembrar) to speak on activist solidarity\, horizontalism and autonomy expressed through the constitution of this riveting collection of real-life stories. Chaired by FireWorks series editor — Anitra Nelson (MSSI\, University of Melbourne\, Australia). Collective \nPandemic Solidarity collects first-hand experiences of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. In times of crisis institutions of power are laid bare and people turn to one another. Underneath the media’s narrative of selfish individualism and runs on supermarkets\, we find an opposing story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions\, including India\, Rojava\, Taiwan\, South Africa\, Iraq and North America\, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture\, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present\, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like\, and reflect the existing skills and relationships to create it\, challenging institutions of power in all their fragility. \nThis ticket is for admission to the event along with the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-solidarity-book-talk-special/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Pandemics and Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SitrinFireworksBannerEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210125T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210125T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201109T161432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z UID:10006809-1611579600-1611586800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Blood and Money DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-01-25/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201117T182334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T044129Z UID:10006825-1612020600-1612027800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Part 2 DESCRIPTION:Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nVolume I: The Process of Production of Capital\nSecond 12 Week Session Covering Chapter 4 thru Chapter 15\nwith Mary Boger \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental processes that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life and what we produce have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Marx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, in Session I\, our first task was to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form\, the beginning of the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nSession 2 will complete the analysis of Part I: Commodities and Money\, starting with Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange followed by the historical development of the money form in the circulation of commodities. This in turn leads to the Transformation of Money into Capital\, positioning the reader to analyze the specific social relations of capitalist production (wage labor and owners of capital) in relation to the forces of production\, the means of production. The analysis also enables us to understand the developmental processes that underlie the societal transformations that continuously occur as capital necessarily seeks to expand and accumulate more and more capital–increasing world populations as the employed part of the working class constantly grows while a relative surplus population thrown out of production grows even faster due to the ever increasing productivity of labor; along with constant introduction of new technologies–ever transforming our relation to nature\, each other and the how\, what for whom production takes place. \nNEW STUDENTS: (Please Note) Part I of Volume I lays out the fundamental laws of capitalist development and its internal contradictions. It is necessary to fully understand all that follows as Marx explicates the dynamics particular to the historical process that we are engaged in reproducing in our everyday life\, where the logic of re-production is based on money making more money. The First 12 Week Session covers Part I and has been recorded. It is available to be viewed through the MEP’s Vimeo. Upon registering\, these sessions will be made available and I recommend listening to as much as possible\, especially where Chapter 1 begins in in the fourth class. \nMary Boger\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of the MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout these four and half decades. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to participate but cannot afford the stated fees or any fee at all\, please write to info@marxedproject.org for information on how to participate. \nThe photo above is from when many of the workers of Torino\, Italy occupied their factories during 1919-1920. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-part-2/2021-01-30/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SummerLit2016_ForSite.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210131T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210131T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201116T154253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T001609Z UID:10006820-1612090800-1612098000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:A People’s Guide to Capitalism DESCRIPTION:A multi-week class conducted with Sam Salour\nA lively\, accessible\, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath\, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of the mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. The multi-week class will feature a close reading and discussion of the entire book with explication and references to additional materials related to this study. If you would prefer to order the class and Hadas Thier’s book at the same time you are receiving the book at less than half price. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for reduced rates or the links for attending if you are unable to pay. \nSAM SALOUR is a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Santa Barbara. He works on Marxist theory\, revolution\, and social change. Over the past few years he has conducted study groups on Marx’s Grundrisse\, the three volumes of Capital and more at The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-guide-to-capitalism/2021-01-31/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PeoplesGuideCoverPrint.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210131T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210131T160000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20210112T162700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065228Z UID:10006164-1612099800-1612108800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2021: Ursula Huws on Reaping the Whirlwind DESCRIPTION:First session of Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nAn introduction to this year’s book with Greg Albo & Stephen Maher (in memory of Leo Panitch)\n“In addressing how far digital technology has become integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades the 21st century\, we were deliberately seeking to counter so much facile futurist ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking that has proliferated through these decades. The proof of capitalism’s continued dynamism\, even in the face of severe global economic crisis\, lay in the most successful and most celebrated high-tech corporations of the new information sector which really were restructuring and refashioning not only our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Yet precisely because this was taking place within the logics of capitalist accumulation and exploitation\, and through the reproduction of capitalist social relations\, this produced new contradictions and irrationalities. Perhaps none of these was greater than those revealed by the contrast between the investment\, planning\, and preparation that went into the interminable competitive race for ‘more speed’ by way of reducing latency in digital communications by so many milliseconds\, on the one hand\, and on the other the lack of investment\, planning\, and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic around the world.” —From the Preface by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo \nfollowed by\nReaping the Whirlwind: Digitalization\, Restructuring\, and Mobilization in the Covid Crisis\nUrsula Huws\nUrsula Huws’ essay addresses the changes sweeping through global labor markets during the coronavirus pandemic\, looking in particular at the concentration of capital and expansion of market share by global corporations\, bringing with it the digital management of supply chains and an exponential growth in algorithmic control and surveillance of workers. Pandemic lockdown conditions have exposed very clearly the polarizations in the workforce between ‘fixed’ workers\, physically isolated in their homes but closely monitored via their computers\, working virtually\, and the precariously employed mobile (‘footloose’) workers\, disproportionately made up of black and migrant workers\, equally closely monitored\, who deliver the physical goods and services the home-bound need to survive and care for their bodily needs when they become sick\, at great personal risk. \nGREG ALBO teaches in the Department of Politics at York University. He is co-editor of the Socialist Register. Greg is also on the editorial boards of Capitalism\, Nature\, Socialism\, The Bullet and Historical Materialism. URSULA HUWS\, Professor of Labor and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire. She has been researching the social impacts of technological change\, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labor since the 1970s. Ursula will visit The MEP again on February 21\, to discuss her current book\, Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies (Pluto FireWorks\, 2020). STEVE MAHER is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa\, Canada\, and Assistant Editor of Socialist Register. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2021-an-introduction-and-reaping-the-whirlwind/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OpeningSession.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210201T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210201T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201109T161432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z UID:10006810-1612184400-1612191600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Blood and Money DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-01/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210206T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210206T173000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201117T182334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T044129Z UID:10006826-1612625400-1612632600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Part 2 DESCRIPTION:Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nVolume I: The Process of Production of Capital\nSecond 12 Week Session Covering Chapter 4 thru Chapter 15\nwith Mary Boger \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental processes that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life and what we produce have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Marx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, in Session I\, our first task was to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form\, the beginning of the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nSession 2 will complete the analysis of Part I: Commodities and Money\, starting with Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange followed by the historical development of the money form in the circulation of commodities. This in turn leads to the Transformation of Money into Capital\, positioning the reader to analyze the specific social relations of capitalist production (wage labor and owners of capital) in relation to the forces of production\, the means of production. The analysis also enables us to understand the developmental processes that underlie the societal transformations that continuously occur as capital necessarily seeks to expand and accumulate more and more capital–increasing world populations as the employed part of the working class constantly grows while a relative surplus population thrown out of production grows even faster due to the ever increasing productivity of labor; along with constant introduction of new technologies–ever transforming our relation to nature\, each other and the how\, what for whom production takes place. \nNEW STUDENTS: (Please Note) Part I of Volume I lays out the fundamental laws of capitalist development and its internal contradictions. It is necessary to fully understand all that follows as Marx explicates the dynamics particular to the historical process that we are engaged in reproducing in our everyday life\, where the logic of re-production is based on money making more money. The First 12 Week Session covers Part I and has been recorded. It is available to be viewed through the MEP’s Vimeo. Upon registering\, these sessions will be made available and I recommend listening to as much as possible\, especially where Chapter 1 begins in in the fourth class. \nMary Boger\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of the MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout these four and half decades. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to participate but cannot afford the stated fees or any fee at all\, please write to info@marxedproject.org for information on how to participate. \nThe photo above is from when many of the workers of Torino\, Italy occupied their factories during 1919-1920. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-part-2/2021-02-06/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SummerLit2016_ForSite.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210207T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201116T154253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T001609Z UID:10006821-1612695600-1612702800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:A People’s Guide to Capitalism DESCRIPTION:A multi-week class conducted with Sam Salour\nA lively\, accessible\, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath\, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of the mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. The multi-week class will feature a close reading and discussion of the entire book with explication and references to additional materials related to this study. If you would prefer to order the class and Hadas Thier’s book at the same time you are receiving the book at less than half price. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for reduced rates or the links for attending if you are unable to pay. \nSAM SALOUR is a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Santa Barbara. He works on Marxist theory\, revolution\, and social change. Over the past few years he has conducted study groups on Marx’s Grundrisse\, the three volumes of Capital and more at The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-guide-to-capitalism/2021-02-07/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PeoplesGuideCoverPrint.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210207T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210207T160000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20210112T153025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210207T194607Z UID:10006872-1612706400-1612713600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Anitra Nelson and Vincent Liegey: Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide DESCRIPTION:Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide\nVincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson\nSpokesperson for the degrowth movement Vincent Liegey (Budapest\, Hungary) and degrowth advocate Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne\, Australia) talk on the politics\, challenges\, strategies and visions of the burgeoning degrowth movement\, starting in France to spread worldwide. Chaired by Pluto’s FireWorks Series editor\, Gargi Bhattacharyya. \nAs a sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism and the Left\, the degrowth movement burst into the mainstream. In short\, as growth driven climate catastrophe looms\, degrowth is a political response based on changing how we live. Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide counters obsessions with growth to demand a slowing of our economies\, reorientation around provision of basic needs for all\, supported by political autonomy and cultures of living within Earth’s limits. \nAs the authors discuss the practices and strategies of the movement\, identifying its strengths and weaknesses\, they examine ‘frugal abundance’\, horizontal democracy\, ‘open relocalisation’\, conviviality and reduced paid work to argue why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nFor an extra discount this ticket includes admission to the presentation\, the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/exploring-degrowth-book-talk-special/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/NelsoDegrowthFireWorksBannerEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210208T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210208T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201109T161432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z UID:10006811-1612789200-1612796400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Blood and Money DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210209T200000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20210116T221716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T234321Z UID:10006168-1612893600-1612900800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Time of Our Lives with Bryan Palmer DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism series\nThe Time of Our Lives: Reflections on Work and Capitalist Temporality\nwith author Bryan D. Palmer\n For socialists time and its meaning and organization have always been a central concern\, if only because capitalism has placed such a premium on controlling time and subordinating it to its imperatives. At the current conjuncture\, time has become the challenge for socialists to address\, not only because it defines what does and does not constitute the working day\, but because it is increasingly obvious that time and its organization defines life itself. Will time continue to be compressed into capital’s needs\, or will it be reimagined as liberation\, struggled through and over in ways that enhance the project of human emancipation? \nWhat follows presents an argument about time that: 1) outlines how class struggles over time have been essential to the rise of the workers’ movement; 2) explores the complexity of Marx’s understandings of these conflicts and their tendency to be incorporated into capital’s project\, resulting in the intensification of exploitation; 3) locates E.P. Thompson’s writing on time and work discipline within the particular concerns and context of the 1960s New Left\, offering a suggestion of how this treatment of time extended orthodox Marxist understandings of primitive accumulation; and 4) closes by discussing how time and its meanings in twenty-first century capitalism demand a rethinking of positions\, espoused by Andre Gorz and others in the 1980s\, that associated the need for new policies around time with dismissals of the role of the working class in social transformation. Time\, always a frontier of class struggle\, has been pushed today to the forefront of contentious labor-capital relations. \nBryan D. Palmer is Emeritus Professor of History at Trent University\, Ontario\, Canada. He is also the author of Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 and co-author of Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History. \n  \nThis presentation will begin at 11 PM and end at 1 AM GMT. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to attend the event but are unable to contribute at this time\, please write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this talk or other events or classes you would like to participate in. \n  \nFor those of you unable to buy a ticket\nGo to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-time-of-our-lives-reflections-on-work-and-capitalist-temporality-tickets-138905308517 \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/having-the-time-of-their-lives/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SR2021_TimeOfLivesSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210211T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201214T175355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210312T210306Z UID:10006839-1613070000-1613077200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:M.A.D. Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War DESCRIPTION:The year 1953 was like most of the years following the end of the slaughter of World War II. It was another year of the baby boom that filled maternity wards in the United States\, a generation that ironically couldn’t wait to leave these suburbs. The Cold War was well under way\, and anti-communism in the U.S. was at its peak. Politicians pontificated that it was “better to be dead than Red.” In the East and the West\, the military apparatus stockpiled nuclear weapons capable of ending life on this planet thousands of times over — Mutually Assured Destruction. \nWe began this reading group with Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” followed by a shared reading of Allen Ginsburg’s Howl\, and have nowcompleted our discussion of Ring Lardner\, Jr.’s The Ecstasy of Owen Muir. We have just started The Public Burning by Robert Coover\, after which we will read and discuss Richard Wright’s The Outsider. Coover’s novel is a political economy of the US as the hegemon of Post World War II capital global restructuring and the shift of much production to energy\, the military and finance and the attempted thorough destruction of any semblance of a left opposition. \nWhat can we learn from these literary renderings and how do they help us understand the perilous period in history that we now find ourselves living? \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 rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on migration\,border politics and labor organizing and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism\, and this summer will the group will host a 5th consecutive Noir Summer. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/m-a-d-lit-101-american-fiction-and-the-cold-war/2021-02-11/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:American Literature,Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MutualAssuredScreenSmallest.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210212T190000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20201230T225318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210404T134716Z UID:10006854-1613149200-1613156400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Engels and the Dialectics of Nature DESCRIPTION:Considerations in a Universe of Quarks and Black Holes\nA 9 session class and discussion with Alex Steinberg\nThis class will journey into quantum physics and 21st-century cosmology as background for a study of dialectics in natural science and philosophy. Readings include Engels’ Dialectics of Nature and excerpts from other philosophers and scientists writing since Engels. (The syllabus is below). We will explore themes from that classic text that are relevant for contemporary scientific thinking. Among questions we propose to address: Does quantum theory force us to abandon determinism? Did time exist before the Big Bang? Are the laws of nature eternal? Is there one universe or are there multiple parallel universes? What does it mean to call oneself a “materialist” when scientists use terms like “dark matter”? The goal of the class is a deep appreciation of dialectical thinking and how it helps us understand the real worlds in which we live and struggle. \nALEX STEINBERG is an independent scholar. He has has taught courses in the the philosophies of Marx\, Hegel\, Heidegger\, and Nietzsche at alternative educational institutions such as New Space for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education\, the Brecht Forum\, Marxist Education Project\, and more. He has published papers on questions of philosophy and the natural sciences\, including on Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History\, and has presented at Left Forum\, Historical Materialism Conference\, and the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. \n  \nall classes and events are sliding scale. We do not deny admission anyone who does not have the ability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for a link code to be able to participate. \n  \nSyllabus (week by week): Class 1: Dialectics – Fundamental features and its place in the history of philosophy\, Class 2: Engels and the Dialectics of Nature\, Class 3: The dialectical revolution in the Life Sciences. Class 4. The paradox of Schrodinger’s cat: The positivist solution of the Copenhagen interpretation. Class 5. The Many Worlds interpretation: From positivism to magical realism. Class 6. Resurgence of realism and dialectics in the work of the Marxist physicist David Bohm. Class 7. A brief survey of the conceptual revolution of relativity theory. Class 8. The Big Bang and the origin of the Universe. Class 9. The discovery of black holes and gravitational waves. Class 10. A Universe\, a Multi-verse\, Cyclical Universes and Cosmological Natural Selection \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/engels-and-the-dialectics-of-nature/2021-02-12/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MasslessWeylFermion.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210213T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210213T153000 DTSTAMP:20260421T171618 CREATED:20210120T041519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T013109Z UID:10006176-1613223000-1613230200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Heterodox Socialism: Michael Brie\, Jean-Numa Ducange\, Kieran Durkin DESCRIPTION:  \npresentations and discussion with MICHAEL BRIE\, JEAN-NUMA DUCANGE and KIERAN DURKIN \nThis presentation taking place in New York City at 1:30 to 3:30 PM is taking place at 6:30 to 9:30 PM (GMT) \nOn the basis of new publications of her Polish works and more\, in Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary Marxist at the Limits of Marxism\, Luxemburg’s strategic approaches are located in an Eastern European context. Michael Brie will present on how the authors discuss Luxemburg’s unique analyses of the first experiments in socialist participation in government\, of the first Russian revolution and of the forms of accumulation of capital to outline the foundations of her novel understanding of both democratic-socialist revolution and of a society that would point beyond social democracy as well as Bolshevism – a vision that will gain new significance in the twenty first century. \nJules Guesde represents the first book-length study of the French socialist leader translated into the English language. Jean-Numa Ducange’s scholarly biography of Guesde seeks to put his record on proper historical footing\, closely analysing both archival sources and accounts by his contemporaries. The book begins with his early life and the mark left on him by the Paris Commune and exile. The book concludes with an examination of Guesde’s contested legacy. \nRaya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism brings to life her writings on state capitalism (part of her socio-economic critique of Stalinism\, fascism\, and the welfare state)\, to her writings on Rosa Luxemburg\, Black and women’s liberation\, and labor\, we are offered indispensable resources for navigating the perils of sexism\, racism\, capitalism\, and authoritarianism. This collection of essays\, from a diverse group of writers\, brings to life Dunayevskaya’s important contributions. Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism is recovered for the twenty-first century and turned\, as it was with Dunayevskaya herself\, to face the multiple alienations and de-humanizations of social life. \nMICHAEL BRIE is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin\, Germany. Recent books include Rediscovering Lenin: Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination (2019) and Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker of Our Times (2017). \nJEAN-NUMA DUCANGE is Professor at Rouen University and member of Institut Universitaire de France. He is the co-director of the French journal Actuel Marx (PUF) and Austriaca (PURH)\, and one of the best scholars about the history of socialism (France\, Germany\, Austria). \nKIERAN DURKIN is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at University of York\, UK and has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California Santa Barbara\, where he studied the Humanist Marxist tradition. He is author of The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm (2014) and Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory (co-edited with Joan Braune\, 2020). \n \nThis is the Part One in a three part winter spring series on Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms\, a large collection of important works by Marxists from all over the world. \nMarx\, Engels\, Marxisms: The Marx renaissance is underway on a global scale. Wherever the critique of capitalism re-emerges\, there is an intellectual and political demand for new\, critical engagements with Marxism. MARX\, ENGELS\, AND MARXISMS (edited by Marcello Musto & Terrell Carver\, with Babak Amini\, Francesca Antonini\, Paula Rauhala & Kohei Saito as Assistant Editors) is a peer-reviewed series. It is broad — comprised of monographs\, edited volumes\, critical editions\, reprints of old texts\, as well as translations of books already published in other languages. These volumes come from a wide range of political perspectives\, subject matters\, academic disciplines and geographical areas\, producing an eclectic and informative collection that appeals to a diverse and international audience. Main areas of focus include: the oeuvre of Marx and Engels\, Marxist authors and traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries\, labor and social movements\, Marxist analyses of contemporary issues\, and the reception of Marxism in the world. \nfor information on the entire series: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14812 \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for an inability to pay. If you are unable to make a contribution at this time\, simply write to info@marxedprojet.org to obtain the URL of the code to give you access to this or any other event or class. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/heterodox-socialism-michael-brie-jean-numa-ducange-kieran-durkin/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Klee_BalloonDetailLowRez.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR