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SUMMARY:The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties Since the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:with author Giorgos Charalambous\nIs today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved?\nGiorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change – the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a ‘new left’\, drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous examines the ‘Long ’68’\, symbolized by the May uprisings in France\, which saw the rise of new left forces and the widespread criticism by younger radical activists of traditional communist and socialist parties. He puts this side by side with the turn of the millennium when the Global Justice Movement rose to prominence and changed the face of the international left\, and also the period after the financial crash of 2008 and the rise of anti-austerity politics which initiated the most recent wave of new left parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. \nWith a unique ‘two-level’ perspective\, Charalambous approaches the left through both social movements and party politics\, looking at identities\, rhetoric and organization\, and bringing a fresh new approach to radical history\, as well as assessing challenges for both activists and scholars. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nGiorgos Charalambous is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance\, University of Nicosia. He is also the co-convenor of the Left Radicalism Specialist Group at the Political Studies Association. Charalambous is the author of European Integration and the Communist Dilemma (Ashgate\, 2013)\, and has co-edited Party-Society Relations in Cyprus (Routledge\, 2016) and Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (Routledge\, 2019).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-european-radical-left-movements-and-parties-since-the-1960s-2/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Italian history,Left Populism,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Insurrecto with author Gina Apostol in conversation with Patricia McManus
DESCRIPTION:“Of course\, as opposed to the colonizer\, the world of the colonized is visibly and thus irreparably multiple – because included in the world of the colonized is the world of the colonizer.”. —How Do We Know the Things That Make Us?\, An essay from Gina Apostol \nGina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a harrowing depiction of the nearly 125-year history of U.S. intervention\, occupation\, and domination in the Philippines. Through a compelling historical\, cultural\, post-modernist journey\, the author recounts the U.S. hold on the Philippines\, as told by Magsalin\, a Filipina translator and screenwriter\, and Chiara\, an American filmmaker. The U.S.-made merry-go-round of dictators has circled around Manila and the 7\,000-plus islands of the Philippines since the 1901 massacre at Balangiga—the slaughter of more than 2\,500 Filipinos in retaliation for 40 American soldiers killed in a raid by local national liberationists. When President Theodore Roosevelt issued a command to pacify the Philippines after the raid was reported to him\, the local U.S. general issued the following command:  “I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn\, the better it will please me… The interior of Samar must be made a howling wilderness.” From that point on he was known as “Howling Wilderness” Smith. Insurrecto spans the decades from the moment of the massacre to the current Duterte regime\, with much between—a fractured story of torture and misrepresentation over many years of U.S. and western hegemony. \nPlease join Gina Apostol and  Patricia McManus for an evening of discovery as they discuss the inspiration\, writing\, and more of this astonishing novel (published by Soho Press). \nGINA APOSTOL’s third book\, Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, won the2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels\, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria\, Italy\, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, Gettysburg Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban\, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City. \nPATRICIA McMANUS is a Senior Lecturer\, School of Humanities at University of Brighton. She is the founder of the Dystopia Project. Her research interests are the novel—in particular the problems involved in understanding genre as a productive force in literary history—and Marxism as a methodology for utopianism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/insurrecto/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,American Literature,Anti-fascism,Asia,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-16/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation: A discussion with Marcello Musto and Michael Hardt
DESCRIPTION:“The realm of freedom really begins only where labor determined by necessity and external expediency ends; it lies by its very nature beyond the sphere of material production proper. Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his needs\, to maintain and reproduce his life\, so must civilized man\, and he must do so in all forms of society and under all possible modes of production. This realm of natural necessity expands with his development\, because his needs do too; but the productive forces to satisfy these expand at the same time. Freedom\, in this sphere\, can consist only in this\, that socialized man\, the associated producers\, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way\, bringing it under their collective control instead of being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature. But this always remains a realm of necessity. The true realm of freedom\, the development of human powers as an end in itself\, begins beyond it\, though it can only flourish with this realm of necessity as its basis. The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite.” —Karl Marx\, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume Three \nThe postcapitalist system of production\, together with scientific–technological progress and a consequent reduction of the working day\, creates the possibility for a new social formation in which the coercive\, alienated labor imposed by capital and subject to its laws is gradually replaced with conscious\, creative activity beyond the yoke of necessity\, and in which complete social relations take the place of random\, undifferentiated exchange dictated by the laws of commodities and money. It is no longer the realm of freedom for capital but the realm of genuine human freedom.\n—Marcello Musto\, Introduction to Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation \nMarcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto\, Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury\, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford\, 2020). Among his edited books there are Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury\, 2014); Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism\, (Routledge\, 2019); and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge\, 2020). His writings are available at  www.marcellomusto.org and have been published in 25 languages. \nMICHAEL HARDT is a professor of Literature at Duke University\, and a political philosopher whose writings explore new forms of domination in the world as well as social movements and other forces of liberation that counter such domination. In the Empire trilogy—Empire (Harvard\, 2000)\, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire(Penguin\, 2004)\, and Commonwealth (Harvard\, 2009)—he and Antonio Negri investigate the political\, legal\, economic\, and social aspects of globalization. Their most recent work\, Assembly (Oxford\, 2017)\, challenges social movements having traditional\, centralized forms of political leadership and instead advocate a social unionism—a combination of mixing labor organizing with social movements.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Grundrisse,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital
DESCRIPTION:2nd in the Socialist Register 58 Series: Old Polarizations\, New Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism\nBILL FLETCHER                  Trump and the Danger of Right-wing Populism in the US\nSAMIR GANDESHA            Identity Crisis: The Politics of False Concreteness\nINGAR SOLTY                       Market Polarization Means Political Polarization \nBill Fletcher’s essay on the “Danger of Right-Wing Populism in the US” presents a careful appraisal of the forces marshalled on the right over the course of the Trump presidency\, leading to the insurrection of January 2021. Fletcher’s longstanding contention\, put forth in his widely-noted ‘Stars and Bars’ essay in the Politics of the Right volume\, was of the dangers of a rightwing mass movement emerging in the US. \nSamir Gandesha seeks an answer in what he identifies as ‘a fragmentation of the universalism that had historically underwritten the struggle for socialism’ leading to what he terms a ‘politics of false concreteness’ centered on forms of identity politics on both the left and the right. Indeed\, in the absence of a ‘left universalism’\, Gandesha argues\, ‘we can only expect the logic of polarization to drive an already accelerating authoritarianism\, as rightwing demagogues mobilize support based on racialized grievances’. This can only be met by a ‘class identity’ that seeks a universalism ‘in its own self-dissolution’\, that is\, in the struggle against classes as such and thus capitalism. \nIngar Solty’s “Market Polarization Means Political Polarization” is a third assessment of this particular moment. Solty’s contention is that the social polarizations that result from the market processes set in motion by neoliberalism bring with them a political polarization in the form of fissures in the party systems of liberal democracies\, allowing the hard right new political space to occupy and permitting varied forms of authoritarian nationalism to take hold. He concludes with the gravest of warnings: unless a new organized working-class politics emerges\, this world world will further and further slip down the slope of liberalism into fascism’. \nIN MEMORY OF LEO PANITCH • 1945-2020  / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted. \nBILL FLETCHER JR. is a long-time trade unionist\, writer\, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum.\nSAMIR GANDESHA is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.\nINGAR SOLTY is Senior Research Fellow in Foreign\, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. \nAll book offers include US Media Mail. The book offers are for US addresses only as the costs for shipping outside of the US are often more than the price of the book. From Canada\, the book can be ordered from Fernwood. Merlin Press in the UK is the best source for other areas of the world. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hard-right-and-the-political-parties-of-capital/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Anti-fascism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Food and politics,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220323T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T202255
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-23/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-03-24/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction
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SUMMARY:Marx and Spinoza:  Connections and Provocations
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Jason Read\n“…in the postindustrial age the Spinozan critique of representation of capitalist power corresponds more to the truth than does the analysis of political economy.”\n—Antonio Negri\nReaders of contemporary theory will perhaps not be surprised to see the name Spinoza paired with that of Marx. Ever since Louis Althusser argued that he\, and his cowriters of Reading Capital\, were Spinozists rather than structuralists\, there has been an increased inquiry into the points of connection between Marx and Spinoza. It might even be possible to say that what the Hegel/Marx connection was to a previous generation\, animating the writings of Adorno\, Sartre\, Lukacs\, etc. the Marx/Spinoza connection is to a current collection of philosophers ranging from Althusser\, and the members of his circle such as Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey\, to Antonio Negri\, Frédéric Lordon\, Warren Montag\, and Hasana Sharp. \nThis shift in names also entails a fundamental change of problems. Whereas the relationship of Hegel to Marx was always one of the anxiety of influence\, trying to contend with both the massive influence that Hegel had on Marx as well as Marx’s attempt to critically distance himself from Hegel\, to separate the rational kernel from the mystical shell. The Spinoza/Hegel relation is less direct\, less a matter of the influence of the latter on the former\, than on their point of contact around connected problems.  These problems are less the problems that defined the Spinoza of Marx’s time\, the debates on pantheism\, Hegel’s attempt to shift the absolute from substance to subject\, than they are the debates framed by the attempts of Marxist theory to keep up with the changes of capitalism. To place it in classical Marxist terms\, Spinoza’s thought has provide the tools for developing a critique of the superstructure\, for an understanding of ideology\, power\, and the production of subjectivity. \nJASON READ is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015/Haymarket 2016) and a forthcoming collection of essays\, The Production of Subjectivity: Between Marxism and Post-Structuralism (Brill 2022) as well as The Double Shift: Marx and Spinoza on the Politics and Ideology of Work (Verso 2023). He blogs on popular culture\, philosophy\, and politics at unemployednegativity.com. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-spinoza-connections-and-provocations/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Marx and Spinoza,Marxist Method,Seminars and Talks,Spinoza
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Soldiers of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:with author Mark Lause\n\nIn Soldiers of Revolution\, historian Mark A. Lause analyzes changes in European warfare in the closing decades of the 19th century and the consequences for working-class movements. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 introduced new military technologies\, transformed the organization of armies\, and upset the continental balance of power. The mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilizations of working people\, who exercised a new power through social democratic parties and insurgent movements. The Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they had learned to mistrust. In brutally suppressing the Commune and butchering tens of thousands of Parisians\, the French rulers put an end to the old utopian faith that reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution\, and revolution became enmeshed in armed struggle. \n“This is military history at its broadest and best. Lause captures events and technologies of destruction to be sure but also the regimented labor of war\, the soldier’s experience of larger worlds and new comrades\, the coming to know of politics as a life and death matter\, and the invitation to interrogate national ideals. These transformations set the stage for the for both the Paris Commune and the brutality of its repression.”  —David Roediger \nhttps://www.versobooks.com/books/3865-soldiers-of-revolution \nMark A. Lause has published many works on labor history\, including The Great Cowboy Strike: Class\, Politics & Violence in the Making of the American West; Free Labor: the Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class\, and Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left. He is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and has been a socialist for over fifty years. \nAll events are sliding scaleÑchoose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\nmain image is from a painting by Diego Rivera
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/soldiers-of-revolution/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-30/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-03-31/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse: Last two weeks until spring term
DESCRIPTION:Notebook 3: two more sessions until the next term\nNewcomers are welcome to join this diverse\, and very welcoming  international group of reading discussants when you are able \n“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on December 4\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. These sessions are open to people joining when possible. We are attempting to read and thoroughly discuss each Notebook in a series of 10-12 week sessions.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2nd-session/2022-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Grundrisse,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Rubbish Belongs to the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons\nPresentation and discussion with author Patrick O’Hare\nRubbish. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away\, the connotations are the same; of something dirty\, useless and incontrovertibly ‘bad’. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality? \nIn Rubbish Belongs to the Poor\, Patrick O’Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay’s waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize rubbish as a 21st century commons\, at risk of enclosure. On a giant landfill site outside the capital Montevideo we meet the book’s central protagonists\, the ‘classifiers’: waste-pickers who recover and recycle materials in and around its fenced but porous perimeter. Here the struggle of classifiers against the enclosure of the landfill\, justified on the grounds of hygiene\, is brought into dialogue with other historical and contemporary enclosures – from urban privatizations to rural evictions — to shed light on the nature of contemporary forms of capitalist dispossession. \nSupplementing this rich ethnography with the author’s own insights from dumpster diving in the UK\, the book analyzes capitalism’s relations with its material surpluses and what these tell us about its expansionary logics\, limits and liminal spaces. Rubbish Belongs to the Poor ultimately proposes a fundamental rethinking of the links between waste\, capitalism and dignified work. \nPatrick O’Hare is a social anthropologist and activist. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Researcher at the University of St Andrews. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/rubbish-belongs-to-the-poor/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Enclosures,Extractivism,Globalization,Precarity,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-05/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-04-06/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-04-07/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse: Last two weeks until spring term
DESCRIPTION:Notebook 3: two more sessions until the next term\nNewcomers are welcome to join this diverse\, and very welcoming  international group of reading discussants when you are able \n“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on December 4\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. These sessions are open to people joining when possible. We are attempting to read and thoroughly discuss each Notebook in a series of 10-12 week sessions.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2nd-session/2022-04-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Grundrisse,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:After the Pandemic: Rebuilding the Medicare for All Movement
DESCRIPTION:with Mark Dudzic \nThe world’s most expensive healthcare system failed catastrophically under the real-world structure test of the pandemic. This crisis drove home both the absurdity of linking healthcare to employment and the importance of treating healthcare as a decommodified public good. But the politics of the emerging post pandemic period are not conducive to big\, transformative initiatives like Medicare for All. We will explore this disjuncture between social necessity and political possibility and how it might be resolved with particular emphasis on the role of the institutional labor movement. \nMARK DUDZIC is the Chair of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and is a longtime union organizer and activist. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/after-the-pandemic-rebuilding-the-medicare-for-all-movement/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Crisis,Food and politics,Healthcare,Labor Organizing,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022 — Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward
DESCRIPTION:with Greg Albo\, Sam Gindin\, Adolph and Touré Reed\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright participating in the concluding session of this  this four-session series\nIt is a truism that electoral politics and political identity in the USA and Europe today are polarized to a degree unknown since the 1930s. It is a commonplace among the pundits of the ruling class that somehow “both sides” must return to “moderate” common sense to avoid a violent rupture of our society. They seldom question the underlying causes of this polarization\, let alone whether it is rooted in the very nature of late capitalism. \nThis is not the case with the contributors to the 58th volume of Socialist Register. From different perspectives\, they ask us to think about the deep social contradictions exposed by increasing polarization of the most economically developed societies along lines of wealth\, race\, gender\, nation-state\, and region. Members of this class meet once each month for four months to discuss selected articles from SR 58 with editor Greg Albo\, joined by various authors organized around the following themes on one Sunday a month from February 20 through May 115\, 2022. \nThe two remaining single sessions will each have a separate ordering position on the website as well. Please pay attention to the international time changes that are not in sync and will occur during the duration of this series. \nPART 4\nMay 15 • Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project  with James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright • American Workers and the Left after Trump with Sam Gindin • The Evolution of Race under Neoliberalism with Adolph and Touré Reed \nThis year’s Socialist Register presentations are presented in honor of Leo Panitch \nLEO PANITCH • 1945-2020 / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted \nA limited number of Socialist Register 58 books are available from the MEP\, SR58 is also available in print and digital forms from MR Press in the US\, Merlin Press in the UK\, and from Fernwood Press in Canada\, or from the Socialist Register website.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-new-polarizations-old-contradictions-the-crisis-of-centrism/2022-04-10/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Global Political Struggles of the Working Class
DESCRIPTION:The Double Consciousness of Capital with author DAVID HARVEY\nSocial Sources of Political Polarization in Russia with authors ILYA MATVEEV and OLEG ZHURAVLEV\nThe Far Right\, Corporate Power\, and Social Struggles in Brazil with authors VIRGINIA FONTES\, ANA GARCIA and REJANE HOEVELER\nIn “The Double Consciousness of Capital”. DAVID HARVEY turns to Marx’s Grundrisse and to W.E.B.Du Bois’ idea of  double consciousness\, to locate a tension in anti-capitalist politics between the possibilities found in the creative destruction and technological revolutions of capitalism and the alienation and loss of human potentiality which is a result of the same process. The path to socialism requires navigating the contradictions of this double consciousness. \nIn “Social Sources of Political Polarization in Russia”. ILYA MATVEEV and OLEG ZHURAVLEV offer a compelling account of rising urban-rural and core-periphery polarization in Russia under the authoritarian nationalism of Vladimir Putin\, which until recently was able to rely on the apathetic indifference of the people and general appeals to social stability to maintain unchallenged power. \nIn “The Far Right\, Corporate Power\, and Social Struggles in Brazil”. VIRGINA FONTES\, ANA GARCIA\, and REJANE HOEVELER contrast the fictitious polarization in Brazil between electoral oppositions that quarrel over cultural issues without challenging the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism and the real polarization resulting from a combative working class that is developing\, as Gramsci says\, a spirit of cleavage\, determined to pursue its class interests. \nDAVID HARVEY is Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York. ILYA MATVEEV teaches politics at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration\, St. Petersburg; OLEG ZHURAVLEV is a researcher at the Public Sociology Laboratory\, Center for Independent Social Research\, St. Petersburg. VIRGINIA FONTES is professor of history at Fluminense Federal University\, Rio de Janeiro State\, and a teacher at the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Landless Workers Movement; ANA GARCIA is assistant professor at the International Relations Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University and the graduate program in Social Sciences at the Federal Rural University\, both in Rio de Janeiro; REJANE HOEVELER is a lecturer in the School of Social Service at Fluminense Federal University. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/global-political-struggles-of-the-working-class/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Globalization,Grundrisse,Hegemony,Latin America,Pandemics and Capital,Russia,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-04-13/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-04-14/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction
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SUMMARY:The Solutions are Already Here with author Peter Gelderloos
DESCRIPTION:Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below\nAs the climate crisis worsens\, we must look to revolutionary strategy for justice\nAre alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there are possibilities. \n \nAcross the world\, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realize their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction\, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist\, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal. \nGelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela\, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia\, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports\, stopped pipelines\, and helped the most marginalized to fight borders and environmental racism\, to transform their cities\, to win a dignified survival. \nAll author royalties and proceeds from this event will go to the Indigenous reforesting initiatives in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuels in Indonesia. \nPETER GELDERLOOS is a writer and movement participant. He is the author of How Nonviolence Protects the State\, Anarchy Works and Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation. He has contributed chapters to anthologies Keywords for Radicals and Riots and Militant Occupations. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-solutions-are-already-here-with-author-peter-gelderloos/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Enclosures,Extractivism,Insurgency,Latin America,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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