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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/2021-03-15/
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
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SUMMARY:The Last Years of Karl Marx: A new reading group
DESCRIPTION:An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto\nan eight-week reading and discussion group with The Capital Studies Group of The MEP \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 pre-capitalist 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 Eurocentric and economic 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 non-capitalist 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. \nMARCELLO MUSTO is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. His most recent books are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and\, as editor\, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations (2020). \nAll events and classes at The MEP are sliding scale. In addition\, no one is every denied participation because of inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute to offset our costs at this time\, please write to info@marxedproject to receive codes for entrance to this session or any other activity you would like to attend. \nThe special book and class offers are for US and Puerto Rico only as the books are sent via Media Mail with the US Post Office.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-years-of-karl-marx-a-five-week-reading-group/2021-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with Mitch Abidor\nEditor and translator of Voices of the Paris Commune and Communards \n This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune\, the first time in history that the working class seized power. Please join us on March 18 –the date the uprising began – as Mitch Abidor\, editor and translator of two books on the fighters in the 1871 uprising\, Communards and Voices of the Paris Commune\, recounts what happened over the 71 days that followed\, in all its complexity\, both its heroism and its failings\, as well as its role as inspiration with lessons for the movements that followed in its footsteps. \nVoices of The Paris Commune (PM Press): The Paris Commune had a vibrant press\, and it is represented here by its most important newspaper\, Le Cri du Peuple\, edited by Jules Vallès\, member of the First International. Like any legitimate government\, the Paris Commune held parliamentary sessions and issued daily printed reports of the heated\, contentious deliberations that belie any accusation of dictatorship. Included in this collection is the transcript of the debate in the Commune\, just days before its final defeat\, on the establishing of a Committee of Public Safety and on the fate of the hostages held by the Commune\, hostages who would ultimately be killed. Finally\, Voices of the Paris Commune contains a selection from the inquiry carried out twenty years after the event by the intellectual review La Revue Blanche\, asking participants to judge the successes and failures of the Paris Commune. This section provides a fascinating range of opinions of this epochal event. \nCommunards (marxists.org): In this unique collection of texts we hear the genuine voices of the Paris Commune of 1871. Every Communard drew something different from the experience of the Commune\, and Communards allows all of them to have their say. Documents include the records of stormy meetings of the Commune deciding on the execution of hostages\, minutes of meetings of the First International throughout the siege\, as well as reminiscences of participants written down 25 years after the event. \nCommunards is available at https://www.marxists.org/admin/books/index.htm \n“If socialism wasn’t born of the Commune\, it is from the Commune that dates that portion of international revolution that no longer wants to give battle in a city in order to be surrounded and crushed\, but which instead wants\, at the head of the proletarians of each and every country\, to attack national and international reaction and put an end to the capitalist regime.” —Edouard Vaillant\, a member of the Paris Commune. \nMitch Abidor has published over a dozen volumes of translation\, as well as May Made Me\, an oral history of May ’68. A contributing writer for Jewish Currents\, his articles have also appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Dissent\, and many others. His I’ll Forget it When I Die: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 will be published by AK in the spring. \n  \nall events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of an inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for admission to this or any other event or class.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/150th-anniversary-of-the-paris-commune/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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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/2021-03-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Marx and Emancipatory Political Theory
DESCRIPTION:MARX\, ENGELS\, MARXISMS SERIES\npresentations and discussion with authors\nGeorge Comninel\, August Nimtz and Igor Shoikhedbrod\nThe 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 \n \nGeorge Comninel’s Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx considers Marx’s ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote. It emphasizes both the continuity of his commitment to the cause of full human emancipation\, and the role of his critique of political economy in conceiving history to be the history of class struggles. \nIn Marxism versus Liberalism\, August Nimtz presents a comparative real-time political analysis\,  providing convincing evidence to sustain two similarly audacious claims: firstly\, that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels collectively had better democratic credentials than Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill; and secondly\, that Vladimir Lenin had better democratic credentials than Max Weber and Woodrow Wilson. \nIn Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism\, Igor Shoikhedbrod offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s new materialist understanding of justice\, legality\, and rights through the vantage point of his widely invoked but generally misunderstood critique of liberalism. The book begins by reconstructing Marx’s conception of justice and rights through close textual interpretation and extrapolation. A central thesis of the book is that Marx regards justice as an essential feature of any society\, including the emancipated society of the future. \nGEORGE COMNINEL is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics at York University\, Canada. He is also the author of Rethinking the French Revolution: Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge (1987). \nAUGUST NIMTZ is Professor is Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota\, USA. He is also the author of Marx\, Tocqueville\, and Race in America: The ‘Absolute Democracy’ or ‘Defiled Republic’ (2003). \nIGOR SHOIKHEDBROD received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto\, Canada. He is currently adjunct professor in the Ethics\, Society & Law Program at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale: No one turned away for inability to pay. (If you cannot pay full amount\, please email to info@marxedproject.org for obtaining codes to participate.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-emancipatory-political-theory/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism
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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-2/2021-03-20/
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
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SUMMARY:Working Class Cinema in the Age of Digital Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with\nMassimiliano (Mao) Mollona\nWhy does the story of cinema begin with the end of work? Is it because\, as has been suggested\, it is impossible to represent work from the perspective of labor but only from the point of view of capital\, because the revolutionary horizon of the working class coincides with the end of work? After all\, the early revolutionary art avant-garde had an ambiguous relationship with capitalism: it provided both a critique of commodification while also reproducing the commodity form. Even the cinema of Eisenstein\, which so subverted the bourgeois sense of space\, time\, and personhood\, at the same time standardized and commodified working-class reality with techniques of framing and editing that molded images on the commodity form. \nSuch dialectics between art and the commodity form continue to be played out in today’s digital capitalism\, as exemplified by so-called ‘debt-artists’\, like the hackers collective Robin Hood\, who appropriate the techniques and modes of sociality of financial capitalism to generate spaces of reciprocity and cooperation with the aim of disrupting their commodity logic\, but who in fact end up reproducing it. The tension between critique and commodification is no less in play as the digital medium erases the specificity of cinema\, the relation between its material bases and its poetics\, opening up as it does to other relations – intertextual\, lateral\, and cross-media – that recall the synchronic aesthetics of the avant-garde. As well as disrupting the materiality of the film medium\, digital film disrupts the temporality of classical cinema\, suspended in-between movement and stillness and experienced in the expanded duration of the time-image. \nMASSIMILIANO (Mao) MOLLONA is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. One of Mao’s main research interests is to look at the role of art institutions and cultural organizations in relation to the bio-politics and political economy of late capitalism. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for an inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute please write to info@marxedproject.org to be given the URL for the zoom code for admission to this or other events. \nThis essay is available from The MEP in the Socialist Register 2021 book that is for sale in our bookstore. All book prices include shipping (US and Puerto Rico only). \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/working-class-cinema-in-the-age-of-digital-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Intro to Marxism,Literary Studies,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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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/2021-03-22/
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
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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/2021-03-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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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-2/2021-03-27/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210329T130000
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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/2021-03-29/
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
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SUMMARY:From Neoliberal Fashion to New Ways of Clothing with Jerónimo Montero Bressán
DESCRIPTION:The past four decades have seen a tremendous transformation in how we clothe ourselves. The way clothes are produced\, traded and sold today around the world reflects many of the problems today’s capitalism poses to the working classes\, with deleterious consequences for the environment as well. Global supply chains\, in which non-finished goods flow back and forth around the world so that brands and retailers can increase their profits\, dominate the landscape of this industry. \nBetween 1995 and 2005\, the liberalization of trade allowed garment companies to pit workers worldwide against each other\, providing the former with enormous savings in labor costs. After the 2008 financial crisis\, growing competition and problems in the sphere of realization forced companies to continuously expand their marketing\, notably by incorporating expensive digital technologies\, while on the manufacturing side\, costs were squeezed to the limit. In core countries\, deregulation of labor markets through neoliberalization allowed manufacturers not only to employ low-wage labor in far-away countries\, but to subcontract production to “local sweatshops\,” which often employ migrants in situations of debt-peonage\, forced labor\, etc. in proximity to end markets\, so that fast fashion retailers and brands can replenish their stores quickly and cheaply. In arguing that the fashion industry is increasingly unsustainable\, economically and ecologically\, Jerónimo Montero Bressán invites us to imagine a different way to organise production\, distribution and consumption of clothing\, starting from a brief series of strategic directions. \nJERÓNIMO MONTERO BRESSÁN is a researcher with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/from-neoliberal-fashion-to-new-ways-of-clothing-with-jeronimo-montero-bressan/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Gender,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Jesus Christ: Prince of Peace or King of Swords with Shane Mage
DESCRIPTION:The events surrounding the ~30CE trial and execution in Roman-dominated Palestine of the man Y’shua (or Yehoshua—both names transliterate to Joshua)\, generally referred to as Jesus Christ\, are considered well known by perhaps half or more of the population of this planet. The only sources of this supposed knowledge are the four Gospels named Mark\, Matthew\, Luke\, and John. Unfortunately\, all these accounts were compiled\, written\, and edited some two generations—at the earliest—after the events they portray (and after the Jewish uprising of 67-70 had been crushed by Vespasian and Titus) by people none of whom claim to have personally known that man\, nor to have witnessed any of the events described\, nor to have heard any of the words they quote as stated by “Jesus\,” nor to cite any testimony of actual or supposed witnesses of these events. Moreover\, though the languages of the indigenous people involved were Aramaic and Hebrew\, the Gospels are written in koiné Greek before their translation into contemporary languages. For the historian\, therefore\, these are (at best*) fourth-hand sources (original accounts—later retold among various persons—later recounted to the Gospel Writers—and then put\, with unknown correspondence to their original form\, into Greek). \nThe Gospels\, thus have absolutely no presumptive value as history. But neither are they pure fiction despite the patent absurdity of the whole Christian theology built upon them and their obviously falsified passages (especially the blood-libel of Jewish Deicide) designed to justify the inherently antisemitic nature of that Christian theology. The existence of the man Jesus is explicitly stated by the authoritative ancient historian Josephus. Archaeological excavations in and around Jerusalem have unearthed direct physical evidence for details of the gospel accounts\, including the ossuaries (bone-boxes) containing the remnants of “Jesus” and his intimate family. Moreover\, it has been established by biblical scholars over centuries that the gospels themselves were compiled from at least three different sources and that there were many other noncanonical “gospels” (compilations of sayings said to have been said by “Jesus”) of which the best-known is the so-called Gospel of Thomas. Therefore we are entitled as historians to believe that the Gospels\, despite their total unreliability as a whole\, do contain some information that is accurate and must\, since they are our only real source\, be used as the indispensable element for any historical reconstruction. \nMy basic approach is what is called “*tendenz kritik*.” Because the texts are the only available source for an account of real historical events\, their *general* outline of those events is to be taken as a roughly factual account of those events. Because they are permeated by ideological bias\, such bias must always be taken into account and ruthlessly corrected or ejected to remove that bias. In the present case this bias is\, of course\, clearly expressed over millennia in the Pauline Christian doctrines. Likewise\, any words attributed to Jesus must undergo the same critique. The actual words are often presented within a broader Pauline Christian verbal context. Only what is sufficiently concise or strikingly memorable to have been passed down over decades to the eventual compilers should be granted presumptive validity. *Nothing* theological can ever be taken as historical. Only arguably accurate material facts can underly any historical reconstruction. \nThe Pilate Papers is my attempt at a version of such a speculative reconstruction. In it I do what (as far as I know) has not yet been tried by anyone—to present these events from an Imperial Roman point of view. It consists of reports to the Prefect of Judaea\, Pontius Pilate\, from his supposed Roman secret-police official signing himself  as M. Secundus\, as transmitted to the office of Tiberius’s not-yet-purged Praetorian Prefect Aelius Sejanus with comments from Pilate himself. \nShane Mage’s dissertation was on Marx’s theory of the tendential fall in the rate of profit (Columbia U. 1963). Shane taught economics and philosophy at Brooklyn Polytechnic U and Grand Valley State U. He was senior editor for social sciences at Collier’s Encyclopedia through 1994. Among Shane’s publications are a pamphlet “Velikovsky and his Critics;” articles on “Plato and the Catastrophist Tradition” and “Jeroboam and the Israelite Revolution” in KRONOS magazine; articles “Communism” and “Economic History of the USSR” in Collier’s Encyclopedia; and (unpublished still) “The Pilate Papers\,” an essay presenting a “Roman” view of the gospel story. At present he is working on a novel (“The Seducation of a Femtaur—a Bead Game”) set in the present and near future with a philosophical theme and elements of science fiction and magical realism. \nPlease write to info@marxedproject.org for a PDF of The Pilate Papers
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/jesus-christ-prince-of-peace-or-king-of-swords-with-shane-mage/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Antiquity,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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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/2021-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Shifting Gears with Sean Sweeney and John Treat
DESCRIPTION:Labor Strategies for Low-Cost Public Transit Mobility\nSean Sweeney and John Treat\nWriting in the 2021 Socialist Register\, Sean Sweeney and John Treat call for a major shift in transport policy: a break from the model of development centered on private personal vehicles to one that places mass public transport at the center of future passenger mobility. The current approach – reliance on incentives and assurances to private investors – has failed miserably. While public transport has grown in many places\, this has not even slowed the rise in transport-related emissions. Similarly\, reliance on small electric vehicles (EVs) as a “replacement technology” for standard cars and trucks has reduced emphasis on minimizing unnecessary or unwanted mobility and exaggerated claims about the potential emissions benefits. \nSean and John will take a global look at road transport to envision urban transport systems that are organized on a “public goods” basis. They argue that the incursions of private corporations such as Uber and Lyft could be repelled\, at least partially\, by improved access to high quality public transport. At the same time\, given the car-dependent development of peri-urban and rural areas\, and the likely expansion of urban space in the coming decades (especially in the Global South)\, advocates of public transport will want to explore how “occupying the platforms” through public car-sharing schemes might meet these needs as part of municipal or communally owned fleets. Reclaiming and expanding public transport can and should be part of a broader project to re-imagine neighborhoods\, cities\, ecosystems\, systems of production\, and circulation. \nSean Sweeney is Director of the International Program for Labor\, Climate\, and Environment at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. John Treat is a writer\, researcher\, and organizer with Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. \n  \nall events are sliding scale. no one is denied participation for inability to pay. please write info@marxedproject.org to attend this or another event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/shifting-gears-with-sean-sweeney-and-john-treat/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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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/2021-04-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210410T160000
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SUMMARY:Introducing Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with Drucilla Cornell and Jane Gordon
DESCRIPTION:“I Have A Thousand More Things I Want To Say To You.”\nAn introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with\nDrucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon\, moderated by Bernabe S. Mendoza\nSession One of a six part series.\nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist of the last century. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new understanding of the complexities of revolution. \nDRUCILLA CORNELL Professor Emeritus\, Rutgers University; JANE ANNA GORDON\, University of Connecticut \nSessions Moderator: BERNABE S. MENDOZA\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Rutgers University
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introducing-creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-with-drucilla-cornell-and-jane-gordon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210411T160000
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SUMMARY:Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly with Editor Peter Cole
DESCRIPTION:In the early twentieth century\, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers\, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color\, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. \nA brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator\, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union\, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era\, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. \nFor years\, acclaimed historian Peter Cole has carefully researched the life of Ben Fletcher\, painstakingly uncovering a stunning range of documents related to this extraordinary man. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly is the most comprehensive look at Fletcher ever to be published. It includes a detailed biographical sketch of his life and history\, reminiscences by fellow workers who knew him\, a chronicle of the IWW’s impressive decade-long run on the Philadelphia waterfront in which Fletcher played a pivotal role\, and nearly all of his known writings and speeches\, thus giving Fletcher’s timeless voice another opportunity to inspire a new generation of workers\, organizers\, and agitators. This revised and expanded second edition includes new materials such as facsimile reprints of two extremely rare pamphlets on racism from the early twentieth century\, more information on his prison years and personal life\, additional recollections from friends\, greater consideration of Fletcher from a global perspective\, and much more. \n“This stirring collection gives us the drama\, largely in his own exciting words\, of the life and work of black radical labor leader Ben Fletcher. It is a story of suffering\, fighting\, and organizing but also of thinking deeply and writing clearly about the social power of labor\, and particularly of maritime workers\, and the possibility of a world beyond racial division and class exploitation.”\n—David Roediger\, author of Class\, Race\, and Marxism \nPeter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University (USA) and a research associate in the Society\, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Cole is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. While the first edition of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly was published by Charles H. Kerr Press\, in 2006\, the revised and much expanded second edition has now been published by PM Press. He also is the founder and co-director of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19). \n  \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this event or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ben-fletcher-the-life-and-times-of-a-black-wobbly-with-editor-peter-cole/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Immigration,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Session 2—Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Alyssa Adamson\, Drucilla Cornell\, and Peter Hudis\nThis second session of the Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series will critically revisit debates over the potential revolutionary value of nationalism through exploring different stages of the Global Southern reception of Rosa’s thoroughgoing internationalism. \nThe panel will consist of Alyssa Adamson of Malcolm X College\, Drucilla Cornell\, Rutgers University and Peter Hudis\, Oakton Community College. Their essays are “Against a Single History\, for a Revaluation of Power: Luxemburg\, James\, and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy” by Alyssa Adamson; “The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination”\, Drucilla Cornell; and\, “A Troubled Legacy: Rosa Luxemburg and the Non-Western World”\, Peter Hudis \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-2-debating-revolutionary-nationalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Welfare State with Ursula Huws (Pluto FireWorks Series)
DESCRIPTION:Ursula Huws speaks with Todd Wolfson on creative ideas for reinventing the welfare state to address contemporary challenges in a session chaired by FireWorks Series editor\, and Editorial Director at Pluto Press\, David Castle. \nWhen faced with standard issue programs to restore the post-war era “good jobs” and welfare state\, long-time organizing activist\, researcher and scholar Ursula Huws comments “…most woke young people who have grown up in the early twenty-first century would\, if transported back to the 1950s\, probably feel themselves to be in a restrictive\, class-bound\, sexist\, racist\, homophobic hell.” This is a jumping off point for Huws new manifesto-like book on Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies. Join Ursula for a detailed online conversation this coming Sunday afternoon February 21 on casual work versus “platform work” under the regime of neo-liberal social policy and global corporations\, the accompanying persistence of racial and gender inequality\, and proposals for what we can do about it. Huws has been a remarkable thinker and engaging speaker on these matters for decades\, and her approach as ever spans national policy as well as the new wave of grassroots struggles. \n \n  \nIn Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public PoliciesUrsula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality\, including a redistributive UBI\, decommodification of platforms and universal workers’ rights. With positivity and rigour\, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century\, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernise and expand public services\, and improve accessibility. \nUrsula Huws is Professor of Labor and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire. She has been carrying out pioneering research on the economic\, social and gender impacts of technological change\, employment restructuring and the changing international division of labor since the 1970s\, combining scholarship with activism and popular writing. \nTodd Wolfson — Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick\, NJ) and Co-Director of Media\, Inequality & Chance Center (MIC) — researches the intersection of new media and contemporary social movements. Author of Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014)\, Wolfson also co-edited The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017). \nAll events are sliding scale. Have made the presentation and book combination offer a special low price. No one is turned away for inability to pay If you cannot afford to pay\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive the URL for the zoom link to attend this or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reinventing-the-welfare-state-with-ursula-huws-pluto-fireworks-series/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210418T160000
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Welfare State: Book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies\nUrsula Huws\nIn Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies Ursula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality\, including a redistributive UBI (universal basic income)\, decommodification of platforms and universal workers’ rights. With positivity and rigor\, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century\, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernise and expand public services\, and improve accessibility. \nUrsula Huws speaks with Todd Wolfson on creative ideas for reinventing the welfare state to address contemporary challenges in a session chaired by FireWorks Series editor\, and Editorial Director at Pluto Press\, David Castle. \nSliding scale pricing includes Ursula’s presentation\, the new book (inclusive of shipping — US and Puerto Rico only) \nWe do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url of the zoom link for attending this talk if you cannot pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reinventing-the-welfare-state-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T143000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T190000
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we do a close reading of an innovative work by eight activist scholars who collaborate to bring us a powerful intervention in debates surrounding racial capitalism and political crisis in contemporary Britain. Discussions of racism too often focus on individual behaviors and prejudices\, but Empire’s Endgame maps the complex relations between empire\, racist culture\, political economy\, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book’s story unfolds in Britain\, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities. \nThe activist scholars who have contributed to Empire’s Endgame are Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017)\, Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and has written (B)ordering Brtain: Law\, Race and Empire (2020)\, and  Luke de Noronha\, Lecturer at University College London and has written Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020). \nThe tickets with class and book include shipping costs via Media Mail. The class and book offers are only good for orders in the US and Puerto Rico.\nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting for more than four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who completed a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, and will begin a new close reading group on the Grundrisse this April.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-a-close-reading-group/2021-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210420T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210420T200000
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SUMMARY:Start Early\, Stay Late: Planning for Care in Old Age
DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021 authors Pat and Hugh Armstrong\nCovid-19 has exposed too many weaknesses in the neoliberal capitalist system to count\, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable. For 10 years our international\, interdisciplinary research team has been documenting the profound weaknesses in nursing home care within Canada\, Germany\, Norway\, Sweden\, the UK\, and the US. Many of the current deficits in resident care originate in various forms of privatization central to neoliberalism. Especially in Canada\, the UK\, and the US\, nursing homes that are heavily funded by the public purse have been handed over to corporations\, providing them with guaranteed pay and often guaranteed full houses. \nThe lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – in denial of the literature on the determinants of health – services such as food\, housekeeping\, and laundry have been defined out of care and dismissed as ancillary. This contracting out has not only undermined teamwork\, but has also resulted in poor food\, inadequate cleaning\, and limited laundry – all of which threaten health. At the same time\, fewer and fewer spaces are available in these homes with government funding. The result is twofold. All those who manage to get into these homes have high care needs\, and those who cannot are either forced into the for-profit sector or rely more on unpaid care\, most of which is provided by women. For too many\, neither of these is an option. Another strategy blurring the lines is the promotion of for-profit managerial strategies within the non-profit and public nursing homes that remain. This means the lowest possible staffing levels\, the shifting of as much work as possible to those with the least formal training\, limiting workers’ autonomy\, pay\, hours\, and benefits\, and relying on a labor force already made vulnerable by gender\, racialization\, and immigration status. \nBarely enough services pre-pandemic have proven to be not nearly enough during the pandemic – which has exposed the disastrous life-altering or lethal consequences of all these developments for those elderly requiring care. \nPat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University. Hugh Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Carleton University. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for admission to this event or any other events or classes of The MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/start-early-stay-late-planning-for-care-in-old-age/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210423T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210423T213000
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SUMMARY:The Hour of the Furnaces: A film screening with discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Hour of the Furnaces\nPart 1: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism and Violence in Argentina\, 1968\, 84 minutes\nDir. Grupo Cine Liberación\nSpanish with English subtitles\nIn 1968\, Grupo Cine Liberación released their powerful documentary and visual essay\, The Hour of the Furnaces. This three-part film analyzes the severe neocolonial situation of 1960s Argentina\, radical wings of Peronism\, and the role of violence in the national liberation process. Part 1\, Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism focuses on the everyday violence of the Argentine\, employing a Marxist analysis between quotes from Martí\, Fanon\, Césaire\, Che\, Mariátegui\, and other revolutionary figures. The usage of avant-garde and mainstream techniques was meant to attack the passivity of the spectator and incite political action. The Hour of the Furnaces remains an essential film of militant cinema. \nThis discussion will go over the Third Cinema movement in Argentina\, the making of Grupo Cine Liberación’s The Hour of the Furnaces\, and it’s international influence. We will watch and analyze chapters from Part 1 and discuss how it relates to the greater context of (neo)colonialism in the Global South. \nGrupo Cine Liberación clandestinely filmed The Hour of the Furnaces in fear of repression by Juan Carlos Onganía’s dictatorship. Because of the subversive nature of the film\, attending the film became an act of resistance and was met with violent confrontation by the military. Members of the group\, filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino later wrote their manifesto\, Towards a Third Cinema\, reflecting on the filmmaking process under the political restraints\, which would later become the theoretical framework for the Third Cinema film movement.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hour-of-the-furnaces-a-film-screening-with-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film Screenings,Revolutions Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T160000
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, Session 3—Revolutionary Subjects
DESCRIPTION:with Robin D.G. Kelley\, Jane Ana Gordon\, Gunnef Kaan\, Maria Theresa Starzmann \nThis\, the third session of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, explores what it means to act as a revolutionary subject through analysis of Walter Rodney’s ambivalence about Rosa’s criticisms of revolutionary Russia\, critical consideration of Rosa’s writings on slave resistance\, indispensability for contemporary progressive politics in South Africa\, and turn to the other-than-human world to counteract the political violence of incarceration. \nGunnett Kaaf\, Marxist activist and a writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa; Maria Theresa Starzmann\,  Vera Institute of Justice; Jane Anna Gordon\, University of Connecticut; Robin D.G. Kelley\, UCLA \nThe essays from the new volume are “Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution and the Curious Case of Rosa Luxemburg”\, by Robin D. G. Kelley; “A Political Economy of the Damned: Reading Rosa Luxemburg on Slavery through a Creolizing Lens”\, Jane Anna Gordon; “One Hundred Years of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxism: Imperialism and Lessons in Democracy for the ContemporarySouth African Left”\, Gunnett Kaaf; and\, “Rosa Luxemburg\, Nature\, and Imprisonment”\, Maria Theresia Starzmann \n  \n;
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-3-revolutionary-subjects/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Bolshevism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125845
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nVolume I: The Process of Production of Capital\nThird Session Covering Chapter 16 thru Chapter 25\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. \nThe first four Parts of Volume I revealed the historical process of development that led to industrial capital\, the productive base/infrastructure required for the generalization of the capitalist production of commodities as the dominate social form throughout all our societies and nations today. Session 3\, Chapters 15 through 25\, will trace this development and reveals new dynamics and contradictions inherent to the logic of capitalist accumulation\, culminating in Chapter 25\, The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. These developmental processes continue to be played out to this day and are witnessed in the immensity of wealth for a few at one pole of humanity\, poverty at another\, ruthless misuse and degradation of nature\, and reduction of the human subject\, the producing masses of real individuals\, to an alienated object for capitalist exploitation. Volume I is essential to understanding the analysis as it is carried out in Volumes II & III. \nNEW STUDENTS: (Please Note) Part I through Four of Volume I lay out the most fundamental concepts and laws of capitalist development and its internal contradictions that are necessary to fully understand all that follows as Marx explicates the dynamics particular to the historical process and dynamics of the production of social life 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 and Second 12 Week Sessions covering Part I through Part IV have been recorded. They are 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 of Session 1. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-part-3/2021-04-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T193000
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SUMMARY:Friedrich Engels with Terrell Carver and Kaan Kangal
DESCRIPTION:MARX\, ENGELS\, MARXISMS SERIES\nFriedrich Engels at 200\n \nEngels Before Marx\nTerrell Carver\nThis book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination\, Observation\, and Vocation. Throughout\, the reader sees the world from Engels’s perspective\, not knowing how his story will turn out. This approach reveals the multifaceted and ambitious character of young Friedrich’s achievements from age sixteen till just turning twenty-five. At the time that he accepted Marx’s invitation to co-author a short political satire\, Engels was far better known and much more accomplished. He had published many more articles on far more subjects\, in both German and English\, than Marx had managed. Moreover\, he had written a critique of political economy from a perspective unique in the German context\, and published his own pioneering and substantial study of working class conditions in an industrializing economy. Offering an innovative approach to a largely neglected period of Engels’s life before meeting Marx\, Carver upends standard narratives in existing biographical studies of Engels to reveal him as an important figure not just in relation to his more famous collaborator\, but a key voice in the liberal-democratic\, constitutional and nation-building revolutionism of the 1830s and 1840s. \nEngels and the Dialectics of Nature\nKaan Kangal\nReading different or controversial intentions into Marx and Engels’ works has been a common but somewhat unquestioned practice in the history of Marxist scholarship. Engels’ Dialectics of Nature\, a torso for some and a great book for others\, is a case in point. The entire Engels debate separates into two opposite views: Engels the contaminator of Marx’s “new materialism” vs. Engels the self-educated genius of dialectical materialism. What Engels\, unlike Marx\, has not enjoyed so far is a critical reading that considers the relationship between different layers of this standard text: authorial\, textual\, editorial\, and interpretational. Informed by a historical hermeneutic\, this book questions the elements that structure the debate on the Dialectics of Nature. It analyzes different political and philosophical functions attached to Engels’ text\, and relocates the meaning of the term “dialectics” into a more precise context. Arguing that Engels’ dialectics is less complete than we usually think it is but that he achieved more than most scholars would like to admit\, this book fully documents and critically analyzes Engels’ intentions and concerns in the Dialectics of Nature\, the process of writing\, and its reception and edition history in order to reconstruct the solved and unsolved philosophical problems in this unfinished work. \n“Why has a text on philosophy and the natural sciences written in the 19th century generated so much controversy for so many decades? Kaan Kangal surveys the battlefield in a thorough\, lively and insightful way. He takes on those who have been there before him and puts forth his own fresh perspective on it all.” (Helena Sheehan\, Emeritus Professor\, Dublin City University\, Ireland) \nTerrell Carver is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol\, UK. He is a co-editor of Palgrave’s Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms series\, and is widely published in this area. His recent publications include a two-volume study of “The German Ideology” manuscripts with Daniel Blank (Palgrave\, 2014). \nKaan Kangal is Associate Professor at the Center for Studies of Marxist Social Theory\, Department of Philosophy\, Nanjing University\, China. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/friedrich-engels-with-terrell-carver-kaan-kangal-and-kohei-saito/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210425T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210425T130000
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SUMMARY:Health Care\, Technology\, and Socialized Medicine with Pratyush and Pritha Chandra
DESCRIPTION:from Socialist Register 2021—Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nUnlike earlier experiences\, with Covid-19 we see an emergence of the whole world as a stage where the drama unfolds. This is\, of course\, due to the technological shrinkage of time and space in our age – now\, microbes take flight. But the spectacular similitude of crises and responses at this level demonstrates how social structures\, ideologies\, and social values have converged globally. The rhetoric of war and the institution of quarantine\, where everyone is a warrior\, a victim\, and a suspect at the same time\, have mobilized individuals and communities to act out rituals that affirm bellum omnium contra omnes (the war of all against all)\, the foundation of capitalism. \nWhile the immediate task of controlling the current pandemic determines the actions of states\, medical institutions\, and research laboratories\, several critical microbiologists\, virologists\, and political economists have done well to ask the structural question about the metabolic and ecological rifts that have unleashed new dangers for humanity. But for the ecological crisis to become a ground to rethink structural transformation\, it is not enough to locate it in the wreckage that capitalism accumulates. It must be understood as constitutive to capitalist social relations\, having an intimate connection to the robbery of labor. It is in this sense that the particularization of these crises in the form of pathogens and impending diseases becomes crucial. This helps us to understand the ecological rift as central to everyday life and struggle in capitalism\, and also to imagine a transformational class politics. \nTo understand the reality behind and beyond today’s spectacular rituals of salutations for public hospital workers and those in so-called essential services as ‘warriors’\, we need to pay heed to what Norman Bethune meant when he exhorted his medical colleagues to ‘organize ourselves so that we can no longer be exploited as we are being exploited by our politicians’. It was his recognition of the mutual embeddedness of economics and pathology that defined Bethune’s unconventional life and work as a surgeon\, and transformed him into a revolutionary. The practice of socialized medicine\, as he conceptualized it\, was not simply a demand on the state and doctors\, but was\, rather\, a dimension of transforming liberatory politics translated in the field of health care. \nPratyush Chandra is a political activist and writer based in New Delhi. Pritha Chandra is Professor of Linguistics\, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, New Delhi. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay so if you would like to attend this or any other class or lecture at The MEP\, simply write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain entrance to whatever you want to participate in.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/health-care-technology-and-socialized-medicine-with-pratyush-and-pritha-chandra/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Globalization,Healthcare,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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