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SUMMARY:Revolution in the Virocene: Near (or Nearing) the End of Time
DESCRIPTION:a presentation by the SITUATIONS COLLECTIVE (PROJECT OF THE RADICAL IMAGINATION)\nThis event is based on the collective work which appears in the current issue of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination\, Vol. IX\,available at info@radicalimagination.institute \nfrom Pandemic Paper\, no 1                                                                        \n“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency\, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress\, its opponents treat it as a historical norm…”. —Walter Benjamin\, “Theses (VIII) on the Philosophy of History” (1940) \nForeclosing the Political\nCOVID-19 and the emergent virocene has made insurgency explicit in the real State of emergency. We have been awakened from our collective ahistorical and apolitical slumbers. In an instant\, the mantra of there is no alternative has been replaced by whatever happens\, nothing will ever be the same. The ideology that says radical transformation is unrealistic has been irrevocably discredited. The bonds and rituals of everyday life have been loosened\, fragmented and disjointed. What seemed inevitable and iron clad now feels flimsy as nation states globally scramble to find solutions that don’t exist. This opens up a space for thinking\, and for politics. This new situation underscores a critical need for both practical intervention and an attempt at building a convergent philosophy that anticipates the praxis of the future. \nWe have endured over 40 years of the foreclosure of the political and suffered its failures to the limit in which the State and its functioning doesn’t seem to exist except as an appendage of the needs and welfare of the Global corporations. We inhabit a transnational garrison state\, inside the automated logic of a newly formed atomistic\, disoriented\, disembodied populace\, a multitude of chaotic flux without political direction or organization. As we have painfully learned from history\, this kind of situation is capital for right-wing populism with its accompanying authoritarian personalities and\, on the other side\, at best a mild form of ambiguous socialist desire. Our enemies act quickly and often with unified fronts. \nThe SITUATIONS COLLECTIVE collaborators on “Revolution in the Virocene” as Pandemic Paper No. 1 are  Peter Bratsis\, Jeremy Glick\, Bruno Gulli\, Josh Kolbo\, Kristin Lawler and Michael Pelias.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-the-virocene-near-or-nearing-the-end-of-time/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Critical Theory,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Diary of a Digital Plague Year with Dennis Broe
DESCRIPTION:Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture\, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services with author Dennis Broe \nDENNIS BROE\, author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure\, will be talking about his new book Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture\, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services. The book offers a blow-by-blow account of the ongoing confinement\, charting the changes in our lives exacerbated by the coronavirus. Corona culture is a digital culture extraordinaire for some\, while for others it has increased panic and terror about being at work. \nThe privileged site for this exploration is serial TV and its new mode of delivery\, the increased power of the streaming services as they attempt to dominate and even throttle global media production in a neoliberal\, privatized attack on publicly financed film and television. The book charts this rise in short bursts that in toto illuminate these rapidly evolving changes in all our lives\, as Adorno’s Minima Moralia meets TV Guide.  \n The talk will touch on the year’s highs and lows including “John Brown’s Maid\,” on the travesty that was The Good Lord Bird; “Coming Undone: The Limits of MeToo” and Nicole Kidman’s power walks in The Undoing; and “Battling ’50s Apartheid One Monster at aTime” in the majestic Lovecraft Country. The year is also recounted in essays on film\, art\, books and Euro- and American Cultural Politics\, all the while asking how to turn this new phase of Digital Disaster Capitalism into a more liberatory (Virtual) Road Ahead. \nHere’s what the critics are saying: \n“With his latest masterwork\, Dennis Broe confirms what some of us already knew: when it comes to parsing and interrogating popular culture\, he has no peer.” —Gerald Horne\, author\, Paul Robeson:  The Artist as Revolutionary \n“Broe’s mastery of history\, economics\, and media let him provide details and insights that few other writers can match. These short\, readable essays offer convincing explanations of the moment in which we live.” —Julia Lesage\, Co-founder and editor of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media \n“Dennis Broe is one of the most acute critics working today. He has an astounding capacity to reach beyond a specific medium to give us wide-ranging yet deep social\, cultural\, and economic contexts. A triumph” —Toby Miller\, author of A Covid Charter\, a Better World \n “Broe’s blisteringly inciteful commentary isn’t just important\, it’s brave.” —From the Foreward by Redacted Tonight’s Lee Camp \nDENNIS BROE is the author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and Maverick or How The West Was Lost. His television criticism can be found at Bro on The Global Television Beat. His radio commentary can be heard on his show Breaking Glass onArt District Radio in Paris and on Arts Express on the Pacifica Network in the U.S. He is the author of two novels: Left of Eden\, about the Hollywood blacklist and A Hello to Arms\, about the postwar buildup of the weapons industry. He is currently teaching in the Masters’ Program at the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris\, has taught at The Sorbonne\, and was a full professor and director of the Media Arts Graduate Program at Long Island University in New York \n\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/diary-of-a-digital-plague-year-with-dennis-broe/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film and television,Film Screenings,Globalization,Media Criticism,Pandemics and Capital,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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SUMMARY:Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters
DESCRIPTION:a presentation by Gill Kernick\nintroduced by Thomas Wensing\nThe GRENFELL TOWER TRAGEDY was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed 72 people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Like other catastrophic events before it and since\, it has the power to bring aboutlasting change. But will it? The historical evidence is weighed against ‘lessons being learnt’ in a meaningful or enduring way. In an attempt to understand why\, despite enormous efforts\, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events\, the book Catastrophe and Systemic Change uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a case study to consider why we don’t learn and what it takes to enable real systemic change. The book explores the myths\, key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning\, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo. \nAuthor Gill Kernick will present her powerful analysis of the Grenfell disaster and its aftermath. The recent fire of a tower block is a sharp reminder that there are many residential structures both in the UK and mainland Europe that feature similar hazardous cladding systems which urgently need to be replaced. \nGill Kernick will be introduced by Thomas Wensing who will present a short introduction on the history of social housing in the United Kingdom to familiarize the audience with an idea of the policy context which engendered the conditions in which the Grenfelldisaster took place. \nGILL KERNICK is an internationally experienced strategic consultant specializing in safety\, culture and leadership. She lived on the twenty-first floor of Grenfell Tower from 2011 to 2014. \nTHOMAS WENSING is an architect with 20 years of experience in residential architecture. He teaches a housing studio at Kean University in New Jersey this fall and is a regular contributor to the Marxist Education Project. \n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/milan-mayor-likens-tower-block-fire-to-grenfell-disaster \nCredits for main (building) image:\nBy Natalie Oxford – https://twitter.com/Natalie_Oxford/status/874835244989513729/photo/1\, CC BY 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59913134\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. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/catastrophe-and-systemic-change-learning-from-the-grenfell-tower-fire-and-other-disasters/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Housing,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. In Volume I Marx demystifies “the commodity” by identifying the real sources of the production of wealth\, namely\, the human subject through our labor and nature. Capital subsumes these as commodities which are consumed within the process of production. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \n \nWe will begin our study of Volume II study by situating this volume in relation to the historical process of development of capitalist society which is premised on its specific social form of societal re-production\, the production of capital. To do so we will study the closing sections of the Penguin edition of Volume I\, specifically\, Part VIII: “So-called Primitive Accumulation” and the “Appendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production”. \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nMARY BOGER\, an ethnographic researcher\, has been teaching Capital since the first School for Marxist Education opened in 1975. Her major concerns are centrality of labor\, shifts in the global working class\, advancing international solidarity that can challenge the prerogatives of globalized capital and begin to shift our resources and activities towards remediation of nature and reclamation of our human species capacities. Mary has an MA in Economics\, PhD in Sociology (A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians under Israeli Citizenship). \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/capital-book-ii-the-process-of-circulation-of-capital/2021-10-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Bisbee Deportation / The Battle of Blair Mountain
DESCRIPTION:Both of these new books are essential to having an understanding of the history of American class struggles.\nI’ll Forget It When I Die: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 (AK Press\, 2021)\nMitchell Abidor\nDid you ever hear the story about 1\,186 men kidnapped in Arizona and dumped in a desert 200 miles away? \nOn July 12\, 1917\, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona\, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by the town sheriff and the mining companies\, marched through the town\, parked in the town’s baseball field\, and then put in boxcars and shipped into the New Mexican desert. The deportees were largely members or supporters of the radical IWW labor union and mostly foreign-born. The roundup and deportation were both part of a xenophobic and anti-radical campaign being carried out by capital and their allies of local state and national police in complete coordination. This pattern was common throughout the country in the early days of US participation in World War I. The mine owners then took control of the town and patrols prevented any union miners from even entering it. This little-known story is a shocking and fascinating one on its own\, but the sentiments exploited and exposed in Bisbee in 1917 speak to America today. \nOn Dark and Bloody Ground:An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars (West Virginia University Press\, 2021)\nAnne T. Lawrence\nThe Battle of Blair Mountain marked the culmination of the West Virginia mine wars\, a series of battles in the early 20th century pitting coal miners trying to join the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against the mine operators who opposed them. Given the mines’ dangerous working conditions\, low pay\, and the abuse miners and their families were subjected to at company towns\, workers decided to organize. In order to thwart what they saw as a threat to their industry\, mine operators hired armed guards and often partnered with local law enforcement to keep the miners in check When the smoke cleared on the Battle of Blair Mountain\, an estimated 1 million rounds were fired\, dozens were killed\, and 985 miners were arrested. The uprising was suppressed\, but public awareness about the appalling conditions in which the miners were forced to live\, work\, and raise their families grew considerably. \n“The local doctor\, an army veteran\, said he heard about as much shooting that day as he had when American forces assaulted Manila in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. And some of the miners told reporters how much the fighting on Blair Mountain resembled the furious woodland combat they waged against the Germans in the dense Argonne Forest of France.” —a Blair Mountain miner \nFifty years after Lawrence captured the testimonies of many protagonists of the largest labor uprising in United States history\, and one century after nearly 10\,000 armed coal miners confronted some 3\,000 lawmen and strikebreakers in Blair Mountain\, Lawrence’s work is finally available to a general audience in a newly-published book by WVU Press. \nMitchell Abidor is a translator who has published over a dozen books on French radical history and a writer on history\, ideas\, and culture who has appeared in the New York Times\, Dissent\, Foreign Affairs\, the New York Review of Books\, and Jacobin\, among many others. \nAnne T. Lawrence retired in 2017 after a 30-year career on the faculty of the College of Business at San José State University.  She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California\, Berkeley.  Anne is currently the chair of a small nonprofit that provides fellowships to early-career writers. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-bisbee-deportation-the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Hegemony,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States\, 1928-38
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author Bryan D. Palmer\nBryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labor and the left in the 1930s in the United States\, while considering the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focusing on Cannon as the founder of American Trotskyism\, Palmer builds on his earlier book\, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left\, 1890-1928 (2007)\, with a deeply-researched\, elegantly-written study of Cannon and the Trotskyist movement in the United States from 1928-38. \nSituating this dissident communist movement within the history of class struggle\, both national and international\, Palmer examines how Cannon and others fought to revive a combative trade unionism\, thwart fascism and the drift to war\, refuse Stalinism’s many degenerations\, and build a new Party and a new International\, both of which would be dedicated to reviving and realizing the possibilities of revolutionary socialism. The result is a study that provides a definitive account of the largest and most influential Trotskyist movement in the world in the 1930s\, a mobilization whose history recasts understandings of the more extensively-studied experience of United States working-class militancy and the place of the Comintern-affiliated Communist Party within it. \nBryan D. Palmer  is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair\, Canadian Studies\, Trent University\, Peterborough\, Canada. He is former editor of Labour/Le Travail\, and has published extensively on the history of labor and the revolutiona3ry left\, including the two-volume\, Marxism and Historical Practice (Brill\, 2015) and the co-authored\, Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History (Between the Lines\, 2016). \n  \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/james-p-cannon-and-the-emergence-of-trotskyism-in-the-united-states-1928-38/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Bolshevism,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:First They Took Rome with author David Broder
DESCRIPTION:How the Populist Right Conquered Italy\n“David Broder has produced an excellent account of what has made modern Italy different but also similar to other Western European states. It begins back in the early 1990s when Italy was once more a pioneer\, in that it was the first Western democracy where an established and stable two-party system collapsed suddenly\, opening the way for a series of new political forces\, labelled populist\, to emerge spectacularly and suddenly.”    — Chris Bambery\, Counterfire \n Many commentators blame Italy’s malaise on cultural ills—pointing to the corruption of public life or a supposedly endemic backwardness. In this reading\, Italy has failed to converge with the neoliberal reforms mounted by other European countries\, leaving it to trail behind the rest of the world. \nFirst They Took Rome offers a different perspective: Italy isn’t failing to keep up with its international peers but farther along the same path of decline they are following. In the 1980s\, Italy boasted the West’s strongest Communist Party; today\, social solidarity is collapsing\, working people feel ever more atomized\, and democratic institutions grow increasingly hollow. \nStudying the rise of forces like Matteo Salvini’s Lega\, this book shows how the populist right drew on a deep well of social despair\, ignored by the liberal center. Italy’s recent history is a warning from the future—the story of a collapse of public life that risks spreading across the West. \nDAVID BRODER is a Rome-based writer and translator. He is the European editor for Jacobin and regularly writes with a focus on Italy\, including in the journal Internazionale. \nVerso has provided the following code (good through November\, 2021) for 50% off of First They Took Rome.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/first-they-took-rome-with-author-david-broder/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Populism,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Clipped Coins and Civilizing Money: George Caffentzis on John Locke and David Hume
DESCRIPTION:Clipped Coins\, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money\nand Civilizing Money: Hume\, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment\na presentation with author George Caffentzis\njoined by Peter Linebaugh and Carl Wennerlind\nClipped Coins situates John Locke’s philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century. Anchored in extensive archival research\, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Locke’s economic thought to date\, contextualizing it within expanding capitalist accumulation on a world scale money becoming the universal medium of exchange. Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret\, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author\, Clipped Coins\, Abused Words\, and Civil Government continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism\, colonialism and philosophy. \nGeorge Caffentzis makes both an intervention in the field of monetary philosophy and into Marxist conceptions of the relation between philosophy and capitalist development. He vividly charts the ways in which Hume’s philosophy directly informed the project of ‘civilizing’ the people of the Scottish Highlands and pacifying the English proletariat in response to the revolts of both groups at the heart of the empire. Built on careful historical and philosophical detective work\, Civilizing Money offers a stimulating and radical political reading of the ways in which Hume’s fundamental philosophical claims performed concrete political functions. \nGEORGE CAFFENTZIS is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over 30 years before retirement. \nPETER LINEBAUGH is a child of empire\, schooled in London\, Cattaraugus (NY)\, Washington\, D.C.\, Bonn\, and Karachi. He went to Swarthmore College during the civil rights days. Besides authoring many books\, he has taught at Harvard University and Attica Penitentiary\, at New York University and the Federal Penitentiary in Marion\, Illinois. He used to edit Zerowork and was a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. \nCARL WENNERLIND is professor of history at Barnard College\, Columbia University and the author of Casualties  of Credit. Carl has also co-authored a monograph with Margaret Schabas entitled A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the  Rise of Capitalism. \n  \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. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/clipped-coins-and-civilizing-money-george-caffentzis-on-john-locke-and-david-hume/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegemony,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
DESCRIPTION:A Cultural Politics Series\nAntonio Gramsci is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. 4 more sessions of this seminar continue a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, delving into key themes related to civil society\, the state\, hegemony\, subaltern studies\, cultural analysis\, race\, class and gender studies\, film studies\, linguistics\, and critical theory. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is 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 Criminal Justice. \n  \n\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. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/studies-in-the-works-of-antonio-gramsci-with-piruz-alemi/2021-10-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Fordism,Hegemony,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor Organizing,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:The Essential Political Writings of Hubert Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Selections from A Hubert Harrison Reader\nReading and discussion with the The Revolutions Study Group \nRecognized by the contemporaries of his days as the leading orator\, editor\, thinker\,  organizer and writer in the Black Mecca of Harlem for over 10 years before his premature death at the age of 44\, Harrison’s  articles on socialism\, Black self-determination\, Africa\, Asia and the Caribbean\, US History\, class first vs race first discussion\, WWI\, imperialism and internationalism were read around the world and are as relevant today as they were a century ago. \nJeffrey B Perry author of the 2 volume biography of Hubert Harrison (Columbia University Press) and editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader(Wesleyan University Press) describes Harrison “as the most class conscious of the race radicals and the most race conscious of the class radicals in those years” adding that he is “a key link in the two great trends of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggle—the labor and civil rights trend associated associated with A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King\, Jr. and the race and nationalist trend associated with Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X.” \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009.We also meet on Tuesday nights where we study Theodore Allen’s The Invention of the White Race.     \nThere is a special offer to be part of this reading group and the Tuesday reading group for a combined price of $100.     \n\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/the-essential-political-writings-of-hubert-harrison/2021-11-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor Process,Migration,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Value\, Fictitious Capital and Finance. The Timelessness of Karl Marx’s Capital with John Milios
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx’s monetary value theory constitutes a radical break from the David Ricardo’s classical notion of value; it conceives value not as a “quantity” of labor contained in the commodity but as a social relation expressing the immanent regularities of the capitalist mode of production. Starting from his value-form analysis in Part One of Volume 1 of Capital\, Marx develops the concept of “fictitious capital” in Volume 3\, which depicts the role of interest-bearing capital and the financial sphere. Marx’s analysis allows for an understanding of contemporary capitalism\, financialization and crisis: financialization cannot be isolated from “real” economy; it should be conceived as a “technology” of exercising capitalist power and hegemony over the working classes and the society as a whole. Marx’s analysis provides the terms to rethink the contemporary neoliberal form of capitalism and its crisis as expressions of the contradictions inherent in the organization of capitalist power. \nJOHN MILIOS is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)\, Greece. He has authored more than two hundred papers published or forthcoming in refereed journals (in Greek\, English\, German\, French\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, Italian\, Chinese and Turkish) including the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, History of Political Economy\, History of Economics Review\, Review of Political Economy\, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought\, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology\, Science & Society\, Rethinking Marxism\, Review of Radical Political Economics\, and has participated as invited speaker in numerous international conferences. He has also authored or co-authored some eighteen scholarly books. His most recent books in English are A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis: Demystifying Finance (Routledge 2013\, Paperback Edition 2014\, co-authored with D. P. Sotiropoulos and S. Lapatsioras) and The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter (Routledge 2018). He is director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Thesseis (published since 1982 in Greek) and serves on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals. \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. \nArt by John Heartfield
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/value-fictitious-capital-and-finance-the-timelessness-of-karl-marxs-capital-with-john-milios/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Globalization,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211108T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211108T160000
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SUMMARY:George Caffentzis on Locke and Hume: Book special prices are still available
DESCRIPTION:This is a special offer for those who would like either or both of the books that George Caffentzis has written and presented about on Saturday\, October 30\, accompanied by Peter Linebaugh and Carl Wennerlind. \nYou can still buy the books event though the event has passed. Both books are offered here with media mail (US and Puerto ‘Rico only) at affordable combined prices. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/george-caffentzis-on-locke-and-hume-books-and-the-event/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211115T143000
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SUMMARY:Ecosocialism in the Shadow of Covid
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week online study (2 weeks remain—recordings of earlier sessions are available to new attendees)\nConvened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nJoin The Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group as we convene online this fall to consider new works on the political economy of global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic. We will read and discuss three books: The Corona Crash (Verso)\, by Grace Blakeley\, details how the pandemic is ushering in a new era in which the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state\, and behemoths like Amazon and Netflix balloon in profit and power. White Skin\, Black Fuel (Verso)\, by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective\, takes a comprehensive look at how extreme-right currents are responding to ecological crises with with authoritarian and xenophobic proposals while remaining ardent supporters of fossil capital – black fuels to support white supremacy. And A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto)\, by Max Ajl\, engages critically with various Green New Deal proposals and sketches out a radical alternative committed to degrowth\, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led study groups at The MEP on ecosocialism\, the history of capitalism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of The MEP ecosocialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist and is active with faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on ecosocialism for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. \n\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/ecosocialism-in-the-shadow-of-covid/2021-11-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Covid and Capital,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:New York City and the Experience of Modernity\, Fall session
DESCRIPTION:An eight week series featuring visual and oral presentations along with discussions each week. Please note that this will be on Tuesdays\, not Fridays. TWO MORE WEEKS \nConvened by Thomas Wensing\nIn the year 1877\, the signals were given for the rest of the century; the black would be put back; the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of North and South would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in human history. They would do it with the aid of\, and at the expense of\, black labor\, white labor\, Chinese labor\, European immigrant labor\, female labor\, rewarding them differently by race\, sex\, national origin\, and social class\, in such a way as to create separate levels of oppression – a skillful terracing to stabilize the pyramid of wealth”[1] \nThis is a seminar about New York City and its people. It is not a study of architectural styles and objects\, – although the physical stuff of cities does play a role -\, but it is a course about the experience of the way in which modernity builds and destroys cities. In the previous course we saw how the idea of modernity originated in eighteenth-century Western Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. In this course we explore how modernity is not only an expression of the constellation of forces that builds modern societies\, but from the onset has been an exclusionary project along racial\, gender and class lines. \nEurope produced\, in the words of Stuart Hall\, a cultural identity which portrayed Europe as a distinct\, unique and triumphant civilization[2]. The construction of otherness within the dominant European culture itself\, and in relation to the exploration and conquest of the Americas\, formed the pretext for native displacement and genocide\, environmental exploitation and extractivism\, oppression and slavery. These discourses of “self” and “otherness” are\, of course\, inextricably interwoven with the history of New York City\, and have always been contested. \nThis semester turns to the late 19th and 20th century and focuses on the way in which the building of New York City took place in an arena of contesting political\, cultural and economic forces; that of the dominant\, patriarchal\, Anglo-Saxon\, male\, capitalist culture on one side\, and that of the excluded social groups on the other. We will look at various groups\, whether it be socialist\, communist\, feminist\, black\, or queer\, which questioned the ‘centeredness’ of the West\, – and the structures of oppression it built -\, and which thus argued for the project of Reason and liberal democracy to be expanded and fulfil its promise. \nWriters and novelists have been able to direct the gaze at these groups which have been excluded from the path of progress\, – as it was defined and constricted by society – to express diverging meanings to life in the metropolis. Theirs were often minority views\, but in expressing them\, they were able to carve out space for the ‘other’\, and they have expanded the conversation and imagination in indelible ways. A question which looms large in this seminar is the relationship between individual agency and collective action. The seminar encourages the expression of personal\, familial\, local\, and ethnic explorations and to tie these to larger societal trends. [3] The participants will be presented with multiple views of the same topic; one drawn from the professional literature\, – either historical\, architectural\, sociological\, or drawn from literary studies -\, and one from fiction or biography. Two points of view are compared: that of sociologists\, urban planners\, geographers\, and architects\, with that of the subjective vantage point of the biographical account or the fictional character. \nWeekly Lectures and Bibliography: \nEach week consists of readings\, one lecture class and one group discussion\, preceded by a 20-minute introduction on the topic. \n[1] Zinn\, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present. New York\, NY: HarperCollins\, 2008\, p.253. \n[2] Hall\, Stuart. “Introduction.” Essay. In Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies\, edited by Stuart Hall\, David Held\, Don Hubert\, and Kenneth Thompson\, 7. Malden\, Mass: Blackwell\, 2011. \n[3] I refer here to Berman\, Marshall\, All That Is Solid Melts into Air – The Experience of Modernity\, Simon & Shuster\, New York\, 1982\, Verso\, London\, Brooklyn\, 2010\, p.346-347. \n  \nEach week consists of readings\, one lecture class and one group discussion\, preceded by a 20-minute introduction on the topic. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-york-city-and-the-experience-of-modernity-fall-session/2021-11-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Housing,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon with Alessandro Delfanti
DESCRIPTION:“Delfanti has done here what more critics of Amazon should — listen carefully to the people whose work makes the corporation function. Those of us fighting for a better future than Amazon’s dystopia have much to learn from this book”.  — Dania Rajendra\, Inaugural Director\, Athena Coalition \n‘Work hard\, have fun\, make history’ proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon’s warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance\, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early industrial capitalism\, the hundreds of thousands of workers who help Amazon fulfil consumers’ desire are part of an experiment in changing the way we all work. \nIn this book\, Alessandro Delfanti takes readers inside Amazon’s warehouses to show how technological advancements and managerial techniques subdue the workers rather than empower them\, as seen in the sensors that track workers’ every movement around the floor and algorithmic systems that re-route orders to circumvent worker sabotage. He looks at new technologies including robotic arms trained by humans and augmented reality goggles\, showing that their aim is to standardize\, measure and discipline human work rather than replace it. \nDespite its innovation\, Amazon will always need living labor’s flexibility and low cost. And as the warehouse is increasingly automated\, worker discontent increases. Striking under the banner “we are not robots”\, employees have shown that they are acutely aware of such contradictions. The only question remains: how long will it be until Amazon’s empire collapses? \nALESSANDRO DELFANTI teaches Digital Media at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (Pluto\, 2013). \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/the-warehouse-workers-and-robots-at-amazon-with-alessandro-delfanti/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Fordism,Globalization,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of Theodore W. Allen’s two volume work\nwith The Revolutions Study Group\nIn 1972\, after a lifetime of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Theodore W. 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 U.S. 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.] \n \nIt 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.” \nTheodore W. Allen spent the next 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes) which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The group has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction and this past winter and spring studied White Supremacy and Bourgeois Social Control.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race/2021-11-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Insurgency,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211120T130000
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse: The Chapter on Money (The first two notebooks)
DESCRIPTION:“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 November 6\,  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. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-the-chapter-on-money-the-first-two-notebooks/2021-11-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,Grundrisse,historical materialism,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Everyone a Legislator with author Michael Denning
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Gramsci’s work for the 21st Century: A presentation and discussion with Michael Denning\n“Perhaps Gramsci’s political science is … a “necessary expression of his time\, the short twentieth century\, an era now ended\, the ae of three words divided between Fordist capitalism\, bureaucratic communism and the post-colonial settlements of decolonization. If this is true\, is there a future for Gramsci’s legacy?” —Michael Denning \nIn the introduction to the May/June\, 2021 New Left Review is this summary of Michael Denning’s essay\, “Everyone a Legislator”: “What is the principal legacy today of Gramsci’s writing on politics. Often taken to be a theory of the party as a “modern prince” derived from Machiavelli\, can this still be so in an epoch when political parties are everywhere in decline? This year in the May June issue of New Left Review\, Michael Denning reasons that what now matters in Gramsci’s work is his theory of organizing and a premonitory form of democratic legislation.” \nThe essay is available online at https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii129. \nThe image used here\, Verso la città futura (toward a future city)\, was painted on the side of an apartment complex on via Canova in Florence by artist Jorit. Underlying the painting\, inscribed into the 213 meter wall is the following from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: “Even when everything is or seems lost\, one must calmly get back to work\, starting from the beginning…The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old dies and the new cannot be born”. \nMichael Denning is the author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015); Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997); Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987). Michael teaches American Studies at Yale University\, where he coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture. \n  \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/everyone-a-legislator-with-author-michael-denning/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Marx,Marxisms,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211121T160000
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SUMMARY:Revenge Capitalism with Max Haiven
DESCRIPTION:Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts\nA presentation with discussion with author Max Haiven\n“Max Haven retraces the roots of the current regression\, of the reactionary trend that is driving the world toward a new darkness. These roots are humiliation and revenge. In my opinion this book is of strategical importance.” —Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi\, author of Futurability The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility \nCapitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of “ordinary” structural violence\, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration\, climate chaos\, unpayable debt\, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life. \nIn Revenge Capitalism\, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today\, he examines the opioid crisis in the US\, the growth of ‘surplus populations’ worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts – both as reparations owed\, and as a methodology of oppression. Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers\, but Max has made a powerful call to the radical imagination: “When you live in someone else’s utopia\, all you have is revenge. We live in capitalism’s utopia\, a world almost completely reconfigured to suit the needs of accumulation. And the world’s alight\, and ours is an age of vengeance. It is vengeance\, sadly\, that is usually directed at those who least deserve it and which leaves those whose actions led to the current state of affairs\, or who benefit from it\, free or even more empowered.”  —Max Haiven\, from his introduction to Revenge Capitalism \nMAX HAIVEN is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in Culture\, Media and Social Justice. His most recent books are Art after Money\, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). Max also edits VAGABONDS\, a series of short\, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University\, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL). \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/revenge-capitalism-with-max-haiven/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Organizing,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Brecht’s Communist Manifesto Today!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, Utopia\, Doctrine\n \nDarko Suvin with Pratyush Chandra\, Bill Henning\, Javeed Malik & Neeraj Malick\, and Christopher Winks\n“Poetry and communism: forms for emancipatory egalitarian longing. As vectors of desire\, they intertwine frustration and hope\, utopia and organization\, bread and roses. They call us to attend to the past\, not just to survive\, but to establish again the revolutionary horizon we need to live. Communism and poetry: Darko Suvin shows us how they are the same.”     —Jodi Dean\, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging \nA POEM • WHAT EXISTENTIAL ANTI-UTOPIA MEANS FOR US • BERTOLT BRECHT: (THE MANIFESTO) •  COMMENTS ON BRECHT’S MANIFESTO •  WHAT IS TO BE DONE? \nIn place of the old bourgeois society\, with its classes and class antagonisms\, we shall have an association\, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.” —1848 Communist Manifesto\, Marx and Engels.\nCome join in a celebration and reclamation of the challenge Marx and Engels gave humanity in the original 1848 Communist Manifesto\, reclaimed and rewritten anew in poetry by Bertolt Brecht in the 20th century. Thanks to Darko Suvin\, poet and revolutionary intellectual\, Brecht’s unpublished work has been translated into English and is here\, ready to be appropriated by us of the 21st century. The Marxist Education Project is proud to present a reading and discussion of Brecht’s work and its meaning for us at a time when all of humanity\, our earth\, and all life as we know it is threatened by the moribund laws of self-seeking capitalist private property. Brecht premises his poem on the practical reality\, only fully in place after WWII\, of a globalized capitalized world. Marx understood that capitalist relations would globalize our societies and earth and saw this taking place\, but during his lifetime this had not yet been fully achieved. Now\, having occupied our earth\, today\, the Bezos and company are exploring the possibilities of extending their private interests into our universe all for their personal aggrandizement and under the dictates of money making more money\, accumulation for the sake of accumulation. Our guest speakers and discussants will explore the relations of poetry\, the meaning of utopia and anti-utopia\, and doctrine as we re-envision the emancipatory project and the necessity of self-consciously identifying the difficult tasks of transitioning specific to our particular country’s development while always in relation to and for the mutual development of each and all. Interestingly\, Brecht closes his Manifesto replying to Marx and Engels closing line in their Manifesto\, “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win\,” by answering\, “How may the workers break their own class chains? Only by breaking everybody’s chains.” Marx once said that there are historical moments when the working class must gain class-consciousness and become historical subjects. We are at just such a historical moment. \nAre we up to the task? \n  \n  \nThis event is sliding scale: $23 for those who can afford front row orchestra seating / $3 General Admission a / $0 General Admission b \nWith registration a link for the event will be provided in time for attending this event.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/brechts-communist-manifesto-today/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Art of Diane Esmond
DESCRIPTION:Presented by her son Victor Wallis\n \nDiane Esmond (1910-1981) left an under-appreciated legacy of paintings. Although her artistic eye ranged over many subjects\, her culminating evocations of the tropical forest have taken on added importance in the decades since her death. Based for most of her life in France\, she displayed her work in Paris in the 1930s and internationally from the ‘50s through the ‘70s. Forced into exile in 1940\, she spent the intervening years in New York; the paintings she left behind were seized (and many destroyed) by the Nazi occupation regime. Her later work\, inspired by wide travel\, showed a continuous evolution of style\, but her orientation was more toward creating works of beauty than to keeping up with current trends of the art world. \nVictor Wallis remained in the United States when his mother returned to France; he has preserved the extensive correspondence that they maintained over the last 25 years of her life. Although known primarily for his political writings including Red-Green Revolution (2018)\, Democracy Denied (2019)\, and Socialist Practice (2020)\, Victor is also an amateur musician and has long been interested in the social roots of various art forms \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-art-of-diane-esmond/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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SUMMARY:A Guide to The Communist Manifesto with Phil Gasper
DESCRIPTION:The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels \nA presentation with Phil Gasper \n“…All this attention to Marx’s ideas is certainly welcome. But – and of course there is a ‘but’ – with few exceptions\, recent commentators have restricted their praise of the Manifesto to what it says about the nature and workings of the capitalist system. Yet Marx and Engels did not write the Manifesto as a piece of abstract economic analysis. It was intended as a revolutionary call to action – an explanation not only of what is wrong with society\, but how it can be transformed to create “an association\, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” (Pt. II\, ¶ 74). Central to this strategy for change is their claim that in the modern working class – the proletariat – capitalism has produced “its own gravediggers” (Pt. I\, ¶ 53). That is\, that capitalism itself has created the instrument of its abolition – an oppressed class with both the capacity and the interest to fight for the overthrow of the existing system\, the emancipation of all humanity\, and which\, unlike previous oppressed classes\, Twas capable of democratic self-rule…. The claim that the proletariat is a revolutionary class is the heart and soul of  The Communist Manifesto.”      —Phil Gasper\, International Socialist Review\, Issue 5 \nHere\, at last\, is an authoritative introduction to history’s most important political document\, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. This beautifully organized and presented edition of The Communist Manifestois fully annotated\, with clear historical references and explication\, additional related texts\, and a glossary that will bring the text to life for students\, as well as the general reader. Since it was first written in 1848\, the Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. It has been banned\, censored\, burned\, and declared “dead.” But year after year\, the text only grows more influential\, remaining required reading in courses on philosophy\, politics\, economics\, and history. \nPHIL GASPER is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University and the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document (Haymarket\, 2005) and Imperialism and War: Classic Writings by V.I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukarin (Haymarket\, 2017). He is a co-editor of the journal New Politics and a member of DSA and of the Tempest Collective. He lives in Madison\, Wisconsin. \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.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-guide-to-the-communist-manifesto-with-phil-gasper/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Engels,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Parade of the Old New with artist/author Zoe Beloff
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion of Booklyn’s important new accordion fold-out 40-panel book with painter and author Zoe Bellof\n \nA discussion by Zoe Beloff about her new 40-panel accordion book that reproduces\, Parade of the Old New\, an epic panorama on cardboard panels\, a 40 meter long  allegory of the American body politic. The title is taken from a 1938 poem by Bertolt Brecht that inspired the theme of this work; now more than ever\, we are not finished with the past and the past is not finished with us. The project was launched with Trump’s inauguration and continued until he was defeated at the ballot box. It begins with the president’s triumphal entry into Washington DC. Beyond stretches a country where the Mexican border walls meets Japanese internment camps from the 1940s at a vanishing point. It chronicles the desecration of public lands for profit\, the battle of Charlottesville\, the arrest of undocumented workers across the country and the detention of asylum seekers at the border. It illustrates the toll of COVID 19\, the work of the nurses\, the breadlines\, young people painting Black Lives Matter mapping a road ahead\, the storming of the Capitol and finally the flickering light of what might be a new beginning. Zoe will also talk about her essay also included in the book “The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World” in which she explores how painters have explored themes of social justice. She brings the writing of both Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to bear on how we can think through the representation of history and lived experience. \nZOE BELLOF is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. She aims to make radical art that educates\, entertains\, and provokes discussion. Most importantly\, as her work attests\, she believes protest should be vibrant\, humorous and colorful\, a carnival of resistance to light the way in dark times. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum\, Site Santa Fe\, the MHKA museum in Antwerp\, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. However she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. These have included in New York City; The Coney Island Museum\, Participant\, Momenta and The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been awarded fellowships from. The Graham Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at Queens College CUNY. \nBOOKLYN\, INC.  is a non profit organization founded in 1999 and located in Sunset Park\, Brooklyn. Their mission is to promote artists’ books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting\, exhibiting\, and distributing their artwork and archives. They specifically assist artists and organizations committed to environmental and social justice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/parade-of-the-old-new-with-artist-author-zoe-beloff/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Emancipation,Insurgency,Labor Organizing,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Poetry,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Disputing the Deluge with Darko Suvin joined by Editor Hugh O’Connell and special guests
DESCRIPTION:Collected 21st-Century Writings on Utopia\, Narration\, and Survival by DARKO SUVIN\nwith Editor HUGH O’CONNELL\nwith guests Marc Angenot\, Gerry Canavan\, Patricia McManus\, & Eric D. Smith\n“Everything in here is of note\, from the essays early in this century on fascism and on fantasy to the most recent pieces on the enduring importance of communism; the growing danger of anti-utopian discourse; and especially the totalizing environmental\, economic\, political\, and cultural terror and destruction brought on by the systemic operations of the Capitalocene.” —Tom Moylan\, Glucksman Professor Emeritus at the University of Limerick\, Ireland\, and author of Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Bloomsbury\, 2020) \nFor over 50 years\, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of science fiction to utopian studies\, formalist and leftist critical theory\, and his broader engagement with what he terms “political epistemology.” Disputing the Deluge joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin’s work on science fiction and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 29 of Suvin’s most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century\, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O’Connell and a new preface by the author. \nBeginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy\, the essays collected here—each a brilliant example of engaged thought—highlight the value of science fiction for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin’s interrogations show how speculative fiction has responded to 9/11\, the global war on terror\, the 2008economic collapse\, and the rise of conservative populism\, along with contemporary critical utopian analyses of the Capitalocene\, the climate crisis\,COVID19\, and the decline of democracy. By bringing together Suvin’s essays  all in one place\, this collection allows new generations of students and scholars to engage directly with his work and its continuing importance and timeliness. \nDarko Suvin is Emeritus Professor of English at McGill University\, Canada\, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences\, since 1986. Darko has authored 25 books\, including the foundational study in science fiction Metamorphoses  of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre(1979\, 2016)\, Victorian Science Fiction in the U. K.: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power (1983)\, Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988)\, and In Leviathan’s Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time (2012). \nHugh C. O’Connell is Assistant Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Boston\, USA. He is editor of Legacies of Blade Runner\, special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television (2020; with Sarah Hamblin); Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction\, and a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review (2019; with David M. Higgins). \nMarc Angenot\, FRSC\, a professor in McGill’s French Language and Literature Department for over forty years\, has been awarded the Prix du Québec Léon-Gérin for his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. He is world-renowned for his research and is widely considered the founder of Social Discourse Theory. His vast body of work encompasses intellectual history\, linguistics\, politics\, semiotics\, rhetoric and informal logic\, as well as literary theory. Among his critically acclaimed works are Le Marxisme dans les grands récits (Paris\, 2005) and Dialogues de sourds (Paris\, 2008). In 2004\, The Yale Journal of Criticism published a special issue titled “Marc Angenot and the Scandals of History”.  Gerry Canavan is co-editor of special issues of American Literature and Polygraph on “speculative fiction” and “ecology and ideology\,” respectively and has edited (with Kim Stanley Robinson) the critical anthology\, Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction\, 2014 and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (co-edited with Eric Carl Link\, 2015. Dr\, Patricia McManus is a senior lecturer in the Humanities at the 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. Eric D. Smith. is professor of modern and contemporary British and Anglophone literature at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Globalization\, Utopia\, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (Pagrave\, 2012) and editor of Darko Suvin’s career-spanning collection Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism in the Ralahine Utopian Studies Series (Peter Lang\, 2021).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/disputing-the-deluge-with-darko-suvin-joined-by-editor-hugh-oconnell-and-special-guests/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fantasy Fiction,Food and politics,Literary Studies,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Technology,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Labor under Neoliberal Authoritarianism\nEditors Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol joined by contributors Cosku Celik\, Ertan Erol\, and Elif Hacısalihoğlu\nA comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey\nDecades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change\, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life. This presentation will look at the historical and current outcomes brough about by the authoritarian\, militarized civil life for Turkish workers. What will be the long term consequences for workers in Turkey? \nMoving beyond the headlines and personalities\, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews\, this book offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace struggles\, trade unionism\, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism\, migration\, gender\, agrarian change and precarity\, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers. This volume also brings together a broad range of Turkish activists and scholars who consider what the dynamics and contradictions of working-class resistance against Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime have become; worker self-management\, organized labor\, and class struggles in rural areas are examined. \nÇağatay Edgücan Şahin is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Ordu\, Turkey. He has published various books including Human Capital and Human Resources: A Critical Approach (2011).\nMehmet Erman Erol is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge\, UK. He has contributed to journals and books on Turkish & Middle East political economy and labor market restructuring.\nCosku Celik (York University\, Visiting Assistant Professor). Her chapter entitled ‘The Making of the Rural Proletariat in Neoliberal Turkey’\nElif Hacısalihoğlu (Trakya University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor). Chapter ‘A View of Precarization from Turkey: Urban-rural Dynamics and Intergenerational Precarity’\nErtan Erol (Istanbul University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor) Chapter ‘Burden or a Saviour at a time of Economic Crisis: AKP’s ‘Open-Door Migration Policy’ and its Impact on Labor Market Restructuring in Turkey \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. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-turkey/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy\, Ecology and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Himani Bannerji\, Michael Brie\, Gregory Claeys\, and Silvia Federici with editor Marcello Musto\n \nThis book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of 20th century Marxism. The dual aim of this collective volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion on Marx’s critique of political economy and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions\, like ecology and migration\, to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. \nContributions of globally renowned scholars\, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines\, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology\, migration\, gender\, the capitalist mode of production\, the labour movement\, globalization\, social relations\, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative. \nOrder the book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81764-0 \nThis event is sponsored by the Marxist Education Project\, Shelter & Solidarity\, The Community Church of Boston\, Encuentro5\, Hardball Press\, and Socialism & Democracy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/rethinking-alternatives-with-marx-economy-ecology-and-migration/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Migration,Revolutions Study Group,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:Book Special Redux! Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to offer Andy Merrifield’s 2020 book\, Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times with a total price of $12.50 including shipping.\n“This enchanting portrait of Marx at work\, with his legendary overcoat and shuffling ways\, is brilliant\,\ninformative\, and beautifully written. Merrifield then puts the insights he derives from reconnecting with\nMarx’s writing to work to illuminate everything from the writings of Gogol and Dickens to the\narchitectural disaster of New York’s Hudson Yards.”\n— David Harvey\, author\, A Companion to Marx’s Capital and Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-special-marx-dead-and-alive-reading-capital-in-precarious-times-with-shipping/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Socialism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:We Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art\, Activism and Autonomous Zones
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. A later date in 2022 will be found.\nby Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan\nChronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend)\, a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project\nIn 2008\, as the storms of the financial crash blew\, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs\, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic\, otherwise known as the ZAD (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning\, illegally occupying 4\,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018\, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory\, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory\, inspired by a diverse array of approaches\, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology\, insurrectionary writings and radical art history. \nThis event considers one of a number of books from the new Pluto Books Vagabonds series. Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. Further info: https://vagabonds.xyz/wandi/  \nIsabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan\, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. \nJay Jordan is co-founder of Reclaim the Streets (1995-2000) and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army\, and co-author of We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (Verso\, 2003) and A User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible (Minor Compositions\, 2011). He is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. We have introduced a $2.50 rate (less than a one way transit fare) for those who want to contribute but have difficulty with all three levels of our sliding scale of $7 to $11. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Register with the “Cash at First Session” option if you are not able to pay. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/we-are-nature-defending-itself-entangling-art-activism-and-autonomous-zones/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Food and politics,Insurgency,Mutual Aid,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \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. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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