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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Urban Displacements and Contemporary Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism\nwith author Susanne Soederberg\n \nIn the 1870s\, Friedrich Engels published a series of articles on “The Housing Question\,” wherein he argued that decent\, secure housing for the working class is incompatible with the commodity nature of urban property and human labor power in the capitalist system\, as the movements of capital inevitably will undermine all piecemeal reforms. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low-rent housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labor power while being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance\, including landlords\, employers and inter-scalar state practices\, have served to reproduce urban displacements and obfuscate their gendered\, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side\, and capital accumulation on the other.Berlin\, Dublin\, and Vienna are case studies. \n“What is the role of racialised barriers to housing in changing landscapes of accumulation? How does renting become a central process in disuniting working people? This insightful work guides the reader through this most urgent of debates.” —Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Centre for Migration\, Refugees and Belonging\, University of East London \nSusanne Soederberg\, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University\, Ontario\, Canada\, is also the author of Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry (2014) and Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism (2010).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/urban-displacements-and-contemporary-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Enclosures,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210919T140000
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SUMMARY:Looking Over the Abyss with Steven Colatrella and Michael Meeropol
DESCRIPTION:The US and Europe Beyond Capitalism\nEurope and subsequently the United States rose to power and wealth along with the rise of capitalism. But capitalism has now shifted its attention to Asia\, even as the conditions of ordinary workers in Europe and North America decline\, and the political influence of the West wanes. Looking Over the Abyss argues that only by breaking decisively with capitalism\, and aligning themselves with the majority of the world’s people against exploitation\, can the peoples of Europe and the United States save their societies. They must look not into the abyss where capitalism now proposes to plunge them\, but over the abyss\, over the horizon of capitalism\, to an alternative present and future beyond capitalism. This work proposes concrete steps that can be taken to change institutions to move beyond capitalism\, and helps to clarify the meanings of key concepts such as the State\, Nations\, Internationalism\, Capitalism\, Corporation and Class in ways that are practical and useful for social change. \nThis is an original\, insightful and important discussion of the capitalisms found in Europe and North America and the abyss they face against Chinese competition. I found especially  valuable Colatrella’s analyses of the different political histories\, even sociologies of  Europe’s and the US’s different capitalisms. The inability of either to compete with the low standard-of-living capitalism\, now developing particularly in China\, has already created the socio-economic conditions for the rightist\, anti-democratic ‘strong men’ now prospering  in the rest of the capitalist world. For Colatrella\, a renewed socialist advance\, which he well if briefly characterizes\, is the way out of this abyss.  —John McDermott is the author of Restoring Democracy to America and Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy. \nSteven Colatrella is a longtime activist and college professor who has taught at many institutions in both the United States and Italy. He is the author of a book on globalization and immigration\, Workers of the World: African and Asian Migrants in Italy in the 1990s\, (Africa World Press: 2001) and has published articles and essays on capitalism\, corporations\, global governance and class. He lives in northern Italy. \nMichael Meeropol is an economist and author of  Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution\, and Professor Emeritus of Economics\, Western New England University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/looking-over-the-abyss-with-steven-colatrella-and-michael-meeropol/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,China,Class,Classes/Events,Financialization,Globalization,Hegemony,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210911T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210911T160000
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SUMMARY:Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States
DESCRIPTION:with author Andrew Kolin\nAndrew Kolin presents a detailed explanation of the essential elements that characterize capital’s relations to the working class and how capital relies on various forms of repressing reform and revolutionary movements by workers. The repression is directly linked to the class struggle between capital and labor. The starting point examines labor repression after the American Revolution. Andrew’s book then follows the role of the state along with the explosive growth of American capitalism to analyze the long history of capital and labor conflict with details of the US state being aligned with the interests of capital throughout American history. \nWholesale exclusion of labor from a fundamental role in framing policy in these institutions was crucial in understanding the unfolding of labor repression. Repression emerges amid a social struggle to acquire and maintain control over policy-making bodies\, which pits the few against the many. In response\, labor attempts to push back against institutional exclusion in part by the formation of labor unions. Capital reacts to such actions using repression to prevent labor from having a greater role in social institutions. For instance\, this is played out inside the workplace as capital and labor engage in a political struggle over the function of the workplace. Given capital’s monopoly of ownership\, capital employs various means to repress labor at work\, including the introduction of technology\, mass firings\, crushing strikes\, and the use of force to break up unions. \n \n  \nThe role of the state is not to be overlooked in its support of elite control over production\, as well as aiding through legal means the growth of a capitalist economy in opposition to labor’s conception of greater economic democracy. Andrew’s work explains how and why the working classes will continue to confront repression by capital in old and new forms as we approach the second quarter of the 21st century. \nAndrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College. \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/political-economy-of-labor-repression-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Marx's Capital,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210909T190000
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SUMMARY:Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)
DESCRIPTION:with The Marxist Education Project Literature Studies Group\n“As Georges Bataille tells us\, there is a profound link between literature and evil. If writing and reading are transgressive acts\, or crimes\, which unmask deep philosophical truths about us and our world\, then what does crime fiction — a genre focused on those transgressions — reveal? Scholars from Dennis Porter to Ernest Mandel argue that the crime genre is also distinctly social\, even political\, and revealing about mainstream ideology\, power\, and control.”           —Russell Williams\, “The Serie Noire and Social Intervention”\, LA Review of Books\, July 27\, 2015 \nFor the last four summers\, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach\, on the subway\, a train\, boat or plane\, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home. \nWe have completed our discussions of Drive\, Clark Gifford’s Body\, Dread Journey\, Black Wings Has My Angel and How the Dead Live. \n \nSEPTEMBER 9 • THE LESS DEAD by DENISE MINA\nA story of daughters and mothers\, secrets and choices\, and how the search for the truth—and a long-hidden killer—will lead one woman to find herself. 336 pages \nDenise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan\, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir\, she has also dabbled in comic book writing\, having written 13 issues of Hellblazer. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-summer-noir/2021-09-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Radical Literature,Speculative fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210823T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210823T180000
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SUMMARY:Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation\, Work and Changes in the Labor Process
DESCRIPTION:A 6 Week Close-Reading and Discussion series \nConducted with the Capital Studies Group\nIn the Introduction to Augmented Exploitation\, co-editors Phoebe Moore and Jamie Woodcock point up two main problems with how automation and artificial intelligence are being discussed as the end of the first quarter of the 21st century draws near. Number one is the claim that Al is changing the labor process in new and unprecedented ways. But capitalists have always introduced machines in order to increase the amount of what each worker can produce in a given period of time. This is where the second problem comes in—either a certain process will be automated\, or it will not—a binary that focuses on machines and not on the workers who operate them. Rather than the prospects of automation and interpretive learning replacing workers\, we need rather to see that these are augmentations of the labor process. \n  \nAugmented Exploitation is divided into three areas: Making It\, Faking It\, and Breaking It. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and Al-augmented apps that collect data about workers and consumers in innovative ways\, but also to to keep wages and worker representation under control. The contributors to Augmented Exploitation show that workers are not taking these dramatic changes lying down; they present case studies of new and exciting forms of resistance that are springing up across the globe. Join us to learn more of the reality of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (Al) on workers’ lives. \nDuring these six sessions we will also review several articles from this year’s Socialist Register\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living. In particular\, we will discuss “The Time of Our Lives”\, Bryan Palmer’s essay on capital and temporality\, and Larry Lohmann’s essay on “Interpretive Learning”. Time\, always a frontier of class struggle\, pushed by automation and other digital management controls that are ever-present today\, is now at the forefront of contentious labor-capital relations. Lohmann stresses a number of challenges that interpretation machines have presented to movement organizing and in response argues that it is important to understand the continuities between industrial-era and digital-era value-creation rather than to only focus on the differences. He also emphasizes that the contradiction between living and dead labor that Marx identified not only persists in today’s digital economy\, but also remains fundamental both to understanding crisis and to identifying possibilities for radical political change. \n The CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than four years. There are now several groups studying the two volumes of Capital along with an active Grundrisse reading group. We are students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated ourselves to facilitating broad study of current issues of life and work during this late globalized stage of capitalist development in addition to the work we continue to do around Karl Marx’s Capital. \nFor residents of the US and Puerto Rico\, when you purchase the book along with registering for the class there is a $10 savings. This price includes shipping via USPS Media Mail. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/augmented-exploitation-artificial-intelligence-automation-work-and-changes-in-the-labor-process/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Fordism,Globalization,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210815T200000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-08-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210724T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210724T133000
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-07-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210718T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210718T190000
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SUMMARY:Darko Suvin: Communism\, Poetry\, Comradeship—a celebratory reading and discussion
DESCRIPTION:Come to celebrate the beginning of Darko Suvin’s 91st year of comradeship. \nA poem from 1993—one of many you can find with much more of Darko’s writing along with many decades of many poems per decade at darkosuvin.com \nSummer\, On a Hill\nFor Marc\nI took the best roads I could\nThe choices got funnelled ever tighter\nFinally I’m here\, this heavy Summer\nNo other paths led to wider horizons\nSo much is clear now to the future historians\nI pick up the sutras & Sam of the Stoa\nAlas! we’re back at where they speak to us:\nwith regret I reread the clarions of Karl & bearings of Bert\nThey sound like beautiful childhood tales of Tahiti\nA mantis the hue of withered grass for haying\nSwings its sickles\, maybe for me.\n1993 \nDarko Suvin will appear on the eve of his 91st birthday via an international video conference presented by The Marxist Education Project\, in celebration of a life of communism\, poetry\, comradeship and all that goes into a life well-known for commitment to all of this and more. \nReadings and discussion: A selection of poems from Darko’s more than 40 years of writing   poetry along with sharing memoirs of many more years of vigorous engagement while active in the multiple forms of struggle for communism from continents the world over that Darko has called home\, will all be part of this mid-summer celebration a life of comradeship. \nDarko’s website (listed above) has many levels\, from which a rich biography will emerge. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for obtaining a zoom url for participating on July 18. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/darko-suvin-communism-poetry-comradeship-a-celebratory-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,historical materialism,Insurgency,Literary Studies,Marx,Marxisms,Poetry,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity,Speculative fiction
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SUMMARY:Left Populism in Europe: Lessons From Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos
DESCRIPTION:with author Marina Prentoulis\njoined in conversation with Populism European editor  David Broder\nThis book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots\, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based\, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect\, the left’s attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labor Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries\, while Podemos has had better fortune in Spain and is now in government with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. \nBringing a wealth of experience in political organizing\, Marina Prentoulis argues that left populism is a political logic that brings together isolated demands against a common enemy. She looks at how egalitarian pluralism could transform economic and political institutions in a radical\, democratic direction. \nBut each party does this differently\, and the key to understanding where to go from here lies in a serious analysis of the roots of each movement’s base\, the forms of party organization\, and the particular national contexts. This book is a clear and holistic approach to left populism that will inform anyone wanting to understand and move forward positively during this bleak time for the left in Europe. \n“It’s been a dramatic decade for left-wing political projects in Greece\, Spain\, and the UK. Through personal experience\, a wealth of interviews and analysis\, Prentoulis pulls together an assessment which is vital for anyone who wants to understand the post-crash upsurge of radical politics in Europe.”  —Nick Dearden\, Director of Global Justice Now \n“Rigorously reflecting on the choreography of contemporary left-wing experiments flirting with left populism in crisis-ridden Europe\, Prentoulis offers a challenging first assessment of its political advances\, limitations and potential for left strategy.” —Yannis Stavrakakis\, Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece \nMarina Prentoulis is Associate Professor in Politics and Media at the University of East Anglia. She has been the UK spokesperson of Syriza and has given numerous interviews on British and International media including BBC’s Newsnight and the Andrew Marr Show as well as CNN and Sky News. \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. David is also the author of First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy (Verso). \n  \nBooks will be available on June 24. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. Events and classes are free for those who write to info@marxedproject.org \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/left-populism-in-europe-lessons-from-jeremy-corbyn-to-podemos/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Left Populism,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy
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SUMMARY:WOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Editor Peter Cole\nThe Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago\, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary\, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organizing methods including direct-action and direct-democracy\, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called\, affectionately\, Wobblies. \nThis book is the first to look at the history of the IWW from an international perspective. Bringing together a group of leading scholars\, it includes lively accounts from a number diverse countries including Australia\, Canada\, Mexico\, South Africa\, Sweden and Ireland\, which reveal a fascinating story of global anarchism\, syndicalism and socialism. \nPETER COLE is Professor of History at Western Illinois University and Research Associate at the Society\, Work and Development Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront (University of Illinois Press\, 2007). \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied attendance because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to receive the url for access to this or any other class or event. \n  \nWednesday\, July 14  • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wobblies-of-the-world-a-global-history-of-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210710T160000
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Inquiry into the Birth of Capitalism: Why Does It Matter?
DESCRIPTION:with John Milios\n“In themselves\, money and commodities are no more capital than are the means of production and subsistence. They need to be transformed into capital.”    —Karl Marx\, Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume 1\, Chapter 26\nSince Adam Smith\, political economists\, historians and other social scientists have offered various explanations about the beginnings of capitalism as a mode of production. Their different conclusions imply very different ideas about what capitalism is. In The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System (Routledge paperback\, 2019)\, author John Milios delves deeply into the historical circumstances that turned money and commodities into capital on a systemic scale. In doing so\, he develops theoretical insights into the nature of capitalism as a system of class domination that has swept away all previously existing social relations throughout the world. \nAs Marx argues\, “original accumulation” of capital\, the transformation of pre-capitalist to capitalist social relations\, is not explained by the fairy tale of wise and thrifty household producers getting wealthy by their own labor. John Milios’ research into the “pre-capitalist money owner”\, the role of commodity production (as opposed to production for direct consumption) based on slave labor in the ancient world\, and the development of ”contractual money begetting” production in Europe in the middle ages\, helps us understand what is and is not capitalism. He critically analyzes both Marxist and non-Marxist literature. He uses the rise and fall of the Venetian mercantile republic as a case study. He concludes that “No version of capitalism is the realm of … freedom or justice. Capitalism is a social system in which … coercion guaranteeing economic exploitation of the ruled by the rulers is incorporated into the economic relation itself.” \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-inquiry-into-the-birth-of-capitalism-why-does-it-matter/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,historical materialism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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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-3/2021-06-26/
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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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles\, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation\, mass production\, gender\, affective and reproductive labour\, syndicalism and independent unions\, and labour and Leftist social and political movements\, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles\, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation\, mass production\, gender\, affective and reproductive labour\, syndicalism and independent unions\, and labour and Leftist social and political movements\, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:AUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work
DESCRIPTION:with editors Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nand three working guests who work at jobs being altered by the Interpretation Machines of Artificial Intelligence\nAugmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on workers’ lives. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilize innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers\, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. \nGoing beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilise innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers\, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. They also show that workers are not taking this lying down\, providing case studies of new and exciting form of resistance that are springing up across the globe. \nPHOEBE V. MOORE is Assoc Professor of the Futures of Work based at the University of Leicester School of Business and a Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). Her most recent book is The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work\, Technology and What Counts (Routledge\, 2018). JAMIE WOODCOCK is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity Press\, 2019)\, Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket\, 2019)\, and Working The Phones (Pluto\, 2016). His research focuses on labor\, work\, the gig economy\, platforms\, resistance\, organizing\, and videogames. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied attendance because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to receive the url for access to this or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/augmented-exploitation-artificial-intelligence-automation-and-work/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Globalization,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois
DESCRIPTION:with Sean Ahern\n2 more sessions through June 22\nOn February 23\, 1968\, Martin Luther King\, speaking in honor of W. E. B. Du Bois\, had this to say about Black Reconstruction: \n“…Black Reconstruction was six years in writing but was 33 years in preparation…To understand why his study of the Reconstruction was a monumental achievement it is necessary to see it in context. White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high…. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nBlack Reconstruction provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “The South\, after the war\, presented the greatest opportunity for a real national labor movement which the nation ever saw or is likely to see again for many decades. Yet\, the labor movement\, with but few exceptions\, never realized the situation. It never had the intelligence or knowledge\, as a whole\, to see in black slavery and Reconstruction\, the kernel and meaning of the labor movement in the United States.” (p.353) \nThese sessions will continue through to June 22. The suggested sliding scale fees are being reduced by 20-25%. \nSEAN AHERN is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the USPS\, the transit industry and jn education. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the links to join this group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-in-america-by-w-e-b-du-bois/2021-06-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,Classes/Events,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives
DESCRIPTION:with editor Robert Ovetz and researcher Gifford Hartman\nRumors of the death of the global labor movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement\, workers’ struggle is being reborn from below by workers themselves. \nBy engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers’ inquiry\, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions\, the technical composition of capital\, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics\, strategies\, organizational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries\, from call center workers to platform\, trucking\, cleaning\, logistics\, mining\, auto factories\, teachers\, and adjunct professors\, are re-energizing unions\, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers’ organizations. \nIn one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle\, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors\, looking at workers’ movements in China\, Mexico\, the US\, South Africa\, Turkey\, Argentina\, Italy\, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders\, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do. \nROBERT OVETZ is a Lecturer in Political Science at San Jose State University in California. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill\, 2018 and Haymarket\, 2019) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society. GIFFORD HARTMAN is a member of the Global Supply Chain Study/Research Group (https://libcom.org/blog/empire-logistics) and is an adult educator\, labor trainer and working class historian. He has helped organize wildcat strikes at his own workplace and training sessions to build working class solidarity worldwide. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url to gain access to this event or any other event or class of The Marxist Education Project. \nThe price of the book includes shipping. This book offer is only good for the US unless you are willing to pay the difference between US Media Mail costs and the cost to mail to the country you want the book shipped to.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/workers-inquiry-and-global-class-struggle-strategies-tactics-objectives/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Matters of State: Literature & Espionage
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Reading Group takes on three more spy novels\n \nWhy Spy Novels? \nSpy novels emerged as a distinct genre around the time of World War I\, coinciding with the creation of formal intelligence agencies in many countries. This was a period characterized by heightened concern on the part of rulers about national security\, imperial strength\, and the impending conflict of the Great War. Spy novels from the early twentieth century reflect these concerns\, and generally feature secret agents and seemingly realistic tales of international intrigue. With the rise of fascism\, spy novels shifted their focus to examine the dynamics of political movements within individual states\, assessing their threats to the stability of the international political order. In these stories\, the anxiety over the powerlessness of the individual is assuaged by the resourcefulness and ultimate success of exceptional or lucky individuals in confronting such harrowing problems as war\, nuclear proliferation\, and terrorism. The verisimilitude of spy novels written in the twentieth century is an integral part of the genre’s popularity; the genre often reflects political\, economic\, and cultural anxieties as well as showcasing advances in surveillance technology. You will see reference to The Human Factor by Graham Greene below. The group has read and discussed this novel during April. \nTHE HUMAN FACTOR (1978) • GRAHAM GREENE Greene aimed with this book to write a novel of espionage free from the violence that is more typical of the genre. Another theme Greene explored was  Western capital’s hypocritical relations with South Africa under apartheid. He thought that even though some Western capitalists would often publicly oppose apartheid\, those same holders of capital “simply could not let South Africa succumb to black power and (or) communism.” \nA MAP OF BETRAYAL (2014) • HA JIN The protagonists of this novel occupy the “treacherous territory” of margins. Jin’s master spy is no 007 or George Smiley. What distinguishes Gary is his ordinariness\, “his simple\, casual fashion of conducting espionage.” A spare\, haunting tale of conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries—China and the United States—and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. \nTHE SYMPATHIZER (2015) • VIET THANH NGUYEN The anonymous narrator has an “acrobatic ability” that guides the reader through the contradictions of the Vietnam War and American identity. Set as a flashback in the coerced confession of a double agent\, the book’s half-Vietnamese\, half-French narrator recounts the fall of the US-allied South Vietnamese Government in 1975 and subsequent events as its top officials flee to American exile in Los Angeles. \nAMERICAN SPY (2018) • LAUREN WILKINSON It’s 1986\, the tail end of the Cold War\, and Marie Mitchell has been tasked by the FBI with undermining Thomas Sankara\, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose communism has made him an American intervention target. The CIA wants Marie to ascertain how much Sankara knows about America’s involvement in his opposition\, and possibly seduce him — Marie has misgivings\, doubting the CIA’s motives\, but accepts the job anyway. She doesn’t expect\, however\, to be won over by the revolutionary politician: “The way he could make you feel. It was like he saw a version of you that was even more perfect than the version you saw of yourself.” \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/matters-of-state-literature-espionage/2021-06-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Literature,China,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Radical Literature
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SUMMARY:Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements
DESCRIPTION:with author Trevor Ngwane\nCan people who live in shantytowns\, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive\, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can. In a study conducted in dozens of South Africa’s shack settlements\, where more than 9 million people live\, Trevor Ngwane finds thriving shack dwellers’ committees that govern local life\, are responsive to popular needs and provide a voice for the community. These committees\, called ‘amakomiti’ in the Zulu language\, organize the provision of basic services such as water\, sanitation\, public works and crime prevention especially during settlement establishment. \nAmakomiti argues that\, contrary to common perception\, slum dwellers are in fact an essential part of the urban population\, whose political agency must be recognized and respected. In a world searching for democratic alternatives that serve the many and not the few\, it is to the shantytowns\, rather than the seats of political power\, that we should turn. \nTrevor Ngwane is a scholar activist who spent twenty years as a full-time organizer in South African trade unions\, community organizations and social movements before and after the defeat of apartheid. He later obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg where he now teaches and conducts research. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url to gain access to this event or any other event or class of The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/amakomiti-grassroots-democracy-in-south-african-shack-settlements/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Financialization,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,South Africa
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SUMMARY:New York City and the Experience of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:with Thomas Wensing\n2 MORE SESSIONS\nMr. Perry flicked at the burdock leaves with his cane. The real-estate agent was pleading in a singsong voice:\n“I dont mind telling you\, Mr. Perry\, it’s an opportunity not to be missed. […] In six months I can virtually guarantee that these lots will have doubled in value.”\n— Dos Passos\, John; Manhattan Transfer\, Penguin Books\, Inc New York\, 1925\, first penguin books edition 1946\, p.11-12 \n \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. \nModernity is a historical force. It is messy. In architecture history modernity is usually narrated as an interplay between the combined forces of the Industrial Revolution and capital\, with social upheaval\, explosive population growth and immigration as its result. The invention of new materials and new technologies stimulated new forms\, structures\, typologies\, and — in the most optimistic accounts — new forms of living. In this formal reading the historian looks at the artefacts produced by these forces as cultural evidence: railway stations\, factories\, powerplants and switching stations\, dams\, canals and railway lines\, skyscrapers\, tenements\, and department stores\, are all comparatively assessed\, but rarely is the subjective experience of these spaces and landscapes considered. \nThe United States traditionally has had a fraught relationship with its cities in both a positive and a negative sense. Urban areas were\, and are\, pictured as alleged dens of vice\, disease\, and social corruption\, while others project utopian aspirations onto the city which are hard to fulfil in the best of circumstances. Even social science\, which intends to accurately describe the effects of economic change on the social fabric\, lacks by nature the discursive framework to communicate the emotive impact of these processes on individual subjects.\n—Walter Siebel; Die Kultur der Stadt\, Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin\, 2015\, 2nd print\, 2016\, p.39-40 Walter Siebel sees literary studies as a necessary complement to the social sciences\, to offer necessary detail to the abstraction of numbers. \nIn this semester the course participants will be presented with multiple views of the same topic; one drawn from the professional literature\, and one from fiction or biography. Two datasets 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. Writers and novelists have been able to direct the gaze at 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.\n—Marshall Berman\, All That Is Solid Melts into Air – The Experience of Modernity\, Simon & Shuster\, New York\, 1982\, Verso\, London\, Brooklyn\, 2010\, p.346-347. \nEach week will consist of a visual presentation\, a related lecture with group discussion. \nThomas Wensing is a Dutch architect who teaches architecture and architectural history at Kean University in NJ. He writes regularly on the intersection of architecture and politics. \n5:30 to 7:30 pm US DST • 10:30 pm to 12:30 am (GMT)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-york-city-and-the-experience-of-modernity-8-week-session/2021-06-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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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/2021-06-07/
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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