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SUMMARY:150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with Mitch Abidor\nEditor and translator of Voices of the Paris Commune and Communards \n This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune\, the first time in history that the working class seized power. Please join us on March 18 –the date the uprising began – as Mitch Abidor\, editor and translator of two books on the fighters in the 1871 uprising\, Communards and Voices of the Paris Commune\, recounts what happened over the 71 days that followed\, in all its complexity\, both its heroism and its failings\, as well as its role as inspiration with lessons for the movements that followed in its footsteps. \nVoices of The Paris Commune (PM Press): The Paris Commune had a vibrant press\, and it is represented here by its most important newspaper\, Le Cri du Peuple\, edited by Jules Vallès\, member of the First International. Like any legitimate government\, the Paris Commune held parliamentary sessions and issued daily printed reports of the heated\, contentious deliberations that belie any accusation of dictatorship. Included in this collection is the transcript of the debate in the Commune\, just days before its final defeat\, on the establishing of a Committee of Public Safety and on the fate of the hostages held by the Commune\, hostages who would ultimately be killed. Finally\, Voices of the Paris Commune contains a selection from the inquiry carried out twenty years after the event by the intellectual review La Revue Blanche\, asking participants to judge the successes and failures of the Paris Commune. This section provides a fascinating range of opinions of this epochal event. \nCommunards (marxists.org): In this unique collection of texts we hear the genuine voices of the Paris Commune of 1871. Every Communard drew something different from the experience of the Commune\, and Communards allows all of them to have their say. Documents include the records of stormy meetings of the Commune deciding on the execution of hostages\, minutes of meetings of the First International throughout the siege\, as well as reminiscences of participants written down 25 years after the event. \nCommunards is available at https://www.marxists.org/admin/books/index.htm \n“If socialism wasn’t born of the Commune\, it is from the Commune that dates that portion of international revolution that no longer wants to give battle in a city in order to be surrounded and crushed\, but which instead wants\, at the head of the proletarians of each and every country\, to attack national and international reaction and put an end to the capitalist regime.” —Edouard Vaillant\, a member of the Paris Commune. \nMitch Abidor has published over a dozen volumes of translation\, as well as May Made Me\, an oral history of May ’68. A contributing writer for Jewish Currents\, his articles have also appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Dissent\, and many others. His I’ll Forget it When I Die: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 will be published by AK in the spring. \n  \nall events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of an inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for admission to this or any other event or class.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/150th-anniversary-of-the-paris-commune/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Last Years of Karl Marx: A new reading group
DESCRIPTION:An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto\nan eight-week reading and discussion group with The Capital Studies Group of The MEP \nIn the last years of his life\, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries\, analyzing communal forms of ownership in pre-capitalist societies\, supporting the populist movement in Russia\, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883\, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx’s life\, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life\, and that he was a Eurocentric and economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. \nWith The Last Years of Karl Marx\, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx\, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings\, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism\, his ideas on non-Western societies\, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in non-capitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts\, notebooks\, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. \nMARCELLO MUSTO is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. His most recent books are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and\, as editor\, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations (2020). \nAll events and classes at The MEP are sliding scale. In addition\, no one is every denied participation because of inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute to offset our costs at this time\, please write to info@marxedproject to receive codes for entrance to this session or any other activity you would like to attend. \nThe special book and class offers are for US and Puerto Rico only as the books are sent via Media Mail with the US Post Office.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-years-of-karl-marx-a-five-week-reading-group/2021-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:The Big Tech Monopolies and the State with Grace Blakeley
DESCRIPTION:SOCIALIST REGISTER SERIES: Beyond Digital Capitalism\n \nAs the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy\, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020\, the combined market capitalization of the four largest US tech companies reached one fifth of the entire S&P 500. Four companies – Microsoft\, Apple\, Amazon and Facebook – now account for 20 per cent of the combined value of the 500 largest US corporations – an unparalleled level of market concentration. Forty years these corporate entitites were either just beyond being plucky start-ups\, or did not even exist. Monopolistic tendencies are not limited to the tech sector. In 1975\, the largest 100 US companies accounted for nearly half of the earnings of all publicly listed companies; by 2015\, their share reached 84 per cent. \nCapitalist corporations appear monopolistic when they are able to access the investment needed to gain total market dominance – and as the 21st Century has progressed\, this has proven easier than ever\, especially in big tech. The tech companies emerged in a world of falling profits and associated rising volatility in financial markets – both of which facilitated their access to investment. Many of these companies were initially either unprofitable or loss making\, as they had not yet developed to a sufficient size to exploit the network effects that would provide the foundation for their monopoly-like power. As a result\, they required significant amounts of upfront investment to maintain their operations and to scale up to reach a position of market dominance that would allow them to turn a profit. \nThe most propitious time for these firms to access such investment was in the wake of a crisis that had depressed returns and when investors were desperately seeking out the next big thing. For the tech companies\, this meant either the tech crisis of the early 2000s\, when Google launched its IPO\, or the financial crisis of 2008\, when companies such as Facebook and Twitter went public. The cheap capital – in part a result of unorthodox monetary policy – swashing around the global economy in the wake of a financial crisis that had depressed returns everywhere provided the perfect conditions for these plucky tech companies to become the behemoths that we know today. \nGrace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to pay and would like to attend the event\, please write to info@marxedproject.org and a link with the URL will be sent to you for the link by which to join in for this event.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-big-tech-monopolies-and-the-state-with-grace-blakeley/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Class,Financialization,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:M.A.D. Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:The year 1953 was like most of the years following the end of the slaughter of World War II. It was another year of the baby boom that filled maternity wards in the United States\, a generation that ironically couldn’t wait to leave these suburbs. The Cold War was well under way\, and anti-communism in the U.S. was at its peak. Politicians pontificated that it was “better to be dead than Red.” In the East and the West\, the military apparatus stockpiled nuclear weapons capable of ending life on this planet thousands of times over — Mutually Assured Destruction. \nWe began this reading group with Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” followed by a shared reading of Allen Ginsburg’s Howl\, and have nowcompleted our discussion of Ring Lardner\, Jr.’s The Ecstasy of Owen Muir. We have just started The Public Burning by Robert Coover\, after which we will read and discuss Richard Wright’s The Outsider. Coover’s novel is a political economy of the US as the hegemon of Post World War II capital global restructuring and the shift of much production to energy\, the military and finance and the attempted thorough destruction of any semblance of a left opposition. \nWhat can we learn from these literary renderings and how do they help us understand the perilous period in history that we now find ourselves living? \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on migration\,border politics and labor organizing and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism\, and this summer will the group will host a 5th consecutive Noir Summer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/m-a-d-lit-101-american-fiction-and-the-cold-war/2021-03-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality. A discussion of Volume 2 with Jeff B. Perry
DESCRIPTION:Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality\, 1918-1927\nA discussion Volume 2 with author Jeffrey B. Perry\nRESCHEDULED FROM FEBRIARY 23\nInterviewed by Sean Ahern\nDr. Jeffrey B. Perry will be interviewed by Sean Ahern on his new book Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality\, 1918-1927(Columbia University Press\, December 2020). The book follows Dr. Perry’s earlier Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918. Together\, these two volumes comprise what is believed to be the first\, full-life\, two volume biography of an Afro-Caribbean and only the fourth of an Afro-American after those of Booker T. Washington\, W. E. B. Du Bois\, and Langston Hughes. \nIn this second volume of his acclaimed biography\, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison’s life\, from 1918 to 1927. Perry details Harrison’s literary and political activities\, foregrounding his efforts against white supremacy and for racial consciousness and unity in struggles for equality and radical social change. The book explores Harrison’s role in the militant New Negro Movement and the International Colored Unity League\, as well as his prolific work as a writer\, educator\, and editor of the New Negro and the Negro World. Perry examines Harrison’s interactions with major figures such as Garvey\, Randolph\, J. A. Rogers\, Arthur Schomburg\, and other prominent individuals and organizations as he agitated\, educated\, and organized for democracy and equality from a race-conscious\, radical internationalist perspective. This magisterial biography demonstrates how Harrison’s life and work continue to offer profound insights on race\, class\, religion\, immigration\, war\, democracy\, and social change in America. \nJeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar and archivist. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883–1918 (Columbia\, 2008) and the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (2001)\, and he preserved and placed Harrison’s papers. He is also the literary executor for Theodore W. Allen\, preserved and placed his papers\, and edited and introduced the expanded 2012 edition of Allen’s two-volume The Invention of the White Race. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject\,org to receive the URL of the zoom link to participate in this class or any other event or class for access.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hubert-harrison-the-struggle-for-equality-a-discussion-of-volume-2-with-jeff-b-perry/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Pluto FireWorks series book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State\nBy Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani\, Kerem Nisancioglu\, Kojo Koram\, Dalia Gebrial\, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha\nCo-authors Gargi Bhattacharyya et al. highlight how the lens of racism and the politics of race offer the sharpest focus to explain why movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with rising authoritarian regimes\,. \nChaired by FireWorks Series editor\, Wilf Sullivan (Race Equality Officer\, Trades Union Congress\, London). \nIn this moment of profound overlapping crises\, the landscape of politics and entitlement is rapidly remade. Several leading scholars powerfully intervene in debates on racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the ‘hostile environment’ policy and Brexit referendum throw the centrality of race into sharp relief\, discussions of racism have too often focus on individual behaviours. Bringing to the fore broad political and economic contexts\, the authors trace ways in which empire’s legacies have been reshaped by global capitalism\, the digital environment and instability in the nation-state. Engaging with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements\, Empire’s Endgame offers an original perspective on race\, media\, the state and criminalisation\, and a political vision that includes — rather than expels — in the face of crisis. \nThis is the fourth in the Pluto Press FireWorks series. \nAttend the talk and receive the book (shipping included—US and Puerto Rico only) \nThis is sliding scale\, We do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject to receive the url for attending by zoom if at this point you are unable to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-pluto-fireworks-series-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame with Gargi Bhattacharyya and co-authors including Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani and others
DESCRIPTION:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State \nby Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani\, Kerem Nisancioglu\, Kojo Koram\, Dalia Gebrial\, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha \nModerated by Wilf Sullivan (Race Equality Officer\, Trades Union Congress\, London) \nEngaging with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements\, Empire’s Endgame offers an original perspective on race\, media\, the state and criminalization\, and a political vision that includes — rather than expels — in the face of crisis. \n \nIn this moment of profound overlapping crises\, the landscape of politics and entitlement is rapidly remade. Several leading scholars powerfully intervene in debates on racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the ‘hostile environment’ policy and Brexit referendum throw the centrality of race into sharp relief\, discussions of racism have too often focus on individual behaviours. Bringing to the fore broad political and economic contextss\, the authors trace ways in which empire’s legacies have been reshaped by global capitalism\, the digital environment and instability in the nation-state. \nGargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism(2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University(2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017). Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha are co-authors too. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive the URL for the zoom link for this or any other event or class you would like to be a part of.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-with-gargi-bhattacharyya-and-co-authors-including-adam-elliott-cooper-sita-balani-and-others/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Chapter 1\, Special 4 week
DESCRIPTION:Starting this Saturday there will be a new four-week session on Saturday evenings from 6 to 8 pm covering Chapter One of Volume One of Karl Marx’s Capital. All are welcome to attend. \nRegister here on The MEP site.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-chapter-1-special-4-week/2021-03-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A New Digital Taylorism? with Matt Cole\, Hugo Radice\, Charles Umney
DESCRIPTION:The Political Economy of Datafication and Work: A New Digital Taylorism?\nwith Matthew Cole\, Hugo Radice and Charles Umney\nThis panel looks at the technologies that underpin our world of work\, and how capital shapes them to meet its needs\, oriented firmly towards the subsumption of wage labor. We cannot repurpose them towards our socialist goal build a world based upon equality and justice for all without directly contesting the existing social order. This requires both a broad vision of a sustainable\, egalitarian and democratic society\, and concrete proposals that connect to existing struggles and also prefigure radical change. \nTechnological change has profound consequences for capitalism\, rendering obsolete even the most profitable businesses\, while creating opportunities for early adopters. New technologies create opportunities for those workers who can acquire necessary skills\, but destitution for those rendered unnecessary. Beyond the immediate effects on individuals and communities\, there are spatial\, organizational\, and cultural consequences that transform the fabric of society. \nIn his analysis of the workplace\, Marx concludes that “Large-scale industry possesses in the machine system an entirely objective organization of production\, which confronts the worker as a pre-existing material condition of production:”\, and defines this condition as the real subsumption of labor. A hundred years later\, his analysis informed modern socialist studies of labor and the struggle for workplace. Since the birth of industrial capitalism socialists have both critically examined technology in its social context\, but also looked forward to radically different futures of work. As Alfred Barratt Brown wrote in 1934\, “We need to look at the whole world of industry with fresh eyes…to the end that the work and its results may alike satisfy human capacities and human needs”. \nMATT COLE is a postdoctoral researcher with Fairwork Foundation at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. \nHUGO RADICE is Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. \nCHARLES UMNEY is Associate Professor in the Work and Employment Relations Division at the University of Leeds Business School. \n  \nTHE TICKET PRICE OF THE TALK plus 2021 SOCIALIST REGISTER Book from which this essay is taken includes postage. This offer is good for US and Puerto Rico only because US postage policies have increased the costs of mailing to other countries to very high prices. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No on is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to receive the URL of the Zoom link for this or other classes and lectures you may want to attend.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-new-digital-taylorism-with-matt-cole-hugh-radice-charles-umney/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A People’s Guide to Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A multi-week class conducted with Sam Salour\nA lively\, accessible\, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath\, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of the mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. The multi-week class will feature a close reading and discussion of the entire book with explication and references to additional materials related to this study. If you would prefer to order the class and Hadas Thier’s book at the same time you are receiving the book at less than half price. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for reduced rates or the links for attending if you are unable to pay. \nSAM SALOUR is a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Santa Barbara. He works on Marxist theory\, revolution\, and social change. Over the past few years he has conducted study groups on Marx’s Grundrisse\, the three volumes of Capital and more at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-guide-to-capitalism/2021-02-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Socialists on Social Media Platforms and Imagine Platform Socialism
DESCRIPTION:Tanner Mirrlees and Derek Hrynyshn\nSocialists on Social Media Platforms: Communicating within and Against Digital Capitalism by Tanner Mirrlees\nBertolt Brecht\, in the 1932 essay ‘The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication’\, made a ‘positive suggestion’ to transform radio into a dialogical medium for many-to-many communications. ‘Radio is one-sided when it should be two’ said Brecht. Brecht saw the state as the only entity capable of remaking radio in this way\, but because radio’s ‘proper application’ might make it a ‘revolutionary’ medium\, Brecht concluded the bourgeois state would have ‘no interest in sponsoring such exercises’. \nBrecht’s ‘positive suggestion’ for a many-to-many communications system seems to have come to fruition with the internet\, and more recently\, with the spread of social media platforms such as Facebook\, Twitter and YouTube. Socialists around the world are now using these platforms to produce\, distribute\, exhibit\, and consume socialist media and cultural works\, and they are openly building events\, movements\, and organizations within digital capitalism\, to go beyond it. That said\, the internet and social media platforms are surrounded by all kinds of deterministic\, optimistic\, and pessimistic rhetorics that cloud a clear view of what they give to and take from socialist communicators\, especially as compared to the twentieth century’s mass media industries\, whose state and corporate owners tended to filter out and vilify socialist ideas. \nWhile digital platforms are enabling socialists to communicate in ways that were not possible in the pre-digital world of mass media\, they are supplements to – not substitutes for – building democratic and sustainable socialist organizations and militant working-class movements. Taking it as axiomatic that communications underpins any possibility for socialist organization and politics\, this essay contextualizes the ‘brave new world’ of digital capitalism\, historicizes socialist communications from the ‘old media’ world of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the ‘new digital media’ world of the early twenty-first\, and then maps ‘another world’ of socialists on social media platforms\, with an eye to the novelties\, limitations\, and challenges. \nTanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University \nImagine Platform Socialism by Derek Hrynyshyn\nInvestigations have demonstrated the ways that the operations of the algorithmic processes that select and sort information for users of YouTube\, Facebook\, and Twitter not only distribute such malicious content\, but also amplify its effects. In order to hold the attention of users\, platforms tend to recommend increasingly controversial and sensationalist suggestions\, leading users quickly into rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and extremist views that undermine attempts at informed and reasoned debate. Other studies showed that Google’s search engine was capable of exhibiting serious racist bias\, and that the platforms’ attempts to limit access to hate speech and misinformation were of limited effectiveness. \nAt the same time\, the monopolistic digital platforms are undeniably of great use to activists working for a more democratic world\, including socialists. The events that triggered US President Trump’s demands for stricter platform regulation were part of a mobilization of dissent that came to be known by its Twitter hashtag\, ‘Black Lives Matter’\, and numerous other examples could be found of activists raising awareness in ways that would not be possible with mass media. Social media empowers individuals to participate in the distribution of their own ideas\, although this empowerment is limited by the mediation of the flow of information by the owners of the platforms in ways that can have direct effects on how mobilizations are informed. \nThis makes it all the more necessary to explore the contradictions between our expectations of social media and the reality of its use\, and determine if there are ways to avoid the harms done to democracy while preserving the benefits. The purpose of this presentation is to inquire whether and how social media could be organized more democratically\, so that they allow our expressive capacities to be developed freely and not under conditions determined by capital. \nDerek Hrynyshyn teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at York University in Toronto\, Ontario. \n \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-on-social-media-platforms-and-imagine-platform-socialism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Classes/Events,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Sinking Middle Class with David Roediger
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author David Roediger\nIn the 2020 elections\, both major US political parties stressed their support for the “middle class.” David Roediger corrects this in his pointed and persuasive polemic The Sinking Middle Class. Roediger demonstrates that such an obsession is relatively new in US politics\, starting with Bill Clinton’s attempt to win back the so-called Reagan Democrats\, aided by legendary pollster Stanley Greenberg. Their efforts were marked by covert appeals to white racism and the avoidance of wealth redistribution — features that remain prominent to this day. \nDrawing on rich traditions of radical social thought\, Roediger debunks the thinly sourced idea that the United States was\, for much of its history\, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swaths of middle-income America\, only accelerated by the current pandemic\, reveals the fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressive change. \nDAVID R. ROEDIGER teaches American Studies at the University of Kansas. His books include Seizing Freedom\, The Wages of Whiteness\, How Race Survived U.S. History\, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness. His book The Production of Difference (with Elizabeth Esch) recently won the International Labor History Association Book Prize. \n“Brilliant and insightful… Explores the ways in which appeals to save the middle class in electoral politics harm the very constituencies they purport to help.”\n—George Lipsitz\, author of How Racism Takes Place
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-sinking-middle-class-a-new-book-from-david-roediger/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
DESCRIPTION:A presentation with discussion with author Dan Hicks\nThe story of the Benin Bronzes — carried off by the British in 1897 — sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution\, repatriation and the decolonization of museums. In The Brutish Museums\, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects\, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism. \nWalk into the Met Museum on NYC’s “Museum Mile” and the curated plunder of American imperialism adorns the halls and galleries. Dan’s book calls for western museums to wash their hands of colonial bloodshed. More importantly it is a call to action for all of us — museum workers\, artists\, casual observers and anti-imperialist activists — to empty these palaces of plunder and simply send the looted items back. \nDAN HICKS is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His award-winning research focuses on the restitution of African cultural heritage from Euro-American collections\, focusing on the place of ideas of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence. \n“A startling act of conscience. An important book which could overturn what people have felt about British history\, empire\, civilisation\, Africa\, and African art. It is with books like this that cultures are saved\, by beginning truthfully to face the suppressed and brutal past. It has fired a powerful shot into the debate about cultural restitution. You will never see many European museums in the same way again. Books like this give one hope that a new future is possible.” — Ben Okri \n“Dan\, your words brought tears to my eyes. I salute you” — MC Hammer \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Should you be unable to contribute at this time\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive a code to participate in this important event. \nThe time stated is for 2 to 4 pm USA EST\, or 7 to 9 PM GMT. Please see special offer for event plus book. 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of “Artificial Intelligence” in 21st Century Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:with Larry Lohmann\nBYOND DIGITAL CAPITALISM: NEW WAYS OF LIVING (presentation 3)\nSince the nineteenth century\, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments\, begun by Marx\, remain fragmentary and contested. Yet the crises that twenty-first century digital mechanization presents and exacerbates may shed new light on this longer history of automation even as they confront the left with fresh puzzles. \nThis talk proposes three responses to these challenges. 1) It may be more useful to movement organizing to stress continuities between industrial-era and digital-era value-creation than to focus only on differences. 2) 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. 3) It may make more strategic sense for the left to approach the striking innovations in automation advanced over the past decade by the likes of Facebook\, Amazon\, Alibaba\, Microsoft\, and Apple as a new level of the mechanization of interpretive work than to promote mystifying labels such as artificial intelligence (AI). \nLarry Lohmann works with The Corner House\, a UK-based solidarity and research organization. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to those with the inability to pay. If you would like to attend this or any other event or class simple write to info@marxedproject.org for a URL with the link for participation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/interpretation-machines-contraditions-of-artificial-intelligence-in-21st-century-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Labor History,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Heterodox Socialism: Michael Brie\, Jean-Numa Ducange\, Kieran Durkin
DESCRIPTION:  \npresentations and discussion with MICHAEL BRIE\, JEAN-NUMA DUCANGE and KIERAN DURKIN \nThis presentation taking place in New York City at 1:30 to 3:30 PM is taking place at 6:30 to 9:30 PM (GMT) \nOn the basis of new publications of her Polish works and more\, in Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary Marxist at the Limits of Marxism\, Luxemburg’s strategic approaches are located in an Eastern European context. Michael Brie will present on how the authors discuss Luxemburg’s unique analyses of the first experiments in socialist participation in government\, of the first Russian revolution and of the forms of accumulation of capital to outline the foundations of her novel understanding of both democratic-socialist revolution and of a society that would point beyond social democracy as well as Bolshevism – a vision that will gain new significance in the twenty first century. \nJules Guesde represents the first book-length study of the French socialist leader translated into the English language. Jean-Numa Ducange’s scholarly biography of Guesde seeks to put his record on proper historical footing\, closely analysing both archival sources and accounts by his contemporaries. The book begins with his early life and the mark left on him by the Paris Commune and exile. The book concludes with an examination of Guesde’s contested legacy. \nRaya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism brings to life her writings on state capitalism (part of her socio-economic critique of Stalinism\, fascism\, and the welfare state)\, to her writings on Rosa Luxemburg\, Black and women’s liberation\, and labor\, we are offered indispensable resources for navigating the perils of sexism\, racism\, capitalism\, and authoritarianism. This collection of essays\, from a diverse group of writers\, brings to life Dunayevskaya’s important contributions. Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism is recovered for the twenty-first century and turned\, as it was with Dunayevskaya herself\, to face the multiple alienations and de-humanizations of social life. \nMICHAEL BRIE is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin\, Germany. Recent books include Rediscovering Lenin: Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination (2019) and Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker of Our Times (2017). \nJEAN-NUMA DUCANGE is Professor at Rouen University and member of Institut Universitaire de France. He is the co-director of the French journal Actuel Marx (PUF) and Austriaca (PURH)\, and one of the best scholars about the history of socialism (France\, Germany\, Austria). \nKIERAN DURKIN is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at University of York\, UK and has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California Santa Barbara\, where he studied the Humanist Marxist tradition. He is author of The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm (2014) and Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory (co-edited with Joan Braune\, 2020). \n \nThis is the Part One in a three part winter spring series on Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms\, a large collection of important works by Marxists from all over the world. \nMarx\, Engels\, Marxisms: The Marx renaissance is underway on a global scale. Wherever the critique of capitalism re-emerges\, there is an intellectual and political demand for new\, critical engagements with Marxism. MARX\, ENGELS\, AND MARXISMS (edited by Marcello Musto & Terrell Carver\, with Babak Amini\, Francesca Antonini\, Paula Rauhala & Kohei Saito as Assistant Editors) is a peer-reviewed series. It is broad — comprised of monographs\, edited volumes\, critical editions\, reprints of old texts\, as well as translations of books already published in other languages. These volumes come from a wide range of political perspectives\, subject matters\, academic disciplines and geographical areas\, producing an eclectic and informative collection that appeals to a diverse and international audience. Main areas of focus include: the oeuvre of Marx and Engels\, Marxist authors and traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries\, labor and social movements\, Marxist analyses of contemporary issues\, and the reception of Marxism in the world. \nfor information on the entire series: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14812 \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for an inability to pay. If you are unable to make a contribution at this time\, simply write to info@marxedprojet.org to obtain the URL of the code to give you access to this or any other event or class.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/heterodox-socialism-michael-brie-jean-numa-ducange-kieran-durkin/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism
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SUMMARY:The Time of Our Lives with Bryan Palmer
DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism series\nThe Time of Our Lives: Reflections on Work and Capitalist Temporality\nwith author Bryan D. Palmer\n For socialists time and its meaning and organization have always been a central concern\, if only because capitalism has placed such a premium on controlling time and subordinating it to its imperatives. At the current conjuncture\, time has become the challenge for socialists to address\, not only because it defines what does and does not constitute the working day\, but because it is increasingly obvious that time and its organization defines life itself. Will time continue to be compressed into capital’s needs\, or will it be reimagined as liberation\, struggled through and over in ways that enhance the project of human emancipation? \nWhat follows presents an argument about time that: 1) outlines how class struggles over time have been essential to the rise of the workers’ movement; 2) explores the complexity of Marx’s understandings of these conflicts and their tendency to be incorporated into capital’s project\, resulting in the intensification of exploitation; 3) locates E.P. Thompson’s writing on time and work discipline within the particular concerns and context of the 1960s New Left\, offering a suggestion of how this treatment of time extended orthodox Marxist understandings of primitive accumulation; and 4) closes by discussing how time and its meanings in twenty-first century capitalism demand a rethinking of positions\, espoused by Andre Gorz and others in the 1980s\, that associated the need for new policies around time with dismissals of the role of the working class in social transformation. Time\, always a frontier of class struggle\, has been pushed today to the forefront of contentious labor-capital relations. \nBryan D. Palmer is Emeritus Professor of History at Trent University\, Ontario\, Canada. He is also the author of Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 and co-author of Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History. \n  \nThis presentation will begin at 11 PM and end at 1 AM GMT. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to attend the event but are unable to contribute at this time\, please write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this talk or other events or classes you would like to participate in. \n  \nFor those of you unable to buy a ticket\nGo to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-time-of-our-lives-reflections-on-work-and-capitalist-temporality-tickets-138905308517 \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/having-the-time-of-their-lives/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Anitra Nelson and Vincent Liegey: Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide\nVincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson\nSpokesperson for the degrowth movement Vincent Liegey (Budapest\, Hungary) and degrowth advocate Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne\, Australia) talk on the politics\, challenges\, strategies and visions of the burgeoning degrowth movement\, starting in France to spread worldwide. Chaired by Pluto’s FireWorks Series editor\, Gargi Bhattacharyya. \nAs a sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism and the Left\, the degrowth movement burst into the mainstream. In short\, as growth driven climate catastrophe looms\, degrowth is a political response based on changing how we live. Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide counters obsessions with growth to demand a slowing of our economies\, reorientation around provision of basic needs for all\, supported by political autonomy and cultures of living within Earth’s limits. \nAs the authors discuss the practices and strategies of the movement\, identifying its strengths and weaknesses\, they examine ‘frugal abundance’\, horizontal democracy\, ‘open relocalisation’\, conviviality and reduced paid work to argue why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nFor an extra discount this ticket includes admission to the presentation\, the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/exploring-degrowth-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2021: Ursula Huws on Reaping the Whirlwind
DESCRIPTION:First session of Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nAn introduction to this year’s book with Greg Albo & Stephen Maher (in memory of Leo Panitch)\n“In addressing how far digital technology has become integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades the 21st century\, we were deliberately seeking to counter so much facile futurist ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking that has proliferated through these decades. The proof of capitalism’s continued dynamism\, even in the face of severe global economic crisis\, lay in the most successful and most celebrated high-tech corporations of the new information sector which really were restructuring and refashioning not only our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Yet precisely because this was taking place within the logics of capitalist accumulation and exploitation\, and through the reproduction of capitalist social relations\, this produced new contradictions and irrationalities. Perhaps none of these was greater than those revealed by the contrast between the investment\, planning\, and preparation that went into the interminable competitive race for ‘more speed’ by way of reducing latency in digital communications by so many milliseconds\, on the one hand\, and on the other the lack of investment\, planning\, and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic around the world.” —From the Preface by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo \nfollowed by\nReaping the Whirlwind: Digitalization\, Restructuring\, and Mobilization in the Covid Crisis\nUrsula Huws\nUrsula Huws’ essay addresses the changes sweeping through global labor markets during the coronavirus pandemic\, looking in particular at the concentration of capital and expansion of market share by global corporations\, bringing with it the digital management of supply chains and an exponential growth in algorithmic control and surveillance of workers. Pandemic lockdown conditions have exposed very clearly the polarizations in the workforce between ‘fixed’ workers\, physically isolated in their homes but closely monitored via their computers\, working virtually\, and the precariously employed mobile (‘footloose’) workers\, disproportionately made up of black and migrant workers\, equally closely monitored\, who deliver the physical goods and services the home-bound need to survive and care for their bodily needs when they become sick\, at great personal risk. \nGREG ALBO teaches in the Department of Politics at York University. He is co-editor of the Socialist Register. Greg is also on the editorial boards of Capitalism\, Nature\, Socialism\, The Bullet and Historical Materialism. URSULA HUWS\, Professor of Labor and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire. She has been researching the social impacts of technological change\, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labor since the 1970s. Ursula will visit The MEP again on February 21\, to discuss her current book\, Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies (Pluto FireWorks\, 2020). STEVE MAHER is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa\, Canada\, and Assistant Editor of Socialist Register.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2021-an-introduction-and-reaping-the-whirlwind/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Marina Sitrin on Pandemic Solidarity with Colectiva Sembrar
DESCRIPTION:Pandemic Solidarity:\nMutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis\nedited by Marina Sitrin with Colectiva Sembrar\nMarina Sitrin (editor) joins key contributors Eleanor Finley and Lais Gomes Duarte (Colectiva Sembrar) to speak on activist solidarity\, horizontalism and autonomy expressed through the constitution of this riveting collection of real-life stories. Chaired by FireWorks series editor — Anitra Nelson (MSSI\, University of Melbourne\, Australia). Collective \nPandemic Solidarity collects first-hand experiences of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. In times of crisis institutions of power are laid bare and people turn to one another. Underneath the media’s narrative of selfish individualism and runs on supermarkets\, we find an opposing story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions\, including India\, Rojava\, Taiwan\, South Africa\, Iraq and North America\, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture\, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present\, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like\, and reflect the existing skills and relationships to create it\, challenging institutions of power in all their fragility. \nThis ticket is for admission to the event along with the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-solidarity-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Pandemics and Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112757
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SUMMARY:Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author Sam Farber\nBefore Stalinism is a historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. Sam Farber has assembled and synthesized a wealth of historical material so as to assess the extent to which the disappearance of Soviet democracy was due to objective circumstances such as the Civil War and how much of the magnitude of this was the result of Bolshevik politics and ideology. There will be a presentation on the book as well as plenty of time for attendees to pose questions on this important work\, published by Verso Books. \nSAM FARBER was born and raised in Marianao\, Cuba\, coming to the United States in February 1958. He was active in the Cuban high school student movement against Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s\, and has been involved in socialist politics for nearly 60 years\, authoring numerous studieson Cuba before and after the Revolution\, along with Before Stalinism. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the code to the event if you are unable to contribute at this time. \nNOTA BENE: This event which originates in New York City\,  begins at 11:00 am US Eastern Standard Time (New York City) which is 4:00 pm GMT. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/before-stalinism-the-rise-and-fall-of-soviet-democracy/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Bolshevism,Class and Gender,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112757
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SUMMARY:Marx Dead and Alive: two more sessions
DESCRIPTION:In Marx\, Dead and Alive—a book that begins and ends beside Marx’s recently violated London graveside—Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinating examples of literature and history\, from Shakespeare and Beckett\, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers\, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective—and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who we once were—and who we might become. \nSix Session Reading and Discussion with the Capital Studies Group through February 1\, 2021. \nAll pricing is sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to the 5-week discussion group. \nThe book can be purchased at the same time saving some dollars for those who purchase both Andy’s book and come to the seven sessions of reading through Marx Dead and Alive. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/presentation-by-andy-merrifield-4-week-class-special-combined-pricing/2021-01-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T003000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T233000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112757
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass:
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and May 31\, 2021. We are hosting many new series including a new literature class\, MAD Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War  beginning on January 14\, a continuation of Capital\, Volume 1 class\, a repeat of the popular Blood and Money\, Considerations on Bolshevism before Stalinism\, a reading and discussion group of Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\, a multi-session series covering the Socialist Register 2021 annual\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\, and  the 4 new events related to the Pluto Press Fireworks Series which begins on January 23 with Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar on Pandemic Solidarity\, the first book to be presented. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through May 21. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. You can also attend the new series sponsored by Palsgrave on Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms along with Rowan and Littlefield’s new Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series of events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/until-mid-winter-pass-now-through-january-31-2021/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201230T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201230T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112757
CREATED:20201218T061930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201219T011433Z
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SUMMARY:MEP Open House: Eve of New Year's Eve with The Red Microphone and more
DESCRIPTION:Goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 \nThe MEP will host a 3 hour open house via zoom. There will be 2 sets of music by The Red Microphone \nAt least 2 sets (one at 6:30 the other at 8:00) \nEssential Music provided by The Red Microphone \nThe Red Microphone’s music is based in improvisation and incorporates melodies of Hanns Eisler\, Charles Mingus and originals as well as revolutionary anthem “L’Internationale” infused with poetry repertoire including Pietaro’s original verse as well as that of masters Langston Hughes\, Amiri and Amina Baraka\, John Reed\, Kenneth Fearing\, Woody Guthrie\, Walter Lowenfels as well as Brecht and others. The quartet also came together in an expanded form as the septet Whispers to record And I Became of the Dark\, to be released on ESP-Disk in 2021. The quartet is: John Pietaro\, writer\, spoken word artist\, percussionist and cultural organizer. Rocco John Iacovone\, saxophonist\, composer\, and educator. Ras Moshe Burnett\, saxophonist\, flutist and musical adventurer\, has been a perennial of NYC’s free jazz circle since the 1980s. He leads ensembles under the Music Now! banner. Laurie Towers\, electric bassist\, publicist\, business owner and healthcare professional hosts andproduces feminist podcast She’s Raising the Bar. Towers is currently writing Xx-centric Behavior: Women Defying Stereotypical Gravity. LaurieTowers.net \nRe-Inventing Love: Brief Segments\nA work is inspired by the writing of philosopher Alain Badiou.\nDance Selections Choreographed by Marija Krtolica in collaboration with the performers\npsychoanalyst Julie Fotheringham\ndancer\, artist and chef Michael Mangieri\n“Re-Inventing Love” looks at  the relationships during the time of a socio-economic crisis. The focus is on how the desire for connection appears within alienated urban landscapes. The work comments on the contemporary dating scene with reference to the philosophical concept of love\, and depictions of love scenes in the arts. \nMakina will come to explain the significance of soupe jamou in the centuries of resistance in Haiti \nMiryam Yatoco will read from Quecha poems she has translated into English \nwith much more and all of you…
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mep-open-house-eve-of-new-years-eve-with-the-red-microphone-and-more/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201220T150000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112757
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SUMMARY:The Last Years of Karl Marx
DESCRIPTION:with Author Marcello Musto\nJoined in discussion with Andy Merrifield and Robert Ware\nAn innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.\nIn the last years of his life\, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries\, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies\, supporting the populist movement in Russia\, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883\, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx’s life\, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life\, and that he was a rEurocentric and economistic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. \nWith The Last Years of Karl Marx\, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx\, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings\, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism\, his ideas on non-Western societies\, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts\, notebooks\, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. As Marx currently experiences a significant rediscovery\, this volume fills a gap in the popularly accepted biography and suggests an innovative reassessment of some of his key concepts. \nMARCELLO MUSTO is Professor of Sociology at York University\, Toronto. His most recent books are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and\, as editor\, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020) and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation (2020). ANDY MERRIFIELD writes in Monthly Review\, New Left Review\, The Guardian\, Jacobin\, and more. He has authored many books\, most recently Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times. ROBERT WARE is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Calgary and co-editor (with Kai Nielsen) of Analyzing Marxism (1989) and most recently the author of Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals (2019). \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to gain access to this panel presentation if you cannot pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-years-of-karl-marx/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T150000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112757
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SUMMARY:Two Events Special: A People’s Guide to Capitalism and The Last Years of Karl Marx
DESCRIPTION:Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\nSunday\, December 13\, 1-3 pm \nMarcello Musto’s The Last Years of Karl Marx\nwith Andy Merrifield and Robert Ware\nSunday\, December 20\, 1-3 pm \nSpecial sliding scale pricing below \n  \nNo one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject for codes to gain entry to these on-line presentations.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/two-events-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T150000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112758
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SUMMARY:Opening presentation: A People’s Guide to Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:with Hadas Thier \nA lively\, accessible\, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath\, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, growing numbers of us are questioning why this system of reproducing ourselves has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for the environmental destruction inherent that capital accumulation requires. Hadas Thier’s book offers answers to the many questions in the form of a radical economic theory\, as in the subtitle of the book\, “An Introduction to Marxist Economics”.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/opening-presentation-a-peoples-guide-to-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112758
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SUMMARY:Women Write Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Literary resistance during and after fascism being in command\nFive more weeks with\nSimone de Beauvoir\, Natalia Ginzburg\, Elfriede Jelinek and Anna Seghers\nReading and discussion with the Literature Studies Group of The MEP \nThe Blood Of Others • Simone de Beauvoir • 1945\nThe major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Or as one of Beauvoir’s biographers puts it\, her ‘intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others\, perceived by the individual as objects\, were affected by his actions and decisions. Another theme of the novel\, though not unrelated to the first\, is the issue of resistance versus collaboration. Beauvoir makes it clear that to not actively resist fascism is to accept it. \nFamily Lexicon • Natalia Ginzburg • 1963\nFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel\, yet everything is true. “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist\, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]\,” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places\, events\, and people are all real.” The family described is all anti-fascist. The years depicted in this novel are the years of the 30s and 40s\, taking place in Turino during the years of Mussolini’s fascism. \nWonderful Wonderful Times • Elfriede Jelinek • 1980\nThe novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation’s Post-World War II legacy. The novel does not use traditional chapter demarcations and focuses largely on the internal thoughts of the characters. Through the portrayal of the Austrian family Witkowski\, the reader is able to see the relation between daily fascism with the family and an undigested Austrian National Socialist history. The patriarch\, a former Nazi\, makes up for his loss of power and one leg by terrorizing his family and abusing his wife. \nTransit • Anna Seghers • 1944\nTransit is an existential\, political\, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom\,the vitality of storytelling\, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. The 27-year-old unnamed narrator has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Along the way to Marseilles\, he meets one of his friends\, Paul. Paul then asks the narrator to deliver a letter to a writer named Weidel in Paris. When the narrator goes to deliver the letter\, he finds out that Weidel has committed suicide. The narrator also finds that Weidel left behind a suitcase full of letters and an unfinished manuscript for a novel. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our fourth summer of noir is currently underway. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics and labor organizing. \nDonations are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay \nplease write to info@marxedproject to get zoom log-in number if you would like to attend but cannot afford to pay \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-against-fascism/2020-12-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112758
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SUMMARY:Trotsky in Tijuana: A new novel by Dan La Botz
DESCRIPTION:Dan La Botz in conversation with Alan Wald and Suzi Weissman\nWho was the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky? What did he believe and do? What was his legacy? Dan La Botz’s new novel. Trotsky in Tijuana\, examines these questions in fiction. The novel’s premise is that Trotsky was not assassinated in August 1940 but survived and was relocated to Tijuana where he lived on until 1953 dying on the same day as his rival and political opponent Joseph Stalin. We learn of Trotsky’s past and watch him live on into a future he never knew\, dealing with new political situations\, with a new lover\, with his wife\, and with his old friend Victor Serge\, being called to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy. You can learn more about the book by clicking this link trotskyintijuana.com and browsing the site. \nDAN LA BOTZ formerly taught at the School of Labor and Urban Studies of the City University of New York. In the 1970s\, he was a founding member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). From 1994 to 2014\, he was the editor and principal writer of Mexican Labor News and Analysis\, a publication supported by the United Electrical Workers Union (UE)\, a U.S. union\, and the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT)\, a Mexican labor union. He is a member of both Solidarity and the Democratic Socialists of America and a co-editor of New Politics (newpol.org). In 2010\, he was the Socialist Party candidate in Ohio for the U.S. Senate. He is the author of a dozen books on labor\, social movements\, and politics in the United States\, Mexico\, and Nicaragua\, most recently the non-fiction books are What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis and Le nouveau populisme Américain Résistances et alternatives à Trump.  \n ALAN WALD\, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan\, is a cultural historian of the United States Left from the 1930s to the1950s. He most recently authored a trilogy about Communism and writers from the University of North Carolina Press: Exiles from a Future Time\, Trinity of Passion\, and American Night. His book The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s has become a classic of literary and cultural studies. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity and an editor of the journals Against the Current and Science & Society.  \n SUZI WEISSMAN is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California and an editor of Critique and Against the Current. Her books include Victor Serge: A Political Biography\, and she is currently Co-Producer of the Lindy Laub and David Weiss film about Trotsky\, The Most Dangerous Man in the World. She broadcasts the weekly public affairs program Beneath the Surface with Suzi Weissman on KPFK\, and the Jacobin Radio podcast.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trotsky-in-tijuana-a-new-novel-by-dan-la-botz/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T210000
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SUMMARY:3 Event Pass: 5th Edition
DESCRIPTION:Admission to all three of these events: \n1. Trotsky in Tijuana with Dan La Botz\, Tuesday\, December 8 \n2. A People’s Guide to Capitalism with Hadas Thier\, Sunday\, December 13 \n3. The Last Years of Karl Marx with Marcello Musto\, Andy Merrifield and Robert Ware\, Sunday\, December 20 \nSliding scale admissions to attending all four events at a discount! Regular pricing sliding scale pricing would be $21\, $27\, $33. \nInformation for these events is available on this same site where you are seeing this offer. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. Information on getting the links for these events is available at marxedproject.org
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-event-pass/2020-12-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T112758
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-12-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group
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