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SUMMARY:El Golpe: US Labor\, the CIA\, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:by Rob McKenzie with Patrick Dunne\nTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in Mexico\nEarly in my research\, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me\, “Don’t give up. They are hiding something”…’ \n \nIt’s 1990\, and US labor is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumors of a violent confrontation at the Mexican Ford Assembly plant on January 8 reach the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the US: nine employees had been shot by a group of drunken thugs and gangsters\, in an act of political repression which changed the course of Mexican and US workers’ rights forever. Rob McKenzie was working at the Ford Twin Cities Assembly plant in Minnesota when he heard of the attack. He didn’t believe the official story\, and began a years-long investigation to uncover the truth. His findings took him further than he expected – all the way to the doors of the CIA. \nVirtually unknown outside of Mexico\, the full story of ‘El Golpe’\, or ‘The Coup’\, is a dark tale of political intrigue that still resonates today. \nRob McKenzie worked at the Twin City Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul\, Minnesota as an assembler\, electrician and full-time union representative. In 1998 he became President of his United Auto Workers branch\, and later was elected to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Executive Board. \nPatrick Dunne is a graduate in History from the University of Cambridge\, with a dissertation on ‘The AFL-CIO and the Coup against Allende’. \n  \nDiscount code for the book at plutobooks.com = MEP \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/el-golpe-us-labor-the-cia-and-the-coup-at-ford-in-mexico/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Latin America,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Building Alternatives in Rojava: Women’s Liberation & Cooperative Economy
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Emre Sahin and Meghan Bodette\nSince the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War\, the peoples of Northeast Syria\, commonly known as Rojava\, have been building an alternative system of governance based on the principles of direct democracy\, gender equality\, pluralism\, anti-capitalism\, and social ecology. On the occasion of International Workers’ Day\, this event will focus on two of the pillars of Rojava’s vision as developed by the Kurdish movement\, namely women’s liberation and cooperative economy. Our speakers will trace the development of the Kurdish women’s movement and discuss the growth of Rojava’s cooperative economy\, highlighting women’s autonomous economic organizing. \nEmre Sahin is a participant and researcher of social movements\, particularly the Kurdish movement\, and a sociologist at Binghamton University.\nMeghan Bodette is a researcher focused on Turkey\, Syria and Kurdish issues. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/building-alternatives-in-rojava-womens-liberation-cooperative-economy/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Civil War,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Emancipation,Gender,Seminars and Talks,Women
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   István Mészáros \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-05-04/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Marx Revival: John Bellamy Foster and Marcello Musto
DESCRIPTION:Shelter and Solidarity and the Marxist Education Project are co-sponsoring this event \nThe Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations \nA focus on Ecology with John Bellamy Foster and a presentation on Communism with Marcello Musto \n“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal and marginal course adoption\, selective co-optation and selective bowdlerization: these are some of the strategies of establishment intellectuals over the years in response to the challenger of the thinker born 204 years ago in Trier. Yet\, here we are near the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century\, and it sometimes seems that Karl Marx’s ideas have never been as topical\, or as commanding of respect and interest\, as they are today.” —Marcello Musto\, from the Preface\, The Marx Revival \nThe Marx Revival is a revelation: a Marx for our times. — Nancy Fraser\nThe Marx Revival  will be the place to start in Marx scholarship.  —Gregory Claeys\nThis is Marx for the 21st century.  —Göran Therborn \nJohn Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. John is the author of the forthcoming Ecology in the Anthropocene (Monthly Review Press)\, the editor of works by Istvan Mészáros. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature\,which won the Deutscher Memorial prize. \nMarcello Musto is co-editor of the Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms series of works with Palgrave Macmillan and  is Associate Professor of Sociological Theory at York University. Marcello has authored and edited many volumes including Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International\, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography\, and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-marx-revival-john-bellamy-foster-and-marcello-musto/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,communism,Ecosocialism,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Arise: Power\, Strategy and Union Resurgence
DESCRIPTION:with author Jane Holgate\nIn Arise\, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organizing experience\, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice\, leadership and union democracy to politics\, tactics and the agency afforded to the majority of union members. \nIn the midst of a neoliberal era of economic crisis and political upheaval\, the labor movement stands at a crossroads. Union membership is on the rise\, but the ‘turn to organizing’ has largely failed to translate into meaningful gains for workers. There is much discussion about the lack of collectivism among workers due to casualization\, gig work and precarity\, yet these conditions were standard in the UK when workers built the foundations of the 19th-century trade union movement. \nDrawing on history and case studies of unions developing the effective use of power\, Jane Holgate’s book lays out strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers’ struggle\, the chapters of Arise demonstrate that transformational change is not only possible\, but within reach. \nJANE HOLGATE is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA “mother of chapel”\, Unison branch chair and regional council delegate\, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions\, including the GMB\, TGWU\, CWU\, Bectu\, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress. \nDiscount code for purchasing from Pluto: MEP \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/arise-power-strategy-and-union-resurgence/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:From Science Fiction to Visionary Fiction: Learning from Octavia Butler
DESCRIPTION:“All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another world\, or many other worlds—so what better venue for organizers to explore their work than science fiction stories? ” from Walidah Imarisha’s Introduction to Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. \nThis reading group\, centered on Octavia Butler\, begins 15 years after her passing. Appropriately\, her influence continues to grow. Her writing and her life has nurtured a rising generation of social-justice oriented authors of color\, particularly women. When looking at the  wider culture\, it is apparent that at least five films and series based on her novels have hit or may soon be widely available. \nWriting in the years of momentous change from 1971 to 2006\, Octavia Butler embodied the emergence of “visionary fiction” as a new way to write\, read and draw inspiration from science fiction. This spring\, the Marxist Education Project’s first literature reading group devoted to science fiction will read Kindred (1979) and Parable of the Sower (1993)\, both now graphic novels and soon film and streaming series. Fifteen years on since her passing\, Butler’s influence continues to grow. We will also read NK Jemisin’s Fifth Season (2015) and  Martha Wells’ All Systems Red (2017) to explore some of Butler’s lasting legacy. We will also make room to explore related short stories\, graphic novels\, essays\, films\, and more. \nFor a taste\, check out “To Build a Future Without Police and Prisons\, We Have to Imagine It\,” by Walidah Imarisha. embed the url: https://onezero.medium.com/black-lives-matter-is-science-fiction-how-envisioning-a-better-future-makes-it-possible-5e14d35154e3
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/from-science-fiction-to-visionary-fiction-learning-from-octavia-butler/2022-05-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,Dystopian literature,Literary Studies,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Embrace of Capital with author Don Milligan
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism has swallowed us whole. It’s a love hate relationship.\nA presentation and discussion with Don Milligan\n“So refreshing and joyously subversive to read a communist’s analysis of why communism is so terribly unappetizing.” —Yanis Yaroufakis\nThe “spectre of communism” which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare\, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity\, inequality\, and greed\, and love civic and political freedom. They love mass consumption\, and accept the logic of commerce. Barreling along through wars\, revolutions\, epidemics\, and crises of all sorts\, working people in their millions have consistently dumfounded and dismayed the left\, by their refusal to countenance any alternative to the capitalist mode of life. We have to ask: Is it possible to reverse this reality\, and once again talk of the necessity of communism? \nDon Milligan has been a gay activist\, trade unionist\, and a member of the communist movement for many decades. He published the pamphlet\, The Politics of Homosexuality in 1973\, and The Truth About the Aids Panic\, with Michael Fitzpatrick in 1987\, and also completed a doctoral thesis\, ‘The Aesthetic of Emancipation: A study of the relation between Raymond Williams’s socialism and his literary criticism\, cultural analysis and theoretical writings’\, in 2003. He lives in Manchester\, UK. \nTo order Don’s book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/ordering/ \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-embrace-of-capital-with-author-don-milligan/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,communism,Das Kapital,Fordism,Late Capital and Fascism,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022: Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward
DESCRIPTION:with\nSam Gindin\, Adolph Reed\, Jr.\, Toure Reed\, Vishwas Satgur\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright\,\nVISHWAS SATGUR\nEpidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa\nIn this presentation\, Vishwas Satgar sets out the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa as an example of polarized access to medical services shamelessly piled on top of acute polarizations of income and employment and ecological vandalism. But the ANC government’s neoliberal pandemic response\, “has also unleashed a cycle of post-apartheid progressive resistance.” \nJAMES SCHNEIDER and HILARY WAINWRIGHT\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project\nA discussion of the lessons to be learned from the experience of Momentum as a national campaign organization for the left wing of the UK Labour Party and its achievements (despite ultimate failure to elect a government led by Jeremy Corbyn).  They are optimists in their accounting of the new spaces that are now open for a radical democratic politics in Britain. \nADOLPH REED\, JR. and TOURE REED \n“Race” and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism\nThis presentation links the rise of the hard right in US politics to the marginalization of the progressive pole as “the black political class” became embedded in “the Democratic Party’s commitment to a programme of retrenchment.” Addressing poverty and continuing social inequality in the black community requires building a broader working-class movement. \nSAM GINDIN\nAmerican Workers and the Left after Trump: Polarized Options\nSam argues that the inherent limits of Democratic Party “Keynesian” reflation still constitutes a difficult terrain for the left in the USA\, which needs to take care not to slip into the trap of spending all its energies defending the liberal forces exemplified by Biden as opposed to organizing labor and independent social struggles. \n Summary by series editor GREG ALBO \nVishwas Satgar\, associate professor of International Relations\, University of Witwatersrand\, is principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. James Schneider\, communications director of Progressive International\, is a co-founder of Momentum and was a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn; Hilary Wainwright is an editor of Red Pepper magazine and a fellow of the Transnational Institute and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex University. Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of political science\, University of Pennsylvania; Touré F. Reed is a professor of history at Illinois State University. Sam Gindin is former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-polarization-and-socialism-the-direction-forward/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Socialist Register
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SUMMARY:The Marx Revival\, moderated by Marcello Musto
DESCRIPTION:Marcello Musto moderates a discussion with co-authors from the Marx Revival book from Cambridge University Press.\nBob Jessop on State\nMichael Krätke on Capitalism\nHeather Brown on Gender Equality\nMichael Löwy\, on Revolution\nPeter Hudis on Political Organization\nThis event is co-sponsored with and by Shelter and Solidarity and the Marxist Education Project. \nWith moderator Marcello Musto\, and the following presenters on the sections that they produced for this anthology. Presenters are Bob Jessop on State\, Michael Krätke on Capitalism\, Heather Brown on Gender Equality\, Michael Löwy\, on Revolution\, Peter Hudis on Political Organization—among the many contributions by those presenting today and other noted international scholars—presents a Marx in many ways different from the one familiar from the dominant currents of twentieth-century socialism. Its dual aim is to reopen for discussion\, in a critical and innovative manner\, the classical themes of Marx’s thought\, and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until now. It is hoped that the volume will therefore help to bring Marx closer both to those who think everything has already been written about his work and to a new generation of readers who have not yet been seriously confronted with his writings.     — Marcello Musto\, Preface to The Marx Revival
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-marx-revival-moderated-by-marcello-musto/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:State Forms and Forming States: A 2-day presentation
DESCRIPTION:Two afternoons with The Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nIn a two-part presentation\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture will share our collective research on states: states of governmentality\, states of matter\, states of being. States move through us\, states congeal borders\, states govern\, states violate\, states intervene\, states organize abandonment\, states let die. States also signal a condition of being–states of emergency\, states of grace\, states of matter\, statelessness. What a sorry state you’re in! There are corrupt states\, failed states\, and disordered states of the economy. In many “state” formations\, stability is revered. We challenge its troubling promise to bind places and peoples together\, to curate state feelings\, while attending to the ways in which groups gather to diffuse and refuse boundaries in altered states. Together\, our panels suggest that when states transform\, perhaps it is a revolution or perhaps–it is alchemy. \nThe project is divided into two halves: \nFirst part: STATE CURATORS\nSaturday\, May 21\, 4 to 6 pm US and Canada EDT / 8 to 10 pm GMT\n“State Curators\,” takes up histories of sovereignty and governmentality\, and the relationship between knowledge\, culture\, and the state. Moving across the Mexico-Texas border\, colonial India and Reconstruction America\, Harlem and postcolonial Algeria and Cuba\, it looks at state-associated actors from social scientists to missionaries to poets. \nSecond part: FLUID STATES\nSunday\, May 22\, 4 to 6 pm US and Canada EDT / 8 to 10 pm GMT\n“Fluid States\,” considers the inherent instabilities of sovereign states and states of matter\, lingering on contemporary texts and objects that are in fluid states\, with fuzzy borders and internal incoherence–at times evading capture and at others\, facilitating capitalist exchange. \n  \nTHE YALE WORKING GROUP ON GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE http://wggc.yale.edu/ is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented  work at numerous cultural studies conferences as well at the Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines.  \n THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF WGGC: Aanchal Saraf\,  Damanpreet Pelia\, Ever Osorio\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Kelvin Ng\, Lucero Estrella\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, and Monique Flores Ulysses \nThe current members work in African-American studies\,  American studies\,  Latinx studies\, history\, literary criticism\, and women’s\, gender and sexuality studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/state-forms-and-forming-states-a-2-day-presentation/2022-05-21/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Enclosures,Seminars and Talks,State Formation
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SUMMARY:Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author Alfie Bown\nHow (and why) are new technologies radically reshaping our desires?\nWe are in the middle of a desirevolution — a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always\, new technologies – with their associated and inherited political biases – are organizing and mapping the future. What we don’t seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire itself. \nOur very impulses\, drives and urges are ‘gamified’ to suit particular economic and political agendas\, changing the way we relate to everything from lovers and friends to food and politicians. Digital technologies are transforming the subject at the deepest level of desire – re-mapping its libidinal economy — in ways never before imagined possible. \nFrom sexbots to smart condoms\, fitbits to VR simulators and AI to dating algorithms\, the ‘love industries’ are at the heart of the future smart city and the social fabric of everyday life. This book considers these emergent technologies and what they mean for the future of love\, desire\, work and capitalism. \nAlfie Bown is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Royal Holloway University London. He is a founding editor of 1968 Press and his journalism has appeared in Tribune\, New Statesman\, Paris Review and the Guardian. His other books include The Playstation Dreamworld and Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production. \n‘If you want a glimpse into how our desires are manufactured under our new techno-feudal order\, and how love can prove our last defense\, read Alfie Bown’s Dream Lovers” —Yanis Varoufakis \n“Dream Lovers is an exciting\, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire and reverie has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism\, and made to work for profit — from porn to Pokemon”. — Richard Seymour\, author of The Twittering Machine
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/dream-lovers-the-gamification-of-relationships/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part 1—History
DESCRIPTION:with Alex Steinberg\nAn 8-week course that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx turned Hegel on his head.  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nWe will begin by introducing the very idea of History\, a unique contribution of Hegel to our understanding of the world.  We will read some key writings of Hegel from the Philosophy of History and the Phenomenology of Spirit and explain their significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar and was never affiliated with a university since his graduate school days. He has taught at alternative educational institutions and informally. Conference\, Presenter at First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Topics have included the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, Hegel’s Philosophy of History. (2001-2020) \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-part-1-history/2022-05-22/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,Philosophy of History,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Robert Brenner’s The Economics of Global Turbulence
DESCRIPTION:The Economics of Global Turbulence: A Close Reading and Discussion\nConvened by Sam Salour\n\nRobert Brenner’s The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn\, 1945-2005 (1998\, rev. 2006) remains among the best accounts of the evolution of advanced capitalist economies since the Second World War. His analysis of the long downturn\, although strongly criticized by certain Marxists\, proved able to account not only for the great recession but also for the global economic stagnation ever since. Even bourgeois scholars of different persuasions – whether neoclassical\, neo-Keynesian\, post-Keynesian or Kaleckian – now acknowledge that the dynamism of the advanced capitalist economies has been slowing dynamism ever since the 1980s.\n\nWe are engaging in a close reading of the text with extensive discussion. We read 10 to 15 pages in each session and expect to finish the book in 6 months. We will follow up with a reading of Brenner’s The Boom and The Bubble and his article “What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America\,” in which he extends his analysis to account for the Great Recession.\nRobert Brenner is professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. His influential article\, “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe\,” imprinted his name on a central debate concerning the origins of capitalism – the Brenner Debate. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. There is no charge for this class. Click here to register.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/robert-brenners-the-economics-of-global-turbulence/2022-05-22/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass Offering Through September 30\, 2022
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 $60 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and September 30\, 2022. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through September 30\, 2022\, giving an extra month if you purchase during this January. 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-4-month-pass-offering-through-may-31/2022-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,China,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Gender,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-05-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this May 24\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nStephen Maher’s new book\, Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power\, uses the relationship between the American state and General Electric from 1880 to 1980 to develop an original conception of what Gramsci called the “integral state.” Based on extensive archival research\, it challenges the idea that the political power of capital is the result of corporate lobbying of a passive state. Rather\, it shows how state power has been critical for the development and evolution of corporate organization. Moreover\, the book reveals how the activism of the state has been indispensable for organizing fractious business interests into capitalist class power\, including by taking the lead in forming and mobilizing business associations such as the Business Roundtable\, Business Council\, Committee for Economic Development\, and others. Such lobbying groups thus constitute part of an integral state that traverses formal state institutions as well as civil society organizations. This deep structural relationship between the state and capital has profound implications for how we think about American democracy today. \nStephen Maher is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University\, Canada\, and Associate Editor of Socialist Register.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/corporate-capitalism-and-the-integral-state/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Marx's Capital,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Joyce\, Marx\, Lefebvre: Considerations for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:A video of this August 20\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\nTwo days after Bloomsday 2022\, Andy Merrifield joined us to consider how Karl Marx and Henri Lefebvre help shed new light on James Joyce – and vice versa. Capital circulated through Marx the same way the Liffey circulated through Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake: “a commodius vicus of recirculation.” Each book is a “hypertext\,” a big\, intricately entangled\, introverted yet expansive text\, historical yet somehow universal\, exuberant and imaginative and at times colossally difficult to understand. Joyce said his principal character H. C. Earwicker was a “fargazer\,” whose “patternmind” dreamed the vastest dream\, whose sigla HCE meant “Here Comes Everybody.” Capital was Marx’s dreaming fargazing\, his Here Comes Everybody\, a condition\, he thought\, where all countries were headed\, his image of everybody’s future. \nThe babbelers with their thangas vain have been (:onjusium hold them!) they were and went; thigging thugs were and houhnhymn songroms were and comely norgels were andpollyfoolfiansees Menn have thawed\, clerks have surssurhummed\, the blond has sought of the brune: Elsekiss thou may\, mean Kerry piggy?: and the duncledames have countered with the hellish fellows: Who ails tongue coddeau\, aspace ofdumbillsilly? And they fell upong one another: and themselves they have fallen. And still nowanights and by nights of yore do all boldfloras of thefield to they shy faun lovers say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!: and\, but a little later: Pluck me whilst I blush\, be troth! For that say ing is as old as the howitts. Lave a whale a while in a whillbarrow (isn’t it the truath I’m tallinye?) to havefins andflippers that shimmy and shake. Tim Timmycan timpedhir\, tampting Tam. Fleppety! Flippety! Fleapow! –James Joyce\, Finnegan’s Wake \nANDY MERRIFIELD is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books including Marx Dead and Alive (2020)\, which he presented at The Marxist Education Project in November 2020. Andy’s most recent presentation this past January addressed Humanism and Anti-Humanism in a discussion of Henri Levebvre and Louis Althusser. Andy’s other books include Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review\, 2002)\, Magical Marxism (Pluto Press\, 2011)\, The Amateur (Verso Books\, 2018)\, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love) (OR Books\, 2018).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/joyce-marx-lefebvre-considerations-for-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-08-01/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-08-08/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:The Working Class and the Middle Classes: Allies or Foes? with John Milios
DESCRIPTION:A video of this August 20\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nThe classical political economists defined three social classes on the basis of their forms of income: capitalists (profits)\, workers (wages)\, and landowners (rents). Marx\, in his critique of political economy\, developed a new\, non-economistic and non-mechanistic “relational” class theory. On the basis of Marx’s approach\, we can tackle complex problems concerning the class structure of contemporary societies and the gray area between the working and middle classes. Certain intermediary middle-class sub-collectivities can be identified between the capitalist and the working class: the middle bourgeoisie\, the traditional petty bourgeoisie\, and the new petty bourgeoisie. Depending not only on their structural characteristics but also on the specific conjuncture\, as in an economic crisis for example\, the middle classes tend to polarize in class struggle between the two main classes of capitalist society. \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\, and the 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 in Greek since 1982) and serves on the editorial boards of four other scholarly journals. \nAll events are sliding scale: choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for further information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-working-class-and-the-middle-classes-allies-or-foes-with-john-milios/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-09-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Facebooking the Anthropocene with Bob Ostertag
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this September 27\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nBob Ostertag’s new book\, Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century\, offers a deeply intimate portrait of the cataclysmic shifts between humans\, technology\, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse\, he explores how we are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music\, to how we have sex\, to what we do to survive\, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though the environmental crisis terrifies and technology overwhelms\, Ostertag finds enough creativity\, compassion\, and humor in our evolving behavior to keep us laughing and inspired as the world we are building overtakes the world we found. \nBob Ostertag is a true polymath who has covered wars in Central America\, recorded dozens of music projects\, and published books on startlingly eclectic subjects. He fuses his travels as a touring musician with his journalist’s eye for detail and the long view of a historian. \nBook available from PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/facebooking-the-anthropocene-with-robert-ostertag/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Crisis,Cultural Resistance,Emancipation,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Social Classes\, Revolution\, and Human Freedom
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group will read and discuss original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system – the class that has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the recently published anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings with introduction by David Fernbach (Verso – 3 volumes in one\, in paperback and e-book). We will also read extensively from Hal Draper’s Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution\, vol. 2\, The Politics of Social Classes (MR Press; paper-back and e-book). Note that the Marx writings are available in many other places. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-social-classes-revolution-and-human-freedom/2022-10-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Engels,England,French Revolution,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T150332
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SUMMARY:Climate\, Class\, and Degrowth
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group as we reconvene to consider two new Verso titles that are provoking wide discussion and debate: Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet\, and The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism\, by Matthias Schmelzer\, Aaron Vansintjan\, and Andrea Vetter. As one reviewer noted\, “Both take as foundational premises that we must move beyond capitalism to solve the climate crisis\, yet they critique political economy in fundamentally different ways. While The Future is Degrowth argues for abolishing the capitalist growth imperative\, Climate Change as Class War argues against degrowth and advocates for a decommodified Green New Deal.” We will address such questions as: What do advocates of “degrowth” mean by this term? How and why do capitalist growth and accumulation threaten human survival? What are the most useful frameworks to help us organize movements for climate justice? What demands should we prioritize and what lessons can we draw from previous historical movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in what must be a massive fight for a more sustainable future? Where does working-class organizing come into the picture\, and what other allies and social forces can be mobilized? \nTen weekly sessions\, convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-class-and-degrowth/2022-10-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T150332
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-13/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221016T170000
DTSTAMP:20260411T150332
CREATED:20220915T163935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T192318Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the Life of Michael Lardner
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this October 16\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nMichael Lardner\, longtime organizer with the Marxist Education Project\, died on July 21\, 2022\, following a brief but valiant struggle with an aggressive cancer. \nMichael was a long-time activist\, starting as an organizer with the United Farm Workers in his early 20s\, eventually working as a typesetter for Win magazine\, published by the War Resisters League\, where he honed his skills in type\, graphic design\, and printing. \nThroughout his life he believed in the importance of studying history\, politics\, philosophy\, economics\, the visual arts and music\, and relished conversation and discussion with many friends\, new and old\, who joined him at classes and events\, over dinner and drinks\, and during the last few years using the Internet to never cease exchanging ideas with his many friends and comrades. \nMichael remained committed to promoting non-sectarian progressive educational opportunities through his involvement with the New York Marxist School\, The Brecht Forum\, and the Marxist Education Project. He loved literature\, always finding beauty and an expansive understanding in the language\, type styling\, graphic design\, and of course a good book cover! \nLiving in New York City and Montclair\, New Jersey for over 45 years\, Michael never stopped loving his home state of Michigan\, Port Huron where he grew up\, and his hometown Detroit sports teams. He traveled around the world\, making lasting friendships. He communicated his passion and commitments with grace\, humor\, and intense interest in the world around him. \nIf you would like to make a monetary contribution in Michael’s memory\, Alana\, Nora\, and Dan (Michael’s partner and children) suggest the Marxist Education Project\, Brooklyn Animal Action\, NARAL\, or an organization of your choice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/celebrate-the-life-of-michael-lardner/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221022T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T150332
CREATED:20220929T183504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T191824Z
UID:10007169-1666447200-1666454400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Adventure Capitalism: Raymond Craib Looks at 'Libertarian Exit'
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this October 22\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nThe past half century is littered with the remains of experiments in “libertarian exit.” Raymond Craib‘s new PM Press book Adventure Capitalism traces the history history of individualist\, property-oriented “escape” projects pursued by the likes of Michael Oliver\, Peter Thiel\, and Bitcoin bros. Based on research in archives in the US\, the UK\, and Vanuatu\, as well as in FBI files\, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism\, decolonization\, empire\, and oceans and islands. \nRaymond Craib teaches History at Cornell University. His research interests lie at the intersection of geography\, politics\, and everyday practice. His other works include The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile; Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes; and\, with Barry Maxwell\, No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/adventure-capitalism-raymond-craib-looks-at-libertarian-exit/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221024T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T150332
CREATED:20220930T201147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221113T150432Z
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SUMMARY:Envisioning Social Change: New Voices in Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:In order to build a better world\, we have to envision it first. Join us to read more science fiction through the lens of social change. Readings this fall will include \nSelections from Octavia’s Brood\, edited by adrienne marie brown and Walida Imarisha\, who conceptualized Visionary Fiction and this book to honor Octavia Butler.\nEmily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven\, winner of the 2015 Arthur C Clark award and recent streamed series.\nSelections from NK Jemisin\, Ted Chiang other related fiction and non-fiction selected by the Science Fiction-Visionary Fiction reading group \n(Photo: Octavia E Butler Landing on Mars)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/science-and-visionary-fiction-fall-reading-group/2022-10-24/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T150332
CREATED:20220929T215452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T183615Z
UID:10007170-1666722600-1666729800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Jean Jaurès and the Socialist History of the French Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video from this October 25\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nJean Jaurès’s magisterial work\, A Socialist History of the French Revolution\, has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts ever published. Mitchell Abidor‘s abridged translation of the original six-volume work makes this new edition truly accessible to an Anglophone audience. Geoff Kurtz\, author of a 2014 biography of Jaurès\, joins Mitch for a conversation about the History and the author’s life and times.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/jean-jaures-and-the-socialist-history-of-the-french-revolution/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,French Revolution,historical materialism,Literature,Marx,Marxisms,Modernity,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Video Available,Working Class History
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