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SUMMARY:Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video from this November 19\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nWith William I. Robinson\nGlobal Civil War provides a big-picture account of how the coronavirus pandemic and new digital technologies have transformed capitalism and the entire global economy and society. Analyzing the concentration of power and control in the hands of corporate conglomerates\, tech giants\, megabanks\, and the military-industrial complex\, the book documents the extent of unprecedented global inequalities as the mass of humanity faces violent dispossession and uncertain survival. The book issues a dire warning against the emergence of a dystopic digitalized dictatorship but also finds great hope and inspiration in the burgeoning social movements of the poor and the dispossessed as humanity descends into global civil war. \nWilliam I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Global Studies\, and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his many books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (2014); Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism (2018); and The Global Police State (2020). \nGlobal Civil War is available from the publisher\, PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/global-civil-war-capitalism-post-pandemic/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,China,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Covid and Capital,Crisis,Financialization,Globalization,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Migration,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity
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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/2022-11-20/
LOCATION:NY\, 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:20221120T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221120T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-11-20/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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/2022-11-21/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221122T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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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-2022/2022-11-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221123T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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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/2022-11-23/
LOCATION:NY\, 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:20221123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221123T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-11-23/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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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/2022-11-24/
LOCATION:NY\, 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:20221126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221126T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221005T181929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221124T142711Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part II - Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week course presented by Alex Steinberg 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. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Spring of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s Philosophy of History. We will dive directly into that mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make Hegel’s book less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-part-ii-phenomenology-of-spirit/2022-11-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,historical materialism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220830T011900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T170224Z
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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/2022-11-27/
LOCATION:NY\, 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:20221127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221127T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-11-27/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221128T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221128T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
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/2022-11-28/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221129T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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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-2022/2022-11-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221130T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220829T213220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T155654Z
UID:10006463-1669827600-1669833000@marxedproject.org
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/2022-11-30/
LOCATION:NY\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221130T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007193-1669831200-1669836600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-11-30/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007165-1669921200-1669928400@marxedproject.org
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/2022-12-01/
LOCATION:NY\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221203
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20210618T033341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T214901Z
UID:10007636-1669939200-1670025599@marxedproject.org
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/2022-12-02/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221203T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221203T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221005T181929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221124T142711Z
UID:10007185-1670076000-1670083200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part II - Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week course presented by Alex Steinberg 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. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Spring of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s Philosophy of History. We will dive directly into that mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make Hegel’s book less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-part-ii-phenomenology-of-spirit/2022-12-03/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,historical materialism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221204T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221204T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220830T011900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T170224Z
UID:10006475-1670151600-1670158800@marxedproject.org
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/2022-12-04/
LOCATION:NY\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221204T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
UID:10007206-1670158800-1670164200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-12-04/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221205T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221201T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230311T165256Z
UID:10007220-1670259600-1670265000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2022-12-05/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
UID:10006431-1670351400-1670356800@marxedproject.org
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-2022/2022-12-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221207T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220829T213220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T155654Z
UID:10006464-1670432400-1670437800@marxedproject.org
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/2022-12-07/
LOCATION:NY\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221207T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007194-1670436000-1670441400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-07/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007166-1670526000-1670533200@marxedproject.org
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/2022-12-08/
LOCATION:NY\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221210T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221210T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221005T181929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221124T142711Z
UID:10007186-1670680800-1670688000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part II - Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week course presented by Alex Steinberg 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. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Spring of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s Philosophy of History. We will dive directly into that mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make Hegel’s book less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-part-ii-phenomenology-of-spirit/2022-12-10/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,historical materialism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221210T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221210T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221126T164857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T195238Z
UID:10007219-1670680800-1670688000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:From Austerity to Fascism: The Capital Order
DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 10\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nClara E. Mattei presents The Capital Order\, in which she explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital – and indeed capitalism – in times of social upheaval from below. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy\, she offers a damning account of the rise of austerity – and of modern economics – at the levers of contemporary political power. Mattei reveals how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated policies that elevated owners\, smothered workers\, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across societies. Where austerity “succeeded\,” relatively speaking\, was in their enrichment of ruling-class interests who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. \nClara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She was a 2018-2019 member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/from-austerity-to-fascism-the-capital-order/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-fascism,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,England,Globalization,Italian history,Late Capital and Fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221211T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221211T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20220830T011900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T170224Z
UID:10006476-1670756400-1670763600@marxedproject.org
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/2022-12-11/
LOCATION:NY\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221211T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071557
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-12-11/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:Staring Down the Apocalypse: Three Visions of Earth's Future
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read three powerful explorations of human agency\, individual and collective–three debut novels from three different time periods. Seventy years ago\, in the midst of the Cold War\, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 classic Childhood’s End starkly portrayed one path for humanity in addressing its social ills.  Kim Stanley Robinson’s first novel\, The Wild Shore\, published in 1984 at the height of Reaganism\, imagined the emergence of resistance to geopolitical and environmental disasters. M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s just published Everything for Everyone explores a collective response to the crises of today. We will supplement these with other recommended readings and videos.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/staring-down-the-apocalypse-three-visions/2022-12-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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