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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/2022-05-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,Dystopian literature,Literary Studies,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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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: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-2/2022-05-25/
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: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/2022-05-29/
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/2022-05-29/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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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: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/2022-05-30/
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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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/2022-05-30/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,Dystopian literature,Literary Studies,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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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-2/2022-06-01/
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: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/2022-06-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,Philosophy of History,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220605T200000
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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/2022-06-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T233000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20201217T162240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z
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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-30-2021/2022-06-06/
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T183000
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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/2022-06-06/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T033939Z
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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/2022-06-06/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,Dystopian literature,Literary Studies,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220608T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220608T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220217T221416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T153338Z
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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-2/2022-06-08/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220612T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220612T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220419T204549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220521T054038Z
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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/2022-06-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,Philosophy of History,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220612T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220304T230349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220731T194649Z
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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/2022-06-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T233000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20201217T162240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z
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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-30-2021/2022-06-13/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220303T042328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220727T213221Z
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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/2022-06-13/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220331T174324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T033939Z
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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/2022-06-13/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,Dystopian literature,Literary Studies,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220615T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220615T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220217T221416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T153338Z
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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-2/2022-06-15/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220618T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220618T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220602T110850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T160602Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220619T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220619T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220419T204549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220521T054038Z
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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/2022-06-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegelianism,Philosophy of History,Seminars and Talks
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220619T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220619T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20220304T230349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220731T194649Z
UID:10007093-1655661600-1655668800@marxedproject.org
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/2022-06-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220620T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220620T233000
DTSTAMP:20260407T092919
CREATED:20201217T162240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z
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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-30-2021/2022-06-20/
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: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/2022-06-20/
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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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/2022-06-20/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,Dystopian literature,Literary Studies,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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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-2/2022-06-22/
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: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/2022-06-26/
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/2022-06-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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