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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-08-15/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
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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-2/2022-08-17/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Working Class and the Middle Classes: Allies or Foes? with John Milios
DESCRIPTION:A video of this August 20\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nThe classical political economists defined three social classes on the basis of their forms of income: capitalists (profits)\, workers (wages)\, and landowners (rents). Marx\, in his critique of political economy\, developed a new\, non-economistic and non-mechanistic “relational” class theory. On the basis of Marx’s approach\, we can tackle complex problems concerning the class structure of contemporary societies and the gray area between the working and middle classes. Certain intermediary middle-class sub-collectivities can be identified between the capitalist and the working class: the middle bourgeoisie\, the traditional petty bourgeoisie\, and the new petty bourgeoisie. Depending not only on their structural characteristics but also on the specific conjuncture\, as in an economic crisis for example\, the middle classes tend to polarize in class struggle between the two main classes of capitalist society. \nJOHN MILIOS is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)\, Greece. He has authored more than two hundred papers published or forthcoming in refereed journals (in Greek\, English\, German\, French\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, Italian\, Chinese and Turkish) including the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, History of Political Economy\, History of Economics Review\, Review of Political Economy\, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought\, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology\, Science & Society\, Rethinking Marxism\, and the Review of Radical Political Economics\, and has participated as invited speaker in numerous international conferences. He has also authored or co-authored some eighteen scholarly books. His most recent books in English are A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis: Demystifying Finance (Routledge 2013\, Paperback Edition 2014\, co-authored with D. P. Sotiropoulos and S. Lapatsioras) and The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter (Routledge 2018). He is director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Thesseis (published in Greek since 1982) and serves on the editorial boards of four other scholarly journals. \nAll events are sliding scale: choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for further information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-working-class-and-the-middle-classes-allies-or-foes-with-john-milios/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY: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/2022-08-21/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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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/2022-08-22/
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:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-08-22/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
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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-2/2022-08-24/
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: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/2022-08-28/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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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/2022-08-29/
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:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-08-29/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-09-02/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,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/2022-09-04/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-09-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220911T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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/2022-09-11/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TurbulentMapwithBrennerBk.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220912T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220731T154124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221008T171849Z
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-09-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220913T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220913T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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-2022/2022-09-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220918T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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/2022-09-18/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TurbulentMapwithBrennerBk.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220919T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220731T154124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221008T171849Z
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-09-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220920T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220920T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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-2022/2022-09-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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/2022-09-25/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Crisis,Globalization,Political Economy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TurbulentMapwithBrennerBk.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220926T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220731T154124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221008T171849Z
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-09-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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-2022/2022-09-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220823T170559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T192119Z
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SUMMARY:Facebooking the Anthropocene with Bob Ostertag
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this September 27\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nBob Ostertag’s new book\, Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century\, offers a deeply intimate portrait of the cataclysmic shifts between humans\, technology\, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse\, he explores how we are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music\, to how we have sex\, to what we do to survive\, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though the environmental crisis terrifies and technology overwhelms\, Ostertag finds enough creativity\, compassion\, and humor in our evolving behavior to keep us laughing and inspired as the world we are building overtakes the world we found. \nBob Ostertag is a true polymath who has covered wars in Central America\, recorded dozens of music projects\, and published books on startlingly eclectic subjects. He fuses his travels as a touring musician with his journalist’s eye for detail and the long view of a historian. \nBook available from PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/facebooking-the-anthropocene-with-robert-ostertag/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Crisis,Cultural Resistance,Emancipation,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ostertag-title.webp
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221003T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221003T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220731T154124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221008T171849Z
UID:10006405-1664816400-1664821800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season
DESCRIPTION:“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world\, and your fellow men\, and your own feelings\, and your destiny.”\n“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” \n\n—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin \nSummertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September\, join us to read visionary fiction together\, challenge our understandings\, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice\, a post-capitalist future\, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together. \nJoin us Monday\, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories\, related non-fiction\, film\, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None. \nOnce you register\, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.) \nMondays 5:00-6:30 pm\, 8 weeks. \nphoto: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324\, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA\, ESA\, CSA\, and STScI
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-season-science-fiction-visionary-fiction-reading-group/2022-10-03/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221004T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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-2022/2022-10-04/
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;VALUE=DATE:20221007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221008
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-10-07/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221009T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221009T130000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Social Classes\, Revolution\, and Human Freedom
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group will read and discuss original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system – the class that has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the recently published anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings with introduction by David Fernbach (Verso – 3 volumes in one\, in paperback and e-book). We will also read extensively from Hal Draper’s Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution\, vol. 2\, The Politics of Social Classes (MR Press; paper-back and e-book). Note that the Marx writings are available in many other places. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-social-classes-revolution-and-human-freedom/2022-10-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Engels,England,French Revolution,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221011T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221011T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
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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-2022/2022-10-11/
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:20221012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220829T213220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T155654Z
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SUMMARY:Climate\, Class\, and Degrowth
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group as we reconvene to consider two new Verso titles that are provoking wide discussion and debate: Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet\, and The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism\, by Matthias Schmelzer\, Aaron Vansintjan\, and Andrea Vetter. As one reviewer noted\, “Both take as foundational premises that we must move beyond capitalism to solve the climate crisis\, yet they critique political economy in fundamentally different ways. While The Future is Degrowth argues for abolishing the capitalist growth imperative\, Climate Change as Class War argues against degrowth and advocates for a decommodified Green New Deal.” We will address such questions as: What do advocates of “degrowth” mean by this term? How and why do capitalist growth and accumulation threaten human survival? What are the most useful frameworks to help us organize movements for climate justice? What demands should we prioritize and what lessons can we draw from previous historical movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in what must be a massive fight for a more sustainable future? Where does working-class organizing come into the picture\, and what other allies and social forces can be mobilized? \nTen weekly sessions\, convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-class-and-degrowth/2022-10-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T182153
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-13/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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