BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Marxist Education Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220618T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220618T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220602T110850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T160602Z UID:10006395-1655560800-1655568000@marxedproject.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-06-18_Joyce-Marx-Lefebvre-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220524T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220524T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220502T213832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T193704Z UID:10007154-1653415200-1653422400@marxedproject.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PCB_GE_HudsonRiverWithBkBanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220523T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220523T233000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20210123T032014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T144231Z UID:10006178-1653264000-1653348600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:4 Month Pass Offering Through September 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $60 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and September 30\, 2022. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through September 30\, 2022\, giving an extra month if you purchase during this January. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-4-month-pass-offering-through-may-31/2022-05-23/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,China,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Gender,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bolsheviks_1921_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220522T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220505T151937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T152925Z UID:10007156-1653235200-1653242400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:State Forms and Forming States: A 2-day presentation DESCRIPTION:Two afternoons with The Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nIn a two-part presentation\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture will share our collective research on states: states of governmentality\, states of matter\, states of being. States move through us\, states congeal borders\, states govern\, states violate\, states intervene\, states organize abandonment\, states let die. States also signal a condition of being–states of emergency\, states of grace\, states of matter\, statelessness. What a sorry state you’re in! There are corrupt states\, failed states\, and disordered states of the economy. In many “state” formations\, stability is revered. We challenge its troubling promise to bind places and peoples together\, to curate state feelings\, while attending to the ways in which groups gather to diffuse and refuse boundaries in altered states. Together\, our panels suggest that when states transform\, perhaps it is a revolution or perhaps–it is alchemy. \nThe project is divided into two halves: \nFirst part: STATE CURATORS\nSaturday\, May 21\, 4 to 6 pm US and Canada EDT / 8 to 10 pm GMT\n“State Curators\,” takes up histories of sovereignty and governmentality\, and the relationship between knowledge\, culture\, and the state. Moving across the Mexico-Texas border\, colonial India and Reconstruction America\, Harlem and postcolonial Algeria and Cuba\, it looks at state-associated actors from social scientists to missionaries to poets. \nSecond part: FLUID STATES\nSunday\, May 22\, 4 to 6 pm US and Canada EDT / 8 to 10 pm GMT\n“Fluid States\,” considers the inherent instabilities of sovereign states and states of matter\, lingering on contemporary texts and objects that are in fluid states\, with fuzzy borders and internal incoherence–at times evading capture and at others\, facilitating capitalist exchange. \n  \nTHE YALE WORKING GROUP ON GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE http://wggc.yale.edu/ is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented  work at numerous cultural studies conferences as well at the Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. \n THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF WGGC: Aanchal Saraf\,  Damanpreet Pelia\, Ever Osorio\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Kelvin Ng\, Lucero Estrella\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, and Monique Flores Ulysses \nThe current members work in African-American studies\,  American studies\,  Latinx studies\, history\, literary criticism\, and women’s\, gender and sexuality studies. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/state-forms-and-forming-states-a-2-day-presentation/2022-05-22/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Enclosures,Seminars and Talks,State Formation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/StateFormsArtSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220505T154814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T154814Z UID:10007157-1653224400-1653231600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author Alfie Bown\nHow (and why) are new technologies radically reshaping our desires?\nWe are in the middle of a desirevolution — a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always\, new technologies – with their associated and inherited political biases – are organizing and mapping the future. What we don’t seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire itself. \nOur very impulses\, drives and urges are ‘gamified’ to suit particular economic and political agendas\, changing the way we relate to everything from lovers and friends to food and politicians. Digital technologies are transforming the subject at the deepest level of desire – re-mapping its libidinal economy — in ways never before imagined possible. \nFrom sexbots to smart condoms\, fitbits to VR simulators and AI to dating algorithms\, the ‘love industries’ are at the heart of the future smart city and the social fabric of everyday life. This book considers these emergent technologies and what they mean for the future of love\, desire\, work and capitalism. \nAlfie Bown is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Royal Holloway University London. He is a founding editor of 1968 Press and his journalism has appeared in Tribune\, New Statesman\, Paris Review and the Guardian. His other books include The Playstation Dreamworld and Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production. \n‘If you want a glimpse into how our desires are manufactured under our new techno-feudal order\, and how love can prove our last defense\, read Alfie Bown’s Dream Lovers” —Yanis Varoufakis \n“Dream Lovers is an exciting\, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire and reverie has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism\, and made to work for profit — from porn to Pokemon”. — Richard Seymour\, author of The Twittering Machine URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/dream-lovers-the-gamification-of-relationships/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DreamLoveBanner2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220521T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220512T011310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T011310Z UID:10006390-1653138000-1653145200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Marx Revival\, moderated by Marcello Musto DESCRIPTION:Marcello Musto moderates a discussion with co-authors from the Marx Revival book from Cambridge University Press.\nBob Jessop on State\nMichael Krätke on Capitalism\nHeather Brown on Gender Equality\nMichael Löwy\, on Revolution\nPeter Hudis on Political Organization\nThis event is co-sponsored with and by Shelter and Solidarity and the Marxist Education Project. \nWith moderator Marcello Musto\, and the following presenters on the sections that they produced for this anthology. Presenters are Bob Jessop on State\, Michael Krätke on Capitalism\, Heather Brown on Gender Equality\, Michael Löwy\, on Revolution\, Peter Hudis on Political Organization—among the many contributions by those presenting today and other noted international scholars—presents a Marx in many ways different from the one familiar from the dominant currents of twentieth-century socialism. Its dual aim is to reopen for discussion\, in a critical and innovative manner\, the classical themes of Marx’s thought\, and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until now. It is hoped that the volume will therefore help to bring Marx closer both to those who think everything has already been written about his work and to a new generation of readers who have not yet been seriously confronted with his writings.     — Marcello Musto\, Preface to The Marx Revival URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-marx-revival-moderated-by-marcello-musto/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/BkCoverScreenGrab_MarxRevive.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220515T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220201T034827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220430T215742Z UID:10006312-1652623200-1652630400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022 — Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward DESCRIPTION:with Greg Albo\, Sam Gindin\, Adolph and Touré Reed\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright participating in the concluding session of this  this four-session series\nIt is a truism that electoral politics and political identity in the USA and Europe today are polarized to a degree unknown since the 1930s. It is a commonplace among the pundits of the ruling class that somehow “both sides” must return to “moderate” common sense to avoid a violent rupture of our society. They seldom question the underlying causes of this polarization\, let alone whether it is rooted in the very nature of late capitalism. \nThis is not the case with the contributors to the 58th volume of Socialist Register. From different perspectives\, they ask us to think about the deep social contradictions exposed by increasing polarization of the most economically developed societies along lines of wealth\, race\, gender\, nation-state\, and region. Members of this class meet once each month for four months to discuss selected articles from SR 58 with editor Greg Albo\, joined by various authors organized around the following themes on one Sunday a month from February 20 through May 115\, 2022. \nThe two remaining single sessions will each have a separate ordering position on the website as well. Please pay attention to the international time changes that are not in sync and will occur during the duration of this series. \nPART 4\nMay 15 • Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project  with James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright • American Workers and the Left after Trump with Sam Gindin • The Evolution of Race under Neoliberalism with Adolph and Touré Reed \nThis year’s Socialist Register presentations are presented in honor of Leo Panitch \nLEO PANITCH • 1945-2020 / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted \nA limited number of Socialist Register 58 books are available from the MEP\, SR58 is also available in print and digital forms from MR Press in the US\, Merlin Press in the UK\, and from Fernwood Press in Canada\, or from the Socialist Register website. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-new-polarizations-old-contradictions-the-crisis-of-centrism/2022-05-15/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SR58_BkJkt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220515T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220515T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220410T221155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220410T221155Z UID:10007141-1652580000-1652630400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022: Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward DESCRIPTION:with\nSam Gindin\, Adolph Reed\, Jr.\, Toure Reed\, Vishwas Satgur\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright\,\nVISHWAS SATGUR\nEpidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa\nIn this presentation\, Vishwas Satgar sets out the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa as an example of polarized access to medical services shamelessly piled on top of acute polarizations of income and employment and ecological vandalism. But the ANC government’s neoliberal pandemic response\, “has also unleashed a cycle of post-apartheid progressive resistance.” \nJAMES SCHNEIDER and HILARY WAINWRIGHT\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project\nA discussion of the lessons to be learned from the experience of Momentum as a national campaign organization for the left wing of the UK Labour Party and its achievements (despite ultimate failure to elect a government led by Jeremy Corbyn).  They are optimists in their accounting of the new spaces that are now open for a radical democratic politics in Britain. \nADOLPH REED\, JR. and TOURE REED \n“Race” and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism\nThis presentation links the rise of the hard right in US politics to the marginalization of the progressive pole as “the black political class” became embedded in “the Democratic Party’s commitment to a programme of retrenchment.” Addressing poverty and continuing social inequality in the black community requires building a broader working-class movement. \nSAM GINDIN\nAmerican Workers and the Left after Trump: Polarized Options\nSam argues that the inherent limits of Democratic Party “Keynesian” reflation still constitutes a difficult terrain for the left in the USA\, which needs to take care not to slip into the trap of spending all its energies defending the liberal forces exemplified by Biden as opposed to organizing labor and independent social struggles. \n Summary by series editor GREG ALBO \nVishwas Satgar\, associate professor of International Relations\, University of Witwatersrand\, is principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. James Schneider\, communications director of Progressive International\, is a co-founder of Momentum and was a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn; Hilary Wainwright is an editor of Red Pepper magazine and a fellow of the Transnational Institute and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex University. Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of political science\, University of Pennsylvania; Touré F. Reed is a professor of history at Illinois State University. Sam Gindin is former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-polarization-and-socialism-the-direction-forward/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Socialist Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EisensteinStageDesign.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220514T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220514T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220424T214946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220424T214946Z UID:10007153-1652536800-1652544000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Embrace of Capital with author Don Milligan DESCRIPTION:Capitalism has swallowed us whole. It’s a love hate relationship.\nA presentation and discussion with Don Milligan\n“So refreshing and joyously subversive to read a communist’s analysis of why communism is so terribly unappetizing.” —Yanis Yaroufakis\nThe “spectre of communism” which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare\, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity\, inequality\, and greed\, and love civic and political freedom. They love mass consumption\, and accept the logic of commerce. Barreling along through wars\, revolutions\, epidemics\, and crises of all sorts\, working people in their millions have consistently dumfounded and dismayed the left\, by their refusal to countenance any alternative to the capitalist mode of life. We have to ask: Is it possible to reverse this reality\, and once again talk of the necessity of communism? \nDon Milligan has been a gay activist\, trade unionist\, and a member of the communist movement for many decades. He published the pamphlet\, The Politics of Homosexuality in 1973\, and The Truth About the Aids Panic\, with Michael Fitzpatrick in 1987\, and also completed a doctoral thesis\, ‘The Aesthetic of Emancipation: A study of the relation between Raymond Williams’s socialism and his literary criticism\, cultural analysis and theoretical writings’\, in 2003. He lives in Manchester\, UK. \nTo order Don’s book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/ordering/ \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-embrace-of-capital-with-author-don-milligan/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,communism,Das Kapital,Fordism,Late Capital and Fascism,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KrazyKarsBanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220510T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220510T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20211229T213305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T171619Z UID:10007042-1652207400-1652212800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \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 in 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 Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-10/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WorkingTobacco17thCent.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220508T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220213T182012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220409T035711Z UID:10006334-1652014800-1652022000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Arise: Power\, Strategy and Union Resurgence DESCRIPTION:with author Jane Holgate\nIn Arise\, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organizing experience\, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice\, leadership and union democracy to politics\, tactics and the agency afforded to the majority of union members. \nIn the midst of a neoliberal era of economic crisis and political upheaval\, the labor movement stands at a crossroads. Union membership is on the rise\, but the ‘turn to organizing’ has largely failed to translate into meaningful gains for workers. There is much discussion about the lack of collectivism among workers due to casualization\, gig work and precarity\, yet these conditions were standard in the UK when workers built the foundations of the 19th-century trade union movement. \nDrawing on history and case studies of unions developing the effective use of power\, Jane Holgate’s book lays out strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers’ struggle\, the chapters of Arise demonstrate that transformational change is not only possible\, but within reach. \nJANE HOLGATE is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA “mother of chapel”\, Unison branch chair and regional council delegate\, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions\, including the GMB\, TGWU\, CWU\, Bectu\, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress. \nDiscount code for purchasing from Pluto: MEP \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-power-strategy-and-union-resurgence/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EventBriteBanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220507T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220507T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220420T144638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T200735Z UID:10007151-1651932000-1651939200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Marx Revival: John Bellamy Foster and Marcello Musto DESCRIPTION:Shelter and Solidarity and the Marxist Education Project are co-sponsoring this event \nThe Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations \nA focus on Ecology with John Bellamy Foster and a presentation on Communism with Marcello Musto \n“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal and marginal course adoption\, selective co-optation and selective bowdlerization: these are some of the strategies of establishment intellectuals over the years in response to the challenger of the thinker born 204 years ago in Trier. Yet\, here we are near the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century\, and it sometimes seems that Karl Marx’s ideas have never been as topical\, or as commanding of respect and interest\, as they are today.” —Marcello Musto\, from the Preface\, The Marx Revival \nThe Marx Revival is a revelation: a Marx for our times. — Nancy Fraser\nThe Marx Revival  will be the place to start in Marx scholarship.  —Gregory Claeys\nThis is Marx for the 21st century.  —Göran Therborn \nJohn Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. John is the author of the forthcoming Ecology in the Anthropocene (Monthly Review Press)\, the editor of works by Istvan Mészáros. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature\,which won the Deutscher Memorial prize. \nMarcello Musto is co-editor of the Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms series of works with Palgrave Macmillan and  is Associate Professor of Sociological Theory at York University. Marcello has authored and edited many volumes including Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International\, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography\, and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-marx-revival-john-bellamy-foster-and-marcello-musto/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,communism,Ecosocialism,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220501T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220501T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220409T012938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220409T013100Z UID:10007140-1651420800-1651428000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Building Alternatives in Rojava: Women’s Liberation & Cooperative Economy DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Emre Sahin and Meghan Bodette\nSince the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War\, the peoples of Northeast Syria\, commonly known as Rojava\, have been building an alternative system of governance based on the principles of direct democracy\, gender equality\, pluralism\, anti-capitalism\, and social ecology. On the occasion of International Workers’ Day\, this event will focus on two of the pillars of Rojava’s vision as developed by the Kurdish movement\, namely women’s liberation and cooperative economy. Our speakers will trace the development of the Kurdish women’s movement and discuss the growth of Rojava’s cooperative economy\, highlighting women’s autonomous economic organizing. \nEmre Sahin is a participant and researcher of social movements\, particularly the Kurdish movement\, and a sociologist at Binghamton University.\nMeghan Bodette is a researcher focused on Turkey\, Syria and Kurdish issues. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/building-alternatives-in-rojava-womens-liberation-cooperative-economy/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Civil War,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Emancipation,Gender,Seminars and Talks,Women ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FestiveRojava_May1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220430T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220430T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220405T025106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T025106Z UID:10007138-1651327200-1651334400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:El Golpe: US Labor\, the CIA\, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico DESCRIPTION:by Rob McKenzie with Patrick Dunne\nTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in Mexico\nEarly in my research\, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me\, “Don’t give up. They are hiding something”…’ \n \nIt’s 1990\, and US labor is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumors of a violent confrontation at the Mexican Ford Assembly plant on January 8 reach the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the US: nine employees had been shot by a group of drunken thugs and gangsters\, in an act of political repression which changed the course of Mexican and US workers’ rights forever. Rob McKenzie was working at the Ford Twin Cities Assembly plant in Minnesota when he heard of the attack. He didn’t believe the official story\, and began a years-long investigation to uncover the truth. His findings took him further than he expected – all the way to the doors of the CIA. \nVirtually unknown outside of Mexico\, the full story of ‘El Golpe’\, or ‘The Coup’\, is a dark tale of political intrigue that still resonates today. \nRob McKenzie worked at the Twin City Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul\, Minnesota as an assembler\, electrician and full-time union representative. In 1998 he became President of his United Auto Workers branch\, and later was elected to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Executive Board. \nPatrick Dunne is a graduate in History from the University of Cambridge\, with a dissertation on ‘The AFL-CIO and the Coup against Allende’. \n  \nDiscount code for the book at plutobooks.com = MEP \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/el-golpe-us-labor-the-cia-and-the-coup-at-ford-in-mexico/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Latin America,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ElGolpeBanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220424T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220424T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220408T033850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220408T034055Z UID:10007139-1650808800-1650816000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author Ted Reese\nFrom the Introduction\nHenryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory\, let alone the mass of working people around the world\, have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman\, a Polish Jew born in 1881\, deserves recognition as the most sophisticated proponent since Karl Marx of a devastating claim about the nature of our social world. For\, if Grossman’s neglected but brilliant insight into economics is correct\, then capitalism – the social system that has dominated life all over the globe for the past few centuries – may well be entering what he called its ‘final breakdown’. \nThe claim that capitalism is unsustainable has been ridiculed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Capitalists declared ‘the end of history’ – their system had proven to be the stronger and would go on uncontested until the heat death of the universe. The same view dominated after the 1883 death of Marx\, whose three-volume masterpiece Capital exposed capitalism as a crisis-ridden and historically transient economic system (mode of production). \nFor the next half century even Marx’s self-proclaimed successors either declared capitalism to be crisis-free and inexhaustible\, or formulated flawed theories of crisis and collapse that did not support their own claims. Against the grain\, Grossman dedicated himself to restoring the basis of scientific socialism. In 1929 he illuminated Marx’s insights with a rare clarity and wit in his own great work\, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System\, published in 1929. \nThe book received an almost universally hostile reception. Attacked by both reformist social democrats and revolutionary communists\, Grossman stood accused of promoting a ‘mechanical’ or ‘automatic’ theory of socialism’s ‘inevitable’ victory over capitalism that underplayed the importance of class struggle. \nTED REESE is a British Marxist in the tradition of Henryk Grossman. In Reese’s first book\, Socialism or Extinction: Climate\, Automation and War in the Final Capitalist Breakdown (2019) he argues: that capitalism is the cause of and can only continue to accelerate the existential climate crisis; that socialism and a plant-based (mainly hemp and mycelium) industrial revolution are required to save the planet’s habitability; that automation is abolishing the source of profit; and that the descent into negative interest rates indicates that capitalism is now entering its final crisis\, meaning that socialism is becoming an economic necessity for the first time – but that the crisis also threatens the greatest world war to date between the imperialist powers. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-end-of-capitalism-the-though-of-henryk-grossman/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Marx,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EndOfCapitalismBkJkt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220423T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220423T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220315T021736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T021736Z UID:10007111-1650722400-1650729600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim Our Digital Future from Big Tech DESCRIPTION:With author James Muldoon\nA bold new manifesto for digital technology after capitalism\n“A punchy analysis of the platform economy that offers more than a critique of big tech’s vision of our collective future. Muldoon sketches  the contours of a democratic socialist alternative.”\n— Aaron Benanav\, Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin and author of Automation and the Future of Work \n“Encourages us to open our minds fully to the possibility of an alternative future\, in which technology is put to work for the many\, not the few’\n— Lizzie O’Shea\, lawyer and author of Future Histories \nWhoever controls the platforms\, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders\, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users. \nJames Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas from the local to the international for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes\, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there. \n JAMES MULDOON is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Exeter\, Head of Digital Research at Autonomy\, and YouTube philosopher at Political Philosophy. He also works directly with digital businesses transitioning to fair work practices. His writing has appeared in the Guardian\, Time magazine and the Huffington Post.  \nFor a discount on James’ book: plutobooks.com\nDiscount code: MEP\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/platform-socialism-how-to-reclaim-our-digital-future-from-big-tech/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Globalization,Labor Process,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DigitalFutureSliceSocMed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220129T034642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T234224Z UID:10007055-1650567600-1650574800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-04-21/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BombFactory.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220420T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220420T183000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220209T022323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z UID:10006332-1650474000-1650479400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’ DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-04-20/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Banner_PigsHorsesIndustrialization.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220419T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220313T004005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T204655Z UID:10007110-1650384000-1650391200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Solutions are Already Here with author Peter Gelderloos DESCRIPTION:Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below\nAs the climate crisis worsens\, we must look to revolutionary strategy for justice\nAre alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there are possibilities. \n \nAcross the world\, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realize their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction\, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist\, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal. \nGelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela\, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia\, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports\, stopped pipelines\, and helped the most marginalized to fight borders and environmental racism\, to transform their cities\, to win a dignified survival. \nAll author royalties and proceeds from this event will go to the Indigenous reforesting initiatives in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuels in Indonesia. \nPETER GELDERLOOS is a writer and movement participant. He is the author of How Nonviolence Protects the State\, Anarchy Works and Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation. He has contributed chapters to anthologies Keywords for Radicals and Riots and Militant Occupations. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-solutions-are-already-here-with-author-peter-gelderloos/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Enclosures,Extractivism,Insurgency,Latin America,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Amazon_Indonesia.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220410T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220306T024604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220306T024604Z UID:10007108-1649599200-1649606400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Global Political Struggles of the Working Class DESCRIPTION:The Double Consciousness of Capital with author DAVID HARVEY\nSocial Sources of Political Polarization in Russia with authors ILYA MATVEEV and OLEG ZHURAVLEV\nThe Far Right\, Corporate Power\, and Social Struggles in Brazil with authors VIRGINIA FONTES\, ANA GARCIA and REJANE HOEVELER\nIn “The Double Consciousness of Capital”. DAVID HARVEY turns to Marx’s Grundrisse and to W.E.B.Du Bois’ idea of  double consciousness\, to locate a tension in anti-capitalist politics between the possibilities found in the creative destruction and technological revolutions of capitalism and the alienation and loss of human potentiality which is a result of the same process. The path to socialism requires navigating the contradictions of this double consciousness. \nIn “Social Sources of Political Polarization in Russia”. ILYA MATVEEV and OLEG ZHURAVLEV offer a compelling account of rising urban-rural and core-periphery polarization in Russia under the authoritarian nationalism of Vladimir Putin\, which until recently was able to rely on the apathetic indifference of the people and general appeals to social stability to maintain unchallenged power. \nIn “The Far Right\, Corporate Power\, and Social Struggles in Brazil”. VIRGINA FONTES\, ANA GARCIA\, and REJANE HOEVELER contrast the fictitious polarization in Brazil between electoral oppositions that quarrel over cultural issues without challenging the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism and the real polarization resulting from a combative working class that is developing\, as Gramsci says\, a spirit of cleavage\, determined to pursue its class interests. \nDAVID HARVEY is Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York. ILYA MATVEEV teaches politics at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration\, St. Petersburg; OLEG ZHURAVLEV is a researcher at the Public Sociology Laboratory\, Center for Independent Social Research\, St. Petersburg. VIRGINIA FONTES is professor of history at Fluminense Federal University\, Rio de Janeiro State\, and a teacher at the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Landless Workers Movement; ANA GARCIA is assistant professor at the International Relations Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University and the graduate program in Social Sciences at the Federal Rural University\, both in Rio de Janeiro; REJANE HOEVELER is a lecturer in the School of Social Service at Fluminense Federal University. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press. \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 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/global-political-struggles-of-the-working-class/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Globalization,Grundrisse,Hegemony,Latin America,Pandemics and Capital,Russia,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Montage_VietnamLibya_Mexico.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220409T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220409T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220309T225052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225052Z UID:10007109-1649512800-1649520000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:After the Pandemic: Rebuilding the Medicare for All Movement DESCRIPTION:with Mark Dudzic \nThe world’s most expensive healthcare system failed catastrophically under the real-world structure test of the pandemic. This crisis drove home both the absurdity of linking healthcare to employment and the importance of treating healthcare as a decommodified public good. But the politics of the emerging post pandemic period are not conducive to big\, transformative initiatives like Medicare for All. We will explore this disjuncture between social necessity and political possibility and how it might be resolved with particular emphasis on the role of the institutional labor movement. \nMARK DUDZIC is the Chair of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and is a longtime union organizer and activist. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/after-the-pandemic-rebuilding-the-medicare-for-all-movement/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Crisis,Food and politics,Healthcare,Labor Organizing,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Medicatre4AllDemo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220409T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220409T130000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20211112T022546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220409T034423Z UID:10007019-1649502000-1649509200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse: Last two weeks until spring term DESCRIPTION:Notebook 3: two more sessions until the next term\nNewcomers are welcome to join this diverse\, and very welcoming  international group of reading discussants when you are able \n“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on December 4\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. These sessions are open to people joining when possible. We are attempting to read and thoroughly discuss each Notebook in a series of 10-12 week sessions. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2nd-session/2022-04-09/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Grundrisse,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GrundrissePt2_FBSite.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220403T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220403T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220216T202248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T202248Z UID:10007056-1648994400-1649001600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Rubbish Belongs to the Poor DESCRIPTION:Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons\nPresentation and discussion with author Patrick O’Hare\nRubbish. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away\, the connotations are the same; of something dirty\, useless and incontrovertibly ‘bad’. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality? \nIn Rubbish Belongs to the Poor\, Patrick O’Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay’s waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize rubbish as a 21st century commons\, at risk of enclosure. On a giant landfill site outside the capital Montevideo we meet the book’s central protagonists\, the ‘classifiers’: waste-pickers who recover and recycle materials in and around its fenced but porous perimeter. Here the struggle of classifiers against the enclosure of the landfill\, justified on the grounds of hygiene\, is brought into dialogue with other historical and contemporary enclosures – from urban privatizations to rural evictions — to shed light on the nature of contemporary forms of capitalist dispossession. \nSupplementing this rich ethnography with the author’s own insights from dumpster diving in the UK\, the book analyzes capitalism’s relations with its material surpluses and what these tell us about its expansionary logics\, limits and liminal spaces. Rubbish Belongs to the Poor ultimately proposes a fundamental rethinking of the links between waste\, capitalism and dignified work. \nPatrick O’Hare is a social anthropologist and activist. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Researcher at the University of St Andrews. \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/rubbish-belongs-to-the-poor/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Enclosures,Extractivism,Globalization,Precarity,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BannerRubbishBelongsToPoor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220327T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220327T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220208T041851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T041851Z UID:10006326-1648389600-1648396800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Soldiers of Revolution DESCRIPTION:with author Mark Lause\n\nIn Soldiers of Revolution\, historian Mark A. Lause analyzes changes in European warfare in the closing decades of the 19th century and the consequences for working-class movements. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 introduced new military technologies\, transformed the organization of armies\, and upset the continental balance of power. The mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilizations of working people\, who exercised a new power through social democratic parties and insurgent movements. The Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they had learned to mistrust. In brutally suppressing the Commune and butchering tens of thousands of Parisians\, the French rulers put an end to the old utopian faith that reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution\, and revolution became enmeshed in armed struggle. \n“This is military history at its broadest and best. Lause captures events and technologies of destruction to be sure but also the regimented labor of war\, the soldier’s experience of larger worlds and new comrades\, the coming to know of politics as a life and death matter\, and the invitation to interrogate national ideals. These transformations set the stage for the for both the Paris Commune and the brutality of its repression.”  —David Roediger \nhttps://www.versobooks.com/books/3865-soldiers-of-revolution \nMark A. Lause has published many works on labor history\, including The Great Cowboy Strike: Class\, Politics & Violence in the Making of the American West; Free Labor: the Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class\, and Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left. He is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and has been a socialist for over fifty years. \nAll events are sliding scaleÑchoose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\nmain image is from a painting by Diego Rivera URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/soldiers-of-revolution/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DiegoRivera_Commune_Mr27.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220327T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220327T133000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20211217T043318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T171402Z UID:10007031-1648382400-1648387800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-27/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GramsciYounger.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220326T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220326T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220131T031343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T031343Z UID:10006299-1648303200-1648310400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx and Spinoza: Connections and Provocations DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Jason Read\n“…in the postindustrial age the Spinozan critique of representation of capitalist power corresponds more to the truth than does the analysis of political economy.”\n—Antonio Negri\nReaders of contemporary theory will perhaps not be surprised to see the name Spinoza paired with that of Marx. Ever since Louis Althusser argued that he\, and his cowriters of Reading Capital\, were Spinozists rather than structuralists\, there has been an increased inquiry into the points of connection between Marx and Spinoza. It might even be possible to say that what the Hegel/Marx connection was to a previous generation\, animating the writings of Adorno\, Sartre\, Lukacs\, etc. the Marx/Spinoza connection is to a current collection of philosophers ranging from Althusser\, and the members of his circle such as Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey\, to Antonio Negri\, Frédéric Lordon\, Warren Montag\, and Hasana Sharp. \nThis shift in names also entails a fundamental change of problems. Whereas the relationship of Hegel to Marx was always one of the anxiety of influence\, trying to contend with both the massive influence that Hegel had on Marx as well as Marx’s attempt to critically distance himself from Hegel\, to separate the rational kernel from the mystical shell. The Spinoza/Hegel relation is less direct\, less a matter of the influence of the latter on the former\, than on their point of contact around connected problems.  These problems are less the problems that defined the Spinoza of Marx’s time\, the debates on pantheism\, Hegel’s attempt to shift the absolute from substance to subject\, than they are the debates framed by the attempts of Marxist theory to keep up with the changes of capitalism. To place it in classical Marxist terms\, Spinoza’s thought has provide the tools for developing a critique of the superstructure\, for an understanding of ideology\, power\, and the production of subjectivity. \nJASON READ is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015/Haymarket 2016) and a forthcoming collection of essays\, The Production of Subjectivity: Between Marxism and Post-Structuralism (Brill 2022) as well as The Double Shift: Marx and Spinoza on the Politics and Ideology of Work (Verso 2023). He blogs on popular culture\, philosophy\, and politics at unemployednegativity.com. \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 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/marx-and-spinoza-connections-and-provocations/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Marx and Spinoza,Marxist Method,Seminars and Talks,Spinoza ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Spinoza_Marx_SidexSide.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220320T140100 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220320T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220205T032435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220205T032543Z UID:10006321-1647784860-1647792000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital DESCRIPTION:2nd in the Socialist Register 58 Series: Old Polarizations\, New Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism\nBILL FLETCHER                  Trump and the Danger of Right-wing Populism in the US\nSAMIR GANDESHA            Identity Crisis: The Politics of False Concreteness\nINGAR SOLTY                       Market Polarization Means Political Polarization \nBill Fletcher’s essay on the “Danger of Right-Wing Populism in the US” presents a careful appraisal of the forces marshalled on the right over the course of the Trump presidency\, leading to the insurrection of January 2021. Fletcher’s longstanding contention\, put forth in his widely-noted ‘Stars and Bars’ essay in the Politics of the Right volume\, was of the dangers of a rightwing mass movement emerging in the US. \nSamir Gandesha seeks an answer in what he identifies as ‘a fragmentation of the universalism that had historically underwritten the struggle for socialism’ leading to what he terms a ‘politics of false concreteness’ centered on forms of identity politics on both the left and the right. Indeed\, in the absence of a ‘left universalism’\, Gandesha argues\, ‘we can only expect the logic of polarization to drive an already accelerating authoritarianism\, as rightwing demagogues mobilize support based on racialized grievances’. This can only be met by a ‘class identity’ that seeks a universalism ‘in its own self-dissolution’\, that is\, in the struggle against classes as such and thus capitalism. \nIngar Solty’s “Market Polarization Means Political Polarization” is a third assessment of this particular moment. Solty’s contention is that the social polarizations that result from the market processes set in motion by neoliberalism bring with them a political polarization in the form of fissures in the party systems of liberal democracies\, allowing the hard right new political space to occupy and permitting varied forms of authoritarian nationalism to take hold. He concludes with the gravest of warnings: unless a new organized working-class politics emerges\, this world world will further and further slip down the slope of liberalism into fascism’. \nIN MEMORY OF LEO PANITCH • 1945-2020  / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted. \nBILL FLETCHER JR. is a long-time trade unionist\, writer\, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum.\nSAMIR GANDESHA is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.\nINGAR SOLTY is Senior Research Fellow in Foreign\, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. \nAll book offers include US Media Mail. The book offers are for US addresses only as the costs for shipping outside of the US are often more than the price of the book. From Canada\, the book can be ordered from Fernwood. Merlin Press in the UK is the best source for other areas of the world. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hard-right-and-the-political-parties-of-capital/ CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Anti-fascism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Food and politics,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BlurryTrumpists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220319T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220319T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220112T143825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T044640Z UID:10007048-1647698400-1647705600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation: A discussion with Marcello Musto and Michael Hardt DESCRIPTION:“The realm of freedom really begins only where labor determined by necessity and external expediency ends; it lies by its very nature beyond the sphere of material production proper. Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his needs\, to maintain and reproduce his life\, so must civilized man\, and he must do so in all forms of society and under all possible modes of production. This realm of natural necessity expands with his development\, because his needs do too; but the productive forces to satisfy these expand at the same time. Freedom\, in this sphere\, can consist only in this\, that socialized man\, the associated producers\, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way\, bringing it under their collective control instead of being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature. But this always remains a realm of necessity. The true realm of freedom\, the development of human powers as an end in itself\, begins beyond it\, though it can only flourish with this realm of necessity as its basis. The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite.” —Karl Marx\, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume Three \nThe postcapitalist system of production\, together with scientific–technological progress and a consequent reduction of the working day\, creates the possibility for a new social formation in which the coercive\, alienated labor imposed by capital and subject to its laws is gradually replaced with conscious\, creative activity beyond the yoke of necessity\, and in which complete social relations take the place of random\, undifferentiated exchange dictated by the laws of commodities and money. It is no longer the realm of freedom for capital but the realm of genuine human freedom.\n—Marcello Musto\, Introduction to Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation \nMarcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto\, Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury\, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford\, 2020). Among his edited books there are Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury\, 2014); Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism\, (Routledge\, 2019); and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge\, 2020). His writings are available at  www.marcellomusto.org and have been published in 25 languages. \nMICHAEL HARDT is a professor of Literature at Duke University\, and a political philosopher whose writings explore new forms of domination in the world as well as social movements and other forces of liberation that counter such domination. In the Empire trilogy—Empire (Harvard\, 2000)\, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire(Penguin\, 2004)\, and Commonwealth (Harvard\, 2009)—he and Antonio Negri investigate the political\, legal\, economic\, and social aspects of globalization. Their most recent work\, Assembly (Oxford\, 2017)\, challenges social movements having traditional\, centralized forms of political leadership and instead advocate a social unionism—a combination of mixing labor organizing with social movements. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Grundrisse,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/TriptychKarlMarcelloMichael2sm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220312T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220124T033558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T050236Z UID:10007049-1647093600-1647100800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Insurrecto with author Gina Apostol in conversation with Patricia McManus DESCRIPTION:“Of course\, as opposed to the colonizer\, the world of the colonized is visibly and thus irreparably multiple – because included in the world of the colonized is the world of the colonizer.”. —How Do We Know the Things That Make Us?\, An essay from Gina Apostol \nGina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a harrowing depiction of the nearly 125-year history of U.S. intervention\, occupation\, and domination in the Philippines. Through a compelling historical\, cultural\, post-modernist journey\, the author recounts the U.S. hold on the Philippines\, as told by Magsalin\, a Filipina translator and screenwriter\, and Chiara\, an American filmmaker. The U.S.-made merry-go-round of dictators has circled around Manila and the 7\,000-plus islands of the Philippines since the 1901 massacre at Balangiga—the slaughter of more than 2\,500 Filipinos in retaliation for 40 American soldiers killed in a raid by local national liberationists. When President Theodore Roosevelt issued a command to pacify the Philippines after the raid was reported to him\, the local U.S. general issued the following command:  “I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn\, the better it will please me… The interior of Samar must be made a howling wilderness.” From that point on he was known as “Howling Wilderness” Smith. Insurrecto spans the decades from the moment of the massacre to the current Duterte regime\, with much between—a fractured story of torture and misrepresentation over many years of U.S. and western hegemony. \nPlease join Gina Apostol and  Patricia McManus for an evening of discovery as they discuss the inspiration\, writing\, and more of this astonishing novel (published by Soho Press). \nGINA APOSTOL’s third book\, Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, won the2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels\, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria\, Italy\, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, Gettysburg Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban\, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City. \nPATRICIA McMANUS is a Senior Lecturer\, School of Humanities at University of Brighton. She is the founder of the Dystopia Project. Her research interests are the novel—in particular the problems involved in understanding genre as a productive force in literary history—and Marxism as a methodology for utopianism. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/insurrecto/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,American Literature,Anti-fascism,Asia,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/InsurrectoBanner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220306T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220306T150000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151732 CREATED:20220212T160425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220306T153627Z UID:10006333-1646571600-1646578800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties Since the 1960s DESCRIPTION:with author Giorgos Charalambous\nIs today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved?\nGiorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change – the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a ‘new left’\, drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous examines the ‘Long ’68’\, symbolized by the May uprisings in France\, which saw the rise of new left forces and the widespread criticism by younger radical activists of traditional communist and socialist parties. He puts this side by side with the turn of the millennium when the Global Justice Movement rose to prominence and changed the face of the international left\, and also the period after the financial crash of 2008 and the rise of anti-austerity politics which initiated the most recent wave of new left parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. \nWith a unique ‘two-level’ perspective\, Charalambous approaches the left through both social movements and party politics\, looking at identities\, rhetoric and organization\, and bringing a fresh new approach to radical history\, as well as assessing challenges for both activists and scholars. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nGiorgos Charalambous is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance\, University of Nicosia. He is also the co-convenor of the Left Radicalism Specialist Group at the Political Studies Association. Charalambous is the author of European Integration and the Communist Dilemma (Ashgate\, 2013)\, and has co-edited Party-Society Relations in Cyprus (Routledge\, 2016) and Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (Routledge\, 2019). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-european-radical-left-movements-and-parties-since-the-1960s-2/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Italian history,Left Populism,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EuroLeftSocMed.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR