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SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \nOur list\, still in formation\, tentatively includes: \nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, as well as her Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing” \nSelections from short story collections written\, translated or edited by Ken Liu: Hidden Planets\, Broken Planets\, and The Hidden Girl \nBabel\, by RF Kuang \nOur Missing Children\, by Celeste Ng \nSeverance\, by Ling Ma \nWe plan to experiment with a hybrid format. We will meet monthly for a longer\, in-depth discussion as we finish a book. This more typical book club may better suit you if you want to read on your own and then take part in an overall discussion of the readings. We will also continue our weekly ninety-minute meetings for those who can make that commitment. You can register for all or just the monthly longer sessions. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \nPlease click to see ticket options for this series and register. You can see all registration options on the first date listing for this reading group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction-5/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T130000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Chile's 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
DESCRIPTION:September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government on September 11\, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people\, the MEP’s Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before\, during\, and since the Pinochet dictatorship. In addition to the justly well-known writings of Roberto Bolaño\, many of our readings will be from translations by Megan McDowell. McDowell has worked with US and British independent publishers to promote a diverse group of writers largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Our aim\, to quote McDowell\, is “to expand our circles of empathy.” \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chile-literary-resistance/2023-10-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,History,Insurgency,Latin America,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Radical Literature,Socialism
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SUMMARY:What Do We Need Bosses For? with Pete Dolack
DESCRIPTION:Propaganda endlessly blares\, “There is no alternative” to capitalism. But there is always an alternative. Humanity need not be condemned to sit by helplessly as an uncontrollable economic and political system spanning the world brings us devastating inequality\, precarious jobs\, environmental destruction\, and life-threatening global warming. Pete Dolack’s latest book\, What Do We Need Bosses For?: Toward Economic Democracy\, analyzes past and present efforts to establish systems of economic democracy on a national or society-wide basis. In this context the book dissects the mounting inequalities of capitalism and discusses theoretical ideas as to how we might organize a better world. \nWorking people have repeatedly sought to create such a world. They have organized to reverse their subordinate positions in capitalist production and take charge of their working lives and their workplaces through egalitarian movements. Political democracy is impossible without economic democracy. Economic democracy\, in turn\, is impossible under capitalism. As ever more people realize the present world system offers them nothing but more hardship\, movements to create a better world inevitably will rise again. \nAlternatives discussed in the book include workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia\, workers’ control in Czechoslovakia\, the social-property area of Allende-era Chile\, the democratic confederalism of Rojava\, the cooperatives of Cuba and the communes of Venezuela\, with brief discussions of a few other examples\, including co-management in Tanzania\, Chinese industrial cooperatives and British work-ins. \nIn addition to What Do We Need Bosses For?\, Pete Dolack is also the author of It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment\, a book examining the 20th century’s socialist experiments so we can do it better in the 21st century. He publishes on various websites\, including CounterPunch\, ZNet\, The Ecologist\, Dandelion Salad and his own Systemic Disorder blog. As an activist\, Pete has participated in efforts around human rights\, environmental\, trade and social issues\, among them the No Spray Coalition\, the Brooklyn Greens\, New Yorkers Against Fascism\, Amnesty International and\, most recently\, Trade Justice New York Metro.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/what-do-we-need-bosses-for-with-pete-dolack/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Hegemony,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Political Economy,Precarity,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T193418Z
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SUMMARY:Chile's 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
DESCRIPTION:September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government on September 11\, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people\, the MEP’s Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before\, during\, and since the Pinochet dictatorship. In addition to the justly well-known writings of Roberto Bolaño\, many of our readings will be from translations by Megan McDowell. McDowell has worked with US and British independent publishers to promote a diverse group of writers largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Our aim\, to quote McDowell\, is “to expand our circles of empathy.” \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chile-literary-resistance/2023-10-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,History,Insurgency,Latin America,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Radical Literature,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
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SUMMARY:Chile's 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
DESCRIPTION:September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government on September 11\, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people\, the MEP’s Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before\, during\, and since the Pinochet dictatorship. In addition to the justly well-known writings of Roberto Bolaño\, many of our readings will be from translations by Megan McDowell. McDowell has worked with US and British independent publishers to promote a diverse group of writers largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Our aim\, to quote McDowell\, is “to expand our circles of empathy.” \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chile-literary-resistance/2023-11-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,History,Insurgency,Latin America,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Radical Literature,Socialism
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231104
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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/2023-11-03/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-11-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230816T144638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T193418Z
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SUMMARY:Chile's 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
DESCRIPTION:September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government on September 11\, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people\, the MEP’s Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before\, during\, and since the Pinochet dictatorship. In addition to the justly well-known writings of Roberto Bolaño\, many of our readings will be from translations by Megan McDowell. McDowell has worked with US and British independent publishers to promote a diverse group of writers largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Our aim\, to quote McDowell\, is “to expand our circles of empathy.” \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chile-literary-resistance/2023-11-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,History,Insurgency,Latin America,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Radical Literature,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T133509Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-11-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20231119T172915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231119T173012Z
UID:10007464-1699795800-1699803000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-3rd-series-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230816T200523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230821T182709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T174457Z
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SUMMARY:Imperialism: The Long View and the Big Picture
DESCRIPTION:Video introduction\nImperialism is an economic and political system of war and conquest by great powers\, but it is also the lived experience of the conquered and subjugated. This almost always entails the murder\, rape\, theft\, enslavement\, and myriad humiliations of the dominated and colonized. Empires have committed genocide\, eliminating entire peoples\, and ethnocide\, erasing the nationality\, language\, and culture of the conquered. And the conquered have resisted\, risen up\, rebelled\, and often succeeded at least for a time in escaping the grip of empires. Even so\, new imperial or neocolonial systems often reimpose their domination in new ways\, leading to further resistance and rebellion. \nIn eight weekly sessions guided by Dan La Botz\, we will look at imperialism in the long view\, from the ancient world to today. We will examine the experience of imperialism and the theoretical justifications for it\, as well as anti-imperialist movements and their arguments. We will look at imperialism as economic phenomenon\, as political strategy\, as cultural experience\, and as psychological affect. We will discuss imperialism and gender and imperialism and the environment. \nSee the initial syllabus for further details. \nDan La Botz is a retired historian of the United States and Latin America and a longtime political activist on the left. He holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Cincinnati and has taught at several universities\, most recently in the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. He is the author of a dozen books and scores of journalistic and academic articles on labor movements\, social movements\, and politics in the United States\, Mexico\, Nicaragua\, and Indonesia. He is a co-editor of the journal New Politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/imperialism-long-view/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Africa,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Antiquity,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,China,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230822T180308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T121225Z
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SUMMARY:Theodore Allen's 'The Kernel and Meaning': A Strategic Critique of U.S. Labor History
DESCRIPTION:“The South\, after the war\, presented the greatest opportunity for a real national labor movement which the nation ever saw or is likely to see for many decades. Yet the labor movement\, with but few exceptions\, never realized the situation. It never had the intelligence or knowledge\, as a whole\, to see in black slavery and Reconstruction\, the kernel and meaning of the labor movement in the United States.” –W.E.B. Du Bois\, Black Reconstruction \nBefore Theodore W. Allen turned to his magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race\, he drafted an essay “The Kernel and Meaning: A Contribution to a Proletarian Critique of U.S. Historiography.” In it\, he assessed how the industrial bourgeoisie successfully overturned plantation capital’s rule while assuring its own ascendancy over the proletariat. Allen reviewed six commonly held explanations as to why\, despite favorable objective conditions\, the U.S. left and workers movements failed to establish socialism or even a permanent working-class party. Inspired by Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction\, Allen introduced an extended critique of the “white blind spot” in Marxist-oriented historiography as a key source of the failure to develop a proletarian strategy. Subsequent chapters highlight Du Bois’s emphasis on the central role of the fight against white supremacy in the class struggles of that era and the defeat of Black-white solidarity during Reconstruction\, the 1877 railroad strike\, the Black Exodus\, the Redeemer-Populist struggles in the 1880s\, and the rise of Jim Crow. \nParticipants in this six-session group will read and discuss the original\, 160-page typescript of Allen’s unpublished essay\, written in the 1970s and accessible through the Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \nFacilitated by David Slavin. David has taught US and world history at the college level for 30 years and written two books on French anti-imperialist movements and race. In the 1970s he was a construction worker and labor troublemaker in NYC and\, in the mid-1980s\, research director of District 1199\, the NYC hospital workers union. He grew up in the Bronx\, has lived in Atlanta for the past twenty years\, and just finished an essay on “Redlining the Working Class: The Social Security Act of 1935\, the New Deal\, and the Nationalization of Jim Crow.”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kernel-and-meaning/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,History,Labor History,Left Populism,Multi-session Classes,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,Syndicalism,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230816T144638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T193418Z
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SUMMARY:Chile's 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
DESCRIPTION:September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government on September 11\, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people\, the MEP’s Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before\, during\, and since the Pinochet dictatorship. In addition to the justly well-known writings of Roberto Bolaño\, many of our readings will be from translations by Megan McDowell. McDowell has worked with US and British independent publishers to promote a diverse group of writers largely unfamiliar to American audiences. Our aim\, to quote McDowell\, is “to expand our circles of empathy.” \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chile-literary-resistance/2023-11-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,History,Insurgency,Latin America,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Radical Literature,Socialism
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ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230822T163739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T180548Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nEight weekly sessions will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. he has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-science-of-logic/2023-11-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230816T200523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z
UID:10007626-1700571600-1700577000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231125T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231125T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230822T163739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T180548Z
UID:10007924-1700910000-1700917200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nEight weekly sessions will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. he has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-science-of-logic/2023-11-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230816T200523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z
UID:10007627-1701176400-1701181800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230822T163739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T180548Z
UID:10007925-1701514800-1701522000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nEight weekly sessions will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. he has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-science-of-logic/2023-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T153857
CREATED:20230825T134915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231205T215039Z
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SUMMARY:The Spectre Still Haunting: Introducing the Revolutionary Politics of Marx and Engels
DESCRIPTION:An introductory 10-week reading group for those just getting acquainted with Marxist ideas\, based on Marx and Engels’ elegant and rousing classic The Manifesto of the Communist Party and Frederick Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. We will be guided by China Miéville’s thoughtful\, provocative meditations on the Manifesto\, A Spectre Haunting. While Miéville is best known for his speculative fiction\, he is equally brilliant as a contemporary communist political commentator. \nA manifesto embraces contradiction. It is unafraid of paradox.\nIt provokes and insists and jokes and it’s quite serious. –China Miéville \nFacilitated by David Worley of the MEP’s Revolutions Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-spectre-still-haunting-introducing-the-revolutionary-politics-of-marx-and-engels/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Engels,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nEight weekly sessions will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. he has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-science-of-logic/2023-12-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T130000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nEight weekly sessions will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. he has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-science-of-logic/2023-12-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T160000
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SUMMARY:Marxism and the Capitalist State
DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 16\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nA lively discussion with the editors and several contributors to the just-released Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate. The collected essays combine general theoretical reappraisals with investigations of contemporary challenges\, including new technologies\, the climate crisis\, the coronavirus pandemic\, and changes in social reproduction. This project began from a shared commitment to understanding the specifically capitalist character of the modern state in relation to the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations. \nOur panel will feature the book’s three editors:\nRob Hunter holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University\, USA. He is a member of the Legal Form editorial collective.\nRafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer in Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania\, USA.\nEva Nanopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary\, University of London\, UK. Nanopoulos co-edits the blog Legal Form and she co-directs the Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context and co-founded its “Law and Marxism” series.\nAnd joining them we will have four contributors:\nAlyssa Battistoni\, “State\, Capital\, Nature: State Theory for the Capitalocene”\nNate Holdren\, “Social Murder: Capitalism’s Systematic and State-Organized Killing”\nChris O’Kane\, “The Marx Revival and State Theory: Towards a Negative-Dialectical Critical Social Theory of the State”\nSteve Maher\, “From Economic to Political Crisis: Trump and the Neoliberal State”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxism-and-the-capitalist-state/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Marxist Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T123000
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SUMMARY:Reading Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:In these sessions led by Piruz Alemi\, we will continue to study selected passages from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We delve into key themes and concepts related to civil 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 subaltern 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 own cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles such as those unfolding in the Woman\, Life\, Freedom movement in Iran. \nParticipation in previous sessions is not a requirement – all are welcome.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class,Classes/Events,Gramsci,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Late Capital and Fascism,Left Populism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Revolutions,Science and Method,Socialism,State Formation
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