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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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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:20231118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T130000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T183000
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T133000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Fire: The Violent Origins of Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Capital Study Group in a four-week study of the concluding section of volume I of Marx’s Capital\, which discloses the widespread violence and dispossession – in both Europe and colonized areas – that accompanied the emergence of capitalism. For Marx\, the history of this original expropriation or “primitive accumulation” was “written in letters of blood and fire.” In order for social relations to become structured around the production of commodities\, direct producers had to be violently separated from their means of subsistence\, and common resources had to be concentrated and privatized. \nThis series both concludes our year-long close reading of Capital\, Volume I\, and introduces the work for new readers who are welcome and encouraged to attend. It is also a good opportunity for those who had to drop out along the way to return to the study of Capital. 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. \nIllustration depicts the clearing (enclosure) of the Scottish Highlands\, which Marx details in chapter 27 of Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-fire/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,State Formation,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T130000
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SUMMARY:Multispecies Marxism: Reading and Reflecting on Animals and Capital
DESCRIPTION:An eight-session reading and discussion group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, historically and today. Led by anthropologist Gizem Haspolat and visual artist Terike Haapoja\, this class continues our successful sessions on animals and capitalism in 2022 and 2023\, this time looking through a multispecies lens at key concepts of Marxism\, such as ‘value’\, ‘primitive accumulation’\, ‘species being’\, ‘circulation’\, and ‘resistance.’ 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. The main reading will be Animals and Capital (2023) by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (available in paperback and eBook formats from various online outlets). Participation in previous sessions is not required. \nGizem Haspolat is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Rice University. Her areas of interest are critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human–nonhuman animal relations. In her ongoing research\, she explores live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of Turkey’s live cattle imports. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings\, and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her current research on animal labor and multispecies anticapitalist struggle\, with an extensive open bibliography\, can be found on animalcapitalism.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multispecies-marxism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Food and politics,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T160000
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SUMMARY:The Fall and Rise of American Finance
DESCRIPTION:huhVideo available here for this February 10\, 2024\, event \nIt is today all but taken for granted by critical political economists – and by political figures from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders – that finance is parasitic on industry. Financialization\, in this view\, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state\, hollowing out the “real” economy\,  and thereby hastening the decline of capitalism. But Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno pose a bold challenge to this hypothesis in their new book\, The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Surveying the last century of capitalist development\, they insist that\, despite the costs to workers and the middle class\, financialization has boosted competitiveness and strengthened capital – all with the support of an ever stronger and more authoritarian state. This has culminated since the 2008 crisis in a new economic regime – “a new finance capital” – marked by unprecedented concentration and centralization in the hands of the “Big Three” asset management firms (BlackRock\, Vanguard\, Fidelity). \nUnlike most recent MEP programming\, this event will be presented live and in-person at The People’s Forum in New York City\, with an online Zoom option for remote participants and a live stream on YouTube. Get your ticket below. \nStephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. He is also the author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Palgrave\, 2022). \nScott Aquanno is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ontario Tech University\, and a Visiting Associate at the Global Labour Research Centre at York University. He is the author of Crisis of Risk: Subprime Debt and US Financial Power from 1944 to Present (Edward Elgar\, 2021). \nThe book is available from the publisher\, Verso Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/maher-aquannozzz/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Globalization,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T140000
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SUMMARY:Marx for Cats with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this February 24\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“All history is the history of cat struggle.” In Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary\, our guest speaker Leigh Claire La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory\, its colonialist and imperialist ages\, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism\, and the communist revolutions that opposed it. Attending to myriad archival appearance of lions\, tigers\, wildcats\, and other felines\, La Berge argues that these creatures have been central to Marxist understandings of the economy and politics. Asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis\, La Berge joins current debates about ecosocialism. This playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration. \nThis event is held in conjunction with the MEP’s reading group Multispecies Marxism where we are discussing the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, historically and today. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Marx for Cats as well as Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. \nRegister for the Zoom event and you will receive a 40% discount code to purchase Marx for Cats from Duke University Press. Participants are encouraged to read some or all of the book beforehand.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-for-cats/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T160000
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SUMMARY:Late Fascism: a Conversation With Alberto Toscano
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 3\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA talk and conversation with Alberto Toscano about his powerful new book Late Fascism: Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Toscano asks\, how should we name\, map and respond to the present state of affairs where the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand? Drawing especially on Black radical and anticolonial theories of fascism\, the book makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kinds of political violence experienced in past European regimes. Toscano argues we should see fascism as a changing process\, a threat anchored in racial and colonial capitalism\, which continues to evolve in the present day. In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley\, “Late Fascism is brilliant\, incisive\, and right on time.” The book is available from Verso. \nAlberto Toscano teaches at Simon Fraser University and at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the editor of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Democracy and a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/late-fascism-a-conversation-with-alberto-toscano/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Late Capital and Fascism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,State Formation
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SUMMARY:Fletcher and Davidson: Campaigns\, Movements and Organizing Strategies
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 16\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nBill Fletcher Jr. and Carl Davidson join us for a talk and discussion jumping off from their recent article on political strategy–“Campaigns and Movements: How Are They Connected\, How Do They Differ?” (Convergence\, October 6\, 2023). In a wide-ranging survey\, Fletcher and Davidson reference the 1960 Greensboro\, NC\, Woolworth’s sit-in\, the 1963 March on Washington\, the 2020 killing of George Floyd\, as well as older historic organizing campaigns and upsurges. They invite us to distinguish what we can control from what we cannot in our organizing: “Social movements will emerge; we just cannot predict when.” Our guests will discuss new thoughts they have had about the article and the response it has provoked\, all of which also fit well with other MEP programming this winter. Count on a lively discussion! \nBill Fletcher Jr. is an internationally known trade unionist\, international solidarity activist\, writer\, and now member of the editorial board of The Nation. His most recent book is the 2023 mystery novel The Man Who Changed Colors from Hardball Press.\n\nCarl Davidson is a veteran writer and organizer today\, with roots in the New Left of the 1960s. Carl maintains the Online University of the Left\, posts regularly on his “Left Links” Substack\, and participates regularly in the MEP’s Gramsci reading group. \n\nPhoto: Protesters with Signs at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom\, Washington\, D.C.\, USA\, photo by Marion S. Trikosko\, August 28\, 1963 (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images\, available for non-commercial use)\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-fall-and-rise-of-american-finance/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 26\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n\n\nMichael Heinrich presents his biography-in-progress of Karl Marx\, which has already gained glowing reviews from Marxist scholars the world over. In the first volume published in English by Monthly Review Press\, Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society\, Heinrich deals extensively with Marx’s youth and his studies in Bonn and Berlin. It also examines the function of poetry in Marx’s intellectual development and his first encounter with Hegelian philosophy and the so-called “young Hegelians.” The volume begins a multidimensional look at Karl Marx and aims to include what most biographies have reduced to mere background: the contemporary conflicts\, struggles\, and disputes that engaged Marx at the time of his writings\, alongside his complex relationships with a varied assortment of friends and opponents. \n\n“A masterful work by one of the leading Marx scholars of his generation. Simply wonderful—analytical depth\, critical knowledge\, clarity of comprehension and presentation\, grasp of theoretical and historical contexts\, combine to create a most insightful Marx biography that will be an indispensable and lasting resource that scholars and researchers\, activists and critics alike\, should—and will—return to frequently.” —Werner Bonefeld\, University of York\, UK; author\, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy \nMarx has found his perfect biographer…. Heinrich’s attitude is the same as that of Marx: DOUBT EVERYTHING\, even Marx himself. Only through this critical perspective Marx’s ambiguities and contradictions can be revealed\, and his greatness and legacy be reclaimed. —Riccardo Bellofiore\, University of Bergamo\, Italy; author\, In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse \nMichael Heinrich teaches economics in Berlin and is managing editor of PROKLA: Journal for Critical Social Science. He is the author of The Science of Value: Marx’s Critique of Political Economy between Scientific Revolution and Classical Tradition\, and editor\, with Werner Bonefeld\, of Capital and Critique: After the “New Reading” of Marx.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/michael-heinrich/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,communism,featured,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Poetry,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group reconvenes April 15 for a new Spring season. Watch this space for coming reading selections and use the website contact page for questions and suggestions. \n*     *     * \nJoin us this winter to read five landmark\, award-winning novels\, and novellas using science fiction to shine a sharp light on social and political conditions today. Our authors fluidly extrapolate from capitalism today for encounters with the climate crisis\, artificial intelligence\, gender\, relationships\, race and class. Each has science with the science supporting envisioning and speculation about a just way forward and the obstacles in getting there. \nOur group reads each book in sequence split over two to four weeks. Our discussions expand from themes in the fiction to critical topics of today’s struggles–war\, elections\, climate\, and more. Whether you have read a lot of classic science fiction\, join us if you read fiction passionately and enjoy talking about it\, sharing reviews and multimedia\, and using reading and writing fiction to deepen our political commitments. \nWinter selections (still in formation!) \n\nDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philp K Dick (start here)\nTranslation State\, by Ann Leckie\nNetwork Effect\, by Martha Wells\nThis Is How You Lose the Time War\, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone\nThe Deep\, by Rivers Solomon\n\nInquire if you’d like to register for some and not all books. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction and part of the MEP exec team
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-a-winter-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T123000
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SUMMARY:Reading Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks - Spring 2024
DESCRIPTION:In this ongoing weekly reading group\, we continue to read and learn from Gramsci’s Selections from the Prison Notebooks.  Led by Piruz Alemi\, we explore key themes and concepts related to politics and civil society\, including race\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistic and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media\, the arts and cinema\, hegemony\, and subaltern studies. Reading with a “Gramscian Past and Present” approach\, we consider how intellectuals and organizers discover new\, transformative methods and languages for the struggles of today. \nThroughout these sessions\, we connect our own cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles including the 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-winter-2024/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T105410
CREATED:20240411T150300Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically - Spring 2024 Season
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group meets weekly to read and discuss science\, visionary and speculative fiction that bears on politics\, the environment\, and the struggle for a better future for all. We focus on the concept of visionary fiction\, emerging from Octavia Butler’s writings and beautifully articulated ten years ago by Walidah Imarisha\, “To Build a Future Without Police and Prisons\, We Have to Imagine It First.”  \nWhile far from earthbound\, and while not immune from reexamining the past or imagining\, we do so to stay with the present\, and with paths forward that do need new envisioning and imagining. \nThis year\, our selections have explored how artificial and nonhuman intelligence heighten both contradictions and possibilities. In the best of contemporary science fiction (and science fiction-adjacent) writing\, conflicts over these issues illustrate the larger dimensions of social conflict today. \nTo start the spring season\, we will read Ray Nayler’s 2022 novel\, The Mountain in the Sea. Nayler’s novel encompasses these themes–nonhuman (octopus) intelligence\, artificial intelligence\, climate justice and capitalist disregard for the earth\, all in intensely human terms. \nJoin in now to help select the additional titles to add to our current list. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/scienceandvisionaryfictionspring24/
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence AI,Science Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T105410
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SUMMARY:If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:What can the last fifteen years of worldwide mass protests teach us about strategy and organization for socialism? Street protests and organizing from Seattle WTO to Occupy and on to George Floyd Black Lives Matter demonstrated new tactics\, new generations of activists\, and new lessons about the future. Likewise\, worldwide protests from the Arab Spring to Latin America\, Europe\, and Hong Kong also struck hard and have brought many important lessons. Join us for reading and discussion probing three connected themes: \n\nMass street protest since Occupy. We will analyze the rich legacy of largely leaderless mass mobilizations as well as new labor struggles\, locally and globally\, over the last fifteen years.\nCrowdsourcing the Revolution: Digital possibilities\, real-world limitations in networked movements. How has digital communications media changed the organizing landscape since the Arab Spring? A critical assessment of the politics and practicalities of digital networking and communication for effective political strategies.\nFrom mass mobilization to accumulating power against capitalism: new long-term strategy for socialism. What remains important and what has changed in connecting strategy and organization?\n\nReadings will include selections from newly published analyses of and theoretical reflection on recent struggles in the United States and globally: \nIf We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution\, by Vincent Bevins (PublicAffairsBooks)\nTwitter and Tear Gas:  The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest\, by Zeynap Tufekci (Yale)\nCommunism and Strategy: Rethinking Political Mediations\, by Isabelle Garo (Verso)\nNeither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization\, by Rodrigo Nunes (Verso) \nBringing direct experience from Brazil\, France\, Turkey\, and the United States\, these authors invite reconsideration of political and organizational strategy in light of the worldwide extent of recent struggles. We will make this a new\, collaborative exercise and add related readings\, multimedia\, and possibly guest talks suggested by participants in the reading group. \nTuesdays\, at 6:30 pm EST; Winter series ends April 30; RSVP for information about coming Spring series.\nPhotos: Occupy Wall Street\, 1 year later (credit Glenn Halog: 2012); Black Lives Matter (credit: Taymaz Valley 2020) \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/if-we-burn-political-strategy-for-21st-century/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Organizing,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T210000
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SUMMARY:Animals\, Capitalism\, Marxism:   A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the authors of two major works on animals and capitalism for an event exploring 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. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette bring to the Marxist Education Project an ongoing conversation they have been conducting this spring as Visiting Fellows at the Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm. Both books have recently been featured in MEP reading groups. \nDinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at The University of Sydney. He has been active in anti-poverty and disability rights movements. Previous books include The War against Animals and\, as co-editor\, Foucault and Animals (Brill\, 2016). \nAlex Blanchette is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Tufts University. He also co-edited How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet\, which analyzes how non-human beings are enlisted into capitalist work regimens. His current research addresses the politics of quitting meatpacking\, based on ethnographic interviews with ex-workers from across the United States. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-capitalism-conversation/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,featured,Food and politics,Labor Process,Marx,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T140000
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SUMMARY:Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Socialists and Immigrants in the Lower East Side\nJoin Alex Steinberg for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917. \nWe will explore the culture of the radicalized immigrant communities of Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe as well as German\, Russian\, Italian and Greek immigrants. These communities supported a thriving socialist movement in New York.  And in 1917\, ferment and struggle increased dramatically as America entered World War I on April 6\, 1917 and Russia’s revolutionary wave exploded a few months later. \nAfter beginning at Cooper Union\, we will walk to 77 St. Marks Place\, which housed the offices of the Russian language newspaper Novy Mir and where Trotsky and other future Bolshevik leaders worked daily. From there\, the tour will walk to the building of the Jewish Daily Forward in Seward Park\, where we will learn of Trotsky’s dramatic confrontation with more conservative socialists. As we walk we will pass by a number of places that were important in understanding the history of the social struggles of immigrants in a New York very different than the city we know today. \nLed by Alex Steinberg who has taught a number of classes with the Marxist Education Project. \nMeet in front the main entrance of The Great Hall of Cooper Union\, behind the statue of Peter Cooper\, East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trotsky-in-new-york-walking-tour-2/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,History,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T143000
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SUMMARY:David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this May 18\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nWe marked the tenth anniversary of the Marxist Education Project with this keynote talk by David McNally on Marx and colonialism. The concluding chapter of Capital volume 1 tackles “the modern theory of colonization\,” yet Marx only half-delivers on the promise implied. Rather than present a full-fledged account of capitalist colonialism\, he pivots back to Europe and the processes of primitive accumulation. McNally fills in crucial gaps in Marx’s text\, suggesting directions in which he might have gone in analyzing colonial relations and the globalization of capitalism outside of Europe – centering bondage\, slavery\, colonialism\, and racism as foundational elements of global capitalism. \nDavid McNally is a good friend of the Marxist Education Project. Our most successful reading groups in the past 10 years featured his book Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance and Empire\, and we have also studied his Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. David is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. Earlier he taught political economy at York University Toronto for over thirty years. David is the editor-in-chief of Spectre\, a biannual and online journal of Marxist theory\, strategy\, and analysis.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mcnally-marx-and-colonialism/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Das Kapital,Enclosures,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240612T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240612T143000
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SUMMARY:Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works\, New Debates
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism’s catastrophic impact on the Earth’s climate and other critical systems\, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24\, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice\, with chapters from and critical reviews of these books\, along with recently published essays by Andreas Malm and others: \n\nJohn Bellamy Foster\, The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature\nShourideh C. Molavi\, Environmental Warfare in Gaza\nAjay Singh Chaudhary\, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World\nKohei Saito\, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto\nAshley Dawson\, Environmentalism From Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet\n\nAll are welcome – participation in previous sessions is not required. Final session is June 19 – contact us if you wish to join. \nConvened by Fred Murphy\, who has co-led recurring ecosocialist sessions with Steve Knight since 2016. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxism-and-planetary-crises-new-works-new-debates/2024-06-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Globalization,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Summer24
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T210000
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SUMMARY:Palestine: Celebrating 75 Years of Literature
DESCRIPTION:Read Palestinian fiction\, poetry\, and related literature in weekly meetings with the MEP’s Literature Group. The ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East breaks our hearts daily. As part of our mission to explore creative political resistance to oppression\, we will read several novels and poems by Palestinian authors. The novels selected for this session include prominent and emerging writers investigating themes since 1947 of armed resistance\, class\, the refugee experience\, and women’s experience of conflict. \nWe invite participants to add to our selections\, published from 1949 to the present\, and tentatively include: \nThings You May Find HIdden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha; Minor Detail\, by Adania Shibli; selected stories by Ghassan Kanafani; Out of Time: The Collected Stories of Samira Azzam\, Arabesques by Anton Shammas\, The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan\, Wild Thorns\, by Sahar Khalifeh; Passage to the plaza\, by Sahar Khalifeh; A Day in the Life of Abed Salama; Palestine +100\, edited by Basma Ghalayini. \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. \nThis group’s final session is June 27. Please contact us if you wish to join the group in progress. \nThe map: sampled from the amazing Visualizing Palestine project website.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/palestine-celebrating-75-years-literature/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literature,Palestine,Reading Group,Summer24
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T203000
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SUMMARY:Fascism\, Antifascism\, Gaza\, and Political Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Where does the rising wave of authoritarianism and “late fascism” fit in the global relations of force at work today?   And what paths of resistance work in response?  \nThe war in Gaza has brought to a head the left’s strategic dilemmas facing new\, overt forms of fascism. Questions include the historical relationship of settler colonialism and national forms of fascism; the horrific escalation of the long war on Palestine; the opportunities and dangers for the left in national elections in the US and other countries.   \nWe will explore these questions through three points of departure that touch on race\, gender\, settler colonialism\, fossil fascism\, and the carceral state.   \n\nRashid Khalidi\, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance\, a moving\, unnerving essential reading today to understand the background to the present war. \nAlberto Toscano’s Late fascism: Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism\, Toscano gives us powerful tools and perspectives to understand fascism as a changing\, evolving process. \nAndreas Malm and the Zeitkin Collective\, White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. The authors lay bare fossil fuel’s roots in racism and European white supremacy toward colonial peoples. \n\nWe will structure this as a focused\, six to eight-week study emphasizing selections from these three books that most relate to the present moment\, with other parts optional readings.  And we will supplement these books with important analyses of the present moment.  \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich \n Photo: An uncredited photo obtained by The Times shows an inverted US flag\, a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” phenomenon\, at Supreme Court Justice Alito’s residence on Jan. 17\, 2021\, three days before the Biden inauguration.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fascism-antifascism-gaza-and-political-strategy/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Summer24
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240805T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240805T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T105410
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
DESCRIPTION:In Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba\, edited by Basma Ghalayini\, as well as other recent books\, Palestinian authors have begun to discover the power of science fiction. “Everyday life\, for [Palestinian writers] is a kind of dystopia.” In this situation\, “The real future –the actual future — is unknowable. But for SF writers\, the mere idea of ‘things to come’ is license to re-imagine\, re-configure\, and re-interrogate the present.” \nThis spring\, the MEP Science and Visionary Fiction reading group will use this exciting new collection — and related political analyses of the war and political situation now as well as additional short fiction published elsewhere–to expand our understanding of the situation and struggle now in Palestine. And we will also use it to reach further into science fiction’s exploration of a future\, just society. \nAnd we will deepen our appreciation of this new literature by reading with it other visions of pathways to a livable future\, a just social order on Earth\, in fiction and nonfiction: \n\nParable of the Talents\, Octavia Butler’s classic tale of the struggles to build a new society against the ravages of Trump-like right-wing terror\, climate crisis and economic collapse.\nToo Like the Lightning\, Ada Palmer’s newly published\, character-rich story of technologically-driven utopian life two centuries from now and the crisis which arises within it.\nArchaeologies of the Future\, by Fredric Jameson\, a thought-provoking assessment of utopian literature from Thomas More to the present.  \n\nThis list is tentative and subject to change\, other short selections or paring back by the reading group.  Here is the tentative meeting schedule: \nMay 27: Palestine +100\nJune 3: Palestine +100\, Too Like the Lighting\, chapters 1-3\nJune 10: Too Like the Lighting\, chapters 3-6\nJune 17: Too Like the Lighting\, chapters 7-10\nJune 24: Too Like the Lighting\, chapters 11-15\nJuly 2\nJuly 8\nJuly 15\nJuly 22\nJuly 29\n–summer break– \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-diverging-futures/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall24,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Palestine,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T105410
CREATED:20240611T143043Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Noir 2024
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group’s Summer Noir tradition of enjoying the bracing vitality of pulp continues with six short novels on the themes of difficult trips and political mayhem. \nBe warned: Do not expect happy endings in novels featuring corruption\, futility and deception. \nEnrollees need not attend all sessions; to accommodate summer travel\, we selected short novels which we can discuss in in a single session. \nTrips that Go Wrong – July\nJuly 11: Tropic Moon\, by Georges Simenon\, 152 pages.\nJuly 18: Basic Black with Pearls\, by Helen Weinzweig\,  160 pages.\nJuly 25: The Taiga Syndrome\, by Cristina Rivera Garza. 128 pages. \nPolitical Turmoil – August\nAugust 1: Skeletons in the Closet\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, 178 pages.\nAugust: 8 Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin\, Gabriel García Márquez\,  160 pages.\nAugust 15: Plan B\, Chester Himes. 164 pages \nThe Literature Group will resume reading novels set in Palestine in September.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/summer-noir-2024/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Summer24
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T105410
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T185216Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations on the US Elections
DESCRIPTION:Join us online on Tuesday\, September 17 at 6:30 pm US ET for an open-ended conversation about the evolving US political conjuncture now shaping the November elections. Drawing on our recent study of political strategy and fascism\, we will assess the contending social and political forces in the US election campaign and consider the various approaches put forward by currents on the American left. \nPlease RSVP below and we will send you a Zoom link to join the conversation.\nA donation of $5 or more will help support the work of the MEP. \nHere are some items we’ve run across about the elections and the present moment which you might find useful. \nWatch for an announcement for the next elections discussion on Tuesday\, October 15. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mep-elections-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: On the History of Capitalist 'Reforms'
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this October 13\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nGiampaolo Conte presents A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms\, just published by Routledge. Since the recent financial crises\, the expression “liberal reform” has come to evoke austerity and economic malaise\, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. Conte’s historical research demonstrates that the chief purpose of such reforms has been to integrate semi-peripheral states into the capitalist world-economy. Rules\, institutions\, attitudes\, and procedures are imposed in accord with the economic and political interests of capitalist élites and hegemonic states – first by Britain\, then by the United States. In all situations\, the velvet glove barely conceals the armored fist. The goals and methods – more or less the same today as 300 years ago – promote the ongoing dissolution of traditional societies in the peripheries of the contemporary world. \n“A fascinating account of state debt as a mechanism in international relations forcing liberal reforms on the capitalist periphery\, doing away with ways of social life in conflict with the requirements of modern capital formation. Contains striking historical material from countries like Egypt and China during Polanyi’s Long Nineteenth Century.” – Wolfgang Streeck\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies \nGiampaolo Conte teaches in Department of Philosophy\, Communication and Performing Arts at the University of Rome 3. He is a Research Associate of ISEM-CNR\, and editorial assistant for The Journal of European Economic History.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-talk-on-the-history-of-capitalist-reforms/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Fall24,featured,History,Imperialism,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T140000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Liberating Abortion
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this October 20\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nRegina Mahone presents Liberating Abortion\, a galvanizing history recentering people of color to put forth a timely argument that we must liberate abortion for all. In their book Mahone and co-author Renee Bracey Sherman illustrate the long racist history that brought us to this moment\, uncover the hidden figures who laid the foundations that activists and storytellers are building on today\, and explain how abortion has been and remains essential to the health of our communities. Liberating Abortion takes us back to the basics of sex education\, detailing the traditions of abortion over centuries\, while examining how society makes us feel about our experiences. The book presents rigorous research\, never-before-heard stories\, and eye-opening interviews with over 50 people of color who’ve had abortions – including activists\, actresses\, television writers\, politicians\, and the two Black members of Jane\, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe. With poignant storytelling and precise analysis\, Liberating Abortion will change how you think about abortion forever. \nRegina Mahone is a writer and editor whose work explores the intersections between race\, class\, and reproductive rights. A senior editor at The Nation\, she also runs Repro Nation\, a monthly newsletter about global efforts to protect reproductive freedom. With Renee Bracey Sherman she co-hosts the podcast The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion from The Meteor. Regina has written for publications including Cosmopolitan\, Elle\, Rewire News Group\, Romper\, The Nation\, and Truthout. She lives in New Jersey with her partner and two children. \nLiberating Abortion will be released on October 1 and is available for pre-order at liberatingabortion.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-talk-liberating-abortion/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Abortion,African American History,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fall24,featured,Gender,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Women
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SUMMARY:Conversations on the US Elections - What happens next?
DESCRIPTION:Join us online on Wednesday\, November 6 at 6:30 pm US ET for a first-impressions conversation on whatever results are known of the 2024 US elections. We will not know everything; many things will play out over the months that follow. We will know some things that have already taken shape. We can ask what will governing look like\, what new shapes may fascism take\, what directions will capitalism take\, and how resistance will evolve. What does the election mean for climate struggle\, Palestine solidarity\, reproductive freedom\, challenging the carceral state? \nRecent MEP study groups and events have taken on these and related questions. We will bring those studies to bear on these questions\, and bring to bear your participation in these struggles as well. \nJoin us for this open-ended conversation about the evolving US political conjuncture now shaping the November elections. We will also introduce a new study group beginning in November that will examine the historical roots of American fascism to better understand its threat today and the work that lies ahead. \nPlease RSVP below and we will send you a Zoom link to join the conversation.\nA donation of $5 or more will help support the work of the MEP. \nHere are some items we’ve run across about the elections and the present moment which you might find useful.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/conversations-on-the-us-elections-what-happens-next/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured
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SUMMARY:A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this November 20\, 2024\, event is available on our YouTube channel. \nStephen Maher and Scott Aquanno present an innovative analysis of Amazon’s market power\, drawing on major themes from Marx’s Capital\, volume 2. In a recent report prepared for Amazon Worker Solidarity\, they challenge understandings of “monopoly” common in mainstream economics as well as among sections of the left. \nAmazon’s “bigness” and lack of a direct competitor would seem to suggest that it should be considered a monopoly. And yet\, far from exhibiting the tell-tale signs of increasing monopoly prices\, inefficiency\, and technological stagnation\, Amazon has engaged in cutthroat price competition\, built a highly efficient and technologically advanced logistics system\, and unleashed competitive forces whose effects have reverberated across the retail sector and beyond. Moreover\, Amazon’s distinct vertically integrated structure\, competing across a range of sectors including retail\, e-commerce\, logistics\, online search engines\, and media entertainment – each dominated by large firms – suggests that today’s giant corporations are not significantly encumbered by barriers to entry. \nStephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. With Scott Aquanno he co-authored The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (Verso\, 2024). Steve is also the author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Palgrave\, 2022). \nScott Aquanno is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ontario Tech University\, and a Visiting Associate at the Global Labour Research Centre at York University. With Stephen Maher he co-authored The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (Verso\, 2024). Scott is also the author of Crisis of Risk: Subprime Debt and US Financial Power from 1944 to Present (Edward Elgar\, 2021).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/amazon-market-power/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Das Kapital,Fall24,featured,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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