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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 to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/gramsci-prison-notebooks/2023-06-11/
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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SUMMARY:Reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois’s classic work\, Black Reconstruction in America. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “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 again 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.” \nIn a 1968 speech Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, hailed Black Reconstruction as “a monumental achievement … White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nSean Ahern is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the US Postal Service\, the transit industry\, and education.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-2023/2023-06-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T133000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. 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/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-06-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-writings-iii/2023-06-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T110000
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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 to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/gramsci-prison-notebooks/2023-06-04/
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:20230603T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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SUMMARY:'The Man Who Changed Colors'
DESCRIPTION:A video of this June 3\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n\nWith Bill Fletcher Jr\, activist/author/crime novelist\nWhen a dockworker falls to his death under strange circumstances\, investigative journalist David Gomes is on the case. His dogged pursuit of the truth puts his life in danger and upends the scrappy Cape Cod newspaper he works for. The Man Who Changed Colors delves into the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans\, Portuguese fascist gangs\, and abusive shipyard working conditions.\n“Bill Fletcher is a truth seeker and a truth teller – even when he’s writing fiction. Not unlike Bill\, his character David Gomes is willing to put his life and career in peril to expose the truth. A thrilling read!” – Tavis Smiley\, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author \nBill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. He has been active in workplace and community struggles and in electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies and the former president of TransAfrica Forum. His books include a previous David Gomes story\, The Man Who Fell From the Sky\, and nonfiction works The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations\, 1934-1941 (with Peter Agard); Solidarity Divided (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin)\, and ‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ and Twenty Other Myths About Unions. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television\, radio and the Web. \nBook available from Hardball Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-man-who-changed-colors/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,History,Labor Organizing,Literary Studies,Literature,Migration,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,US History
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230603
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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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/2023-06-02/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T221053Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois’s classic work\, Black Reconstruction in America. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “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 again 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.” \nIn a 1968 speech Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, hailed Black Reconstruction as “a monumental achievement … White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nSean Ahern is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the US Postal Service\, the transit industry\, and education.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-2023/2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230419T155557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. 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/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T142617Z
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230314T130010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T183019Z
UID:10006540-1685271600-1685277000@marxedproject.org
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 to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/gramsci-prison-notebooks/2023-05-28/
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:20230523T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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SUMMARY:Reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois’s classic work\, Black Reconstruction in America. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “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 again 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.” \nIn a 1968 speech Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, hailed Black Reconstruction as “a monumental achievement … White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nSean Ahern is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the US Postal Service\, the transit industry\, and education.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-2023/2023-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230328T143723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
UID:10006577-1684675800-1684683000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. 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/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230402T142430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T142617Z
UID:10006587-1684666800-1684672200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230314T130010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T183019Z
UID:10006539-1684666800-1684672200@marxedproject.org
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 to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/gramsci-prison-notebooks/2023-05-21/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230314T135857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141634Z
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-05-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230307T154017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230405T220929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T221053Z
UID:10006598-1684261800-1684267200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois’s classic work\, Black Reconstruction in America. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “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 again 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.” \nIn a 1968 speech Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, hailed Black Reconstruction as “a monumental achievement … White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nSean Ahern is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the US Postal Service\, the transit industry\, and education.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-2023/2023-05-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230419T155557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z
UID:10007308-1684242000-1684247400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230310T133806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T171107Z
UID:10006530-1684170000-1684175400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Politics of the Other: New Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group spring season takes on three of the most richly inventive and deeply challenging novels of our time. \n\nUrsula K. Le Guin\, The Left Hand of Darkness \nCixin Liu\, Three-Body Problem\nAdrian Tchaikovsky\, Children of Time\n\nAll three create and adapt new worlds to explore themes of existential species and environmental survival. All three awaken us to the political stakes of communication and conflict across social systems. And finally\, all three invite us to perceive otherness deeply and act strategically. \nOur readings and discussion do not depend on a science fiction background–just the desire we all share to envision the and how to get there.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/politics-of-theother-new-visionary-fiction/2023-05-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230328T143723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
UID:10006576-1684071000-1684078200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. 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/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230402T142430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T142617Z
UID:10006586-1684062000-1684067400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230314T130010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T183019Z
UID:10006538-1684062000-1684067400@marxedproject.org
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 to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/gramsci-prison-notebooks/2023-05-14/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20230421T135343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T221345Z
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SUMMARY:The Fallout of War: Metonyms of Militarism
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 13\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nYale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nSecond of two parts. Part One \nWar: what is it\, and what is it good for? War might seem like a foregone conclusion or a state of exception; in either case it is an archetype of crisis. In two linked sessions\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies – war – and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Trade wars can become militarized\, and hot wars can look cold\, depending on your vantage point. The race war\, Twitter tells us\, is impending; but in an age of US forever war(s)\, understanding war as punctuating the flow of history seems to be entirely insufficient. War is\, some argue\, a way of life\, a structuring condition that shapes our examinations of the history of the present. The war on drugs\, the war on poverty\, the war on COVID\, the war on Christmas – war is also a ubiquitous metaphor\, a self-righteous idiom that announces moral panic and articulates racial logic in otherwise terms. But metaphors of war have also influenced various radical traditions and social movements\, including anti-war activism and Gramsci’s deployment of metaphors of war in his theorizing of hegemony. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present\, the working group explores war’s meanings as event\, analytic\, and metaphor. \nPanel II Presentations:\nAanchal Saraf theorizes nuclear fallout in the Pacific as war itself moving through the landscapes\, bodies\, and generations of the Marshall Islands and its peoples.\nJavier Porras Madero explores “Dirty Wars” in Latin America for their classed\, raced\, and gendered dimensions as well as their implications for how we may understand conflict\, violence\, and the global Cold War.\nMadeleine Han’s presentation focuses on the Han River both as the face of South Korean postwar economic development (referred to as the “Miracle on the Han”) and as a repository of submerged cold war memories.\nMaru Pabón examines the dominant genres and styles of two poetic projects that emerged out of anticolonial/anti-imperial struggles in Palestine and Cuba\, shiʿr al-muqawama and coloquialismo\, in relation to the distinct temporalities of the two conflicts.\nMonique Flores Ulysses considers U.S. cultural texts seemingly disconnected from war but nonetheless imbricated in war-making during the early years of the Global War on Terror.\nMichael Denning chairs this panel. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University for two decades. Over the years\, we have presented work collaboratively at numerous cultural studies conferences as well as at the Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. The current members—Aanchal Saraf\, Damanpreet Pelia\, Javier Porras Madero\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Lucero Estrella\, Madeleine Han\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, Monique Flores Ulysses\, and Salonee Bhaman—work in American studies\, history\, Latinx studies\, literary criticism\, African-American studies\, Asian American studies\, comparative literature\, and womens\, gender and sexuality studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wggc2023-2/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,American Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Asia,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Poetry,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,State Formation,War,War Fiction,Working Class History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230513T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230513T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191719
CREATED:20220403T022414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z
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SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse  \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T190000
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-05-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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