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SUMMARY:Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:A video of this June 27\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register \nThe newly published 2026 volume of Socialist Register – entitled “Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins” – interrogates anew the notion that global capitalism is in its end time (a recurring theme among Marxists since 1848). At the heart of this concept are indications that capital accumulation is running up against some inherent limits. just as the hucksters of private capital are crowing that so-called Artificial Intelligence will usher in a capitalist utopia of unlimited prosperity (for whom?). Socialists warn the world’s working classes to prepare instead for a late-capitalist dystopia\, characterized by irreversible damage to the natural environment\, wars brought on by new modes of global competition among capitals\, and the inevitable squeeze on capitalist profits and human labor if robotic production alters the organic composition of capital to the extent predicted by the AI boosters. Based on their essays in the 2026 Socialist Register\, our panelists speak to the utility of the concept of “late-stage capitalism\,” both for understanding contemporary political economy and for devising strategies for the working class to defend itself and advance a universalist vision of human emancipation. \nPanelists: Michael Roberts\, “Capitalism in the 2020s and Beyond”; Alfredo Saad-Filho\, “The Rise of Neoliberal Fascism and the Challenges for the Left”; and Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno\, “Profitable Immiseration: Finance Capital at the End of the World.” Invited commentator: Catarina Principe\, a political activist from Portugal\, a co-editor of Europe in Revolt\, and a contributing editor of Jacobin magazine.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2026/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,Capital Studies,Class,Crisis,Fascism,featured,Financialization,Globalization,History,Imperialism,Marxist Method,Money,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Panel Discussion,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Socialist Register,Summer 2026,Transition from Capitalism,Video Available,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T153000
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SUMMARY:Marx and the Body with Søren Mau
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Søren Mau will argue that Marx’s writings on the body have been underestimated and that a critical reconstruction of his analysis contains the basis for a theory of the corporeal roots of historicity and freedom. Throughout the history of Western thought\, the body has often been overlooked\, devalued\, or treated with mistrust and hostility. The failure to fully acknowledge human corporeality and its entanglement with the rest of nature is deeply connected to contemporary ecological crises\, and has since the 1980s been subjected to a thorough-going critique by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mau argues that the body occupies a central place in Marx’s thought\, and that a critical reconstruction of his dialectical understanding of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature and his concepts of corporeal organization\, labor\, tools and metabolism provides a foundation for an eco-Marxist theory of human nature and the corporeal roots of human historicity and freedom. \nThis talk is based on Søren Mau’s article “Karl Marx and the Body: Towards an Eco-Marxist Philosophical Anthropology” in Body & Society 32(1). \nSøren Mau is a political philosopher and the author of Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Verso Books\, 2023). His work centers on critical theories of capitalism\, power\, ecology\, the body\, technology\, human nature\, and utopian thought\, with the central theme of freedom: its nature and sources\, the political and economic barriers to its realization under contemporary capitalism\, and its potential forms in a post-capitalist world.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-the-body/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Critical Theory,Ecosocialism,featured,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Summer 2026,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T203000
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SUMMARY:Topics in Strategic Studies - Spring 2026 Series
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 7-9 pm ET\n \nJoin us for a new format for the “Historical Roots…” study\, reworked for 2026 as Topics in Strategic Studies. We will select and read one significant book of political theory or history a month\, focused on understanding the stresses and directions for change in the present moment. Each week\, we will invite one of us or a guest to present a current topic along with optional readings. This new format will enable us to dig into breakthrough studies and analyses while also ensuring continuing new and lively discussions on topics of interest. \nThis month\, we are reading The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work “a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic\, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life\, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare.” \nAs we confirm additional readings for the spring and summer\, we will add them to a new syllabus which you can request\, while continuing to update our long-term bibliography of supplementary readings.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-strategy/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T170000
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically - Spring 2026 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Alternate Mondays\, next on June 15\, 5-6:30 pm ET \nMEP’s alternative literature group begins a new series of novels\, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction\, reborn from traditional science fiction\, and also known by its alter ego “visionary fiction” and other identities\, including horror\, more than ever offers space for exploration of class\, race\, gender\, freedom struggles and authoritarian repression. Join with us to sample the best of this socially conscious and political literature. We read it to envision the futures we seek and empower our commitments\, enliven our reflection\, and energize our communities. \nIn May\, we read:\nWe Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest\, Resistance\, and Hope\, edited by Malka Older\, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord \nOther Spring readings have been:\nThe Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist\, Emile Habibi\n“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience\,” Rebecca Roanhorse\n“Delhi\,” Vandana Singh\nShikasta\, Recolonized Planet 5\, Doris Lessing \n\nConvened by the Science and Speculative Fiction Reading Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/speculative-fiction-politically-spring-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Dystopian literature,featured,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Spring 2026,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T140000
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SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 2\, Extremities
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nIn this our second panel we question the socio-spatial manifestations of the limit and its political and property avatars: the border the boundary\, and the zone. Across these contributions\, to think at the extremity is to reevaluate the whole\, querying how limits animate entire systems of thought and distinction. (Panel 1 details here) \nNathaniel LaCelle-Peterson examines the function of infrastructure in the thought of Louis Althusser\, where it appears as substitute for “base” as the opposing category of “superstructure” in his structuralist articulation of the mode of production. Alan J. Alaniz analyzes the built and unbuilt architectural projects of the midcentury Mexico-United States borderlands to illuminate the spatial consequences of geopolitics at the international divide.  Madeleine Han examines the role of contemporary art in the transformation of Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—a geographical and imagined ‘limit’ marked by dreams of deferred reunification—into a visitation site. Javier Porras Madero explores how combined and uneven development along the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands produced newly alienated subjects who became the central social components of twentieth-century nationalisms. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a doctoral researcher in Film & Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Alan J. Alaniz is a doctoral researcher in the Yale School of Architecture. Madeleine Han is a doctoral researcher in the Yale American Studies program. Javier Porras Madero is a doctoral researcher in the history department at Yale University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-extremities/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Immigration,Latin America,Modernity,Panel Discussion,Political Economy,Present Moment,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 1\, Thresholds
DESCRIPTION:Panel Presentation by the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nThe first panel\, Thresholds: Limit Cases\,  takes on the exceptions that determine the rule. These limit cases of sound\, shock\, spirit\, and symbol problematize and contest the generic and ideological frames they operate within. Probing the thresholds of perception\, we address experience that re-taxonomizes the social and sensorial order. (Panel 2 details here) \nSuvij Sudershan asks why the qawwal (a traditional Sufi devotional form that often puts written poetry to music) came to enjoy uniquely prominent position within the global meta-genre of “World Music”? Michelle Chow explores Asian/American transnational ecopoetics\, an the literary\, philosophic\, cultural\, and botanical attempts to contend with the post-nuclear environment\, by centering around one tree\, the gingko. Jane Zhang links the origins of the first aid kit in railway surgery to the broader exchange between emergency protocol and industrial management. Michael Denning takes up Fredric Jameson’s challenge to “political” readings of Marx in the context of recent “republican” re-readings of the political dimension of “Citizen Marx\,” reconsidering the limits of and barriers to\, the political. And Sam Levin charts the shifting limits of belonging on the global far right as it coalesced in the last quarter of the 20th century. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology. A collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Suvij Sudershan is a doctoral researcher at Yale’s Department of English. His dissertation is on the representation of ground-rent and class-formation in 19th and early-20th century novels from Ireland\, England\, India\, and South Africa. Michelle Chow is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s English Literature and Film & Media Studies program\, and a Graduate Fellow of Yale’s Center for the Study of Race Indigeneity\, & Transnational Migration (RITM). Jane Zhang is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s Combined Program in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies. Her research focuses on the intersecting histories of popular literature and vernacular medicine from the 19th century onwards. Michael Denning teaches cultural studies in the American Studies program at Yale University; among his books are Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and Noise Uprising. The Twofold Labors of Marx is forthcoming from Verso. Sam Levin is a doctoral researcher in the American studies program at Yale University. He studies religion and the global far right in the 20th century.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-thresholds/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Panel Discussion,Political Strategy,Republicanism,Seminars and Talks,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:'Black History Is for Everyone' with Brian Jones
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 2\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nLongtime educator Brian Jones explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race\, nation\, and the stories we tell about who we are. In Black History Is for Everyone\, Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history\, using his own experiences as a lifelong learner and classroom teacher to question everything — from the radicalism of the American Revolution to the meaning of “race” and “nation.” With warmth and immersive storytelling\, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history\, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high\, the effort is worth it. \nBrian Jones has taught many ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History\, his writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, the Guardian\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-history-jones/
LOCATION:See link above to watch the recording on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Civil War,Colonialism,Du Bois,featured,History,Labor History,Race and Class,Spring 2026,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T160000
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SUMMARY:Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
DESCRIPTION:A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner\, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nBridging political economy and psychology\, we will review Marx’s writings on the structure of social systems that encompass cultural emergents such as religion. As emphasized by Wendy Brown in her Foreword to the Reitter-North translation of Capital\, “Marx developed an understanding of political economy as the distinctive mode through which we build entire worlds through our singular cooperative powers—transforming nature\, elaborating divisions of labor and organizations of ownership\, producing wealth\, creating ways of life\, institutions\, social forms\, subjects\, and subjectivities… Capital brings into being not only particular kinds of markets\, technologies\, and industries\, but classes\, families\, and political structures; race and gender orders; relations with ‘nature’; new formations of space and time; and legal codes and conflicts.” \nTurning to the field of cultural psychology\, we will explore how cultural forms stimulate and organize human psychology. Here we will focus on the work of the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” Vygotsky was a dedicated Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. Vygotsky said\, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science\, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-psychology-ratner/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
DESCRIPTION:Final session\, December 16 \nA study group on nonhuman animals’ relationship with capital as living\, breathing\, “commodified” beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. A vibrant discourse is currently emerging around the question of nonhuman labor and the ways in which non-waged forms of labor contribute to value accumulation under capitalism. In this study group\, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies\, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism. We will consider how harnessing and enhancing the metabolic labor of nonhuman animals is connected to fields such as waste management\, biomedical research\, big data\, and the reproduction of the human labor force. \nConvened by Gizem Haspolat and Terike Haapoja. Gizem holds a PhD in Anthropology and specializes in critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human-nonhuman animal relations. In her dissertation research\, she explored live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of live cattle imports in Turkey. Her current research project examines the application of ‘smart’ technologies and artificial intelligence in industrial agricultural settings. Terike 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/metabolic-labor/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Fall 2025,featured,Labor Process,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T153000
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary\, with Mitchell Abidor
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 1\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nMitchell Abidor\, author of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary presents the book in conversation with Jacob Plitman\, former publisher of Jewish Currents. \nToday\, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels\, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man\, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history? An anarchist? A Bolshevik? A Trotskyist? Or did he evolve into something else entirely? In this comprehensive account of Serge’s life\, work\, and political evolution\, Mitchell Abidor rescues his subject\, in all his complexity\, from the constraints of any single label. Painting a portrait of a man whose political ideas shifted continually in response to the major events of his life\, we are introduced to several Victor Serges: the youthful anarchist in Belgium and France; the leading Bolshevik in Moscow; the anti-Stalinist who faced imprisonment and expulsion from the Soviet Union. Examining the lacunae and errors of fact in his memoirs\, Abidor reveals the hidden Serge for what he ultimately was: an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions. \nMitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn\, New York. In addition to his many translation works\, he is the author of May Made Me and I’ll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender\, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge’s Notebooks (1936-1947). \nA 30% discount code for Victor Serge and other Pluto Press books by Mitchell Abidor will be provided to all ticket purchasers.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/serge-unruly-revolutionary/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Book talks,communism,Fall 2025,featured,France,History,Literature,Marxisms,Poetry,Radical Literature,Russia,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 26\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nHistorian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book\, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nAndrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of Karl Marx in America (2025) and A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015)\, both published by the University of Chicago Press\, and Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008). He is also the coeditor of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times (2018). Hartman has been published in a host of academic and popular venues\, including the Washington Post\, The Baffler\, Chronicle of Higher Education\, American Historian\, Journal of American Studies\, Reviews in American History\, Journal of Policy History\, Salon\, Jacobin\, Bookforum\, and In These Times.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,Book talks,Civil War,Fall 2025,featured,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Republicanism,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T183000
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SUMMARY:Resisting Oppression: Reading Science Fiction Politically
DESCRIPTION:Next on Monday September 29\, 5:00 pm \nWe will begin Ryka Aoki’s\, Light From Uncommon Stars\, our third in a set of three novels of oppression and resistance perfect for times like these. We also read Woman on the Edge of Time and Rosewater\, each featuring protagonists living and struggling on the margins of their societies. Each comes to envision a better world for themselves and their communities. Each draws on usual strengths\, makes use of new technologies\, and finds unusual allies. \n\nRyka Aoki’s In Light from Uncommon Stars\, Katrina Nguyen\, a runaway teen\, trans violinist\, finds her life entangled with world-famous violin teacher Shizuka Satomi and Lan Tran\, retired starship captain\, interstellar war refugee\, mother of four\, and California donut shop entrepreneur. All three address the complexity of technology in oppressive societies\, alienation and true aliens\, choice and unfreedom in contemporary capitalist social orders. This is a story for our challenging political and social times\, a wild and fun read to challenge what it means to create political science fiction.\nIn Tade Thompson’s award-winning Rosewater\, government agent and former thief Kaaro contends with social and class contradictions in contemporary Nigerian society\, the government and alien powers for a positive\, freer future for the city of Rosewater and beyond. The first-person novel features mesmerizing collages of scenes and conversations\, mirroring perhaps the mysteries of the “Xenosphere” which frames the story. Join us to read this debut novel which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.\nMarge Piercy’s classic Woman on the Edge of Time tells the story of Connie\, a working class Latina of the 1970s Los Angeles who envisions and pursues a utopian future from with involuntary institutionalization in the oppressive mental health system.\n\nBook covers for current reading list\nWritten in different eras of our modern times\, exploring different communities and peoples\, and ultimately defining radical reimagining in unique ways\, the three novels together will provide powerful reference points for our own dilemmas and choices. \nOur format: we meet every other Monday; we give each monthly selection two takes; we all share responsibilities for shaping the discussion on each work as literature\, each writer as a contributor to social change\, and each vision as a reflection of and an intervention in our aspirations for a better world.  Drop to read one novel that interests you with us\, stay and while if it suits you\, and always help shape our course. Our long term reading list. \nAlso watch for our next selection\, Susana Morris’ new biography of Octavia Butler. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, reading visionary fiction since introduced to the liberating power of Alice in Wonderland and Jules Verne at a very young age.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/resistance-to-oppression-reading-science-fiction-politically/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africanfuturism,Classes/Events,Fall 2025,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T200000
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SUMMARY:'Fake Work' with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this September 24\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nUsing the most banal of office settings – corporate documentation – in the most extraordinary of circumstances – a looming Y2K apocalypse\, Leigh Claire La Berge‘s newly published Fake Work offers not only a unique experience of alienated labor\, but a novel type of Marxism: Marxist humor. The book recounts how a young white-collar worker discovers what capitalism is\, what it does\, and for whom. Described by the New York Times as a “memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil … superbly committed to its own beliefs — truthful\, dryly funny and often subtly moving\,” Fake Work is a story for anyone who has ever needed a job. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Fake Work\, Marx for Cats\, and Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin in 2021-2023.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fake-work-la-berge/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Capital Studies,Fall 2025,featured,humor,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Media Criticism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T210000
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SUMMARY:Summer in France in the Shade of Noir
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group continues its tradition of easy summer reading focusing on the noir genre. Our two selections are both set in France and both deal with corruption in high places by right-wing politicians and corporations who manipulate inept investigators of low social standing and morals. \n\nCommand Performance\, by Jean Echenoz; translated by Mark Polizzotti (New York Review Books\, 2020).  A hapless unemployed flight attendant thinks he can solve his financial problems by becoming a private detective\, but he ends up in the employ of a fractious right-wing political party. Things do not go well.  Be prepared to discuss the entire book at our first session on August 6.\nCreation Lake\, by Rachel Kushner (Scribners\, 2024). Sadie Smith once worked as a government undercover operative within an environmental rights group. She got fired for entrapment and went to work in corporate espionage. Her summer assignment in France is to provoke an incident by an environmental rights group that will justify government action. Will Sadie’s honey trap tactics succeed? (August 13\, 20\, 24)\n\n\nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline 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 eight 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\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/shade-of-noir/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Anti-capitalist Literature,Classes/Events,featured,France,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Reading Group,Summer 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250714T170000
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically: Severance by Ling Ma
DESCRIPTION:Next\, Monday July 14\, 5:00 pm \n  \nGet started with the Science and Visionary Fiction book group with our July Book Selection: Severance\, by Ling Ma.  Severance combines two things. It offers a satirical\, sardonic look at 21st century lives\, loves and labor as experienced by Candace Chen. Candace has both the classic dilemmas of a first generation immigrant and the here and now reality of a millennial New Yorker setting out in today’s world. \nInto this world comes Shen Fever\, which brings an apocalypse not unlike what Covid 19 might have been. Ling Ma published the book in 2018\, which makes its dystopian vision all the more remarkable.  Candace winds up in a group of like minded would-be survivors and the tale unfolds. \nThe novel does offer a brisk pace yet we mostly read it for the author’s eyes and ears on our current dilemmas as we struggle to survive. \n  \nFor more than three years\, the MEP Science and Visionary Fiction reading group has explored topics of oppression and resistance\, history and science\, capitalist and post-capitalist future\, human and nonhuman intelligence. We read with an overall commitment\, To build a better future\, we have to envision it first (adapted from Walidah Imarisha). Reading science\, speculative and visionary fiction\, discussing it together\, and reading it politically\, offers one tool for envisioning a future worth building. \nGive it a try for your summer reading: drop in\, stay for a while\, and contribute to lively\, present day-centered discussions. Everyone has something to contribute\, whether you read this sort of thing regularly or have hardly ever given it a second thought. Convened by Steve Backman. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-severance-by-ling-ma/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africanfuturism,Classes/Events,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading Death of the Author by Nigeria's Nnedi Okorafor
DESCRIPTION:Next\, Monday June 30\, 5:00 pm   \nAfricanfuturism is concerned with visions of the future\, is interested in technology\, leaves the earth\, skews optimistic\, is centered on and predominantly written by people of African descent (black people) and it is rooted first and foremost in Africa. It’s less concerned with “what could have been” and more concerned with “what is and can/will be”. It acknowledges\, grapples with and carries “what has been.”   —NNedi Okorafor  \nDip into the growing realm of Africanfuturism reading NNedi Okorafor’s most recent novel\, Death of the Author.  Her science fiction successful and highly popular today\, Okorafor here provides both an introduction to Nigerian science fiction for those that need it and a reflection on its cultural meaning for those who have read Binti\, others from Okorfor\, or other Nigerian- or African-inspired visionary and speculative fiction today. \nDeath of the Author centers on a Nigerian woman setting out to write science fiction\, perhaps like Okorafor herself years and many novels back. The novel explores Zelu’s dilemmas and doubts\, her relationship with family and community\, the world of publishing  in ways that may reflect Okorfor’s past. It also features a story within the story about intelligent robots in a futuristic African context.  The two stories blend together in unusual and unexpected ways\, and fit well with concerns of politically conscious readers of fiction and science fiction today. \n  \n  \nJuly Book Selection: Severance\, by Ling Ma.\nWatch this page for more information. \nFor more than three years\, the MEP Science and Visionary Fiction reading group has explored topics of oppression and resistance\, history and science\, capitalist and post-capitalist future\, human and nonhuman intelligence. We read with an overall commitment\, To build a better future\, we have to envision it first (adapted from Walidah Imarisha). Reading science\, speculative and visionary fiction\, discussing it together\, and reading it politically\, offers one tool for envisioning a future worth building. \nGive it a try for your summer reading: drop in\, stay for a while\, and contribute to lively\, present day-centered discussions. Everyone has something to contribute\, whether you read this sort of thing regularly or have hardly ever given it a second thought. Convened by Steve Backman \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-summer-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africanfuturism,Classes/Events,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T203000
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SUMMARY:Literary Echoes of Vietnam's 1975 Victory
DESCRIPTION:While the bombs were falling\, only a stone wouldn’t be terrified. If the Americans noticed movement in the forest\, they would eliminate the forest. Who knows how much money was spent? American taxpayers’ money. If a cluster of napalm bombs were dropped\, the jungle would turn into a sea of fire. Can you imagine a sea of fire? –Bao Ninh \nJoin with the MEP Literature Group to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 fall of Saigon\, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. This month\, we will read two volumes by Bao Ninh–The Sorrow of War and Hà Nôi at Midnight.  \nBorn in October 1952\, Bao Ninh experienced the effects of US bombing while growing up and later joined the “Glorious 27th Youth Brigade” at the age of 17. Bao Ninh’s writing offers restrained\, poignant\, yet powerful accounts of the “sorrow of war\,” the losses and grief of a generation who fought to unify the country. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Reading Group. Jacqueline Cantwell 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 eight 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\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation. \n(Bao Ninh quote from Ken Burns’ series The Vietnam War)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fall_of_saigon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Literary Studies,Summer 2025,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T123000
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SUMMARY:Reading Gramsci for Today's Movements
DESCRIPTION:Sundays at 11 am ET \nAn ongoing study group on the Prison Notebooks and other works of Antonio Gramsci. We explore Gramsci’s themes and concepts\, including state-civil society relations\, historical bloc\, hegemony\, spontaneity\, strategy and tactic\, and language. We follow Gramsci’s philological method\, addressing such areas as linguistics\, cinema\, critical theory\, literature\, journalism\, comics\, animation\, plastic arts\, mass media and Machiavellian political studies. We draw on Iran’s Woman\, Life\, Freedom movement and its documentary evidence\, along with other shared historical movements\, experiences and cultures in U.S.\, Iran and worldwide\, towards change and “What-ought-to-be.” \nNo prior knowledge of Gramsci is required. Session contributors lead the discussions on passages from Gramsci’s works and bring their own experiences\, philosophies and scholarship to our readings.  RSVP below if you wish to attend and we will send you the Zoom link. A suggested donation of $50 or whatever amount you can afford is welcome and appreciated. \n\nConvened by Piruz Alemi. Piruz has a PhD in Political Economy and an MFA in Documentary Film Making from City University of New York (CUNY). Piruz is an independent scholar-activist in Gramsci’s work and cultural studies\, with a focus on the common struggle of politics of race in the U.S. and gender segregation in Iran and the wider region.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-gramsci-for-todays-movements-spring-2024/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Iran,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Winter 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T203000
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SUMMARY:Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this January 8\, 2025\, event is available on YouTube. \nWhile there is a robust and exploding literature on capitalism as the root cause of climate change\, few have systematically explored Karl Marx’s most important finished work – Volume 1 of Capital – to bring to light the climate repercussions of capital’s “laws of motion.” Volume 1 is of special importance to a Marxist climate politics given the centrality of production in causing climate change itself. Matt Huber highlights the relevance to the climate crisis of key concepts such as value\, the hidden abode of production\, surplus-value\, the accumulation of capital\, primitive accumulation\, and the expropriation of the expropriators.  \nMatt Huber is Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University and the author of two books\, Climate Change as Class War and Lifeblood: Oil\, Freedom\, and the Forces of Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-climate-change/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,featured,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250104T173000
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SUMMARY:Marx Miniseries: The 'Resultate'
DESCRIPTION:Having completed a year-long study of Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, the MEP’s Capital Studies Group is closely reading the chapter Marx omitted from the original book. Titled “Results of the Immediate Process of Production” and often referred to by the German Resultate\, this long chapter was published as an Appendix to the Penguin edition of Capital I. It can be read as a bridge between volumes 1 and 2 of Capital and presents a number of concepts in greater depth\, including the distinctions between productive and unproductive labor and between “formal” and “real” subsumption of labor to capital. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Lisa Maya Knauer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-miniseries-the-resultate/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Fall 2024,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241214T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241214T160000
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SUMMARY:Translating 'Capital' for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this December 14\, 2024\, event is available on YouTube. \nThe appearance of a new English-language edition of Marx’s Capital\, Volume I\, translated by Paul Reitter and edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter\, has been a momentous occasion. Join a conversation with Reitter and noted Marx scholar Michael Heinrich on the challenges of translating Marx for 21st century readers\, the weaknesses and strengths of earlier translations\, and the ways the new edition can help us understand Marx’s analyses of capital and value. \nPaul Reitter is Professor of Germanic languages and literatures at The Ohio State University\, where his scholarship focuses on German-Jewish culture and the history of higher education. He is the author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe; On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred\, and Bambi’s Jewish Roots: Essays on German-Jewish Culture. \nMichael Heinrich served on the Editorial Board for the new edition of Capital. He taught economics in Berlin and was managing editor of PROKLA: Journal for Critical Social Science. He is the author of a number of books on Marx and Capital\, including An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital\, Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society\, and The Science of Value: Marx’s Critique of Political Economy between Scientific Revolution and Classical Tradition.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/translating-capital/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Engels,Fall 2024,featured,Intro to Marxism,Literary Studies,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T210000
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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,Fall 2024,featured,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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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: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,Fall 2024,featured,Gender,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T160000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital Volume I
DESCRIPTION:Participants in this group are closely reading and discussing Volume I of Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. \n \nThe study of Capital has been at the core of the Marxist Education Project since its inception. Every generation involved in struggle since Marx’s time has rediscovered Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society. \nFor key chapters or sections\, we do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants read other sections on their own\, and we summarize and discuss when we meet. In line with Marx’s own approach in Capital\, we both take it all very seriously and make it fun as well. If you have read Capital before – or if you have never read it – studying it together with us will deepen your understanding of the world today and refresh your political commitments. \nLisa Maya Knauer guides this group\, along with other experienced MEP teachers. 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. \nThis study group is ongoing until we have read the entire book. At present we are reading Part Seven\, “The Process of Accumulation of Capital.” RSVP below to join the group in progress. There is no registration fee but a suggested donation of $50 or whatever amount you can afford is welcome and appreciated.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Political Economy,Summer 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T140000
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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,Fall 2024,featured,History,Imperialism,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T130000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic III
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this summer with a reading of the third and final part of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. This is the discussion of the Notion culminating in the Absolute Idea. There will be a review session for recurring students as well as those who missed Part I\, Being\, and Part II\, Essence. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. \nAlex 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-3/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Hegel,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza,Summer 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T190000
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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,Summer 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240805T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240805T173000
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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,Fall 2024,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Palestine,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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