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SUMMARY:From Austerity to Fascism: The Capital Order
DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 10\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nClara E. Mattei presents The Capital Order\, in which she explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital – and indeed capitalism – in times of social upheaval from below. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy\, she offers a damning account of the rise of austerity – and of modern economics – at the levers of contemporary political power. Mattei reveals how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated policies that elevated owners\, smothered workers\, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across societies. Where austerity “succeeded\,” relatively speaking\, was in their enrichment of ruling-class interests who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. \nClara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She was a 2018-2019 member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/from-austerity-to-fascism-the-capital-order/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-fascism,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,England,Globalization,Italian history,Late Capital and Fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210420T200000
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SUMMARY:Start Early\, Stay Late: Planning for Care in Old Age
DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021 authors Pat and Hugh Armstrong\nCovid-19 has exposed too many weaknesses in the neoliberal capitalist system to count\, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable. For 10 years our international\, interdisciplinary research team has been documenting the profound weaknesses in nursing home care within Canada\, Germany\, Norway\, Sweden\, the UK\, and the US. Many of the current deficits in resident care originate in various forms of privatization central to neoliberalism. Especially in Canada\, the UK\, and the US\, nursing homes that are heavily funded by the public purse have been handed over to corporations\, providing them with guaranteed pay and often guaranteed full houses. \nThe lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – in denial of the literature on the determinants of health – services such as food\, housekeeping\, and laundry have been defined out of care and dismissed as ancillary. This contracting out has not only undermined teamwork\, but has also resulted in poor food\, inadequate cleaning\, and limited laundry – all of which threaten health. At the same time\, fewer and fewer spaces are available in these homes with government funding. The result is twofold. All those who manage to get into these homes have high care needs\, and those who cannot are either forced into the for-profit sector or rely more on unpaid care\, most of which is provided by women. For too many\, neither of these is an option. Another strategy blurring the lines is the promotion of for-profit managerial strategies within the non-profit and public nursing homes that remain. This means the lowest possible staffing levels\, the shifting of as much work as possible to those with the least formal training\, limiting workers’ autonomy\, pay\, hours\, and benefits\, and relying on a labor force already made vulnerable by gender\, racialization\, and immigration status. \nBarely enough services pre-pandemic have proven to be not nearly enough during the pandemic – which has exposed the disastrous life-altering or lethal consequences of all these developments for those elderly requiring care. \nPat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University. Hugh Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Carleton University. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for admission to this event or any other events or classes of The MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/start-early-stay-late-planning-for-care-in-old-age/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Welfare State: Book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies\nUrsula Huws\nIn Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies Ursula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality\, including a redistributive UBI (universal basic income)\, decommodification of platforms and universal workers’ rights. With positivity and rigor\, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century\, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernise and expand public services\, and improve accessibility. \nUrsula Huws speaks with Todd Wolfson on creative ideas for reinventing the welfare state to address contemporary challenges in a session chaired by FireWorks Series editor\, and Editorial Director at Pluto Press\, David Castle. \nSliding scale pricing includes Ursula’s presentation\, the new book (inclusive of shipping — US and Puerto Rico only) \nWe do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url of the zoom link for attending this talk if you cannot pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reinventing-the-welfare-state-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200116T180000
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2020-01-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200109T193000
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2020-01-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2019-12-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T041354
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SUMMARY:Final Friday Film: American Dream by Barbara Kopple
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Barbara Kopple\nUSA\, 1990\, 100 min \n In 1984 the Hormel meat-packing company offered the union workers in Austin\, Minnesota a new contract\, cutting their wages from $10.69 per hour to $8.25 per hour—benefits would be cut by 30 percent. The workers were not filled with joy. The company had just declared an annual profit of $29 million\, the cuts were inspired by owners wanting to maximize profits beyond that on the backs and cuts in health and life spans of the workers and their families. \nAmerican Dream chronicles the six-month strike that followed during 1985 and 1986 at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin\, Minnesota. The local union\, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers\, overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer with a $2/hour wage cut. Following this the meat workers strike and hire a New York consultant to manage a national media campaign against Hormel. Despite support from P-9’s rank and file\, FCWU’s international disagrees with the strategy. In addition to union-company tension\, there’s union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs\, replacement workers\, brothers on opposite sides\, a union coup d’état\, and a new contract materialize. The film asks\, was it worth it\, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labor? \nIn many ways\, the Hormel plant in bucolic Minnesota seemed like the least likely site for a labor-management inferno. The company’s founders had been of a paternalistic bent\, and Austin’s hourly wage of $10.69 was the industry standard. But in 1984\, despite profits of $29 million\, Hormel announced plans to cut that wage by 23%. “What are we going to have to give up\,” one worker worried\, “when they show a loss for the quarter?”—Kenneth Turan\, Los Angeles Times\, March 1992 \nBarbara Kopple\, who had previously covered an extended miner’s strike in the acclaimed 1976 documentary Harlan County\, USA\, focuses on the personalities and emotions behind the strike\, creating a highly charged portrait of labor that is sympathetic to the workers’ distress without ignoring the strike’s greater ambiguities. \n  \nTicket prices are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/final-friday-film-american-dream-by-barbara-kopple/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T133000
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SUMMARY:2008 Capitalist Crisis: McNally’s Global Slump
DESCRIPTION:A 3 Session Mini-class\nIn the first paragraph of the Introduction to his book\, The Global Slump\, David McNally wrote as follows: “We find it difficult to view our current moment as profoundly historical. Yet\, the present is invariably saturated with elements of the future\, with possibilities that have not yet come to fruition\, and may not do so—as the road to the future is always contested. That is why\, if we wish to make history\, we ‘must be able to comprehend the present as a becoming.’ [Georg Lukács\, History and Class Consciousness]. One would think that it should be easier to see things this way during moments of profound crisis in our social and economic system\, like that which broke out in 2008. As the tectonic plates of the global economy shifted\, financial shocks rocked the world’s banks\, leveling many of them. Panic gripped money markets\, stocks plunged\, factories shut down. Tens of millions of people were thrown out of work; millions lost their homes. An extraordinary uncertainty shook the world’s ruling class. The mood of the moment was captured in the confession by senior writers with the Financial Times that\, “The world of the past three decades is gone. Within a year or so\, however\, candid statements like this disappeared from the mainstream press. The ruling class regrouped and regained its arrogance…. \nA decade has passed but the crisis is not over. Indeed we might even say that we are only beginning to see the effects of this greatest crisis of capitalism: the rise of anti neo-liberal populism of the right and left in Trump and Sanders\, Brexit\, extreme austerity\, all the labor and social movements such as the teachers movement in the US and the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) in France and the deepening crisis in the Middle East. The ruling class has regrouped and regained its arrogance\, continuing their political and economic assault imposing ever deeper social wage cuts while ideologically taking aim at hard won democratic and civil rights. It remains important for us to understand the underlying causes within this late stage of capitalist development that led to the 2008 crisis so that we of the working classes develop our capacity to effectively take on the political\, ideological and economic challenges we are facing now and in the struggles ahead for a better life for all. \nAll of this to say that to become more effective it is reasonable to turn to a social theory that see crises as an inherent aspect of the capitalist mode of production\, that is Marxist theory. McNally’s Global Slump is an impressive attempt to provide such a Marxist understanding for the crisis and a good example to see the explanatory power of Marx’s social theory as laid out in the three volumes of Capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. We begin a close reading Volume 2 on May 11. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nListed fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/2008-capitalist-crisis-mcnallys-global-slump/2019-05-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190427T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190427T133000
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SUMMARY:2008 Capitalist Crisis: McNally’s Global Slump
DESCRIPTION:A 3 Session Mini-class\nIn the first paragraph of the Introduction to his book\, The Global Slump\, David McNally wrote as follows: “We find it difficult to view our current moment as profoundly historical. Yet\, the present is invariably saturated with elements of the future\, with possibilities that have not yet come to fruition\, and may not do so—as the road to the future is always contested. That is why\, if we wish to make history\, we ‘must be able to comprehend the present as a becoming.’ [Georg Lukács\, History and Class Consciousness]. One would think that it should be easier to see things this way during moments of profound crisis in our social and economic system\, like that which broke out in 2008. As the tectonic plates of the global economy shifted\, financial shocks rocked the world’s banks\, leveling many of them. Panic gripped money markets\, stocks plunged\, factories shut down. Tens of millions of people were thrown out of work; millions lost their homes. An extraordinary uncertainty shook the world’s ruling class. The mood of the moment was captured in the confession by senior writers with the Financial Times that\, “The world of the past three decades is gone. Within a year or so\, however\, candid statements like this disappeared from the mainstream press. The ruling class regrouped and regained its arrogance…. \nA decade has passed but the crisis is not over. Indeed we might even say that we are only beginning to see the effects of this greatest crisis of capitalism: the rise of anti neo-liberal populism of the right and left in Trump and Sanders\, Brexit\, extreme austerity\, all the labor and social movements such as the teachers movement in the US and the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) in France and the deepening crisis in the Middle East. The ruling class has regrouped and regained its arrogance\, continuing their political and economic assault imposing ever deeper social wage cuts while ideologically taking aim at hard won democratic and civil rights. It remains important for us to understand the underlying causes within this late stage of capitalist development that led to the 2008 crisis so that we of the working classes develop our capacity to effectively take on the political\, ideological and economic challenges we are facing now and in the struggles ahead for a better life for all. \nAll of this to say that to become more effective it is reasonable to turn to a social theory that see crises as an inherent aspect of the capitalist mode of production\, that is Marxist theory. McNally’s Global Slump is an impressive attempt to provide such a Marxist understanding for the crisis and a good example to see the explanatory power of Marx’s social theory as laid out in the three volumes of Capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. We begin a close reading Volume 2 on May 11. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nListed fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/2008-capitalist-crisis-mcnallys-global-slump/2019-04-27/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapCrisisClass_Site.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190420T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T041354
CREATED:20190316T011827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T140409Z
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SUMMARY:2008 Capitalist Crisis: McNally’s Global Slump
DESCRIPTION:A 3 Session Mini-class\nIn the first paragraph of the Introduction to his book\, The Global Slump\, David McNally wrote as follows: “We find it difficult to view our current moment as profoundly historical. Yet\, the present is invariably saturated with elements of the future\, with possibilities that have not yet come to fruition\, and may not do so—as the road to the future is always contested. That is why\, if we wish to make history\, we ‘must be able to comprehend the present as a becoming.’ [Georg Lukács\, History and Class Consciousness]. One would think that it should be easier to see things this way during moments of profound crisis in our social and economic system\, like that which broke out in 2008. As the tectonic plates of the global economy shifted\, financial shocks rocked the world’s banks\, leveling many of them. Panic gripped money markets\, stocks plunged\, factories shut down. Tens of millions of people were thrown out of work; millions lost their homes. An extraordinary uncertainty shook the world’s ruling class. The mood of the moment was captured in the confession by senior writers with the Financial Times that\, “The world of the past three decades is gone. Within a year or so\, however\, candid statements like this disappeared from the mainstream press. The ruling class regrouped and regained its arrogance…. \nA decade has passed but the crisis is not over. Indeed we might even say that we are only beginning to see the effects of this greatest crisis of capitalism: the rise of anti neo-liberal populism of the right and left in Trump and Sanders\, Brexit\, extreme austerity\, all the labor and social movements such as the teachers movement in the US and the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) in France and the deepening crisis in the Middle East. The ruling class has regrouped and regained its arrogance\, continuing their political and economic assault imposing ever deeper social wage cuts while ideologically taking aim at hard won democratic and civil rights. It remains important for us to understand the underlying causes within this late stage of capitalist development that led to the 2008 crisis so that we of the working classes develop our capacity to effectively take on the political\, ideological and economic challenges we are facing now and in the struggles ahead for a better life for all. \nAll of this to say that to become more effective it is reasonable to turn to a social theory that see crises as an inherent aspect of the capitalist mode of production\, that is Marxist theory. McNally’s Global Slump is an impressive attempt to provide such a Marxist understanding for the crisis and a good example to see the explanatory power of Marx’s social theory as laid out in the three volumes of Capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. We begin a close reading Volume 2 on May 11. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nListed fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/2008-capitalist-crisis-mcnallys-global-slump/2019-04-20/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CapCrisisClass_Site.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180613T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180613T213000
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SUMMARY:Nicaragua in Crisis
DESCRIPTION:A Forum with Father Octavio Altamirano • Jorge Blass •\nDan La Botz • Lisa Maya Knauer • Nicaraguan Students\nco-sponsored with Haymarket Books\, NACLA\, New Politics and Democratic Socialists of America\, NYC Chapter\nWITH THE CHANGE OF VENUE\, THIS IS NOW A DONATIONS-BASED EVENT.\nSince late April the Nicaraguan Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega has been challenged first by a popular uprising in which dozens were killed by the government and then by mass demonstrations demanding peace and justice. Now the Catholic Church is attempting to mediate between the Ortega government and the movement\, but so far without success. What is the source of Nicaragua’s crisis today? And what are the roots of the problem in the experience of the last forty years? How does it affect Nicaraguan immigrants to the United States? What stand should progressive Americans take on the Nicaraguan crisis? \nSOME OF YOU HAVE PAID FOR TICKETS FOR THE OTHER VENUE. THESE PURCHASES CAN BE A DONATION OR WE CAN REFUND YOU IF YOU PROVIDE AN ADDRESS. info@marxedproject.org
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/nicaragua-in-crisis/
LOCATION:St Peters Church\, 619 Lexington Avenue\, New York
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SUMMARY:A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
DESCRIPTION:with Jason W. Moore \nNature\, money\, work\, care\, food\, energy\, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap\, modern commerce has transformed\, governed\, and devastated Earth. Jason W. Moore presents a new book authored with Raj Patel\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.  \nBringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism\, indigenous struggles\, slave revolts\, and other rebellions and uprisings\, Moore and Patel demonstrate that throughout the history of capitalism\, crises have always prompted fresh efforts to restore the seven cheap things – regardless of the cost to working people and the environment. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things\, they propose radical new ways of understanding—and reclaiming—the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century. \nJason W. Moore teaches world history and world-ecology at Binghamton University\, and is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. He is the author of Capitalism in the Web of Life and numerous award-winning essays in environmental history\, political economy\, and social theory.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Whose Cities? Our Cities!
DESCRIPTION:10 sessions\nOrganized with the Urban Class Struggles group by Thomas Wensing\nOctober 3 to December 12—no session November 21\n\nIn New York City\, the self-proclaimed ‘real estate capital of the world’\, working class housing has become either unaffordable or as cramped as 19th century conditions. The class that built\, and continues to build New York and metropolises around the globe can no longer afford to live near where they work\, while an international bourgeoisie of hyper-capital accumulation perch themselves in luxurious\, multi-roomed occasional real estate. Whether it be New York\, Tokyo\, Paris\, London\, Rome or Lagos\, the pattern repeats itself worldwide. Interconnectedness of global markets\, deregulation of capital and mortgage markets\, increased financialization of society\, have all led to real estate in the metro centers serving as a prime instrument in the accumulation of global capital. Joining the mobile elite of hedge fund investors\, Russian and Chinese oligarchs\, oil sheiks\, and billionaires are their criminal partners engaged in laundering\, smuggling and multiple other illicit activities\, all united hiding their identities and the source of their wealth through shell companies. These market forces that push the working classes out of the city and some into the ultimate austerity of homelessness are being met with growing resistance.  \nOur group will read Friedrich Engels’ “The Housing Question”\, David Harvey’s Rebel Cities\, David Madden and Peter Marcuse’s In Defense of Housing\, Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein and conclude with Zoned Out\, edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse. \nOur aim is to gain the historical and theoretical understanding that can inform our fight to wrest control of our cities from the capitalist class\, and to discuss how cities can be reorganized to meet our human needs with a sustainable urban ecology. \nThomas Wensing works on residential and commercial projects at Morris Adjmi Architects. He holds licenses as an architect in both the UK and the Netherlands. He grew up in Den Helder\, The Netherlands\, and graduated from Delft University and Columbia University. His teaching experience includes the AA in London\, Eindhoven University\, and the University of Kent\, in Canterbury. Thomas is a regular contributor to Blueprint Magazine and other publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/whose-cities-our-cities/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Fascism: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Fascism Then and Now: A Community Roundtable \nFriends of the MEP and the Left community at large are invited to discuss the meaning and signficance of fascism and how to recognize it and struggle against it in world politics today. We hope to debate questions such as: What is the nature of fascism in relation to nationalism/racism\, misogyny\, social/community dissolution? Is or is not the Trump phenomenon an example or at least a precursor of fascism in the USA? Are there important political movements in other countries that could be called fascist? Is the social psychology of fascism the same today as it was in the 20th century? Are theAre there other forms of authoritarian capitalism that are not fascism\, and why might it matter? Current facilitators are Peter Bratsis\, Michael Pelias\, Dan Karan\, Alex Steinberg\, David Worley (moderator).  \nOthers are welcome to join as facilitators; each facilitator will offer a three minute (no longer) opening statement\, after which the floor will be open for general discussion. \nThe image is from a deck of anti-fascist playing cards created during the Siege of Leningrad in 1943
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-syriza-wave/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A book-launch and discussion with Ingo Schmidt (editor) and Mariano Féliz (contributor) \nCapitalists’ permanent pressure on the working and living conditions of the popular classes guarantees an equally permanent demand for social protections. Curiously enough\, around the same time capitalists turned from class compromise to an all-out offensive against Western European welfare states\, until then the showcase of social democratic success\, popular classes in a number of post-colonial and post-communist countries turned to social democracy. Though the 1990s are usually seen as nothing but an age of neoliberal globalization\, it is more accurate to say that the same decade also saw the globalization of social democracy. With Third Worldism in retreat under the pressure of the international debt crises and counterinsurgency measures and Soviet communism finally collapsing after an extended period of stagnation\, social democracy was the last remaining project of the 20th century left. \nThe ANC in South Africa\, the Workers Party in Brazil\, Communists in India and the former ruling parties in Eastern Europe eventually turned onto the social democratic road. But they did that at a time when social democracy in Western Europe was relabeled as a Third Way somewhere between the redistributive welfare state of the past and the present of unfettered global competition. However\, the globalization of this Third Way turned out to be a dead-end. Wherever parties were elected on a moderately social democratic platform\, soon after taking office the same parties would tell their voters that it was belt-tightening time. Ensuing anger\, disappointment and frustrations opened the way for left- and right-wing alternatives to social democracy but also a quest for social democracy before the Third Way. \nThe Three Worlds of Social Democracy presents the experiences of parties and governments of social democracy from Western and Eastern Europe\, Latin America\, India\, and South Africa. The book offers cutting-edge case studies to present a truly global exploration of the methods\, meanings\, and limits of social democracy. It also explores the potential for left alternatives to social democracy and the dangers of surging right-wing populism.  \nMariano Féliz is an economist at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient.ficas y Técnicas\, Universidad Nacional de La Plata\, Argentina. \nIngo Schmidt is the coordinator of the Labour Studies Programme at Athabasca University\, Canada.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-three-worlds-of-social-democracy/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marxist Method,Socialism
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