Class Consciousness
Day 3, Session 1: Slackers, Sabotage, and Syndicalism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe term "slacker” originated during WWI and disparaged those (primarily Irish) coded “lazy," “vagrant," and resistant to a proper Protestant work ethic; it also referred to those who would not fight on the side of the Americans (and of course, the British) during WWI.
Day 3, Session 2—Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhat are the prospects and possibilities for independent working class politics in the wake of the Sanders campaign?
2 More Lectures With Stanley Aronowitz are postponed
2067 Broadway between 71st and 72nd Streets, New York, NY, United StatesSponsored and presented by the Institute for the Radical Imagination May 13 Lecture: The Labor Question in the 21st century May 20 Lecture: Political Organization? Both lectures will take place at a later date Please visit: https://radicalimagination.institute for more information
Reading Capital Politically
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynMarx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And, how should we read Capital politically?
Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital, Volume I
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynIt is often said that Capital, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form, with many dialectical twists and turns, but not with revolution. However, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution.
Highlights of Marx’s Capital, Volume One
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYMany of us have less time to study it because, as Marx predicted, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of the first Volume of Capital offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics.
Moving Against the System
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesAgainst a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the 'Third World', this group of activists, writers and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power.
Final Friday Film: Camp de Thiaroye
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIn Camp de Thiaroye the tirailleurs use the traditional, highly rhetorical, almost theatrical, mode of debate of their various societies, but adapt this ritual form to the only language they have in common: the pidgin which the French insultingly call “petit nègre”, a language which is both a result and a tool of colonial exploitation. Here it is revealed as having a potential for eloquence, allowing it to become a moving medium for the articulation of feelings, needs, grievances and resistance, and thus ultimately for the development of the tirailleurs‘ collective political awareness and consciousness of themselves as Africans.