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Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
Video available on YouTubeA video of this March 26, 2024, event is available on the MEP's YouTube channel. Michael Heinrich presents his biography-in-progress of Karl Marx, which has already gained glowing reviews from Marxist scholars the world over. In the first volume published in English by Monthly Review Press, Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society, Heinrich ... Read more
Reading Science Fiction Politically – Spring 2024 Season
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe Science and Visionary Fiction reading group meets weekly to read and discuss science, visionary and speculative fiction that bears on politics, the environment, and the struggle for a better future for all. We focus on the concept of visionary fiction, emerging from Octavia Butler's writings and beautifully articulated ten years ago by Walidah Imarisha, ... Read more
Fascism, Antifascism, Gaza, and Political Strategy
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhere does the rising wave of authoritarianism and "late fascism" fit in the global relations of force at work today? And what paths of resistance work in response? The war in Gaza has brought to a head the left’s strategic dilemmas facing new, overt forms of fascism. Questions include the historical relationship of settler ... Read more
Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYIn 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 is a kind of dystopia." In this situation, "The real future --the actual future -- is unknowable. But for SF writers, ... Read more
Summer Noir 2024
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe 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. Be warned: Do not expect happy endings in novels featuring corruption, futility and deception. Enrollees need not attend all sessions; to accommodate summer travel, we selected short ... Read more
Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic III
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's recurring series Hegel for Radicals concludes our reading of Hegel's magnum opus, The Science of Logic, Part III. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx's Capital. Alex Steinberg guides 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.
Conversations on the US Elections
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin 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.
Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAn open-ended reading group on Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life - a major manifesto of humanist Marxism and a clarion call for revolutionary praxis through sustained critique of daily living. “Lefebvre pushed philosophy out into the streets,” the critic McKenzie Wark has written; his work has influenced fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, architecture and urban planning, as well as movements including the Situationist International and the activists of May 1968.