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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Day 4\, Session 2—Labor in the Global Digital Economy: Ursula Huws
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Ursula Huws \nThis presentation will tie together disparate economic\, cultural\, and political phenomena of our last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. Ursula will examine the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts\, in the privatization of public services\, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements\, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. \nUrsula Huws is Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK\, and founder of Analytica Social and Economic Research. She is the author of Labor in the Global Digital Economy and The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World. \nCopies of Labor in the Global Digital Economy will be available for purchase during the Intensive. \nThe supplied image is from a protest staged within China by Chinese workers against conditions imposed in factories manufacturing iPads.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-4-session-2-labor-in-the-global-digital-economy-ursula-huws/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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