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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
DESCRIPTION:This series is based on the new Rowan and Littlefield volume edited by Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon. All participating session leaders are contributors to the forthcoming\, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, which will be available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg \nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation. Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. \nThis six-part seminar series explores some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy\, including the mass strike; her reflections\, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration\, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present. \n  \nUnfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women\nPaget Henry\, Brown University; Sandra Rein\nMay 15th\, 2-4 pm USA DST / 6-8pm GMT\nSession Six stages conversations between Rosa and other revolutionary women with whom she could not have spoken\, including Paget Henry speaking about Sylvia Wynter and Claudia Jones\, and Sandra Rein will speak of the revolutionary legacy of Raya Danayevskaya. \nThe May 15 panel will be from 2 to 4 pm. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to get information on attending this series or any other event or class at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-a-six-part-series/2021-05-15/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
DESCRIPTION:This series is based on the new Rowan and Littlefield volume edited by Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon. All participating session leaders are contributors to the forthcoming\, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, which will be available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg \nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation. Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. \nThis six-part seminar series explores some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy\, including the mass strike; her reflections\, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration\, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present. \n  \nUnfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women\nPaget Henry\, Brown University; Sandra Rein\nMay 15th\, 2-4 pm USA DST / 6-8pm GMT\nSession Six stages conversations between Rosa and other revolutionary women with whom she could not have spoken\, including Paget Henry speaking about Sylvia Wynter and Claudia Jones\, and Sandra Rein will speak of the revolutionary legacy of Raya Danayevskaya. \nThe May 15 panel will be from 2 to 4 pm. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to get information on attending this series or any other event or class at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-a-six-part-series/2021-05-15/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Capital’s 21st Century Endgame
DESCRIPTION:Capital’s 21st Century Endgame: Building a Planet-Wide Opposition\nA Reading and Discussion Group with\nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force \nTHIS CLASS IS POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE 2018/2019 SEASON \nThe conditions capital is making for all life on earth is playing out like a science fiction endgame. An international movement with profound social force that absolutely brings an end to this game is imperative. This critical reading/study is a beginning. Other related sessions will happen over the next few years. We will begin by studying two relatively recent works that trace the history of capitalist/imperialist  development leading to where we are currently positioned as the world approaches having a population of eight billion: an updated Planet of Slums by Mike Davis and Samir Amin’s The World We Wish to See. In the fall we will take up Ernest Screpanti’s Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis: The Uncertain Future of Capitalism and more.  \nRight now\, a handful of individuals control as much wealth as half of the world’s population – an accumulation of capital made possible by the labor of the global working classes\, past and present\, and accompanied by rollbacks of democratic rights\, increasing precarity of labor through\nautomation and multiple other factors\, and never-ending imperial wars. Our aim is to better understand the dynamics that have led to the global spread of capitalism\, while also analyzing the successes and failures of global opposition to capitalism and imperialism\, so we can become conscious political actors and help shape strong enough social movements worldwide that can overcome capitalist exploitation\, permanent wars\, and the destruction of our planet. \nThe World We Wish to See\nSamir Amin\nThe World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of 20th century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture seriously. Amin assesses the potential and limitations of the many movements to confront global capitalism in the 21st century. Amin explains that effective opposition must be based on a “convergence in diversity” of oppressed and exploited people—whether workers\, peasants\, students\, or any other opponent of capitalism and imperialism. What is needed is a new “international” that has an open and flexible organizational structure to coordinate opposition movements around the world. \nPlanet of Slums\nMike Davis\nDavis presents an account of the rapid rise of the world’s slums. According to the United Nations\, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the Global South. In Planet of Slums\, Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila\, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization\, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development\, and asks whether the great slums\, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined\, are volcanoes waiting to erupt. \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitals-21st-century-endgame-2018-07-02/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Capital’s 21st Century Endgame
DESCRIPTION:Capital’s 21st Century Endgame: Building a Planet-Wide Opposition\nA Reading and Discussion Group with\nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force \nThe conditions capital is making for all life on earth is playing out like a science fiction endgame. An international movement with profound social force that absolutely brings an end to this game is imperative. This critical reading/study is a beginning. Other related sessions will happen over the next few years. We will begin by studying two relatively recent works that trace the history of capitalist/imperialist  development leading to where we are currently positioned as the world approaches having a population of eight billion: an updated Planet of Slums by Mike Davis and Samir Amin’s The World We Wish to See. In the fall we will take up Ernest Screpanti’s Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis: The Uncertain Future of Capitalism and more.  \nRight now\, a handful of individuals control as much wealth as half of the world’s population – an accumulation of capital made possible by the labor of the global working classes\, past and present\, and accompanied by rollbacks of democratic rights\, increasing precarity of labor through\nautomation and multiple other factors\, and never-ending imperial wars. Our aim is to better understand the dynamics that have led to the global spread of capitalism\, while also analyzing the successes and failures of global opposition to capitalism and imperialism\, so we can become conscious political actors and help shape strong enough social movements worldwide that can overcome capitalist exploitation\, permanent wars\, and the destruction of our planet. \nThe World We Wish to See\nSamir Amin\nThe World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of 20th century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture seriously. Amin assesses the potential and limitations of the many movements to confront global capitalism in the 21st century. Amin explains that effective opposition must be based on a “convergence in diversity” of oppressed and exploited people—whether workers\, peasants\, students\, or any other opponent of capitalism and imperialism. What is needed is a new “international” that has an open and flexible organizational structure to coordinate opposition movements around the world. \nPlanet of Slums\nMike Davis\nDavis presents an account of the rapid rise of the world’s slums. According to the United Nations\, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the Global South. In Planet of Slums\, Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila\, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization\, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development\, and asks whether the great slums\, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined\, are volcanoes waiting to erupt. \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitals-21st-century-endgame/
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SUMMARY:Day 4\, Session 3—Sexuality\, Gender and Globalization
DESCRIPTION:Sexuality\, Gender and Globalization\nKate Doyle Griffiths and Lisa Maya Knauer \nWhat do sexuality and gender have to do with the global economy? What role do sex and desire — some of the most intimate aspects of our lives — play in the emergence and evolution of capitalism\, and how are they in turn shaped by capital? Why have women\, particularly in the global South\, often been at the forefront of resistance to neoliberal capitalism? How can Marxism(s) help us understand these issues\, and formulate strategies for change? This workshop will explore these questions from multiple perspectives — spanning generations and different local\, regional and national contexts. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a founding member of the MEP and its predecessor\, the Brecht Forum. She has taught a variety of classes on feminism and Marxism\, and gender and capitalism. She is currently working with indigenous resistance movements in Guatemala\, and with immigrant women workers in the U.S. In her day job\, she is the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. (you don’t need to include the academic affiliation if you don’t want) \nKate Doyle Griffiths is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center\, and teaches at Hunter College. She has conducted research in South Africa\, on reproductive labor\, health\, gender and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-4-session-3-sexuality-gender-and-globalization/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Day 2\, Session 4—Southern Insurgency: Mass Movements Throughout the Global South
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Manny Ness and Lisa Maya Knauer\nManny Ness provides an expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China\, India\, and South Africa. He considers the broader historical forces in play\, such as the effects of imperialism\, the decline of the international union movement\, class struggle\, and the growing reserve of available labor. Lisa Maya Knauer will look at other responses to neoliberal capitalism focusing on the Americas: resistance to anti-extractivist projects\, refugee/migrant flows to the U.S.\, and organizing efforts by Central American workers in the U.S. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a founding member of the MEP and its predecessor\, the Brecht Forum. She has taught a variety of classes on feminism and Marxism\, and gender and capitalism. She is currently working with indigenous resistance movements in Guatemala\, and with immigrant women workers in the U.S. In her day job\, she is the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. (you don’t need to include the academic affiliation if you don’t want) \nImmanuel Ness is a political economist and professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He edits Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society and is the author of numerous works including Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism. He has worked and organized in the food\, maintenance\, and publishing industries.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-2-session-4-southern-insurgency-mass-movements-throughout-the-global-south/
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SUMMARY:Marxist Summer Intensive: July 15-17
DESCRIPTION:21st Century Class Struggles and the Generalized Proletariat:\nFurther Lessons towards Working Class Consciousness within our Social Movements\nThursday\, July 14 through Sunday\, July 17 \nFeaturing: Mitch Abidor\, Kazembe Balagun\, Mark Bergfeld\, Rebecca Boger\, Dennis Broe\, Charmaine Chua\, Claude Copeland\, Marika Diaz\, Russell Dale\, Walter Daum\, Pete Dolack\, Kate Doyle-Griffiths\, Mark Dudzic\, Anthony Galluzzo\, Janet Gerson. Harmony Goldberg\, Marcus Graetsch\, Ursula Huws\, Dan Karan\, Lisa Maya Knauer\, Kristin Lawler\, Laurel Mei-Singh\, Ras Moshe\, Fred Murphy\, Manny Ness\, Stuart Newman\, Marie-Claire Picher\, David Schwartzman and Yuko Tonohira.\n \nWritings to read if you have the time: \nSusan Watkins from New Left Review\, survey 2014 \nhttps://newleftreview.org/II/90/susan-watkins-the-political-state-of-the-union \nSusan Watkins\, 2016\nhttps://newleftreview.org/II/98/susan-watkins-oppositions\nMarc Dudzic and Adolf Reed Jr from Socialist Register on Crisis of Left and Labor in the US \nhttp://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/dudzic_and_reed_the_crisis_of_labour_and_the_left_in_the_united_states_sr_2015.pdf \nA Selection from the blog of Ursula Huws (if you have time read more of her postings\, listed off to the side on her blog) \nhttps://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/the-unmaking-of-the-english-working-class/ \nhttps://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/uber-and-under/ \nhttps://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/a-workhouse-without-walls/ \nMitch Abidor\nOn Paris\, May ’68 \nhttp://insurgentnotes.com/2016/06/may-68-revisited/ \nIan Birchall’s response to Mitch:  \nhttp://insurgentnotes.com/2016/06/response-to-may-68-revisited/ \nKazembe Balagun\nIn The Guardian\, 2011 \nhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/17/race-protest\non the Fanon Phenomenon in The Indypendent: https://indypendent.org/2014/12/16/fanon-phenomenon-documentary-unearths-africas-anti-colonial-struggles \nMark Bergfeld \nhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/05/the-next-portuguese-revolution/ \nAbout Mark in 2011 as activist:  \nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8440413/Student-protests-The-Marxist-revolutionary-aiming-to-lead-the-NUS.html \nDennis Broe\nOn the World Film Beat with recent Cannes reports:  \nhttp://politicalfilmcritics.blogspot.fr/p/world-film-beat.html? \nThe most most recent article of Dennis in Situations on Mediterranean Noir:  \nhttp://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/1706/1614? \nRussell Dale from Situtations: \nhttp://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/1631/1581 \nCharmaine Chua:  \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/2014/09/09/logistics-capitalist-circulation-chokepoints/ \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/author/charmchua/ \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/02/07/the-chinese-logistical-sublime-and-its-wasted-remains/ \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/01/27/landlessness-and-the-life-of-seamen/ \nHarmony Goldberg\nOn McDonald’s \nhttp://www.salon.com/2014/04/06/how_mcdonalds_gets_away_with_rampant_wage_theft_partner/ \nRas Moshe\nAn interview from Jazz Right Now:  \nhttps://jazzrightnow.com/2014/03/10/interview-ras-moshe/ \nWalter Daum\nExchange in NY Review of Books:  \nhttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/04/03/imperialism-and-world-war-i-exchange/ \nStuart Newman\nall –  \nhttps://legacy.nymc.edu/sanewman/social.htm \nespecially \nhttps://legacy.nymc.edu/sanewman/PDFs/CNS_GM_foods_09.pdf \nhttps://legacy.nymc.edu/sanewman/PDFs/CNS%20Synbio_12.pdf \nDavid Schwartzman \nhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/cop-21-paris-climate-change-global-warming-fossil-fuels/ \nhttp://tratarde.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Schwartzman-Saul-CNS-2015.pdf \nhttp://www.redandgreen.org/Documents/Solar_Communism.htm \nAs capitalist relations penetrate every nook and cranny of our planet and the most intimate realms of our lives\, a growing proportion of the world’s population is incorporated into the global proletariat—paid and unpaid workers and our families\, the unemployed and underemployed\, and the growing numbers who will never work. The laboring part of today’s global proletariat is greater than the world’s entire population 40 years ago. Now there are workers from all parts of the globe working for the same set of bosses. \nCapitalists continually seek new avenues to expand their capital and commodify all that exists. The digital revolution has sped all this up\, quickening accumulation which lays the basis for more frequent crises. Capital continues in ever new forms the process of enclosures that began with the forcible removal of the peasantry from the land in medieval Europe. Throughout the global south\, displaced peasants are forced to migrate to cities or internationally\, working in factories or informal economies. Many others are conscripted into comprador armies to protect the extractive industries ravaging their regions. There is also outright robbery: the Panama Papers reveal the extent to which capital has fleeced the global proletariat. After more than three decades of assault on organized labor\, privatization\, austerity and structural adjustment have gutted hard-won social programs. Automation\, digitization and strategic relocation of work\, combined with just-in-time assembly\, make millions “redundant”. At the same time Walmartization\, Uberization\, Amazonification exemplify our marginalization and precarity. \nAs we plan this intensive\, workers and students are in motion throughout France\, from Nuit Debout gatherings to general strikes against austerity.  Greek workers\, hit harder still by austerity\, are reaching out to support the tide of refugees. The contract just won by the Verizon workers in the U.S. after a nation-wide strike represents a major victory. The Sanders campaign has helped normalize the concept of socialism\, but the Left and social movements have not figured out how to articulate a viable socialist alternative and build a corresponding movement. \nOver the four days of this Intensive\, we will study the causes behind these developments\, learn about some obstacles to organizing and the challenges facing workers at work and in their communities\, and consider various left analyses about social realities and the prospects for organizing. We will assess the lessons of workers’ movements globally and historically\, with emphasis on prospects in the US and the global south. Through collaborative study and discussion\, we aim to provide a challenging learning environment so each participant can develop his/her own theoretical and analytic tools to advance our organizing and movement building work in order to broaden opposition to capital locally\, nationally and internationally. \nFRIDAY\, JULY 15 / 10:00 am • Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation & Marxist Theory • WALTER DAUM • 1:00- 4:00 pm • Class Consciousness\, Class Struggle & Self-Organizing Using Image Theater • presented by The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • facilitated by JANET GERSON • MARIE-CLAIRE PICHER • 5:30 pm • Public Banking: A Marxist Response to Finance Capital  • DAN KARAN • 7:30 pm • Southern Insurgency: Mass Movements Throughout the Global South • LISA MAYA KNAUER \nSATURDAY\, JULY 16 / 10:00 am • Slackers\, Sabotage\, & Syndicalism: American Labor History & The Refusal of Work • KRISTIN LAWLER  • 1:00  pm • Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States • MARK DUDZIC • 3:30 pm • Prometheus in Ruins?: Uses & Abuses of the Hero Who Stole Fire • ANTHONY GALLUZZO • 5:30 pm • Logistics\, Capitalist Circulation\, Chokepoints • CHARMAINE CHUA • 7:30 pm • Devils & Dust: Resisting War in New York\, the Pacific\, & the Middle East • CLAUDE COPELAND • LAUREL MEI-SINGH • YUKO TONOHIRA \nSUNDAY\, JULY 17 / 11:00 am • It’s Not Over: Lessons for Socialists from the October Revolution\, Prague Spring and the Sandinistas • PETE DOLACK • 1:00 pm • Labor in the Global Digital Economy • URSULA HUWS • 3:30 pm • Sexuality\, Gender & Neoliberal Capitalism • KATE DOYLE-GRIFFITHS • LISA MAYA KNAUER  • 5:30 pm • Approaching Science from the Left: Uses & Abuses of Knowledge in the Planetary Crisis • REBECCA BOGER • STUART NEWMAN • DAVE SCHWARTZMAN • moderated by FRED MURPHY \nAs capitalist relations penetrate every nook and cranny of our planet and the most intimate realms of our lives\, a growing proportion of the world’s population is incorporated into the global proletariat—paid and unpaid workers and our families\, the unemployed and underemployed\, and the growing numbers who will never work. The laboring part of today’s global proletariat is greater than the world’s entire population 40 years ago. Now there are workers from all parts of the globe working for the same set of bosses. \nCapitalists continually seek new avenues to expand their capital and commodify all that exists. The digital revolution has sped all this up\, quickening accumulation which lays the basis for more frequent crises. Capital continues in ever new forms the process of enclosures that began with the forcible removal of the peasantry from the land in medieval Europe. Throughout the global south\, displaced peasants are forced to migrate to cities or internationally\, working in factories or informal economies. Many others are conscripted into comprador armies to protect the extractive industries ravaging their regions. There is also outright robbery: the Panama Papers reveal the extent to which capital has fleeced the global proletariat. After more than three decades of assault on organized labor\, privatization\, austerity and structural adjustment have gutted hard-won social programs. Automation\, digitization and strategic relocation of work\, combined with just-in-time assembly\, make millions “redundant”. At the same time Walmartization\, Uberization\, Amazonification exemplify our marginalization and precarity. \nAs we plan this intensive\, workers and students are in motion throughout France\, from Nuit Debout gatherings to general strikes against austerity.  Greek workers\, hit harder still by austerity\, are reaching out to support the tide of refugees. The contract just won by the Verizon workers in the U.S. after a nation-wide strike represents a major victory. The Sanders campaign has helped normalize the concept of socialism\, but the Left and social movements have not figured out how to articulate a viable socialist alternative and build a corresponding movement. \nOver the four days of this Intensive\, we will study the causes behind these developments\, learn about some obstacles to organizing and the challenges facing workers at work and in their communities\, and consider various left analyses about social realities and the prospects for organizing. We will assess the lessons of workers’ movements globally and historically\, with emphasis on prospects in the US and the global south. Through collaborative study and discussion\, we aim to provide a challenging learning environment so each participant can develop his/her own theoretical and analytic tools to advance our organizing and movement building work in order to broaden opposition to capital locally\, nationally and internationally. \nTHURSDAY\, JULY 14 / 10:00 am • Marx and Engels & Classical German Philosophy • RUSSELL DALE • 1:00 pm • Anti-Austerity in France: Live Report from Paris on Bastille Day • DENNIS BROE • 3:30 pm • May ’68 in France: Revisited • MITCH ABIDOR  • 5:30 pm • What Jazz Would Karl Marx Listen to in 2016 • RAS MOSHE • 7:30 pm • Solidarity Without Borders • KAZEMBE BALAGUN • MARK BERGFELD • HARMONY GOLDBERG • MARCUS GRAETSCH • moderated by MARIKA DIAS \nFRIDAY\, JULY 15 / 10:00 am • Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation & Marxist Theory • WALTER DAUM • 1:00- 4:00 pm • Class Consciousness\, Class Struggle & Self-Organizing Using Image Theater • presented by The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • facilitated by JANET GERSON • MARIE-CLAIRE PICHER • 5:30 pm • Public Banking: A Marxist Response to Finance Capital  • DAN KARAN • 7:30 pm • Southern Insurgency: Mass Movements Throughout the Global South • MANNY NESS • LISA MAYA KNAUER \nSATURDAY\, JULY 16 / 10:00 am • Slackers\, Sabotage\, & Syndicalism: American Labor History & The Refusal of Work • KRISTIN LAWLER  • 1:00  pm • Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States • MARK DUDZIC • 3:30 pm • Prometheus in Ruins?: Uses & Abuses of the Hero Who Stole Fire • ANTHONY GALLUZZO • 5:30 pm • Logistics\, Capitalist Circulation\, Chokepoints • CHARMAINE CHUA • 7:30 pm • Devils & Dust: Resisting War in New York\, the Pacific\, & the Middle East • CLAUDE COPELAND • LAUREL MEI-SINGH • YUKO TONOHIRA \nSUNDAY\, JULY 17 / 11:00 am • It’s Not Over: Lessons for Socialists from the October Revolution\, Prague Spring and the Sandinistas • PETE DOLACK • 1:00 pm • Labor in the Global Digital Economy • URSULA HUWS • 3:30 pm • Sexuality\, Gender & Neoliberal Capitalism • KATE DOYLE-GRIFFITHS • LISA MAYA KNAUER  • 5:30 pm • Approaching Science from the Left: Uses & Abuses of Knowledge in the Planetary Crisis • REBECCA BOGER • STUART NEWMAN • DAVE SCHWARTZMAN • moderated by FRED MURPHY
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-summer-intensive-july-14-17/
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