BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190127T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190127T153000 DTSTAMP:20181214T143338Z CREATED:20181214T143338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181214T143338Z UID:10003983-1548594000-1548603000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Moving Against the System DESCRIPTION:Moving Against the System:\nThe 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\nWith editor and author David Austin \nIn 1968\, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam\, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their Black brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968\, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era. \nAgainst 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. \nWith never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael\, Walter Rodney and C.L.R. James\, these documents will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought\, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968. \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \n  \nTickets are sliding scale / No one is turned away for inability to pay \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/moving-against-the-system/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MovingAgainstSystemSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190127T153000 DTSTAMP:20190122T055805Z CREATED:20181225T052511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T055805Z UID:10006466-1548442800-1548603000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Weekend Special Pass: Austin\, Gordon\, Marx DESCRIPTION:For a special price of $10 you can attend all three weekend activities of January 25\, 26 and 27. \na. Friday\, January 25\, 7 to 9:30 pm at The Peoples Forum: Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution\nauthor David Austin\nwith an introduction by Lewis Gordon \nIn Dread Poetry and Freedom — the first book dedicated to the work of this ‘political poet par excellence’ – David Austin explores the themes of poetry\, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible\, reggae and Rastafari\, and surrealism\, socialism and feminism\, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon\, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney\, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika\, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study. \nb. Saturday\, January 26\, 12 noon to 3 pm at Unnameable Books\, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue\, Brooklyn\, Capital\, Volume 1 with the Capital Studies Group \nKarl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other\, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity\, intertwined with growing inequality and misery\, alienation\, stunting of human potential\, and ecological destruction all over the globe. \nc. Sunday\, January 27\, 1 to 3:30 pm at The Peoples Forum: Moving Against the System:The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\nWith author and editor David Austin \n  \nThis is a special one ticket price of $10 which is admission to two events and one class. Both Friday and Sunday at The Peoples Forum\, Saturday class at Unnameable Books. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/weekend-special-pass-austin-gordon-marx/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DubCapitalBW_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T170000 DTSTAMP:20180817T124902Z CREATED:20180817T124902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T124902Z UID:10006322-1537630200-1537635600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Daniel Campos \nDaniel’s book The End of the Corporations traces the crisis of capitalism since August 2007\, first in the U.S. with the fall of Bear Sterns\, AIG\, Lehman Brothers\, and then with the crisis spreading out to affect the whole world. This book examines the political changes brought to the U.S.\, Europe and the Middle East. It also draws a comparison between the current crisis and the one in 1929\, analyzes the subsequent evolution of capitalism in the twentieth century\, the post-war “boom”\, the rise of multinational corporations\, and the crisis of the ’70s. Globalization\, the emergence of multinational corporations\, the evolution of financial capital\, and the Investment Banks are also evaluated. Finally\, the book shows an analysis of capitalism throughout history\, which suffered major crises and its link to the social and political phenomena. Following the guidelines of Marx\, The End of the Corporations follows the history of capitalism\, from its birth\, in order to examine the facts and laws that explain how it came about and where the current crisis will go. In the face of the magnitude of the historic character of capitalism’s current crisis\, it may be well worthwhile to stop and ask ourselves: Has capitalism ever been through crises of similar importance? In what way have these crises been overcome? What political and social phenomena spawned the crisis? And on the other hand: what political and social phenomena did the crises produce? \nThis presentation will look at the General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation and their relevance to the underlying global economic crisis that took place in 2007 and what tendencies there are for a similar or more profound crisis than that of 11 years ago. \nDaniel Campos was born in Argentina. Previously he was the congressional representative of the United Left Block for the Province of Buenos Aires. Daniel has more than 35 years of uninterrupted militancy as a Marxist and the Argentinian left\, along with a long background of trade union and political struggle\, In addition\, he has written a number of Marxist economic books including The End of the Corporations\, Toward Theory of Crisis and The Imperialism Today. His next book The 21st Century American Revolution will soon be published\, and is also author of diverse articles on politics\, economy and history. Had given lectures and courses in the World Social Forum in Florence (Italy)\, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil)\, and different workshops in England\, Scotland\, Argentina\, Italy\, Chile\, and Brazil. Currently is member of leadership of Reagrupamiento Hacia el PST de Argentina\, and the Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR). \n“Multinationals are a higher form of accumulation\, containing and outperforming monopolies. With multinationals\, capitalism went from a lower form of accumulation and concentration of capital to a higher one\, but as we saw in Chapter I\, this process was not peaceful. To move from one form of accumulation and concentration of capital to another\, it took 30 years and 2 world wars\, with the balance of millions dead\, razed cities\, and nations and infrastructure destroyed.” (The End of the Corporations\, Chapter V: Forms) URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/general-law-of-capitalist-forms-of-accumulation/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DanInItalySite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180127T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180127T140000 DTSTAMP:20171102T070537Z CREATED:20171102T070537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z UID:10006245-1517050800-1517061600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-27/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180120T140000 DTSTAMP:20171102T070537Z CREATED:20171102T070537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z UID:10006244-1516446000-1516456800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-20/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180113T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180113T140000 DTSTAMP:20171102T070537Z CREATED:20171102T070537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z UID:10006243-1515841200-1515852000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-13/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180106T140000 DTSTAMP:20171102T070537Z CREATED:20171102T070537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T070537Z UID:10006242-1515236400-1515247200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason DESCRIPTION:A reading group of David Harvey’s Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \nThe MEP’s Capital Studies Group will readand discuss David Harvey’s recently published Marx\, Capital\, and the Madness of Economic Reason over four weeks in January. Session one will cover the Prologue and the first two chapters. Arrangements can be made for purchasing the Oxford University Press book by contacting the MEP at info@marxedproject.org\nsliding scale: $30 / $45 / $60\nno one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason/2018-01-06/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HarveyBk_MCMERsite.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR