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SUMMARY:Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural vision of the modern age\nFall Semester Part I \nSeptemter 22 to December 1\nFridays\, 8:00 – 9:30 PM\n10 sessions. \nThis class series will explore Hegel’s most influential and least understood work.\nWhile conceived as an Introduction to his system of logic and science\, this work stands on its own as a masterpiece of the Western philosophical tradition. It is safe to say that many of the themes in the Phenomenology of Spirit have defined how we understand the modern world even though this work was written 210 years ago.  \nSome of the themes we will discuss: \nHow to Begin\nThe Inverted World\nSkeptics and Stoics\nThe Lord of the World\nThe Dialectic of Master and Slave\nThe Cynical Bohemian\nThe Beautiful Soul\nMadness and Suicide\nThe Age of Reason\nThe Enlightenment\nFreedom and Terror\nThe Moral Imperative\nGrace and Redemption\nSpirit Externalized as Nature and History\nThe Absolute  \nWe will travel from the Ancient world\, from the drama of Antigone to the Jacobin Terror of the French Revolution and the realization of the idea of Freedom and the World Historical Individual. At the end of this journey that Hegel likened to a philosophical “Stations of the Cross” we will gain an understanding of what it means to say “The True is the Whole”.\nWe will discuss how this still has relevance for us in the 21st century\, what is living in Hegel today and how this legacy was appropriated by Marx and the movement for human liberation. \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught the philosophy of Hegel and Marx at the New Space\, the Brecht Forum and most recently the Marxist Education Project. He also taught classes ranging from the dialectics of nature\, the implications of dialectics for contemporary science\,  and contemporary philosophical trends on the left and right inspired by Nietzsche. He has presented papers on Marx and Hegel at the Left Forum and  Historical Materialism Conferences. He has also organized events for the Marxist Education Project including a Trotsky in New York Walking Tour. Alex is a member of the Local Board of Radio station WBAI and its parent organization the Pacifica National Board.
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SUMMARY:Reading Capital Politically
DESCRIPTION:A Six Session class: July 12\, 19\, 26\, & August 2\, 16\, 23 (no class August 9) \n“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave\, patrician and plebian\, lord and serf\, guild-master and journeyman\, in a word\, oppressor and oppressed\, stood in constant opposition to one another\, carried on an uninterrupted\, now hidden\, now open fight\, a fight that each time ended\, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large\, or in the common ruin of contending classes.” —Karl Marx\, The Communist Manifesto \nFor 150 years\, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital has fascinated\, frustrated and or confounded readers. It is most often read as a work of political economy whose aim is to understand how the capitalist economy works or even philosophically for its method (the influence of Hegel and his method continues to be debated). However Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read capital politically? To answer this question\, this class will examine Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (the most well known American exponent of what has come to be labelled “class struggle” or “Autonomist” Marxism after the Italian “Autonomia” movement of the 1970s). For the autonomists\, Marx’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? \nReading for this class will include: \nReading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (https://libcom.org/files/cleaver-reading_capital_politically.pdf)\nCapital Volume 1\, Chapter 1 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm)\nCyberMarx by Nick Dyer-Witheford Chapter 4 (on Autonomist Marxism) https://libcom.org/library/cyber-marx-nick-dyer-witheford \nDan Karan has been studying Marxism for 40 years and was a student of John Gerassi\, Jean-Paul Sartre’s official biographer.
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SUMMARY:Marx and Engels: 1841-1844
DESCRIPTION:Group is moving location to the CUNY Grad Center on 5th Avenue and 34th Street—the former B. Altman Store\nContact sheila.hamanaka@gmail.com or russelleliotdale@gmail.com for more information \nSeminar of the NYC Marxist Hegel-Studies Collective at The Marxist Education Project\n14 weeks\nFridays\, February 17 through May 19\, 6:00 to 8:00 pm\nConducted by Russell Dale  \nThis course will focus on two early works by Marx and one by Marx and Engels. The works by Marx are his doctoral dissertation of 1841 on ancient Greek atomistic theory and his Critique of Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right” from 1843. The work by Marx and Engels is The Holy Family\, or Critique of Critical Critique of 1844.  \nThese works by Marx and by Marx and Engels are too little studied nowadays\, but play a fundamental role in the development of Marx’s thought\, especially when see from the perspective of his break from Hegel and the Young Hegelians. We will be particularly interested in the influence of Hegel and the Young Hegelians in this course and will work at tracing what is retained and what is being left behind from the Hegelian tradition.  \nWe will also be particularly concerned with issues of gender\, race\, and white supremacy in these works as Marx’s philosophy is emerging from a tradition that was deeply steeped in patriarchy and the growing racism and white supremacy of the 18th and early 19th centuries.  \nWe will be reading (1) Marx’s doctoral dissertation (1841) (in volume 1 of Marx and Engels\, Collected Works\, International Publishers)\, (2) Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right” (1843) (translated by Joseph O’Malley\, Cambridge University Press)\, and (3) Marx and Engels’ The Holy Family (1844) (translated by Richard Dixon and Clemens Dutt\, Progress Publishers). (Arrangements will be made for students who cannot buy copies of these books.)  \nRussell Dale is an activist and a philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY. He taught classes on Hegel and various other topics for the last six years. Russell is also on the Manuscript Collective and Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society\, as well as on the Local Station Board of radio station WBAI\, 99.5 FM (wbai.org).
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SUMMARY:Life\, the Universe and Everything
DESCRIPTION:Life\, the Universe and Everything: A Dialectical Guide to the Galaxy\n7 more sessions\nTuesday\, February 7 through March 21\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm\nFacilitated by Alex Steinberg  \nIn this series we will be placing the dialectics of Marx and Engels within a broader philosophical tradition.  \nWe will look at Engels discussion of the fundamental forces of nature: matter\, time\, space and motion in the context of the philosophical conflict between a relational view of the world and a mechanical one. We will also look at the conflict between Newton and Leibniz and the subsequent vindication of the relational view with Mach and Einstein. \nAlso examined will be the contemporary “crisis in physics” — the conclusion to which mechanical reductionism has led both in philosophy and in recent attempts to develop a cosmology that incorporates both relativity theory and quantum theory. Contributions of Hegel\, Engels\, C.S.Peirce\, Einstein\, and contemporary physicist such as Lee Smolin will form the basis for this discussion.  \nThe sessions will conclude by tying the idea of the cosmos as a living system of dynamic evolving complexity to the Notion in Hegel’s Logic and from there to an interpretation of Marx’s Capital that places it firmly within the same Hegelian dialectic that is being developed in contemporary cosmology. \nAlex Steinberg has previously taught a number of courses on Hegel at the New Space. He taught Engels and the Dialectics of Nature at the Brecht Forum. At the Marxist Education Project he has taught Spectres of the Dialectic\, Nietzsche\, Heidegger\, Fascism and the Left Nietzscheans and Dialectics 101 previously\, along with organizing a discussion of recent events in Greece and special events on The Radicalism of James Joyce. He has presented papers at the Left Forum and Historical Materialism Conferences.He has also lectured in Athens Greece on the subjects ranging from dialectics and the American political landscape. Alex has also served on the local and national boards of radio station WBAI.
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SUMMARY:The Young Hegelians (1831-1842)
DESCRIPTION:Seminar of the NYC Marxist Hegel-Studies Collective\nMarxist Education Project  \nConducted by Russell Dale \nHegel’s philosophy has had a great influence on much of what has happened in the world since his time (1770-1831) and is crucial to understanding much of modern social thought and philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the socialist tradition in its varied aspects. \nHegel himself died in 1831. In Berlin\, where Hegel had taught for nearly a decade-and-a-half up to his death\, a small group of philosophers – the so-called “Young Hegelians” – struggled with questions of interpreting Hegel in terms of the actual conditions of life in Germany and Europe at that time. The questions that this group of philosophers dealt with ranged from questions of re-interpreting religion\, to the nature of the individual\, society\, and the state. Both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were involved in the work of the Young Hegelians\, and ultimately it was the rejection of much of the thinking of Hegel and the Young Hegelians that allowed Marx and Engels to formulate what became the general outlook we today think of as Marxism. \nIn this seminar\, we will study various works of the Young Hegelians including David Strauss\, Ludwig Feuerbach\, Bruno Bauer\, Max Stirner\, and others\, and including as well some early writings of Marx and Engels themselves. \nThe philosophy of Hegel as well as numerous of the Young Hegelians also included reactionary\, racist/white-supremacist thought\, which we will give special critical attention to. The rejection of Hegel and the Young Hegelians by Marx and Engels is also in important ways a rejection of the racism and white-supremacy and all that that has historically entailed in the development of contemporary capitalist society. This theme will be of fundamental importance in this class as will be the critique of the system of patriarchy – the oppressive subordination of women to men – the struggle to end such oppressions being fundamental to Marxism. \nThe course will run for 14 weeks on Friday evenings from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM starting September 16\, 2016 and continuing until December 16\, 2016. We will be reading the book The Young Hegelians: An Anthology\, edited by Lawrence S. Stepelevich. (Arrangements will be made for students who cannot buy a copy of this book which costs about $12 online in a Kindle edition\, or from about $25 and up for a used copy on abe.com or elsewhere.) \nRussell Dale is an activist and a philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY. He taught classes on Hegel and various other topics for the last six years. Russell is also on the Manuscript Collective and Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society\, as well as on the Local Station Board of radio station WBAI\, 99.5 FM (wbai.org).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-young-hegelians-1831-1842/
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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/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Day 1\, Session 1: Marx and Engels and Classical German Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:A session with Russell Dale\nOur discussion will focus on the basic\, immediate philosophical background in classical German philosophy represented primarily by Kant\, Hegel\, Fichte and Schelling that Marx and Engels inherited. Russell will also mention a number of the other philosophical\, economic\, and political background issues that came into being and mixed in for Marx and Engels with classical German philosophy in the creation of their unique revolutionary thought—for example\, the newly emerging systematic study of political economy\, the positivism of August Comte (which also arises in the 1830s)\, and the various “utopian” socialist projects of that period.\nRussell Dale is an activist and a philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY. He taught classes on Hegel and various other topics for the last six years. Russell is also on the Manuscript Collective and Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society\, as well as on the Local Station Board of radio station WBAI\, 99.5 FM (wbai.org).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-engels-and-classical-german-philosophy/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:14 week course\nSeminar of the NYC Marxist Hegel-Studies Collective\nSpring and Summer\, 2016\nConducted by Russell Dale\n\nHegel’s philosophy has had a great influence on much of what has happened in the world since his time (1770 – 1831) and is crucial to understanding much of modern social thought and philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the socialist tradition in its varied aspects. \nHegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is generally considered the first exposition of and an introduction to Hegel’s later work\, what is often referred to as Hegel’s “system.” Thus\, knowledge of the Phenomenology is indispensable for anyone interested in today’s world. \nAt the same time\, the Phenomenology is an extremely difficult work to read\, so it really helps to do so with a group of fellow-readers. \nIn this course\, we will read the entire Phenomenology of Spirit. Discussion will focus on Hegel’s view of history\, the history of philosophy\, subjectivity\, the self\, and society\, and Hegel’s influence on later thinking and history. An important part of our discussion will be the socially reactionary conclusions that Hegel ultimately drew\, while at the same time HHegel’s work became inspirational for so many radical and progressive thinkers as well\, including Marx and Engels. We will give special attention to and treatment of the fact that Hegel had white-supremacist\, racist views\, and played an important role in the development of the pseudo-science of biological race theory. We will look at what these views mean for the tradition of thought that stems from Hegel\, which includes some of the greatest thinkers of African descent in the twentieth century\, such as W. E. B. DuBois\, C. L. R. James\, Frantz Fanon and others. \nThe course will run for 14 weeks on Friday evenings from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM starting on Friday\, May 27\, 2016 and continuing until Friday\, August 26\, 2016. We will be reading the edition of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit translated by A. V. Miller\, and published by Oxford University Press.  (Arrangements will be made for students who cannot buy a copy of this book\, which costs about $11 – $15 online.)  \nRussell Dale is an activist and a philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY. He taught classes on Hegel and various other topics for the last six years. Russell is also on the Manuscript Collective and Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society\, as well as on the Local Station Board of radio station WBAI\, 99.5 FM (wbai.org).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-phenomenology-of-spirit/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hegel’s Science of Logic
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URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-science-of-logic-2/2015-01-30/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Fanon Black Skin\, White Masks with Kazembe Balagun
DESCRIPTION:A Reading and Writing Group on the Seminal Work of Frantz Fanon \nWith deft analysis and radical fervor\, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was the patron saint of the revolutionary movements of the global south. As a psychiatrist and writer he played a key part in the liberation of Algeria. His seminal work Wretched of the Earth is still considered “The Handbook of Black Revolution” and influenced everyone from the Black Panthers to cultural workers like film maker Gillo Pontecorvo\, Marlon Riggs and bell hooks. \nThis group will focus on Fanon’s first published work Black Skin\, White Masks. Mixing and remixing the colonized experience with critical readings of Marx\, Hegel and Lacan\, Black Skin\, White Masks prefigured many contemporary conversations on race\, gender and sexuality. \nWe will read Black Skin\, White Masks along with the works of Richard Wright\, Karl Marx\, bell hooks\, G.W.F Hegel and Amiri Baraka. In addition to our reading\, this group will be charged with producing their own written reflections and will present at a public symposium to take place in late 2014 or early 2015. \nKazembe Balagun has a BA in Philosophy and Black Studies from Hunter College/CUNY and a MS in Education from Pace University. He has been featured in Time Out New York\, The UK Guardian\, German Public Radio and the New York Times and contributed “We Be Reading Marx Where We From” to the critically acclaimed anthology Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA. As a cultural activist he has continually sought to create intersections between Marxism\, queer theory\, feminism and Black liberation movements.  He works as Project Manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\, New York Office.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fanon-black-skin-white-masks-with-kazembe-balagun/2014-10-03/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20140919T213000
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SUMMARY:Hegel's Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:Hegel’s philosophy has had a great influence on much of what has happened in the world since his time (1770 – 1831) and is crucial to understanding much of modern social thought and philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the socialist tradition in its varied aspects. \nHegel’s Science of Logic is considered by many the most important and developed of all of Hegel’s works. It is essential for understanding Hegel’s other works and therefore it is essential for understanding the works of Marx and Engels as well. We will discuss in detail the text of roughly the book’s first third\, called “The Doctrine of Being”\, and how it relates to Hegel’s overall system and European social theory after Hegel\, including Hegel’s patriarchy and white-supremacy and their influence on the development of capitalism. \nWe will be reading the edition of Hegel’s Science of Logic translated by A. V. Miller\, and published by Humanity Books. (Arrangements will be made for students who cannot afford to buy a copy of this book which costs about $33 new online.) \nRUSSELL DALE is an activist and a philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY. He taught classes on Hegel and various other topics at the now-no-more Brecht Forum for the last five years of that institution’s existence. Russell is also on the Manuscript Collective and Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society\, as well as on the Local Station Board of radio station WBAI\, 99.5 FM (wbai.org). \nSuggested donation: $95 to $125 or $10 per session\nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-science-of-logic/2014-09-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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