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SUMMARY:150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with Mitch Abidor\nEditor and translator of Voices of the Paris Commune and Communards \n This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune\, the first time in history that the working class seized power. Please join us on March 18 –the date the uprising began – as Mitch Abidor\, editor and translator of two books on the fighters in the 1871 uprising\, Communards and Voices of the Paris Commune\, recounts what happened over the 71 days that followed\, in all its complexity\, both its heroism and its failings\, as well as its role as inspiration with lessons for the movements that followed in its footsteps. \nVoices of The Paris Commune (PM Press): The Paris Commune had a vibrant press\, and it is represented here by its most important newspaper\, Le Cri du Peuple\, edited by Jules Vallès\, member of the First International. Like any legitimate government\, the Paris Commune held parliamentary sessions and issued daily printed reports of the heated\, contentious deliberations that belie any accusation of dictatorship. Included in this collection is the transcript of the debate in the Commune\, just days before its final defeat\, on the establishing of a Committee of Public Safety and on the fate of the hostages held by the Commune\, hostages who would ultimately be killed. Finally\, Voices of the Paris Commune contains a selection from the inquiry carried out twenty years after the event by the intellectual review La Revue Blanche\, asking participants to judge the successes and failures of the Paris Commune. This section provides a fascinating range of opinions of this epochal event. \nCommunards (marxists.org): In this unique collection of texts we hear the genuine voices of the Paris Commune of 1871. Every Communard drew something different from the experience of the Commune\, and Communards allows all of them to have their say. Documents include the records of stormy meetings of the Commune deciding on the execution of hostages\, minutes of meetings of the First International throughout the siege\, as well as reminiscences of participants written down 25 years after the event. \nCommunards is available at https://www.marxists.org/admin/books/index.htm \n“If socialism wasn’t born of the Commune\, it is from the Commune that dates that portion of international revolution that no longer wants to give battle in a city in order to be surrounded and crushed\, but which instead wants\, at the head of the proletarians of each and every country\, to attack national and international reaction and put an end to the capitalist regime.” —Edouard Vaillant\, a member of the Paris Commune. \nMitch Abidor has published over a dozen volumes of translation\, as well as May Made Me\, an oral history of May ’68. A contributing writer for Jewish Currents\, his articles have also appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Dissent\, and many others. His I’ll Forget it When I Die: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 will be published by AK in the spring. \n  \nall events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of an inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for admission to this or any other event or class.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/150th-anniversary-of-the-paris-commune/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels
DESCRIPTION:Lessons for Today’s Politics\nA reading group convened by Lisa Maya Knauer\nSaturdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m.\nOctober 7-December 9 (no meeting November 25)\n9 Session class \n“It was the first time that the bourgeoisie showed to what insane cruelties of revenge it will be goaded the moment the proletariat dares to take its stand against them as a separate class\, with its own interests and demands.” \nThis sentence was written by Karl Marx in 1871\, just weeks after the French bourgeoisie crushed the Paris Commune\, but it is just as applicable to today’s political situation in the U.S. and elsewhere. This reading group will delve into a selection of Marx and Engels’ political writings to gain both a better understanding of the history of working-class and socialist struggles of their times\, and explore lessons for our political organizing now. This tasks takes on a special urgency in light of the events in Charlottesville and the increased visibility of racist\, anti-Semitic and white supremacist ideologies. \nThe reading group offers a very accessible entry-point into the works of Marx and Engels\, so no previous study of Marxism is necessary. But it is also a good complement to the study of Capital and other more complex theoretical works. \nWe will start with Marx and Engels’ writings about the Paris Commune and its aftermath\, and collectively decide which other works to explore in our 10-week session. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water.  In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-writings-of-marx-and-engels/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Life and Thought of Louis-Auguste Blanqui
DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Doug “Enaa” Greene \nIn the revolutionary tradition\, the name of the nineteenth-century French communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) is remembered either with derision or—at best—as a noble failure. Yet during his lifetime\, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. His first street fight was in 1827. Blanqui inspired an uprising in 1839 by the League of the Just\, a forerunner of the Communist League of which Marx was a member in Paris. He was imprisoned for his role in the revolutionary wave of activity in 1848. During the Commune of 1871\, his ability to inspire was felt to be so strong that Thiers would not exchange him for the captured archbishop of Paris. He is known well for his phrase that we have inherited as “No Gods\, No Masters”. Blanqui’s perspective was diametrically opposed to the reformers and utopians who abhorred revolution. Rather\, he thought earnestly and without illusions about what it would take to actually make a revolution. In a time like today\, when the old formulas of following the lesser evil\, social democracy\, and other such schemes are falling short\, it is worthwhile to take a fresh look at Blanqui. \nDoug “Enaa” Greene is a Marxist writer and historian living in the greater Boston area. He is the author of Specters of Communism: Blanqui and Marx\, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-life-and-thought-of-louis-auguste-blanqui/
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