BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.16.3//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:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221106T160000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20221019T184615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T165634Z UID:10007202-1667743200-1667750400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Climate Justice and Socialist Strategy with Jason W. Moore DESCRIPTION:King’s Triple Evils\, Modern Environmentalism\, and the ‘World Revolution’ of 1968\nA video of this November 6\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nOn April 4\, 1967\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, came out publicly against the Vietnam War in a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam.” Beyond\, in that title\, meant everything. King not only broke with the liberal establishment\, which viewed the war as a separate issue from racism and as an aberration in American foreign policy. King simultaneously presented a radical critique that linked racism and exploitation at home and abroad and began to elaborate a vision of an American socialism animated by a searing indictment of capitalism’s “triple evils” (racism\, militarism\, and class exploitation). Such a socialism would be grounded in a triple alliance encompassing the antiwar\, civil rights\, and labor movements. In this talk\, Jason W. Moore addresses the missed opportunity for a program of planetary justice as the “Environmentalism of the Rich” came to the fore after 1968 and overshadowed King’s appeal for a radical turn. As King underscored in his final months\, justice cannot be effectively pursued piece by piece. The “whole society” with and within the web of life must be reinvented\, inasmuch as we are “all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality\, tied into a single garment of destiny.” At the end of the Capitalocene and the beginning of the planetary inferno\, climate justice – and socialist strategy – must proceed as if “all life were interrelated.”\nJason W. Moore\nJason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University\, where he is Professor of Sociology. His books include Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015)\, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (2016)\, and (with Raj Patel)\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017). Moore’s books and essays on environmental history\, capitalism\, and social theory – translated into over 20 languages – have been recognized with numerous academic awards. He co-coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/moore-climate-justice/ LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/racial-social-climate-justice.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220711T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220711T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006851-1657549800-1657582200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-07-11/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220704T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220704T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006850-1656945000-1656977400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-07-04/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220627T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220627T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006849-1656340200-1656372600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-27/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220620T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220620T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006848-1655735400-1655767800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-20/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220613T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006847-1655130600-1655163000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-13/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220606T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006846-1654525800-1654558200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-06/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220530T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220530T233000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20201217T162240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T173024Z UID:10006845-1653921000-1653953400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022 DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-05-30/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SocietyNature_BeckyB_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191109T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191109T183000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20191024T141325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150149Z UID:10006673-1573313400-1573324200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The State and Strategies for Socialism DESCRIPTION:Zones of Liberation: 2nd Session\nOn developing and defending areas of opposition and building a broad and lasting anti-capitalist socialist movement\nA panel with Paul Christopher Gray\, Rafael Khachaturian and Stephen Maher\nModerated by Caroline Sykora\nAt this late and moribund stage of capitalist development nothing is sacred to profit-making as the capitalists deforest the Amazon and exploit the deepest marine life of the Marianas Trench. Meanwhile\, the working classes the world over are engaged of necessity in an array of movements in opposition to these life-destroying practices. Nonetheless\, workers deliver through their labors—which they must sell in order to survive\, losing control over the use of their labor power in this act of selling—the means by which capital is digitally speeding us towards a metabolic endgame. Each decade going forward will lead to the demise of ever more species from the microbial to fully sentient beings like ourselves\, all the result of the insatiable proliferation of the capitalists pursuit for ever-greater profit and continuous expanding accumulation of their money capital even if to do so requires the end of life on this planet as we know it. \nIn response to this\, The Marxist Education Project is continuing the Zones of Liberation series this November 9th. The Socialist Project of Canada has been publishing a series on Socialist Strategy and the State over the past year. All of the published pieces are essential for those active in the anti-capitalist movement to be reading and discussing. Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian’s essay Socialist Strategy and the Democratic Capitalist State examines the the state in its liberal-democratic form\, arguing that we should move beyond both vanguardist and social democratic models toward a view of the state as a contradictory site of class and social struggles.  Paul Christoher Gray’s article on Socialist Project is taken from his recently published From the Streets to the State: Changing the World by Taking Power\, where he takes on the limitations of dual power and extra-parliamentarism and the flaws inherent in the electoralist approaches and where there can be some reconciliation of the best aspects of these tendencies. \nPaul Christopher Gray is a professor in Brock University’s Department of Labor Studies in St. Catharines\, Ontario. The link to Paul’s work is here: https://socialistproject.ca/2019/06/transforming-capitalist-power-from-streets-to-state/ \nRafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. \nStephen Maher is a social critic\, PhD candidate at York University in Toronto and Socialist Register Assistant Editor. \nThe link to Rafael and Stephen’s work is here: https://socialistproject.ca/2019/05/socialist-strategy-and-capitalist-democratic-state/ URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-state-and-strategies-for-socialism/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/StateStruggleSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20190112T034008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z UID:10006510-1551726000-1551733200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World? DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-03-04/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CanWorkingClassSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20190112T034008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z UID:10006509-1551121200-1551128400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World? DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-25/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CanWorkingClassSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190218T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20190112T034008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z UID:10006508-1550516400-1550523600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World? DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-18/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CanWorkingClassSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20190112T034008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z UID:10006507-1549911600-1549918800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World? DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-11/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CanWorkingClassSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T191500 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20190112T034008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T034008Z UID:10006506-1549560600-1549566900@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Can the Working Class Change the World? DESCRIPTION:5 Sessions \nCan the Working Class Change the World?\nBy Michael D. Yates\nA new book from Monthly Review Press \nSession 1\nThursday\, February 7\, 5:30 to 7:15\nA discussion with author Michael D. Yates\nSessions 2-5\nMondays\, February 11 through March 4\nAnalysis and discussion of the book\nThe first 10 registered participants in this group will receive a free copy of the book. Contributions to Monthly Review Press are appreciated.\nFrom Monthly Review: \nOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor\, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself\, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But\, as Karl Marx pointed out\, it is the fact of being paid for one’s work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce”—where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday\, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals”—lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They’ve organized unions\, struck\, picketed\, boycotted\, formed political organizations and parties—sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But\, Marx argued\, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society\, it must be the last class society: it must\, therefore\, be destroyed. And only the working class\, said Marx\, is capable of doing that. \nIn his timely and innovative book\, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can\, indeed\, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work\, itself\, Yates wonders if there can\, in fact\, be a thing called the working class. If so\, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions\, Yates supports his arguments with relevant\, clearly explained data\, historical examples\, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class\, and what all of us might do to change the world. \n“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers\, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”      —Sam Gindin\, former chief economist\, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice\, Political Science\, York University\, Toronto \nOn Thursday\, February 7\, Michael Yates will teleconference with us for a preview and discussion of his important new book. On the four Mondays that follow\, we will read\, analyze and Michael’s book. \nMichael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For more than three decades\, he was a labor educator\, teaching working people across the United States. Among his books are The Great Inequality\, Why Unions Matter\, A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Paul Le Blanc)\, and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis (with Fred Magdoff). \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly two years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who are now dedicating themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. \n  \nThe stated fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.\, or URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/2019-02-07/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CanWorkingClassSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181204T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006345-1543948200-1543955400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-12-04/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181127T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006344-1543343400-1543350600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-27/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006343-1542738600-1542745800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-20/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006342-1542133800-1542141000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-13/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006341-1541529000-1541536200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-11-06/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006340-1540924200-1540931400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-30/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181023T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006339-1540319400-1540326600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-23/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181016T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006338-1539714600-1539721800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-16/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006337-1539109800-1539117000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-09/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T203000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180819T004938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180819T004938Z UID:10006336-1538505000-1538512200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Marxism for Women Only DESCRIPTION:with Juliet Ucelli \nco-sponsored with Left Focus \nWe’ll explore some key concepts about human beings\, society and history\, and our relationship to the rest of nature. Readings will be short and accessible excerpts from writings by Marx and Engels or later Marxists. I believe that this theory can help us analyze the social and economic realities and structures we live in–who holds power and how–and fight more effectively for liberation. \nSome of the central questions that we’ll address are:\n• How did the oppression of women\, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them\, originate and develop historically?\n• What are the driving dynamics of capitalism that make it make it so productive\, innovative\, brutal and ecologically destructive?\n• What intellectual tools can help us understand industry’s complex impacts on our bodies\, our psyches and the nature around us—impacts that capitalists\, and people who think like them\, don’t want to see or cannot see?\n• What did Marx understand—and not understand—about white supremacy and Eurocentrism\, and how has that analysis been deepened and modified by later Marxists? \nIn a continuing attempt to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, we are offering an intro class this October through December for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for unions and activists\, and writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development. She also teaches Marx’s Capital\, Volume One with The Marxist Education Project. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introduction-to-marxism-for-women-only/2018-10-02/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/5WomenWorkersBsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180630T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180630T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20180531T122746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180531T122746Z UID:10003941-1530372600-1530379800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Prague Spring: 50 Years Later DESCRIPTION:with Pete Dolack \nHistories of the 1968 Prague Spring tend to focus exclusively on the drama inside the leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the personality of reformer Alexander Dubček. The fuller story of the Prague Spring is the grassroots movement for workers’ control of industry and economic democracy. \nAlthough reformers within the Communist Party sought significant reforms to the overly centralized system copied from the Soviet Union\, including advocacy of workers’ councils\, there were significant differences between the more modest reforms put forth by Czechoslovak economists and the more thorough-going concepts of activists and workers themselves. \nThis was a true grassroots effort\, mostly organized by trade union officials and rank-and-file Communist Party members. One interesting wrinkle is that unions\, representing members as individuals and freed from state control\, would continue to exist alongside the workers’ councils. All this was to happen in a socialized economy in which formal ownership would continue to reside with the state but in which state and party control would be drastically curtailed. \nIn this conception\, which began to be implemented in some of the country’s biggest enterprises\, the workforce as a whole would meet in assemblies to decide broad policies and freely elect a council from their ranks that would coordinate management. Each worker would be a part of the enterprise assembly and be members of independent unions that would represent workers as individuals in disputes with the collective or with higher administrative bodies. Thus each half of the duality would be represented through separate institutions. \nStatutes had been developed in several factories across the country\, and a national conference that sought to codify a system of workers’ control took place in which approximately one-sixth of the country’s workers were represented\, before the experiment began to be shut down. Naturally\, such a well-developed movement did not spring into being spontaneously\, but rather was the product of earlier experiments\, years of debate\, and memories of councils established in the 1940s. In part\, it was also an attempt at reversing several years of economic stagnation\, a stagnation that signaled that the model imposed by the Soviet Union had reached its limits. \nPete Dolack is the author of It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment\, a study of the 20th century’s attempts to transcend capitalism that includes a chapter analyzing the Prague Spring and the workers’ control movement. He is at work on his second book\, focused on economic democracy\, and writes the Systemic Disorder blog\, which discusses the ongoing economic crisis of capitalism and the environmental and political issues connected to it. His writings also appear in popular outlets including CounterPunch and ZNet. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/prague-spring-50-years-later/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Prague-1968Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170916T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170916T153000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20170627T034044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T034044Z UID:10003792-1505570400-1505575800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital\, Volume I\, as Seen from a Multilinear\, Peripheral Angle \nIt is often said that Capital\, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form\, with many dialectical twists and turns\, but not with revolution. However\, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact\, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution: (1) a working class uprising that rises as a form of revolutionary negation of the centralized productive apparatus of modern industrial capitalism\, but posed at a high level of abstraction; (2) four other notions of revolution that connect a class uprising to race\, ethnicity\, colonialism\, and the need to abolish the state. \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has worked in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, the Frankfurt School\, Foucault\, and the Orientalism debate. Among his books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He has also contributed to For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics (ed. D. Alderson and R. Spencer\, 2017) and the Transition from Capitalism (ed. S. Rahnema\, 2017)\, and is the coeditor of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (with Peter Hudis\, 2004)\, Karl Marx (with Bertell Ollman\, 2012)\, and the Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence (2012\, with Russell Rockwell). He is a member of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/five-explicit-and-implicit-notions-of-revolution-in-capital-volume-i/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Capital_BookSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170725T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170725T213000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20170719T051749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170719T061538Z UID:10006192-1501011000-1501018200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women’s Liberation Movement: The Power of History DESCRIPTION:The Power of History: This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories\, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. We will read analyses from Women’s Liberation Movement organizers written after the height of the movement’s power. \nJenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and has been involved in feminist theory and organizing since 1988\, first with Gainesville Women’s Liberation in Gainesville\, Florida and then with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action\, a movement think-tank and archive based in New York. She co-authored the Redstockings book\, Women’s Liberation and National Healthcare: Confronting the Myth of America and the Labor Notes book How to Jump Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers along with numerous essays and articles. She was also a co-chair of a Labor Party Local Organizing Committee in Gainesville\, Florida and is a former editor of Labor Notes. \nReadings provided by Jenny for this series: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_eXN8wqn-HgaEpVaVlLOU1UTVk \nThose who have enrolled in the ongoing New Left series are already registered for this event. \nPrices below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/womens-liberation-movement-the-power-of-history/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/WomensMvmnt_LiveStreamShot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170427T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170427T213000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20170319T172336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170319T172336Z UID:10006162-1493321400-1493328600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:African Literature: Post-Colonial Struggles DESCRIPTION:A 9-week reading group\nThursdays\, April 27 through June 22\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm\nOrganized with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \n“Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty.” ― Ousmane Sembène \nDuring this term we will begin with Egypt with Mahfouz\, visit West Africa with Chris Abani then travel south to South Africa with Zakes Mda then conclude in June with NoViolet Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Again we examine four different areas of Africa as the peoples there emerge first from European colonization\, then face the forces of global domination in the long neoliberal phase we yet endure. \nRespected Sir\nNaguib Mahfouz\nEgypt\, 1975\n With this portrait of a misanthropic civil servant\, Mahfouz devises a cunning send-up of egregious ambition\, stodgy bureaucracy and cloying piety. The novel’s overblown language mirrors the grandiose aspirations of protagonist Othman Bayyumi\, an archives clerk who schemes for a lofty appointment as Director General\, expounding that “a government position is a brick in the edifice of the state\, and the state is an exhalation of the spirit of God\, incarnate on earth.” \nSong for Night\nChris Abani\nNigeria\, 2007\nSong for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier’s lyrical\, terrifying\, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. Our guide is a voiceless protagonist who\, as part of a land mine-clearing platoon\, had his vocal chords cut\, a move to keep these children from screaming when blown up\, and thereby distracting the other minesweepers. The book is written in a ghostly voice\, with each chapter headed by a line of the unique sign language these children invented. \nThe Heart of Redness\nZakes Mda\nSouth Africa\, 2007\nIn Mda’s novel\, there is Camugu\, who left for America during apartheid\, and has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy\, he follows his “famous lust” to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops\, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. A failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers\, dividing brother from brother\, wife from husband\, with devastating consequences. 150 years later\, the two groups’ decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village\, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their struggles for a future worth living for. \nWe Need New Names\nNoViolet Bulawayo\nZimbabwe\, 2012\nDarling is only ten years old\, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe\, Darling and her friends steal guavas\, try to get the baby out of young Chipo’s belly\, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen\, before the school closed\, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America’s famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. \nThe Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group\, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/african-literature-post-colonial-struggles/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Spring17_AfLit2_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T213000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20170211T053624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T120152Z UID:10006154-1488828600-1488835800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Popular Struggles in South Africa DESCRIPTION:Popular Struggles in South Africa:\nUrban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South and The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa \nA report on current and future liberation movements in South Africa with\nTrevor Ngwane\, Luke Sinwell and Manny Ness \nOn 16th August 2012\, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. Luke Sinwell’s The Spirit of Marikana tells the story of the uncelebrated leaders at the world’s three largest platinum mining companies who survived the barrage of state violence\, intimidation\, torture and murder which was being perpetrated during this tumultuous period. What began as a discussion about wage increases between two workers in the changing rooms at one mine became a rallying cry for economic freedom and basic dignity. This gripping ethnographic account is the first comprehensive study of this movement\, revealing how seemingly ordinary people became heroic figures who transformed their workplace and their country. \nThe urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world’s population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to the urban cores\, resulting in the vast expansion of mega-cities with 10 to 20 million people in the global South. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums particularly in the global south have created the conditions in which urban areas have become the principal sites of social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions. Drawing from case studies in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia\, the various chapters in Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context. \nTrevor Ngwane and Luke Sinwell will discuss the current situation in South Africa where trade union militancy has spread more broadly in the five years since Marikana\, the anti-austerity student movement remains strong at most universities and other schools\, and socialist parties are experiencing growth and are at times uniting to fight the neoliberalism of the post-apartheid state. \nMgcineni ‘Mambush’ Noki (imagined in the wall painting wearing a green blanket) was one of the 34 mineworkers killed by the South African police on August 2016 while on strike demanding a ‘living wage’ in the most potent episode of state violence against civilians in the post-apartheid period. Mambush and the others live on as the insurgency grows broader and deeper in South African society and beyond. \nThrough detailed case studies\, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level. \n“A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations.” —Patrick Bond\, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique \nThe urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world’s population. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to mega-cities. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums\, particularly in the Global South\, have created conditions ripe for social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions and win basic human rights. Drawing from case studies in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia\, the chapters in this book map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context.\n“What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance\, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation…. The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity.”\n—Leo Zeilig\, African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence \n“Capitalism itself is in crisis so it means\, as Marx said\, the CEOs of the world\, government leaders\, have now become personifications of capital. They no longer have any control. They speak for capital. They are just meant to trample on our rights willy nilly. They did that in Greece until a left party took over and then now they are turning the screws on that left party. It’s harder in countries such as the USA where socialism is a swear word as it is in Eastern Europe.”\n—Trevor Ngwane\, Counterfire\, 2015 \n“Fanon somewhere quotes Marx on how the social revolution “cannot draw its poetry from the past\, but only from the future.” The EFF\, the student movement and the working class movement has to find a way forward without going back to nationalism as an ideology of struggle. The struggle against imperialism has to break out of the discourse of colonialism without denying this history and its legacy…at its heart will be proletarian internationalism rather than bourgeois nationalism.” —Trevor Ngwane\, 2016 \nTrevor Ngwane is a scholar-activist who is active in the Socialist Group and the United Front\, organizations that seek a pro–working class pro-poor future for South Africa and the world. His PhD thesis recently awarded by the University of Johannesburg is titled “Amakomiti as democracy on the margins: Popular committees in South Africa’s informal settlements.” \nLuke Sinwell is a senior researcher with the South African Research Chair in Social Change\, University of Johannesburg. He has published widely on social movements and popular protest. His latest book is an ethnography called\, The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa (Pluto Press\, 2016). \nImmanuel Ness is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He has authored and edited of many books including: Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press\, 2015) and Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket Books\, 2011). Ness is co-editor of the third world political economy quarterly\, Journal of Labor and Society. \nCopies of Urban Revolt\, The Spirit of Marikana and Southern Insurgency will be available for purchase. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/insurgent-south-africa-the-spirit-of-marikana/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/LongMural_MarikanaSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170209T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170209T193000 DTSTAMP:20260613T232334 CREATED:20161217T181458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170205T034815Z UID:10003758-1486661400-1486668600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Highlights of Capital\, Volume 1 DESCRIPTION:A 10 Session Class and Discussion with Juliet Ucelli\nThursdays\, 5:30 to 7:30 pm\nFebruary 9-April 6\, 2017 \nCapital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy\, politics and struggles. Many of us have less time to study it because\, as Marx predicted\, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately\, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of Volume I offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics. With current conditions\, we’ve been offering this highlights approach\, breaking down key concepts and sections: \n• use value\, value and surplus value;\n• why capitalism has needed conquest\, enslavement and white supremacy;\n• why capitalism drives technological innovation\, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;\n• how working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions. \nParticipant reports and life experiences are welcome!\n\nThe course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies\, which Marx calls its laws of motion. \nJuliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for labor unions\, and was a public high school social worker. She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, the politics of inner city public schooling and Marxist understandings of human development. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/highlights-of-capital-volume-1-2/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Capital_Rivera2ForSite.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR