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SUMMARY:Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group \nThe white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/2019-10-07/
LOCATION:The James Baldwin School\, 351 West 18th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011
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SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists
DESCRIPTION:Psychological Ideas and Practices for Activists\nAn 8 session class with Juliet Ucelli \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you are someone engaged in trying to change the world. We all need as many tools and as much knowledge that is available for our well-being as individuals! \nHow do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? Some of us have lost support from our families of origin\, which whether or not is better for us in the long term\, such a rupture resonates in individuals for years\, even decades. As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nThese are some of the questions we will explore in an overview of psychological concepts and practices that are most relevant for progressive activists. Authors and theoretical trends that we will draw from include: Frantz Fanon (internalized oppression and auto-destructive behavior); trauma theory (much of it pioneered by progressive clinicians working with former political prisoners and former military combatants); and feminist relational theory\, which explores our bodies\, our psyches and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues. We’ll even pull out some nuggets from classical theorists like V. I. Lenin\, who was actually being quite psychologically precise when he talked about left-wing communism as “an infantile disorder\,” and Marx himself\, who described capitalism as “relations of personal independence based on material dependence.” \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. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/emotional-well-being/2019-10-09/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Earth in Crisis: Staying With the Trouble
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nAs the earth system enters a new climate regime marked by global warming\, mass extinctions\, ocean acidification\, droughts\, floods\, food shortages\, migrations\, and other manifestations of crisis\, the mainstream media and public figures swerve between denial and panic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have only twelve years\, but what happens in year thirteen and beyond? This reading group will consider how climate activists and critical thinkers can maintain equilibrium and avoid despair by “staying with the trouble” —Donna Haraway’s phrase for living through planetary chaos and struggling alongside our fellow human and nonhuman beings. We will read and discuss Haraway’s recent essay collection with that title and related works such as Bruno Latour\, Down to Earth; Anna Tsing et al.\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet; and John Clark\, Between Earth and Empire. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. Registration and payment is available at marxedproject.org. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in faith-centered environmental group
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/earth-in-crisis-staying-with-the-trouble/2019-10-10/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Antiquity Now: 3 Robert Graves Novels
DESCRIPTION:To bring the dead to life\nIs no great magic.\nFew are wholly dead:\nBlow on a dead man’s embers\nAnd a live flame will start.\nLet his forgotten griefs be now\,\nAnd now his withered hopes;\nSubdue your pen to his handwriting\nUntil it prove as natural\nTo sign his name as yours…\n—To Bring the Dead to Life\, Robert Graves\n“Do we need Greek myths? In 2019\, we need justice more than anything else: racial justice\, gender justice\, economic justice. What Greek myths have going for them is that they can offer an imaginative road map by which we steer ourselves on the journey to equity. My cautious can places me in distinguished company. In Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths (2017)\, Emily Katz Anhalt presses that trusty helping verb into service too: ‘Right now in the twenty-first century\, Greek myths can arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.’ But if we’re to unlock the potential of these myths and turn possibility into actuality\, it won’t do to pretend that the myths themselves come to us free and unburdened…. Among the shades\, the World War I veteran Robert Graves stands taller than most—as does his provocative and irresistible take on the Argonauts…\, Throughout his long career\, Graves applied himself doggedly to teasing history out of the myths of the epic cycles\, hoping to reconstruct what Greece was…recreating a world of matriarchal communities\, all eventually to be swept away by invaders who enforced patriarchy at every level of society from family relations to religious cult.”\n—Dan-El Padilla Peralta\, Introduction to The Golden Fleece \nThis group begins with Graves’ The Golden Fleece\, a retelling of Jason and the Argonauts voyages throughout the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. They roam by ship as defined acquisitive individuals striving for heroics\, attempting to dominate the matriarchal societies Graves and others assert existed in no small number throughout the ancient world. Having stolen the fleece\, the return to what is Greece is one where title\, family and property take hold. We continue with Graves’ version of The Odyssey. Authored\, as Graves believed by Nausicaa of Sicily\, Homer’s Daughter is a “bold and presciently” told feminist novel about Nausicaa’s life and authorship. Both novels have recently been re-issued by Seven Stories Press in their Graves Project series. This first series of works by Graves will switch from considering the early antiquity of Greece to the days of Rome\, many centuries later. We finish with a reading of Graves most popular novel\, I\, Claudius (1934)\, with Claudius recounting the imperial aspects of the rule and daily lives of those who preceded him—Augustus\, Tiberius\, and Caligula—up to his own ascendancy as emperor. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/antiquity-now-3-robert-graves-novels/2019-10-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. Here\, the circle is completed and we are able to de-fetishize the machinations that appear on the surface of society and their real relationship to the production of wealth and the circulation of that wealth throughout all the competing capitalist interests and the various branches of capital\, and the different strata of the proletariat —prices\, wages\, interests\, rents\, dividends\, rates of profit\, fictitious capital—while revealing the necessity of tendential contradictions that result in episodic crisis of the system leading to periodic booms and busts! \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \n  \nFrom Sam\, one of the conveners of the group. Very relevant for all those who will participate\, whether starting in now or have been part of the group from whatever point in this study: \n“The past few chapters have been about the two concepts of Fixed and Circulating Capital: \nFixed Capital: Refers to machines\, buildings and other ‘fixed’ parts of constant capital that transfer their value to the product over a long period of time and only bit by bit. For example a machine that is worth 10\,000$ and is supposed to last for 10 years\, transfers 1000$ every year to the total sum of products produced in that year. Assuming that a 1000 pieces of cloth were produced\, it transfers $1.00 each.  \nCirculating Capital: Refers to labor-power (variable capital) and raw materials (part of constant capital). They transfer all their value to product. If 1000$ in wages are paid over a month and some 100 pieces of cloth are produced in that month\, each piece will represent $10 etc.  \nThree points to be made: \n1) Fixed and Circulating Capital refer to the division of capital in the production sphere and not the circulation sphere. Marx spends a lot of time castigating Adam Smith for his confusion of Commodity Capital with Circulating Capital.  \n2) Although they are concepts of the production sphere\, they are derived at from the standpoint of circulation of value. This is in opposition to the categories of Constant and Variable Capital (Volume 1) which are from the standpoint of the production of value (look carefully at the titles of volume one and two).  \n3) This is the standpoint of the critique of political economy: Machines are not fixed capital by themselves nor are wages and raw materials circulating capital\, it is only under the capitalist relations of production i.e. value relations that machines become the embodiment of fixed capital and\, wages and raw materials the embodiment of circulating capital. By itself a machine is just a machine\, being fixed capital is its social character. Remember Marx from Volume 1:  \n“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However\, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance\, human labour\, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social” (p. 138-9).” \nNext Marx goes into turn over time and the tendencies it creates the result of which is what we call globalization’
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-10-12/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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