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SUMMARY:Health Care\, Technology\, and Socialized Medicine with Pratyush and Pritha Chandra
DESCRIPTION:from Socialist Register 2021—Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nUnlike earlier experiences\, with Covid-19 we see an emergence of the whole world as a stage where the drama unfolds. This is\, of course\, due to the technological shrinkage of time and space in our age – now\, microbes take flight. But the spectacular similitude of crises and responses at this level demonstrates how social structures\, ideologies\, and social values have converged globally. The rhetoric of war and the institution of quarantine\, where everyone is a warrior\, a victim\, and a suspect at the same time\, have mobilized individuals and communities to act out rituals that affirm bellum omnium contra omnes (the war of all against all)\, the foundation of capitalism. \nWhile the immediate task of controlling the current pandemic determines the actions of states\, medical institutions\, and research laboratories\, several critical microbiologists\, virologists\, and political economists have done well to ask the structural question about the metabolic and ecological rifts that have unleashed new dangers for humanity. But for the ecological crisis to become a ground to rethink structural transformation\, it is not enough to locate it in the wreckage that capitalism accumulates. It must be understood as constitutive to capitalist social relations\, having an intimate connection to the robbery of labor. It is in this sense that the particularization of these crises in the form of pathogens and impending diseases becomes crucial. This helps us to understand the ecological rift as central to everyday life and struggle in capitalism\, and also to imagine a transformational class politics. \nTo understand the reality behind and beyond today’s spectacular rituals of salutations for public hospital workers and those in so-called essential services as ‘warriors’\, we need to pay heed to what Norman Bethune meant when he exhorted his medical colleagues to ‘organize ourselves so that we can no longer be exploited as we are being exploited by our politicians’. It was his recognition of the mutual embeddedness of economics and pathology that defined Bethune’s unconventional life and work as a surgeon\, and transformed him into a revolutionary. The practice of socialized medicine\, as he conceptualized it\, was not simply a demand on the state and doctors\, but was\, rather\, a dimension of transforming liberatory politics translated in the field of health care. \nPratyush Chandra is a political activist and writer based in New Delhi. Pritha Chandra is Professor of Linguistics\, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, New Delhi. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay so if you would like to attend this or any other class or lecture at The MEP\, simply write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain entrance to whatever you want to participate in.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/health-care-technology-and-socialized-medicine-with-pratyush-and-pritha-chandra/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Globalization,Healthcare,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we do a close reading of an innovative work by eight activist scholars who collaborate to bring us a powerful intervention in debates surrounding racial capitalism and political crisis in contemporary Britain. Discussions of racism too often focus on individual behaviors and prejudices\, but Empire’s Endgame maps the complex relations between empire\, racist culture\, political economy\, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book’s story unfolds in Britain\, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities. \nThe activist scholars who have contributed to Empire’s Endgame are Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017)\, Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and has written (B)ordering Brtain: Law\, Race and Empire (2020)\, and  Luke de Noronha\, Lecturer at University College London and has written Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020). \nThe tickets with class and book include shipping costs via Media Mail. The class and book offers are only good for orders in the US and Puerto Rico.\nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting for more than four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who completed a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, and will begin a new close reading group on the Grundrisse this April.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-a-close-reading-group/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2021: Life After the Pandemic with Christoph Hermann
DESCRIPTION:From Production for Profit to Provision for Need\nChristoph Hermann\nPerhaps the greatest flaw revealed by the Covid-19 crisis is capitalism’s addiction to profit. The main goal of capitalist production is the maximization of profit; the satisfaction of needs is only a by-product in the endless process of accumulation. This means that the economy cannot simply pause during a lockdown and continue when the pandemic is under control. The insecurity of future profits instantly pushed the economy into an existential crisis. As a result\, the crisis was not characterized by a lack of urgently needed supply\, as one may expect during a period of large-scale economic inactivity. \nWhile the coronavirus challenged the very foundations of the profit-driven economy\, the lockdown provided the environment with a much-needed break. The pausing of industrial production together with the restriction of transportation\, including international air travel\, significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions and other pollution. As a result\, residents of smog-plagued cities such as New Delhi could suddenly see the sky. The crisis has shown that a focus on essential needs can provide breathing space for the global ecosystem. However\, at the same time the crisis also sounded the death knell to all attempts to solve the ecological crisis through profit-based incentives. The dramatic fall in oil prices caused by the decline in economic activities will undermine the shift to less damaging energy sources. \nIn sum\, what in a needs-based economy would be a formidable healthcare challenge and\, perhaps\, a major disruption of social life\, but not a crisis of social reproduction\, at least not as long as there is sufficient supply\, turned in the profit-driven economy of capitalism into an existential threat. The anxiety about falling profits could only be calmed by flooding investors\, businesses\, and credit institutions with massive amounts of money. As a result\, the US government will record the highest debt in its history. While debt is essential in a profit-driven economy\, it is pointless in a needs-based economy. When the goal is that everybody receives what she/he needs\, there is no need to go into debt. In this presentation Christoph will present some ideas for a needs-based economy. \n  \nChristoph Hermann is a Lecturer in History at University of California\, Berkeley. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write info@marxedproject.org for zoom info for this or other classes and events \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2021-life-after-the-pandemic-with-christoph-hermann/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Globalization,Healthcare,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: The Mass Strike Past and Present
DESCRIPTION:with Rafael Khachaturian\, Josué Ricardo López\, and Sami Zemni \nOften misread as a narrowly economic phenomenon\, Rosa understood general or mass strikes as harbingers of the revolution to come. The speakers in this fourth session reposition her analysis in the contexts of the United States Civil War\, the Arab Spring\, and the twenty-first century migrations northward through the American hemisphere. \nAuthors and essays discussed are: “The Living Pulsebeat of the Revolution”: Reading Luxemburg and Du Bois on the Strike”\, by Rafael Khachaturian; “Luxemburg on Tahrir Square: Reading the Arab Revolutions with Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike”\, by Sami Zemni\, Brecht De Smet\, and Koenraad Boegaert; and\, “Migrant Caravans and Luxemburg’s Spontaneous Mass Strike∏\, Josué Ricardo López \nRafael Khachaturian\, University of Pennsylvania; Sami Zemni\, Ghent University; Josué Ricardo López\, University of Pittsburgh \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url that gives the link to participate in this or another event or class. \nThe ebook of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg is now available. Please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive a discount code so as to purchase on-line.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-the-mass-strike-past-and-present/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Rosa Luxemburg,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nVolume I: The Process of Production of Capital\nThird Session Covering Chapter 16 thru Chapter 25\nwith Mary Boger \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental processes that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life and what we produce have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Marx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, in Session I\, our first task was to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form\, the beginning of the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nThe first four Parts of Volume I revealed the historical process of development that led to industrial capital\, the productive base/infrastructure required for the generalization of the capitalist production of commodities as the dominate social form throughout all our societies and nations today. Session 3\, Chapters 15 through 25\, will trace this development and reveals new dynamics and contradictions inherent to the logic of capitalist accumulation\, culminating in Chapter 25\, The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. These developmental processes continue to be played out to this day and are witnessed in the immensity of wealth for a few at one pole of humanity\, poverty at another\, ruthless misuse and degradation of nature\, and reduction of the human subject\, the producing masses of real individuals\, to an alienated object for capitalist exploitation. Volume I is essential to understanding the analysis as it is carried out in Volumes II & III. \nNEW STUDENTS: (Please Note) Part I through Four of Volume I lay out the most fundamental concepts and laws of capitalist development and its internal contradictions that are necessary to fully understand all that follows as Marx explicates the dynamics particular to the historical process and dynamics of the production of social life that we are engaged in reproducing in our everyday life\, where the logic of re-production is based on money making more money. The First and Second 12 Week Sessions covering Part I through Part IV have been recorded. They are available to be viewed through the MEP’s Vimeo. Upon registering\, these sessions will be made available\, and I recommend listening to as much as possible\, especially where Chapter 1 begins in in the fourth class of Session 1. \nMary Boger\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of the MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout these four and half decades. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to participate but cannot afford the stated fees or any fee at all\, please write to info@marxedproject.org for information on how to participate.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-part-3/2021-05-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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