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SUMMARY:First They Took Rome with author David Broder
DESCRIPTION:How the Populist Right Conquered Italy\n“David Broder has produced an excellent account of what has made modern Italy different but also similar to other Western European states. It begins back in the early 1990s when Italy was once more a pioneer\, in that it was the first Western democracy where an established and stable two-party system collapsed suddenly\, opening the way for a series of new political forces\, labelled populist\, to emerge spectacularly and suddenly.”    — Chris Bambery\, Counterfire \n Many commentators blame Italy’s malaise on cultural ills—pointing to the corruption of public life or a supposedly endemic backwardness. In this reading\, Italy has failed to converge with the neoliberal reforms mounted by other European countries\, leaving it to trail behind the rest of the world. \nFirst They Took Rome offers a different perspective: Italy isn’t failing to keep up with its international peers but farther along the same path of decline they are following. In the 1980s\, Italy boasted the West’s strongest Communist Party; today\, social solidarity is collapsing\, working people feel ever more atomized\, and democratic institutions grow increasingly hollow. \nStudying the rise of forces like Matteo Salvini’s Lega\, this book shows how the populist right drew on a deep well of social despair\, ignored by the liberal center. Italy’s recent history is a warning from the future—the story of a collapse of public life that risks spreading across the West. \nDAVID BRODER is a Rome-based writer and translator. He is the European editor for Jacobin and regularly writes with a focus on Italy\, including in the journal Internazionale. \nVerso has provided the following code (good through November\, 2021) for 50% off of First They Took Rome.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/first-they-took-rome-with-author-david-broder/
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CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Populism,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Clipped Coins and Civilizing Money: George Caffentzis on John Locke and David Hume
DESCRIPTION:Clipped Coins\, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money\nand Civilizing Money: Hume\, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment\na presentation with author George Caffentzis\njoined by Peter Linebaugh and Carl Wennerlind\nClipped Coins situates John Locke’s philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century. Anchored in extensive archival research\, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Locke’s economic thought to date\, contextualizing it within expanding capitalist accumulation on a world scale money becoming the universal medium of exchange. Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret\, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author\, Clipped Coins\, Abused Words\, and Civil Government continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism\, colonialism and philosophy. \nGeorge Caffentzis makes both an intervention in the field of monetary philosophy and into Marxist conceptions of the relation between philosophy and capitalist development. He vividly charts the ways in which Hume’s philosophy directly informed the project of ‘civilizing’ the people of the Scottish Highlands and pacifying the English proletariat in response to the revolts of both groups at the heart of the empire. Built on careful historical and philosophical detective work\, Civilizing Money offers a stimulating and radical political reading of the ways in which Hume’s fundamental philosophical claims performed concrete political functions. \nGEORGE CAFFENTZIS is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over 30 years before retirement. \nPETER LINEBAUGH is a child of empire\, schooled in London\, Cattaraugus (NY)\, Washington\, D.C.\, Bonn\, and Karachi. He went to Swarthmore College during the civil rights days. Besides authoring many books\, he has taught at Harvard University and Attica Penitentiary\, at New York University and the Federal Penitentiary in Marion\, Illinois. He used to edit Zerowork and was a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. \nCARL WENNERLIND is professor of history at Barnard College\, Columbia University and the author of Casualties  of Credit. Carl has also co-authored a monograph with Margaret Schabas entitled A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the  Rise of Capitalism. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/clipped-coins-and-civilizing-money-george-caffentzis-on-john-locke-and-david-hume/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegemony,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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