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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of Theodore W. Allen’s two volume work\nwith The Revolutions Study Group\nIn 1972\, after a lifetime of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Theodore W. Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the U.S. is white supremacy. White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.] \n \nIt is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy. It is the decisive vulnerable point because—as history has repeatedly proved—the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nTheodore W. Allen spent the next 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes) which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The group has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction and this past winter and spring studied White Supremacy and Bourgeois Social Control.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race/2021-11-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Insurgency,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Essential Political Writings of Hubert Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Selections from A Hubert Harrison Reader\nReading and discussion with the The Revolutions Study Group \nRecognized by the contemporaries of his days as the leading orator\, editor\, thinker\,  organizer and writer in the Black Mecca of Harlem for over 10 years before his premature death at the age of 44\, Harrison’s  articles on socialism\, Black self-determination\, Africa\, Asia and the Caribbean\, US History\, class first vs race first discussion\, WWI\, imperialism and internationalism were read around the world and are as relevant today as they were a century ago. \nJeffrey B Perry author of the 2 volume biography of Hubert Harrison (Columbia University Press) and editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader(Wesleyan University Press) describes Harrison “as the most class conscious of the race radicals and the most race conscious of the class radicals in those years” adding that he is “a key link in the two great trends of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggle—the labor and civil rights trend associated associated with A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King\, Jr. and the race and nationalist trend associated with Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X.” \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009.We also meet on Tuesday nights where we study Theodore Allen’s The Invention of the White Race.     \nThere is a special offer to be part of this reading group and the Tuesday reading group for a combined price of $100.     \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-essential-political-writings-of-hubert-harrison/2021-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor Process,Migration,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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SUMMARY:A Guide to The Communist Manifesto with Phil Gasper
DESCRIPTION:The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels \nA presentation with Phil Gasper \n“…All this attention to Marx’s ideas is certainly welcome. But – and of course there is a ‘but’ – with few exceptions\, recent commentators have restricted their praise of the Manifesto to what it says about the nature and workings of the capitalist system. Yet Marx and Engels did not write the Manifesto as a piece of abstract economic analysis. It was intended as a revolutionary call to action – an explanation not only of what is wrong with society\, but how it can be transformed to create “an association\, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” (Pt. II\, ¶ 74). Central to this strategy for change is their claim that in the modern working class – the proletariat – capitalism has produced “its own gravediggers” (Pt. I\, ¶ 53). That is\, that capitalism itself has created the instrument of its abolition – an oppressed class with both the capacity and the interest to fight for the overthrow of the existing system\, the emancipation of all humanity\, and which\, unlike previous oppressed classes\, Twas capable of democratic self-rule…. The claim that the proletariat is a revolutionary class is the heart and soul of  The Communist Manifesto.”      —Phil Gasper\, International Socialist Review\, Issue 5 \nHere\, at last\, is an authoritative introduction to history’s most important political document\, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. This beautifully organized and presented edition of The Communist Manifestois fully annotated\, with clear historical references and explication\, additional related texts\, and a glossary that will bring the text to life for students\, as well as the general reader. Since it was first written in 1848\, the Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. It has been banned\, censored\, burned\, and declared “dead.” But year after year\, the text only grows more influential\, remaining required reading in courses on philosophy\, politics\, economics\, and history. \nPHIL GASPER is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University and the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document (Haymarket\, 2005) and Imperialism and War: Classic Writings by V.I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukarin (Haymarket\, 2017). He is a co-editor of the journal New Politics and a member of DSA and of the Tempest Collective. He lives in Madison\, Wisconsin. \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 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-guide-to-the-communist-manifesto-with-phil-gasper/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Engels,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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