Week of Events
Annual Pass
This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example, a pass purchased on January 7, 2023, will be valid until January 31, 2024.)
Sunday, April 30, 2023
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April 30, 2023 -Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
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April 30, 2023 -Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
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April 30, 2023 -Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I (second series)
Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
We continue to study selected passages from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We delve into key themes and concepts related to civil society and state: politics and the arts, racism, class and gender, religion, linguistics, and other methods of analysis, critical theory, mass media, and cinema, hegemony, and subaltern studies, as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative.
Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
Discussion of texts by Marx and Engels on India, China, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen's Association; Marx's classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx's correspondence about the rise of the workers' political party in Germany, including his Critique of the Gotha Program.
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I (second series)
Second series in our close reading and discussion of Marx's magnum opus, with Lisa Maya Knauer and other facilitators from the MEP's Capital Studies Group. This series covers parts 3 and 4 of Capital I, on the production of absolute and relative surplus-value.
Monday, May 1, 2023
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May 1, 2023 -The Politics of the Other: New Visionary Fiction
The Politics of the Other: New Visionary Fiction
The Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group spring season takes on three of the most richly inventive and deeply challenging novels of our time. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Cixin Liu, Three-Body Problem Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time All three create and adapt new worlds to explore themes of existential species ... Read more
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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May 2, 2023 -Reading Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction
Reading Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction
A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic work, Black Reconstruction, with Sean Ahern. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “The South, after the war, presented the greatest opportunity for a real national labor movement which the nation ever saw or is likely to see again for many decades. Yet, the labor movement, with but few exceptions, never realized the situation. It never had the intelligence or knowledge, as a whole, to see in black slavery and Reconstruction, the kernel and meaning of the labor movement in the United States.”
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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May 3, 2023 -Animals at Work Under Capitalism
Animals at Work Under Capitalism
A discussion and reading group on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy, both historically and today. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production, and on what cultural, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people, nonhuman animals and machines?
Thursday, May 4, 2023
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May 4, 2023 -Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
The spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran.
Friday, May 5, 2023
No events on this day.
Saturday, May 6, 2023
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May 6, 2023 -Marx’s Grundrisse: Notebook VII
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May 6, 2023 -Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
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Featured May 6, 2023 -Featured The Fallout of War: Chronologies of Conflict
Marx’s Grundrisse: Notebook VII
An ongoing group conducting a page-by-page reading of Karl Marx's Grundrisse, a work that can be seen as a veritable "laboratory" in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. In 2023 we will be working our way through Notebook VII, the final part of the book that includes the widely discussed "Fragment on Machines."
Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
A continuation of the Fall 2022 series in which we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time.
The Fallout of War: Chronologies of Conflict
In the first of two linked sessions, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies - war - and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present, the working group explores war's myriad meanings.