Week of Events
Sunday, October 22, 2023
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October 22, 2023 -Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I (third series)
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I (third series)
Third 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 5 through 8 of Capital I, on wages, the accumulation of capital, and the so-called primitive accumulation.
Monday, October 23, 2023
No events on this day.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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October 24, 2023 -Commons, Commoning, Communism
Commons, Commoning, Communism
Before the advent of capitalism, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the "original expropriation" (often misleadingly termed "primitive accumulation"). This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and the resistance they evoke by reading together Ian Angus's recently published The War Against the Commons, Peter Linebaugh's Stop Thief! and related texts.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
No events on this day.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
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October 26, 2023 -Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Friday, October 27, 2023
No events on this day.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
No events on this day.