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SUMMARY:Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:A panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register\nThe newly published 2026 volume of Socialist Register – entitled “Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins” – interrogates anew the notion that global capitalism is in its end time (a recurring theme among Marxists since 1848). At the heart of this concept are indications that capital accumulation is running up against some inherent limits. just as the hucksters of private capital are crowing that so-called Artificial Intelligence will usher in a capitalist utopia of unlimited prosperity (for whom?). Socialists warn the world’s working classes to prepare instead for a late-capitalist dystopia\, characterized by irreversible damage to the natural environment\, wars brought on by new modes of global competition among capitals\, and the inevitable squeeze on capitalist profits and human labor if robotic production alters the organic composition of capital to the extent predicted by the AI boosters. Based on their essays in the 2026 Socialist Register\, our panelists speak to the utility of the concept of “late-stage capitalism\,” both for understanding contemporary political economy and for devising strategies for the working class to defend itself and advance a universalist vision of human emancipation. \nPanelists: Michael Roberts\, “Capitalism in the 2020s and Beyond”; Alfredo Saad-Filho\, “The Rise of Neoliberal Fascism and the Challenges for the Left”; and Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno\, “Profitable Immiseration: Finance Capital at the End of the World.” Invited commentator: Catarina Principe\, a political activist from Portugal\, a co-editor of Europe in Revolt\, and a contributing editor of Jacobin magazine.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,Capital Studies,Class,Crisis,featured,Financialization,Globalization,History,Imperialism,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Money,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Socialist Register,Summer 2026,Transition from Capitalism,War
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SUMMARY:Marx and the Body with Søren Mau
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Søren Mau will argue that Marx’s writings on the body have been underestimated and that a critical reconstruction of his analysis contains the basis for a theory of the corporeal roots of historicity and freedom. Throughout the history of Western thought\, the body has often been overlooked\, devalued\, or treated with mistrust and hostility. The failure to fully acknowledge human corporeality and its entanglement with the rest of nature is deeply connected to contemporary ecological crises\, and has since the 1980s been subjected to a thorough-going critique by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mau argues that the body occupies a central place in Marx’s thought\, and that a critical reconstruction of his dialectical understanding of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature and his concepts of corporeal organization\, labor\, tools and metabolism provides a foundation for an eco-Marxist theory of human nature and the corporeal roots of human historicity and freedom. \nThis talk is based on Søren Mau’s article “Karl Marx and the Body: Towards an Eco-Marxist Philosophical Anthropology” in Body & Society 32(1). \nSøren Mau is a political philosopher and the author of Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Verso Books\, 2023). His work centers on critical theories of capitalism\, power\, ecology\, the body\, technology\, human nature\, and utopian thought\, with the central theme of freedom: its nature and sources\, the political and economic barriers to its realization under contemporary capitalism\, and its potential forms in a post-capitalist world.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-the-body/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Critical Theory,Ecosocialism,featured,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Summer 2026,Women
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.  This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization.  We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and show the truly radical view that Hegel championed under difficult conditions of censorship and political persecution\, much like those of our own time. This study of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right is inspired by the insight of Andy Blunden\, in his recent book\, The Capital-Logic Debate\, that the key to understanding Marx’s dialectical method in his investigation of Capital lies in understanding the method Hegel employed in the Philosophy of Right. \nFor the main text the preferred version is Outlines of the Philosophy of Right\, edited by Stephen Houlgate (Oxford University Press\, 2008). Also acceptable is Elements of the Philosophy of Right\, edited by Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press\, 1991). \nPrevious classes in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and/or the Science of Logic will be helpful but are not a requirement for these sessions. Each participant will be expected to make at least one presentation during the ten-week seminar. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this supremely concrete application of Hegel’s dialectical method. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex has also been involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-philosophy-of-right/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Reading Group,Science and Method,Spring 2026,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 2\, Extremities
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nIn this our second panel we question the socio-spatial manifestations of the limit and its political and property avatars: the border the boundary\, and the zone. Across these contributions\, to think at the extremity is to reevaluate the whole\, querying how limits animate entire systems of thought and distinction. (Panel 1 details here) \nNathaniel LaCelle-Peterson examines the function of infrastructure in the thought of Louis Althusser\, where it appears as substitute for “base” as the opposing category of “superstructure” in his structuralist articulation of the mode of production. Alan J. Alaniz analyzes the built and unbuilt architectural projects of the midcentury Mexico-United States borderlands to illuminate the spatial consequences of geopolitics at the international divide.  Madeleine Han examines the role of contemporary art in the transformation of Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—a geographical and imagined ‘limit’ marked by dreams of deferred reunification—into a visitation site. Javier Porras Madero explores how combined and uneven development along the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands produced newly alienated subjects who became the central social components of twentieth-century nationalisms. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a doctoral researcher in Film & Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Alan J. Alaniz is a doctoral researcher in the Yale School of Architecture. Madeleine Han is a doctoral researcher in the Yale American Studies program. Javier Porras Madero is a doctoral researcher in the history department at Yale University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-extremities/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Immigration,Latin America,Modernity,Political Economy,Present Moment,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 1\, Thresholds
DESCRIPTION:Panel Presentation by the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nThe first panel\, Thresholds: Limit Cases\,  takes on the exceptions that determine the rule. These limit cases of sound\, shock\, spirit\, and symbol problematize and contest the generic and ideological frames they operate within. Probing the thresholds of perception\, we address experience that re-taxonomizes the social and sensorial order. (Panel 2 details here) \nSuvij Sudershan asks why the qawwal (a traditional Sufi devotional form that often puts written poetry to music) came to enjoy uniquely prominent position within the global meta-genre of “World Music”? Michelle Chow explores Asian/American transnational ecopoetics\, an the literary\, philosophic\, cultural\, and botanical attempts to contend with the post-nuclear environment\, by centering around one tree\, the gingko. Jane Zhang links the origins of the first aid kit in railway surgery to the broader exchange between emergency protocol and industrial management. Michael Denning takes up Fredric Jameson’s challenge to “political” readings of Marx in the context of recent “republican” re-readings of the political dimension of “Citizen Marx\,” reconsidering the limits of and barriers to\, the political. And Sam Levin charts the shifting limits of belonging on the global far right as it coalesced in the last quarter of the 20th century. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology. A collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Suvij Sudershan is a doctoral researcher at Yale’s Department of English. His dissertation is on the representation of ground-rent and class-formation in 19th and early-20th century novels from Ireland\, England\, India\, and South Africa. Michelle Chow is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s English Literature and Film & Media Studies program\, and a Graduate Fellow of Yale’s Center for the Study of Race Indigeneity\, & Transnational Migration (RITM). Jane Zhang is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s Combined Program in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies. Her research focuses on the intersecting histories of popular literature and vernacular medicine from the 19th century onwards. Michael Denning teaches cultural studies in the American Studies program at Yale University; among his books are Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and Noise Uprising. The Twofold Labors of Marx is forthcoming from Verso. Sam Levin is a doctoral researcher in the American studies program at Yale University. He studies religion and the global far right in the 20th century.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-thresholds/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Political Strategy,Republicanism,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:'Black History Is for Everyone' with Brian Jones
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 2\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nLongtime educator Brian Jones explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race\, nation\, and the stories we tell about who we are. In Black History Is for Everyone\, Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history\, using his own experiences as a lifelong learner and classroom teacher to question everything — from the radicalism of the American Revolution to the meaning of “race” and “nation.” With warmth and immersive storytelling\, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history\, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high\, the effort is worth it. \nBrian Jones has taught many ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History\, his writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, the Guardian\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-history-jones/
LOCATION:See link above to watch the recording on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Book talks,Civil War,Colonialism,Du Bois,featured,History,Labor History,Race and Class,Special Event,Spring 2026,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Protective Presence in the West Bank
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nThe only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence\, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and with their flocks and confronting settlers who are far less likely to kill and even attack Palestinians if protective presence activists are on the ground. Mitch and Celeste will be discussing their experiences and their new organization\, Protective Presence USA\, which is assisting Americans in joining this effort to fight off the annexation of Palestinian land. \nMitch Abidor is a writer and translator. His latest book is Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary. He’s currently working on an oral history of the Israeli socialist anti-Zionist organization Matzpen. \nCeleste Marcus is the executive editor of Liberties Journal and the author of Chaim Soutine: Genius\, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art. She has written widely about settler terrorism in the West Bank.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/protective-presence/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Colonialism,Imperialism,Israeli occupation,Organizing,Palestine,Present Moment,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Special Event,Spring 2026,Video Available,War
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SUMMARY:Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer.
DESCRIPTION:This six-week reading group\, facilitated by Lisa Maya Knauer\, will focus on one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work\, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory. Marx argued that capital accumulation depends not only upon the production of goods and the extraction of surplus value\, but also on the reproduction of capitalist social relations and above all of the class of people who have nothing to sell but their labor power. Social reproduction theory analyzes the processes whereby working classes and their conditions of life are sustained over time. Marx only sketched the concept in very broad terms\, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. Vogel and others argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. We will supplement Vogel’s classic work with some early writings by the Wages for Housework campaign and more recent scholarship\, including a newly published collection of Lise Vogel’s essays\, The Contested Domain. Some familiarity with Marxist and/or feminist theory is helpful but not essential. \nLisa Maya Knauer stumbled across the writings of the Wages for Housework campaign in the mid-1970s when she was a college student. A few years later\, she started reading Marx’s Capital at the MEP’s predecessor\, the School for Marxist Education. She is a co-founder of the MEP and has led our Capital Volume I reading groups for the past few years. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nRegistration for this group is now closed. Contact info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/social-reproduction-theory-with-lisa-maya-knauer/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Fall 25,Gender,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T190000
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SUMMARY:Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nWill green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment\, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. \nThea Riofrancos\, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism\, unpacks these challenges through the lens of lithium\, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand\, exceeding existing supplies\, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to “secure” lithium\, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. \nMeanwhile\, Global South governments are attempting to leverage critical mineral deposits into sustainable and sovereign economic development. And\, across the world\, environmental and Indigenous movements contest the rapid expansion of extraction\, defending ecosystems\, livelihoods\, and waterways already under pressure from global warming from a new boom in mining. It is in the play of these forces\, unfolding amidst geopolitical rivalry and economic turbulence\, that the energy transition will be forged. To conclude\, Riofrancos will explore the possibility of a less mining-intensive pathway to zero-carbon transportation. \nThea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College\, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute\, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction\, renewable energy\, climate change\, the global lithium sector\, green technologies\, social movements\, and the Latin American left. She is also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writings have appeared in scholarly journals and in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, n+1\, and Dissent.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/extraction-a-book-talk-with-author-thea-riofrancos/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
DESCRIPTION:A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner\, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nBridging political economy and psychology\, we will review Marx’s writings on the structure of social systems that encompass cultural emergents such as religion. As emphasized by Wendy Brown in her Foreword to the Reitter-North translation of Capital\, “Marx developed an understanding of political economy as the distinctive mode through which we build entire worlds through our singular cooperative powers—transforming nature\, elaborating divisions of labor and organizations of ownership\, producing wealth\, creating ways of life\, institutions\, social forms\, subjects\, and subjectivities… Capital brings into being not only particular kinds of markets\, technologies\, and industries\, but classes\, families\, and political structures; race and gender orders; relations with ‘nature’; new formations of space and time; and legal codes and conflicts.” \nTurning to the field of cultural psychology\, we will explore how cultural forms stimulate and organize human psychology. Here we will focus on the work of the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” Vygotsky was a dedicated Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. Vygotsky said\, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science\, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-psychology-ratner/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260123T221652Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Venezuela\, Oil\, and Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:A video of this January 21\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation’s oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of “blood for oil.” Steve Maher assesses the implications for global political economy\, Christy Thornton offers analysis of the diverse effects on – and responses by – Mexico and other Latin American states\, and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo explores the relationship between U.S imperial aggression in Latin America and terror against migrants at home. \nMatt Huber is Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University and the author of Lifeblood: Oil\, Freedom\, and the Forces of Capital\, and Climate Change as Class War. \nSteve Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. With Scott Aquanno he is the co-author of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Steve also authored Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power. \nChristy Thornton is Associate Professor of History at New York University\, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Christy is also the co-director\, with Quinn Slobodian\, of the History and Political Economy Project. She served for five years as Executive Director of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). \nCamilo Pérez-Bustillo is the co-founder and coordinator of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement (Mexico City). He is also the leading translator into English of work by Argentine/Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel\, including The Theological Metaphors of Marx (Duke\, 2024)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/venezuela-oil-politics/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Extractivism,Immigration,Imperialism,Latin America,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Political Economy,Populism,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260113T150139Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T150139Z
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally’s recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally’s book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Over the past decade\, Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nEnrollment for this study group is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/slavery-and-capitalism-a-reading-group/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 25,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Slavery,Social Reproduction,US History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T210000
DTSTAMP:20251230T004425Z
CREATED:20251119T145509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T004425Z
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SUMMARY:New Studies on the Left: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Contributors Erica Carter\, Jay Jurie\, Paul Krehbiel\, Harry Targ\, Janet Tucker\, Meta Van Sickle join editor Carl Davidson for a discussion of the latest New Studies on the Left. Contributors to this edition address four related themes: “Analysis and Global Reach\,” “Labor Rising Helps Everyone Else\,” and “Civil Society and Campaigns on Social Terrain\,” and “Theory for Our Time.” Our panel will tie these themes together to explore where we stand\, particularly in the United States\, in reaching a critical point in peaceful non-cooperation with the present regime’s policies at home and worldwide. Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism publishes this new series in tribute to the original\, early 1960s New Studies on the Left.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-studies-on-the-left-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Book talks,Fall 25,Present Moment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T200000
DTSTAMP:20251212T183931Z
CREATED:20250902T213649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T183931Z
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SUMMARY:Reading 'Karl Marx in America'
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman’s recently published Karl Marx in America.  To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nFacilitated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-karl-marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Fall 25,historical materialism,Housing,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Reading Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T133000
DTSTAMP:20251212T184309Z
CREATED:20251023T193359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T184309Z
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
DESCRIPTION:Final session\, December 16 \nA study group on nonhuman animals’ relationship with capital as living\, breathing\, “commodified” beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. A vibrant discourse is currently emerging around the question of nonhuman labor and the ways in which non-waged forms of labor contribute to value accumulation under capitalism. In this study group\, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies\, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism. We will consider how harnessing and enhancing the metabolic labor of nonhuman animals is connected to fields such as waste management\, biomedical research\, big data\, and the reproduction of the human labor force. \nConvened by Gizem Haspolat and Terike Haapoja. Gizem holds a PhD in Anthropology and specializes in critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human-nonhuman animal relations. In her dissertation research\, she explored live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of live cattle imports in Turkey. Her current research project examines the application of ‘smart’ technologies and artificial intelligence in industrial agricultural settings. Terike is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings\, and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her current research on animal labor and multispecies anticapitalist struggle\, with an extensive open bibliography\, can be found on animalcapitalism.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/metabolic-labor/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Fall 25,featured,Labor Process,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T130000
DTSTAMP:20251212T184126Z
CREATED:20250908T222248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T184126Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel's Preface to the 'Phenomenology'
DESCRIPTION:(ends on December 13) \nThis eight-session course with Alex Steinberg concludes our ongoing studies of Hegel’s mysterious work\, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will do a close reading of the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit\, a work that can be read on its own and is considered the most succinct and comprehensive statement of Hegel’s philosophy. \nThese sessions introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nThere are 3 acceptable translations of the Phenomenology of Spirit available:\nOne by A.V. Miller published by Oxford University Press\, another by Terry Pinkard from Cambridge University Press\, and another translation that includes only the Preface\, by Yirmiyahu Yovel from Princeton University Press with a detailed commentary. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegels-preface-to-the-phenomenology/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall 25,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T183000
DTSTAMP:20251126T164400Z
CREATED:20250903T160349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T164400Z
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SUMMARY:Octavia Butler: ‘Positive Obsession’ and ‘Wild Seed’
DESCRIPTION:Alternate Mondays\, Next on December 8\, 5-6:30 pm ET \nWatch for new selections coming soon\, featuring Frankenstein and the Chicano Frankenstein. \nJoin us for a new appreciation of Octavia Butler\, beginning with Susana M. Morris’s pathbreaking new biography\, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler followed by Butler’s prophetic Wild Seed and other short selections. Offered by the Speculative and Visionary Fiction reading group. \nMorris’s just published biography blends commentary on Butler’s work and life against the social and political conditions she lived and wrote in. Butler developed her literary powers during the Reagan years while living a far from easy life.  As Dana A. Williams notes in her New York Times review\, “One of the biography’s most compelling themes is Butler’s sustained critique of American imperialism. From the scorched landscapes in Parable of the Sower to the uneasy alliances between humans and the Oankali (an “alien” race in the Xenogenesis series) to the entanglement of history and power in Kindred\, Butler’s fiction exposes the toll of empire (and its illusion of progress) on the body\, on the planet and on humanity.” \nWhether you have read a lot or a little of Butler’s fiction\, we encourage you to join with the MEP’s long-running reading group for a new introduction to Butler’s pivotal role in reshaping science\, visionary and speculative fiction\, helping inspire the emergence of Afro-Futurism\, and influencing a new generation of younger writers. We will accompany our reading of the biography with short selections from Butler’s fiction and other related materials. \nConvened by Steve Backman \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/read-positive-obsession-the-life-and-times-of-octavia-e-butler/
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Dystopian literature,Fall 25,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T160000
DTSTAMP:20251130T213211Z
CREATED:20251025T171850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251130T213211Z
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA book talk by David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally injects new life into Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor\, presenting a new\, systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature\, planter records and diaries\, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \n“David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ‘constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers.”—Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class \nDavid McNally is the author of many works of Marxist analysis and history\, including Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance and Empire; Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance; and Monsters of the Market: Zombies\, Vampires and Global Capitalism. David is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. Earlier he taught political economy at York University Toronto for over thirty years. David is the editor-in-chief of Spectre\, a biannual and online journal of Marxist theory\, strategy\, and analysis. \nJoin our five-week reading group on Slavery and Capitalism starting December 1.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mcnally-slavery-capitalism/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 25,featured,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Slavery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T160000
DTSTAMP:20251118T153324Z
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SUMMARY:Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 8\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nBrian Kwoba‘s recently published Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism introduces the working-class journalist\, activist\, and educator Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)\, who generated an array of visionary solutions to the systemic injustices of his day. After blazing a trail for Black workers and organizers in the Socialist Party of America and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913\, Harrison emerged as the most prominent Black freethinker and free lover of his generation. He also practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist\, anti-imperialist “Colored International” alliance in the face of European colonization in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Most spectacularly\, Harrison’s Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of African people in modern history. Because of his fearless radicalism\, however\, the full scope of Harrison’s revolutionary legacy has been largely erased from popular memory … until now. \nDr. Brian Kwoba was born in Manchester\, Connecticut\, and raised in Boulder\, Colorado. After earning his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Cornell University\, he spent six years teaching high school and middle school history and social studies in Boston before heading to the University of Oxford for his doctoral degree in history. Dr. Kwoba is currently an associate professor of history and also the director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis. Over the past two decades\, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism\, immigrant workers rights\, climate justice\, Falastin\, decolonizing education\, pan-Africanism\, and the movement for Black lives. In his spare time\, he is a big time music lover (especially live jazz)\, an Afrobeats DJ\, and a frequent traveler to Kenya where he visits his dad’s side of the family. \nImage l/r: author Brian Kwoba; Hubert Harrison with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn\, Big Bill Haywood\, and other leaders of 1913 Paterson\, NJ silk workers strike; book cover.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kwoba-on-hubert-harrison/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,American Imperialism,Book talks,Classes/Events,Fall 25,History,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T153000
DTSTAMP:20251103T183706Z
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary\, with Mitchell Abidor
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 1\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nMitchell Abidor\, author of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary presents the book in conversation with Jacob Plitman\, former publisher of Jewish Currents. \nToday\, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels\, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man\, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history? An anarchist? A Bolshevik? A Trotskyist? Or did he evolve into something else entirely? In this comprehensive account of Serge’s life\, work\, and political evolution\, Mitchell Abidor rescues his subject\, in all his complexity\, from the constraints of any single label. Painting a portrait of a man whose political ideas shifted continually in response to the major events of his life\, we are introduced to several Victor Serges: the youthful anarchist in Belgium and France; the leading Bolshevik in Moscow; the anti-Stalinist who faced imprisonment and expulsion from the Soviet Union. Examining the lacunae and errors of fact in his memoirs\, Abidor reveals the hidden Serge for what he ultimately was: an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions. \nMitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn\, New York. In addition to his many translation works\, he is the author of May Made Me and I’ll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender\, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge’s Notebooks (1936-1947). \nA 30% discount code for Victor Serge and other Pluto Press books by Mitchell Abidor will be provided to all ticket purchasers.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/serge-unruly-revolutionary/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Book talks,communism,Fall 25,featured,France,History,Literature,Marxisms,Poetry,Radical Literature,Russia,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T160000
DTSTAMP:20251028T134216Z
CREATED:20250827T165124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T134216Z
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 26\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nHistorian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book\, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nAndrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of Karl Marx in America (2025) and A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015)\, both published by the University of Chicago Press\, and Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008). He is also the coeditor of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times (2018). Hartman has been published in a host of academic and popular venues\, including the Washington Post\, The Baffler\, Chronicle of Higher Education\, American Historian\, Journal of American Studies\, Reviews in American History\, Journal of Policy History\, Salon\, Jacobin\, Bookforum\, and In These Times.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,Book talks,Civil War,Das Kapital,Fall 25,featured,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Republicanism,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T153000
DTSTAMP:20250917T110408Z
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim
DESCRIPTION:In her new book\, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property\, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Ranging from the conception of philanthropy devised by the robber barons of the late nineteenth century to ongoing digitization projects\, Kim provides a new history of contemporary art that accounts for the complicated entanglement of race\, capital\, and labor behind storied art institutions and artists. Drawing on history\, theory\, and economics\, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution. \nEunsong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her practice spans literary studies\, critical digital studies\, poetics\, translation\, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. She is also the author of Gospel of Regicide (2017) and\, with Sung Gi Kim\, a translation of Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? (2019). In 2021 she co-founded the journal offshoot\, an arts space for transnational activist conversations.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-collecting-with-eunsong-kim/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Book talks,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Fall 25,Literature,Media Criticism,Poetry,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T183000
DTSTAMP:20250917T141011Z
CREATED:20250725T190734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T141011Z
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SUMMARY:Resisting Oppression: Reading Science Fiction Politically
DESCRIPTION:Next on Monday September 29\, 5:00 pm \nWe will begin Ryka Aoki’s\, Light From Uncommon Stars\, our third in a set of three novels of oppression and resistance perfect for times like these. We also read Woman on the Edge of Time and Rosewater\, each featuring protagonists living and struggling on the margins of their societies. Each comes to envision a better world for themselves and their communities. Each draws on usual strengths\, makes use of new technologies\, and finds unusual allies. \n\nRyka Aoki’s In Light from Uncommon Stars\, Katrina Nguyen\, a runaway teen\, trans violinist\, finds her life entangled with world-famous violin teacher Shizuka Satomi and Lan Tran\, retired starship captain\, interstellar war refugee\, mother of four\, and California donut shop entrepreneur. All three address the complexity of technology in oppressive societies\, alienation and true aliens\, choice and unfreedom in contemporary capitalist social orders. This is a story for our challenging political and social times\, a wild and fun read to challenge what it means to create political science fiction.\nIn Tade Thompson’s award-winning Rosewater\, government agent and former thief Kaaro contends with social and class contradictions in contemporary Nigerian society\, the government and alien powers for a positive\, freer future for the city of Rosewater and beyond. The first-person novel features mesmerizing collages of scenes and conversations\, mirroring perhaps the mysteries of the “Xenosphere” which frames the story. Join us to read this debut novel which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.\nMarge Piercy’s classic Woman on the Edge of Time tells the story of Connie\, a working class Latina of the 1970s Los Angeles who envisions and pursues a utopian future from with involuntary institutionalization in the oppressive mental health system.\n\nBook covers for current reading list\nWritten in different eras of our modern times\, exploring different communities and peoples\, and ultimately defining radical reimagining in unique ways\, the three novels together will provide powerful reference points for our own dilemmas and choices. \nOur format: we meet every other Monday; we give each monthly selection two takes; we all share responsibilities for shaping the discussion on each work as literature\, each writer as a contributor to social change\, and each vision as a reflection of and an intervention in our aspirations for a better world.  Drop to read one novel that interests you with us\, stay and while if it suits you\, and always help shape our course. Our long term reading list. \nAlso watch for our next selection\, Susana Morris’ new biography of Octavia Butler. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, reading visionary fiction since introduced to the liberating power of Alice in Wonderland and Jules Verne at a very young age.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/resistance-to-oppression-reading-science-fiction-politically/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africanfuturism,Classes/Events,Fall 25,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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SUMMARY:'Fake Work' with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this September 24\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nUsing the most banal of office settings – corporate documentation – in the most extraordinary of circumstances – a looming Y2K apocalypse\, Leigh Claire La Berge‘s newly published Fake Work offers not only a unique experience of alienated labor\, but a novel type of Marxism: Marxist humor. The book recounts how a young white-collar worker discovers what capitalism is\, what it does\, and for whom. Described by the New York Times as a “memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil … superbly committed to its own beliefs — truthful\, dryly funny and often subtly moving\,” Fake Work is a story for anyone who has ever needed a job. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Fake Work\, Marx for Cats\, and Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin in 2021-2023.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fake-work-la-berge/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Capital Studies,Fall 25,featured,humor,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Media Criticism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T130000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring Hegel for Radicals series introduces what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. Over 16 Saturdays\, beginning March 8\, we will read and discuss one of the most influential books of all time\, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This massive retelling of humanity defies traditional divisions between history\, philosophy\, comedy\, and tragedy. As participants in Hegel’s Bacchanalian Revel we will step through such themes as \n\nThe Inverted World\nThe Dialectic of Master and Slave\nThe Cynical Bohemian\nThe Beautiful Soul\nFreedom and Terror\nSpirit Externalized as Nature and History\nThe Absolute\n\nThis journey provides a foundation for Hegel’s dialectic\, which is in turn a key to Marx’s Capital. \nWe recommend the translation by A.V. Miller of the Phenomenology of Spirit\, published by Oxford University Press and readily available as an inexpensive paperback. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar and lifelong socialist who has taught classes in Marxist philosophy\, Hegel\, the dialectics of nature\, Heidegger\, and Nietzsche at the New Space for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education\, The Brecht Forum\, the Marxist Education Project\, and other venues. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. In addition to his scholarly activities Alex has been involved with the governance of WBAI radio\, most recently as Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019 – 2021. \nRegistration for this study group is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-phenomenology/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 25
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250714T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250714T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically: Severance by Ling Ma
DESCRIPTION:Next\, Monday July 14\, 5:00 pm \n  \nGet started with the Science and Visionary Fiction book group with our July Book Selection: Severance\, by Ling Ma.  Severance combines two things. It offers a satirical\, sardonic look at 21st century lives\, loves and labor as experienced by Candace Chen. Candace has both the classic dilemmas of a first generation immigrant and the here and now reality of a millennial New Yorker setting out in today’s world. \nInto this world comes Shen Fever\, which brings an apocalypse not unlike what Covid 19 might have been. Ling Ma published the book in 2018\, which makes its dystopian vision all the more remarkable.  Candace winds up in a group of like minded would-be survivors and the tale unfolds. \nThe novel does offer a brisk pace yet we mostly read it for the author’s eyes and ears on our current dilemmas as we struggle to survive. \n  \nFor more than three years\, the MEP Science and Visionary Fiction reading group has explored topics of oppression and resistance\, history and science\, capitalist and post-capitalist future\, human and nonhuman intelligence. We read with an overall commitment\, To build a better future\, we have to envision it first (adapted from Walidah Imarisha). Reading science\, speculative and visionary fiction\, discussing it together\, and reading it politically\, offers one tool for envisioning a future worth building. \nGive it a try for your summer reading: drop in\, stay for a while\, and contribute to lively\, present day-centered discussions. Everyone has something to contribute\, whether you read this sort of thing regularly or have hardly ever given it a second thought. Convened by Steve Backman. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-severance-by-ling-ma/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africanfuturism,Classes/Events,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T183000
DTSTAMP:20250620T193944Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Death of the Author by Nigeria's Nnedi Okorafor
DESCRIPTION:Next\, Monday June 30\, 5:00 pm   \nAfricanfuturism is concerned with visions of the future\, is interested in technology\, leaves the earth\, skews optimistic\, is centered on and predominantly written by people of African descent (black people) and it is rooted first and foremost in Africa. It’s less concerned with “what could have been” and more concerned with “what is and can/will be”. It acknowledges\, grapples with and carries “what has been.”   —NNedi Okorafor  \nDip into the growing realm of Africanfuturism reading NNedi Okorafor’s most recent novel\, Death of the Author.  Her science fiction successful and highly popular today\, Okorafor here provides both an introduction to Nigerian science fiction for those that need it and a reflection on its cultural meaning for those who have read Binti\, others from Okorfor\, or other Nigerian- or African-inspired visionary and speculative fiction today. \nDeath of the Author centers on a Nigerian woman setting out to write science fiction\, perhaps like Okorafor herself years and many novels back. The novel explores Zelu’s dilemmas and doubts\, her relationship with family and community\, the world of publishing  in ways that may reflect Okorfor’s past. It also features a story within the story about intelligent robots in a futuristic African context.  The two stories blend together in unusual and unexpected ways\, and fit well with concerns of politically conscious readers of fiction and science fiction today. \n  \n  \nJuly Book Selection: Severance\, by Ling Ma.\nWatch this page for more information. \nFor more than three years\, the MEP Science and Visionary Fiction reading group has explored topics of oppression and resistance\, history and science\, capitalist and post-capitalist future\, human and nonhuman intelligence. We read with an overall commitment\, To build a better future\, we have to envision it first (adapted from Walidah Imarisha). Reading science\, speculative and visionary fiction\, discussing it together\, and reading it politically\, offers one tool for envisioning a future worth building. \nGive it a try for your summer reading: drop in\, stay for a while\, and contribute to lively\, present day-centered discussions. Everyone has something to contribute\, whether you read this sort of thing regularly or have hardly ever given it a second thought. Convened by Steve Backman \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-summer-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africanfuturism,Classes/Events,featured,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T180000
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SUMMARY:Aristotle\, Hegel\, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:A video of this June 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nJoin us for a dialogue on philosophical themes featuring two authors of forthcoming books from Stanford University Press. Michael Lazarus is the author of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle\, Hegel and Marx\, and Jensen Suther is the author of True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom.  Lazarus situates Marx within a shared tradition of ethical inquiry\, placing him in close dialogue with Aristotle and Hegel. His book traces the ethical and political dimensions of Marx’s work missed by Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre\, two of the most profound critics of modern politics and ethics. Ultimately\, the book claims that Marx’s value-form theory is both a continuation of Aristotelian and Hegelian themes and at the same time his most distinctive theoretical achievement. In True Materialism\, Suther engages with three titans of literary modernism—Franz Kafka\, Thomas Mann\, and Samuel Beckett—to pursue not only an account of Hegel’s materialism but also a new critique of capitalist modernity. Breaking with the received view of Marx’s relation to German Idealism\, the book argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel’s idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition. \nMichael Lazarus is a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University. \nJensen Suther received his PhD from Yale University and is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/aristotle-hegel-marx/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Antiquity,communism,featured,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Summer 25,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T170000
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SUMMARY:Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Socialists and Immigrants in the Lower East Side\nJoin Alex Steinberg and Daniel Lazare for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917. \nWe will explore the culture of the radicalized immigrant communities of Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe as well as German\, Russian\, Italian and Greek immigrants. These communities supported a thriving socialist movement in New York.  And in 1917\, ferment and struggle increased dramatically as America entered World War I on April 6\, 1917 and Russia’s revolutionary wave exploded a few months later. \nAfter beginning at Cooper Union\, we will walk to 77 St. Marks Place\, which housed the offices of the Russian language newspaper Novy Mir and where Trotsky and other future Bolshevik leaders worked daily. From there\, the tour will walk to the building of the Jewish Daily Forward in Seward Park\, where we will learn of Trotsky’s dramatic confrontation with more conservative socialists. As we walk we will pass by a number of places that were important in understanding the history of the social struggles of immigrants in a New York very different than the city we know today. \nLed by Alex Steinberg and Daniel Lazare. Alex is a frequent teacher of Marxist Education Project classes on the philosophy of Hegel and related topics. Daniel is is a journalist and author; his books include The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy. \nMeet in front of the main entrance to The Great Hall of Cooper Union\, behind the statue of Peter Cooper\, East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trotsky-in-new-york-tour/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,History,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T203000
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SUMMARY:Literary Echoes of Vietnam's 1975 Victory
DESCRIPTION:While the bombs were falling\, only a stone wouldn’t be terrified. If the Americans noticed movement in the forest\, they would eliminate the forest. Who knows how much money was spent? American taxpayers’ money. If a cluster of napalm bombs were dropped\, the jungle would turn into a sea of fire. Can you imagine a sea of fire? –Bao Ninh \nJoin with the MEP Literature Group to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 fall of Saigon\, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. This month\, we will read two volumes by Bao Ninh–The Sorrow of War and Hà Nôi at Midnight.  \nBorn in October 1952\, Bao Ninh experienced the effects of US bombing while growing up and later joined the “Glorious 27th Youth Brigade” at the age of 17. Bao Ninh’s writing offers restrained\, poignant\, yet powerful accounts of the “sorrow of war\,” the losses and grief of a generation who fought to unify the country. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Reading Group. Jacqueline Cantwell became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s  novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation. \n(Bao Ninh quote from Ken Burns’ series The Vietnam War)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fall_of_saigon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Literary Studies,Summer 25,War
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