BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Marxist Education Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180126T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180126T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T022704Z UID:10006237-1516989600-1516996800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through February 2\nNo session on Friday\, November 24\, December 29 or January 19 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas-2018-01-19/2018-01-26/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T022704Z UID:10006236-1516384800-1516392000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through February 2\nNo session on Friday\, November 24\, December 29 or January 19 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas-2018-01-19/2018-01-19/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180119T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003802-1516384800-1516392000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2018-01-19/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180112T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003801-1515780000-1515787200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2018-01-12/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180105T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180105T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003800-1515175200-1515182400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2018-01-05/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171222T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003799-1513965600-1513972800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-22/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003798-1513360800-1513368000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-15/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171208T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003797-1512756000-1512763200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-08/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171201T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003796-1512151200-1512158400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-12-01/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171117T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003795-1510941600-1510948800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-11-17/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171110T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T024722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T032615Z UID:10003794-1510336800-1510344000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fridays As In Murder: Women\, Violence & Genre Formulas DESCRIPTION:Convened by Jacqueline Cantwell\nFridays\, 6:00 to 8:00\n10 meetings\, November 10 through January 26\nNo session on Friday\, November 24 or December 29 \nIn traditional hard-boiled and crime novels\, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp\, film noir\, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness\, dread\, and discontent within social corruption\, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed\, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women. \nOur Friday readings will consist of the following: \nAttica Locke\, The Cutting Season\nThe body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park\, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation\, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder. \nDorothy B. Hughes\, The Expendable Man\nDriving toward Phoenix\, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride\, he fears for her safety. Then\, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student. \nJean-Patrick Manchette\, Fatale \nCan a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers. \nNina Revoyr\, Lost Canyon \nFour hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness\, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race\, class\, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations. \nJacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/2017-11-10/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AirportNoir_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171009T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171009T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170712T043222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T152115Z UID:10003804-1507577400-1507584600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The October Revolution of 1917 DESCRIPTION:The October Revolution of 1917\nA seven-week overview featuring China Miéville’s October\nMondays\, October 9 through November 20\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm\nThe Revolutions Study Group \nFew historical events have been as widely misrepresented as the Russian Revolution of November\, 1917 (called the “October Revolution”\, according to the old Russian calendar). Especially since the collapse of the USSR in 1991\, defenders of the capitalist order\, including respectable academic scholars\, have attempted to portray it as a coup d’état by a small minority of revolutionary zealots\, bent on imposing an authoritarian regime. These falsehoods have the aim of discrediting not only this revolution and its leaders\, but the idea of revolution in general. The Revolutions Study Group—which has recently taken an in-depth look at the events that brought Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power—is marking the centennial of the October Revolution by offering an eight-week course for anyone interested in finding out what actually happened at this defining moment of the twentieth century\, and beyond. \nWe will read Verso Books’ recently published October\, by China Miéville\, along with other short readings\, where appropriate. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2008. Individual participants have come and gone. However the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy in 1969\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The group has just this past June completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-october-revolution-of-1917/2017-10-09/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/arton2139.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170916T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170916T153000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170627T034044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T034044Z UID:10003792-1505570400-1505575800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital\, Volume I DESCRIPTION:Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital\, Volume I\, as Seen from a Multilinear\, Peripheral Angle \nIt is often said that Capital\, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form\, with many dialectical twists and turns\, but not with revolution. However\, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact\, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution: (1) a working class uprising that rises as a form of revolutionary negation of the centralized productive apparatus of modern industrial capitalism\, but posed at a high level of abstraction; (2) four other notions of revolution that connect a class uprising to race\, ethnicity\, colonialism\, and the need to abolish the state. \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has worked in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, the Frankfurt School\, Foucault\, and the Orientalism debate. Among his books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He has also contributed to For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics (ed. D. Alderson and R. Spencer\, 2017) and the Transition from Capitalism (ed. S. Rahnema\, 2017)\, and is the coeditor of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (with Peter Hudis\, 2004)\, Karl Marx (with Bertell Ollman\, 2012)\, and the Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence (2012\, with Russell Rockwell). He is a member of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/five-explicit-and-implicit-notions-of-revolution-in-capital-volume-i/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Capital_BookSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170720T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170720T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170714T054456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T054810Z UID:10006191-1500579000-1500586200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Thursday Noirs: Summer fiction DESCRIPTION:SPILLING THE BEANS\, SPLATTERING BLOOD \nA 10-week group convened with the\nIndigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nHard-boiled fiction and noir confirm capitalism’s violence with glaring facts\, subtle twists of mind and plenty of broken bones and lives in between. Verbal sparring\, physical clashes\, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives\, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine\, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital. These summer fictions we will read and discuss give voice to some of what we already know and shine light into the corners of stark realities these writers have taken on with twists and turns that surprise whether we are ready or not. \nWe have just discussed Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses\, Don’t They? (1935) which used truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. \nJuly 20 and 27\nThe Big Clock (1946)\, an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing\, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and murderous chief executive. \nAugust 3 and 10\nWith In a Lonely Place (1947)\, Dorothy B. Hughes created one of the first full-scale literary portraits of a serial murderer. The streets of Los Angeles become a setting for random killings\, and Hughes ventures\, with unblinking exactness\, into the mind of the killer. In the process she conjures up a potent mood of postwar dread and lingering trauma. \nAugust 17 and 24\nIn The Blunderer (1954)\, Patricia Highsmith tracks two men\, strangers to each other\, whose destinies become intertwined when one becomes obsessed with a crime committed by the other. Highsmith’s gimlet-eyed portrayals of failed marriages and deceptively congenial middle-class communities lend a sardonic edge to this tale of intrigue and ineptitude. \nAugust 31 and September 7\nTwo teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’ Fools’ Gold (1958) and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders\, Fools’ Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a shelteredof young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America’s two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s\, edited by Sarah Weinman. \nSeptember 14 and 21\nWith its gritty realism\, unrestrained violence and frequently outrageous humor\, The Real Cool Killers (1959) is among the most powerful of Chester Himes’s series of novels about the Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/thursday-noirs-summer-fiction/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NoirThurs2.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170719T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170719T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170714T053528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T053528Z UID:10003806-1500487200-1500494400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Capital Politically Continues DESCRIPTION:5 More Sessions: July 19\, 26\, & August 2\, 16\, 23 (no class August 9) \n“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave\, patrician and plebian\, lord and serf\, guild-master and journeyman\, in a word\, oppressor and oppressed\, stood in constant opposition to one another\, carried on an uninterrupted\, now hidden\, now open fight\, a fight that each time ended\, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large\, or in the common ruin of contending classes.” —Karl Marx\, The Communist Manifesto \nFor 150 years\, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital has fascinated\, frustrated and or confounded readers. It is most often read as a work of political economy whose aim is to understand how the capitalist economy works or even philosophically for its method (the influence of Hegel and his method continues to be debated). However Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read Capital politically? To answer this question\, this class will examine Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (the most well known American exponent of what has come to be labelled “class struggle” or “Autonomist” Marxism after the Italian “Autonomia” movement of the 1970s). For the autonomists\, Marx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And\, how should we read Capital politically? \nReading for this class will include: \nReading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (https://libcom.org/files/cleaver-reading_capital_politically.pdf)\nCapital Volume 1\, Chapter 1 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm)\nCyberMarx by Nick Dyer-Witheford Chapter 4 (on Autonomist Marxism) https://libcom.org/library/cyber-marx-nick-dyer-witheford \nDan Karan has been studying Marxism for 40 years and was a student of John Gerassi\, Jean-Paul Sartre’s official biographer. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-politically-continues/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/3rdSoutienPoster.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170718T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170718T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170430T142310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T012948Z UID:10006183-1500406200-1500413400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women’s Liberation Movement: 1968-1975 DESCRIPTION:Jenny Brown\nTuesday\, July 18 and 25\, 7:30-9:30 pm \nReadings provided by Jenny for this series: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_eXN8wqn-HgaEpVaVlLOU1UTVk \nJULY 18 Origins & Theory: The Women’s Liberation Movement is rooted in the Black-led Southern Civil Rights Movement and most of its theory pioneers\, white and Black\, were full-time workers in that movement. They also drew from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. As the Black Freedom movement turned to Black Power\, feminists took theory from Black Power and applied it to their newborn movement. We’ll read original sources from both the Black-led and majority-white branches of women’s liberation. \nJULY 25 The Power of History: This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories\, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. We will read analyses from Women’s Liberation Movement organizers written after the height of the movement’s power. \nJenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and has been involved in feminist theory and organizing since 1988\, first with Gainesville Women’s Liberation in Gainesville\, Florida and then with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action\, a movement think-tank and archive based in New York. She co-authored the Redstockings book\, Women’s Liberation and National Healthcare: Confronting the Myth of America and the Labor Notes book How to Jump Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers along with numerous essays and articles. She was also a co-chair of a Labor Party Local Organizing Committee in Gainesville\, Florida and is a former editor of Labor Notes. \nThose who have enrolled in the ongoing New Left series are already registered for these two sessions \nPrices below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/womens-liberation-movement-1968-1975/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WomensLiberationCommons.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Beginnings of a New Left":MAILTO:revsgroup@gmail.com GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170713T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170713T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170528T013331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T023131Z UID:10006189-1499974200-1499981400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hard Boiled Thursdays: Summer Fiction Series DESCRIPTION:SPILLING THE BEANS\, SPLATTERING BLOOD: \nAn 11-week group convened with the\nIndigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nHard-boiled fiction and noir confirm capitalism’s violence with glaring facts\, subtle twists of mind and plenty of broken bones and lives in between. Verbal sparring\, physical clashes\, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives\, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine\, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital. These summer fictions we will read and discuss give voice to some of what we already know and shine light into the corners of stark realities these writers have taken on with twists and turns that surprise whether we are ready or not. \nJuly 13\nHorace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses\, Don’t They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. \nJuly 20 and 27\nThe Big Clock (1946)\, an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing\, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and murderous chief executive. \nAugust 3 and 10\nWith In a Lonely Place (1947)\, Dorothy B. Hughes created one of the first full-scale literary portraits of a serial murderer. The streets of Los Angeles become a setting for random killings\, and Hughes ventures\, with unblinking exactness\, into the mind of the killer. In the process she conjures up a potent mood of postwar dread and lingering trauma. \nAugust 17 and 24\nIn The Blunderer (1954)\, Patricia Highsmith tracks two men\, strangers to each other\, whose destinies become intertwined when one becomes obsessed with a crime committed by the other. Highsmith’s gimlet-eyed portrayals of failed marriages and deceptively congenial middle-class communities lend a sardonic edge to this tale of intrigue and ineptitude. \nAugust 31 and September 7\nTwo teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’ Fools’ Gold (1958) and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders\, Fools’ Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a shelteredof young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America’s two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s\, edited by Sarah Weinman. \nSeptember 14 and 21\nWith its gritty realism\, unrestrained violence and frequently outrageous humor\, The Real Cool Killers (1959) is among the most powerful of Chester Himes’s series of novels about the Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hard-boiled-thursdays-summer-fiction-series/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SpilledBeans_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170712T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170712T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170605T035622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170626T134432Z UID:10006190-1499882400-1499889600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Capital Politically DESCRIPTION:A Six Session class: July 12\, 19\, 26\, & August 2\, 16\, 23 (no class August 9) \n“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave\, patrician and plebian\, lord and serf\, guild-master and journeyman\, in a word\, oppressor and oppressed\, stood in constant opposition to one another\, carried on an uninterrupted\, now hidden\, now open fight\, a fight that each time ended\, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large\, or in the common ruin of contending classes.” —Karl Marx\, The Communist Manifesto \nFor 150 years\, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital has fascinated\, frustrated and or confounded readers. It is most often read as a work of political economy whose aim is to understand how the capitalist economy works or even philosophically for its method (the influence of Hegel and his method continues to be debated). However Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read capital politically? To answer this question\, this class will examine Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (the most well known American exponent of what has come to be labelled “class struggle” or “Autonomist” Marxism after the Italian “Autonomia” movement of the 1970s). For the autonomists\, Marx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And\, how should we read capital politically? \nReading for this class will include: \nReading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver (https://libcom.org/files/cleaver-reading_capital_politically.pdf)\nCapital Volume 1\, Chapter 1 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm)\nCyberMarx by Nick Dyer-Witheford Chapter 4 (on Autonomist Marxism) https://libcom.org/library/cyber-marx-nick-dyer-witheford \nDan Karan has been studying Marxism for 40 years and was a student of John Gerassi\, Jean-Paul Sartre’s official biographer. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-capital-politically/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1968_JeParticipeSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170613T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170613T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170607T043209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T043209Z UID:10003780-1497382200-1497389400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:A New Left Forms\, June and July sessions on the 1960s DESCRIPTION:with Jenny Brown and others\n6 Tuesdays\, 7:30 – 9:30pm: June 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18 and 25 (no class July 4) \nJune 13-27. The music didn’t die.\nWe will consider the many cultural influences of the first generation born who at day one were facing the bomb and the looming threat of mutually assured destruction. Reading and discussion of Jeff Nuttal’s Bomb Culture\, and Tariq Ali’s Street Fighting Years\, where Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical.\nJuly 11. Mexico’s 68 Experience. Tlatelolco.\nA look at the 1968 student movement in Mexico and the Tlatelolco Massacre in which a popular uprising was attacked by the Mexican military killing nearly 400 students\, sympathizers and bystanders\, just weeks before the 1968 Olympics.\nJuly 18 and 25. 60s Women’s Liberation Movement\nJuly 18 Origins & Theory: The Women’s Liberation Movement is rooted in the Black-led Southern Civil Rights Movement and most of its theory pioneers\, white and Black\, were full-time workers in that movement. They also drew from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. As the Black Freedom movement turned to Black Power\, feminists took theory from Black Power and applied it to their newborn movement. We’ll read original sources from both the Black-led and majority-white branches of women’s liberation.\nJuly 25 The Power of History: This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories\, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. We will read analyses from Women’s Liberation Movement organizers written after the height of the movement’s power. \nJenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and has been involved in feminist theory and organizing since 1988\, first with Gainesville Women’s Liberation in Gainesville\, Florida and then with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action\, a movement think-tank and archive based in New York. She co-authored the Redstockings book\, Women’s Liberation and National Healthcare: Confronting the Myth of America and the Labor Notes book How to Jump Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers along with numerous essays and articles. She was also a co-chair of a Labor Party Local Organizing Committee in Gainesville\, Florida and is a former editor of Labor Notes. \nThose who have enrolled in the ongoing New Left series are already registered for these two sessions URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-new-left-forms-june-and-july-sessions-on-the-1960s/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NewLeftJuly_67commons.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170613T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170613T203000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170327T141851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170611T171055Z UID:10006163-1497378600-1497385800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Creating an Ecological Society DESCRIPTION:A reading group\nFive more Tuesdays \nWe will read and discuss the just-published book by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams\, Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation. Sickened by the contamination of water\, air\, and the Earth itself\, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is\, quite literally\, killing us – and indeed\, degrading the Earth’s very ability to support all forms of life. The authors identify the root causes of the global environmental crisis in capitalism’s imperative to make profits at all costs and expand without end. They lay out a program for building a society that is genuinely democratic\, equitable\, and ecologically sustainable. \nFred Murphy has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nSteve Knight has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History and the Crisis of Capitalism appeared last year in the journal Marx & Philosophy. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. Stated fees are sliding scale. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creating-an-ecological-society/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Spring17_Eco_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170612T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170612T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170418T020401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170611T165915Z UID:10006177-1497290400-1497295800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in England DESCRIPTION:by Frederick Engels\nA reading and discussion group convened with Lisa Maya Knauer\nFour more Mondays\, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm\nJune 12\, 19\, 26 and July 3 \nEverywhere barbarous indifference\, hard egotism on one hand\, and nameless misery on the other\, everywhere social warfare\, every… house in a state of siege\, everywhere reciprocal plundering under the protection of the law\, and all so shameless\, so openly avowed that one shrinks before the consequences of our social state as they manifest themselves here undisguised\, and can only wonder that the whole crazy fabric still hangs together. \nThis sounds like a description of our contemporary moment\, when so many communities around the globe are reeling from the havoc wrought by unfettered neoliberal capitalism\, from structural adjustment to cuts in social spending to “free trade” agreements to the gig economy and the loss of affordable housing on a global scale. \nBut this paragraph was written by Frederick Engels\, in his 1845 book\, The Condition of the Working Class in England. This reading group will take a close look at Engels’ master work\, to help understand how the formation of industrial capital and the industrial working class in the nineteenth century has led us to the current conjuncture in contemporary capitalism — characterized by growing inequality\, increasing precariousness for nearly everyone except the capitalist elite\, and incessant attacks on the most vulnerable — and explore its lessons for our revolutionary politics in the twenty-first century. This class is open to those reading Marx and Engels for the first time\, and would provide an excellent background for in-depth study of historical materialism. While this is a self-contained five-week session\, it will also serve as a prelude to an exploration of Marx and Engels’ political writings in the fall. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a lifelong radical who came of age politically in the 1960s and 1970s. She was active in the anti-war\, civil rights\, women’s\, farmworkers support\, anti-apartheid and other movements. She moved to New York in 1977 and quickly immersed herself in the New York left. She found the School for Marxist Education in the phone book and joined the Marxist Education Collective\, and has been involved with this educational undertaking through its various incarnations\, including the Marxist Education Project. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university and does research on indigenous resistance in Guatemala and immigrant worker organizing in the U.S. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-england/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EngelsConditions_Site.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170530T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170530T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170430T145720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170528T033351Z UID:10006186-1496172600-1496179800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Paris\, May 1968 DESCRIPTION:Mitch Abidor\nTuesday\, May 30\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm \nThis second talk will investigate the events May 1968 in France through an analysis of the writings of Daniel Cohn-Bendit\, one of the most important and interesting of its leaders\, as well as the experiences of rank and file militants interviewed by Mitch Abidor for his forthcoming oral history\, May Made Me. \nMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published several collections of his translations. Mitch recently translated Jean Jáurès’ Socialist History of the French Revolution and A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove and is currently working on translations of further unpublished works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guérin. \nThose enrolled in the New Left history course are already registered for these to sessions. \nFees listed below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/paris-may-1968/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mai_68_debut_dune_lutte_prolongee.png ORGANIZER;CN="Beginnings of a New Left":MAILTO:revsgroup@gmail.com GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170529T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170529T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170413T033548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170528T032844Z UID:10006171-1496086200-1496093400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The German Revolution: False Hope or Missed Chance DESCRIPTION:Postscript\, 1924-1933\nRevolutions Study Group\nFour more Mondays\, 7:30-9:30 p.m.\, Brooklyn Commons\, May 29–June 19\n(sliding scale: no one is turned away for an inability to pay) \nIn November 1923\, with the Weimar Republic reeling from the French occupation of the Rhineland and the destruction of its economy by the Great Inflation\, the Communist Party of Germany failed in its third attempt since 1919 to lead a workers revolution. Over the next nine years\, while the German Left became more bitterly divided than ever\, the extreme nationalist and revanchist element in Germany was coalescing around a new mass party\, the Nazis\, who found increasing numbers of powerful supporters in the army and among the capitalists. When the next potentially revolutionary moment occurred with the Great Depression of 1929\, it was fascism that was poised to seize power. Taking off from our readings this past winter\, the group will explore why and how this looming tragedy took over Germany\, and looks for lessons for our own world. \nReadings will include: Richard Evans\, The Coming of the Third Reich (1st two chapters; book is readily available in public libraries and reasonably priced as a paperback). Daniel Guerin\, Fascism and Big Business (2 chapters; also readily available). L. Trotsky\, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (Introduction by Ernest Mandel and essays 7\,8\, 10\, and 19; can be purchased online; may be in some public libraries) \nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. \nImage: combo of two works by John Heartfield URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-german-revolution-false-hope-or-missed-chance/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/German_To33Site.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170129T050652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170404T023633Z UID:10006136-1495654200-1495661400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fascism: Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Fascism Then and Now: A Community Roundtable \nFriends of the MEP and the Left community at large are invited to discuss the meaning and signficance of fascism and how to recognize it and struggle against it in world politics today. We hope to debate questions such as: What is the nature of fascism in relation to nationalism/racism\, misogyny\, social/community dissolution? Is or is not the Trump phenomenon an example or at least a precursor of fascism in the USA? Are there important political movements in other countries that could be called fascist? Is the social psychology of fascism the same today as it was in the 20th century? Are theAre there other forms of authoritarian capitalism that are not fascism\, and why might it matter? Current facilitators are Peter Bratsis\, Michael Pelias\, Dan Karan\, Alex Steinberg\, David Worley (moderator). \nOthers are welcome to join as facilitators; each facilitator will offer a three minute (no longer) opening statement\, after which the floor will be open for general discussion. \nThe image is from a deck of anti-fascist playing cards created during the Siege of Leningrad in 1943 URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-syriza-wave/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LongDeckAnti-fascist.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170520T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170520T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170402T233433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170402T233433Z UID:10006165-1495303200-1495310400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Challenging Militarism\, Climate Change\, and Human Nature DESCRIPTION:Challenging Militarism\, Climate Change\, and Human Nature: Revolutionary Mothering and A Politics of Responsibility\nJudith Deutsch\n \nOur ability to address urgent threats to our existence like climate change and nuclear weapons is hampered and undermined by questionable assumptions about “human nature” that underlie much political thought and action. In the book Revolutionary Mothering an anthology by Alexis Pauline Gumbs\, China Martens\, Mai’a Williams\, and Loretta J. Ross\, women of color start from the interdependence of the child and the mothering person to propose a very different perspective on human experience\, and the interface between individuals and institutions. Mothering and revolution are messy – there are no pat formulas or fixed paradigms. They propose a politics of necessity and responsibility\, emphasizing needs rather than rights: “There will be no liberation without us knowing how to depend on each other\, how to be encumbered with and responsible for each other.” \nJudith Deutsch is a columnist for Canadian Dimension Magazine\, former president of Science for Peace\, and a psychoanalyst by profession. For reading prior to this presentation\, please refer to Judith’s March 1 article in The Bullet: http://socialistproject.ca/bullet/1376.php URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/challenging-militarism-climate-change-and-human-nature/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KollwitzSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170516T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170516T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170510T134432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170510T134432Z UID:10006187-1494963000-1494970200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Existentialism\, Anti-Psychiatry: 1960s and beyond DESCRIPTION:Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement:\nConsiderations on Laing\, Cooper\, Schizoid-analysis and Radio Alice\nSecond presentation by Michael Pelias\nTuesday\, May 16\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm \nBehind the anti-psychiatry movement that blossomed during the 1970s was the fundamental post-Freudian work of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential psychoanalysis. This highly creative approach by Sartre was named “existential psychoanalysis” and was first articulated at the end of the classic\, Being and Nothingness (1943). We will read a selection of this new approach to psychic individuation alongside the Laing/Cooper nexus that sprung the anti-psychiatry movement and resulted in open psychiatric institutions\, mental health liberation activity\, and an on-going critique of “bourgeois” psychiatry and contemporary behaviorism\, cognitive and psycho-pharmacological approaches to the question of what is mental health. We will also look at Laing’s famous proposition that schizophrenia is the sanest reaction to capitalism and engage the schizoid analysis of Deleuze and Guattari alongside the anti-psychiatry moment of Basaglia and Radio Alice in Italy. \nAt minimum\, please read this section from Laing’s Politics of Experience at Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm \nMichael Pelias teaches both ancient and modern Philosophy at Long Island University\, Brooklyn and is one of the co-founders of the Institute for the Radical Imagination and co-managing editor of the journal Situations. \nThose who are participating in the New Left course on Tuesday evenings are already enrolled for these two sessions. \nFees listed below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nFees paid are applicable to ongoing Foundations of New Left\, 1960-70 course which will continue until the end of July URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/existentialism-anti-psychiatry-1960s-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LaingEyesAKnot.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Beginnings of a New Left":MAILTO:revsgroup@gmail.com GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170509T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170509T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170430T144910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T144910Z UID:10006185-1494358200-1494365400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement DESCRIPTION:Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement:\nConsiderations on Laing\, Cooper\, Schizoid-analysis and Radio Alice\nA two-week presentation by Michael Pelias\nTuesday\, May 9 and 16\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm \nBehind the anti-psychiatry movement that blossomed during the 1970s was the fundamental post-Freudian work of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential psychoanalysis. This highly creative approach by Sartre was named “existential psychoanalysis” and was first articulated at the end of the classic\, Being and Nothingness (1943). We will read a selection of this new approach to psychic individuation alongside the Laing/Cooper nexus that sprung the anti-psychiatry movement and resulted in open psychiatric institutions\, mental health liberation activity\, and an on-going critique of “bourgeois” psychiatry and contemporary behaviorism\, cognitive and psycho-pharmacological approaches to the question of what is mental health. We will also look at Laing’s famous proposition that schizophrenia is the sanest reaction to capitalism and engage the schizoid analysis of Deleuze and Guattari alongside the anti-psychiatry moment of Basaglia and Radio Alice in Italy. \nAt minimum\, please read this section from Laing’s Politics of Experience at Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/laing.htm \nMichael Pelias teaches both ancient and modern Philosophy at Long Island University\, Brooklyn and is one of the co-founders of the Institute for the Radical Imagination and co-managing editor of the journal Situations. \nThose who are participating in the New Left course on Tuesday evenings are already enrolled for these two sessions. \nFees listed below are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/existentialism-and-the-anti-psychiatry-movement/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Anti-Psychiatry_67Commons.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Beginnings of a New Left":MAILTO:revsgroup@gmail.com GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170430T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170430T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170315T023951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T131437Z UID:10006158-1493575200-1493582400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Creating An Ecological Society DESCRIPTION:Towards a revolutionary transformation \nWhy Capitalism Must Go to Save the Earth\nCapitalism is the problem and creating a new society is both possible and essential. \nFred Magdoff is Professor Emeritus of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. Among his recent books are What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with John Bellamy Foster) and Agriculture and Food in Crisis (edited with Brian Tokar). \nno one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creating-an-ecological-society-part-1/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FredSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170318T230455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T030959Z UID:10006160-1493463600-1493474400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Grundrisse\, The Chapter on Capital DESCRIPTION:Saturday sessions on essential works of Marx\nReading and discussion sessions with Sam Salour and others\nThis group will meet on Saturdays until June 17 \n“Forces of production and social relations — two different sides of the development of the social individual — appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of The German Ideology and the Grundrisse. These works are perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Starting April 1 we will read from The Chapter on Capital from the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. These three-hour sessions will have a 30 minute break at 12:30 \nNo one turned away for inability to pay. $10 per session suggested fee. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-grundrisse-the-chapter-on-capital/ LOCATION:Brooklyn Commons\, 388 Atlantic Avenue\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Grosz_BourgeoisGroupPortraitSite.jpg GEO:40.6869154;-73.9855868 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=388 Atlantic Avenue:geo:-73.9855868,40.6869154 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170427T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170427T213000 DTSTAMP:20260525T102800 CREATED:20170319T172336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170319T172336Z UID:10006162-1493321400-1493328600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:African Literature: Post-Colonial Struggles DESCRIPTION:A 9-week reading group\nThursdays\, April 27 through June 22\, 7:30 to 9:30 pm\nOrganized with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \n“Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty.” ― Ousmane Sembène \nDuring this term we will begin with Egypt with Mahfouz\, visit West Africa with Chris Abani then travel south to South Africa with Zakes Mda then conclude in June with NoViolet Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Again we examine four different areas of Africa as the peoples there emerge first from European colonization\, then face the forces of global domination in the long neoliberal phase we yet endure. \nRespected Sir\nNaguib Mahfouz\nEgypt\, 1975\n With this portrait of a misanthropic civil servant\, Mahfouz devises a cunning send-up of egregious ambition\, stodgy bureaucracy and cloying piety. The novel’s overblown language mirrors the grandiose aspirations of protagonist Othman Bayyumi\, an archives clerk who schemes for a lofty appointment as Director General\, expounding that “a government position is a brick in the edifice of the state\, and the state is an exhalation of the spirit of God\, incarnate on earth.” \nSong for Night\nChris Abani\nNigeria\, 2007\nSong for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier’s lyrical\, terrifying\, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. Our guide is a voiceless protagonist who\, as part of a land mine-clearing platoon\, had his vocal chords cut\, a move to keep these children from screaming when blown up\, and thereby distracting the other minesweepers. The book is written in a ghostly voice\, with each chapter headed by a line of the unique sign language these children invented. \nThe Heart of Redness\nZakes Mda\nSouth Africa\, 2007\nIn Mda’s novel\, there is Camugu\, who left for America during apartheid\, and has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy\, he follows his “famous lust” to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops\, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. A failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers\, dividing brother from brother\, wife from husband\, with devastating consequences. 150 years later\, the two groups’ decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village\, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their struggles for a future worth living for. \nWe Need New Names\nNoViolet Bulawayo\nZimbabwe\, 2012\nDarling is only ten years old\, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe\, Darling and her friends steal guavas\, try to get the baby out of young Chipo’s belly\, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen\, before the school closed\, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America’s famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. \nThe Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group\, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. 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