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SUMMARY:The Fall and Rise of American Finance
DESCRIPTION:huhVideo available here for this February 10\, 2024\, event \nIt is today all but taken for granted by critical political economists – and by political figures from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders – that finance is parasitic on industry. Financialization\, in this view\, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state\, hollowing out the “real” economy\,  and thereby hastening the decline of capitalism. But Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno pose a bold challenge to this hypothesis in their new book\, The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Surveying the last century of capitalist development\, they insist that\, despite the costs to workers and the middle class\, financialization has boosted competitiveness and strengthened capital – all with the support of an ever stronger and more authoritarian state. This has culminated since the 2008 crisis in a new economic regime – “a new finance capital” – marked by unprecedented concentration and centralization in the hands of the “Big Three” asset management firms (BlackRock\, Vanguard\, Fidelity). \nUnlike most recent MEP programming\, this event will be presented live and in-person at The People’s Forum in New York City\, with an online Zoom option for remote participants and a live stream on YouTube. Get your ticket below. \nStephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. He is also the author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Palgrave\, 2022). \nScott Aquanno is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ontario Tech University\, and a Visiting Associate at the Global Labour Research Centre at York University. He is the author of Crisis of Risk: Subprime Debt and US Financial Power from 1944 to Present (Edward Elgar\, 2021). \nThe book is available from the publisher\, Verso Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/maher-aquannozzz/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Globalization,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the Life of Michael Lardner
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this October 16\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nMichael Lardner\, longtime organizer with the Marxist Education Project\, died on July 21\, 2022\, following a brief but valiant struggle with an aggressive cancer. \nMichael was a long-time activist\, starting as an organizer with the United Farm Workers in his early 20s\, eventually working as a typesetter for Win magazine\, published by the War Resisters League\, where he honed his skills in type\, graphic design\, and printing. \nThroughout his life he believed in the importance of studying history\, politics\, philosophy\, economics\, the visual arts and music\, and relished conversation and discussion with many friends\, new and old\, who joined him at classes and events\, over dinner and drinks\, and during the last few years using the Internet to never cease exchanging ideas with his many friends and comrades. \nMichael remained committed to promoting non-sectarian progressive educational opportunities through his involvement with the New York Marxist School\, The Brecht Forum\, and the Marxist Education Project. He loved literature\, always finding beauty and an expansive understanding in the language\, type styling\, graphic design\, and of course a good book cover! \nLiving in New York City and Montclair\, New Jersey for over 45 years\, Michael never stopped loving his home state of Michigan\, Port Huron where he grew up\, and his hometown Detroit sports teams. He traveled around the world\, making lasting friendships. He communicated his passion and commitments with grace\, humor\, and intense interest in the world around him. \nIf you would like to make a monetary contribution in Michael’s memory\, Alana\, Nora\, and Dan (Michael’s partner and children) suggest the Marxist Education Project\, Brooklyn Animal Action\, NARAL\, or an organization of your choice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/celebrate-the-life-of-michael-lardner/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Final Friday Films: Modern Times
DESCRIPTION:Modern Times\nUSA 87 minutes 1936\nWritten and directed by Charlie Chaplin\nStarring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard\n \nChaplin does borrow from Rene Clair’s A Nous La Liberte in Modern Times (once also entitled The Masses). Here Chaplin again appears as The Tramp\, although this is the era of sound\, it is essentially a silent film. The borrowing from Clair on being a comedic treatment of worker alienation is clear. Chaplin plays an assembly line worker where he is subjected to being force-fed by a malfunctioning “feeding machine” (cutting the vital minutes of lunch) and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. Eventually he has a nervous breakdown apparently sabotaging a machine in the process and throwing the factory into chaos. He is then hospitalized. Following his recovery\, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as a communist outside agitator\, the moment displaying Chaplin’s call to workers of the world to unite. Chaplin would leave the US upon the arrival of anti-communist hysteria tenyears later. \nFrom The Guardian of July 14\, 1936\nNAZIS PROHIBIT CHAPLIN FILM\n“Charlie Chaplin’s new film Modern Times has been prohibited in Germany. Reuter was informed at the Propaganda Ministry this afternoon that there was at present no prospect that the picture would be shown in this country. Another Nazi spokesman said that reports from abroad had indicated that the picture had a “Communist tendency” and that this was no doubt the reason why the picture was unacceptable.”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/final-friday-films-modern-times/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-04-07/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200404T140000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-04-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-03-31/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-03-28/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200324T200000
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-03-24/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200321T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200321T140000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-03-21/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200317T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200317T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
UID:10006101-1584469800-1584475200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-03-17/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200314T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200314T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
UID:10006064-1584183600-1584194400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-03-14/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200310T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
UID:10006100-1583865000-1583870400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-03-10/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200307T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-03-07/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200303T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-03-03/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200229T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-02-29/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200228T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20200102T044856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033904Z
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SUMMARY:Mandabi (The Money Order)
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series\ncontinuing The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series from 2014\nWritten and directed by Ousmane Sembène\nSenegal\, 1968\, 90 minutes\n(In French and Wolof with English subtitles) \n \nThe film is based on Sembène’s novel The Money-Order. It is the director’s first film inhis native Wolof language\, and also the first full-length African language film from West Africa. Since most of the Senegalese population did not understand French\, Sembène wanted to create cinema for Wolof speakers. Sembène’s Mandabi also made for international recognition of his development as a film maker. \nAn unemployed Senegalese man\, Ibrahima Dieng\, lives with his two wives and kids in Dakar. His nephew\, Abdou\, sends him a money order from Paris worth 25\,000 francs\, which he has saved from working as a street sweeper. Ibrahima is to keep some of the money for himself\, save a portion for his nephew\, and give a portion to his sister. \nHowever\, Ibrahima faces numerous difficulties trying to obtain the money order. Not having an ID\, Ibrahima must go through several levels of Senegalese bureaucracy trying to get one\, then failing after spending money he doesn’t have. Then his neighbors go to his house asking for money which brings on more debt. In the end\, he is swindled by Mbaye\, a local businessman\, who promised to cash the money order for him\, but instead sells Ibrahima’s house to a French man while at the same time stealing the money order\, saying that he was pickpocketed. Senegalese neo-realism. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mandabi-the-money-order/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MoneyOrderSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200225T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200225T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-02-25/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200222T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
UID:10006061-1582369200-1582380000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-02-22/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200218T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200218T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-02-18/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200215T140000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-02-15/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200211T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200211T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-02-11/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200208T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-02-08/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-02-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200201T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-02-01/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-01-28/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-01-25/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HeartfieldCorpRobotsSite.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191212T153750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T033533Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern \nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nAllen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a “bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-American workers but also disastrous for the white worker.” \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \n  \nfees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-01-21/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Howard_Pyle_-_The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200118T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T132304
CREATED:20191119T155546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T034004Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 3
DESCRIPTION:First 12 sessions \nLet’s make the Anthropocene stage of the earth’s evolution\, the turning point of world history. After all\, paraphrasing Marx\, since we are the species that can know ourselves as a product of natural history\, we are responsible to all of nature. We have the power within us to make the Anthropocene not the capitalist endgame but the naturalization of our species and the humanization of nature. Capital\, a Critique of Political Economy\, can help effectively situate ourselves to face the challenges before all of humanity and nature\, and begin the process of reclaiming and putting into effect our human capacities for the betterment and advancement of each and all. \nThe study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. In this moribund stage of late capitalist/imperialist development we see the rise of rentier and finance capital—the introduction of financial instruments being used to make money make more money\, jumping over and above the actual real wealth produced by trading on future wealth (derivatives and other forms of fictitious capital); overriding supply and demand as a price mechanism in such necessities as foodstuffs so that their prices continuously rise resulting in more poverty and starvation on a world scale and here in the US; turning new technologies into means of collecting rents—the internet\, mobile devices; expropriation of taxes paid by the working class to developers who are often tax exempt while our city and state governments give them tracts of our physical space; commodification of debt; privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; foreclosures; and the list goes on. \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). \nWith the conceptual integration of production and circulation (Volumes I and II) from the standpoint of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, Marx returns to the starting point of the research categories\, the imaginary concrete\, concepts seen as empirical givens as facts in themselves— profits\, interests\, rents\, rate of profit\, prices. These sensuously perceived givens (the way the world directly appears to us) are the starting point of the research analysis\, not the science. But now\, after the analysis\, these interrelated aspects of what appear on the surface of society are no longer imaginary but real\, understood as interrelated dynamics and mechanisms in everyday life by which the actors reproduce the social relations and physical conditions of capitalist society. Volume III integrates and completes the analysis of the process of capitalist production as a whole\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how each of the appearances and processes we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the whole. When we do so all the laws of motion previously revealed in the first two volumes take on new dimensions. Internal dynamics and contradictions burst out and situate humanity withina historical process that calls us to figure out how to go beyond capital and develop the conditions that insure that the development of each is the precondition for the development of all. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than nearly three years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-3/2020-01-18/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Capital: A Review of Volumes 1 and 2
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS A 4 SESSION COURSE MEETING DECEMBER 7\, 14\, JANUARY 4\, 11 \nIn review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. In review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. These sessions are suggested as a good review for those who would like to join in for the coming sessions of our close reading of Volume 3 which will begin on January 18. Of course\, anyone interested in a review of Capital and/or would simply like to read and discuss the Fine and Saad-Filho book are encouraged to attend as well. \n“Marx’s Capital is an admirably clear explanation of complex ideas\, which has the rare virtue of saying something important to economists while being accessible to non-specialist readers. It also does a very good job of showing the urgent relevance of Marx’s Capital today.” —Ellen Meiksins Wood\, author of The Empire of Capital (2003) and The Origin of Capitalism (2002) \nFees are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-a-review-of-volumes-1-and-2/2020-01-11/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Capital: A Review of Volumes 1 and 2
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS A 4 SESSION COURSE MEETING DECEMBER 7\, 14\, JANUARY 4\, 11 \nIn review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. In review of Volumes One and Two of Capital and in preparation for our study of Volume 3 we will have a 4 week intersession reading from Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho’s Karl Marx’s Capital. These sessions are suggested as a good review for those who would like to join in for the coming sessions of our close reading of Volume 3 which will begin on January 18. Of course\, anyone interested in a review of Capital and/or would simply like to read and discuss the Fine and Saad-Filho book are encouraged to attend as well. \n“Marx’s Capital is an admirably clear explanation of complex ideas\, which has the rare virtue of saying something important to economists while being accessible to non-specialist readers. It also does a very good job of showing the urgent relevance of Marx’s Capital today.” —Ellen Meiksins Wood\, author of The Empire of Capital (2003) and The Origin of Capitalism (2002) \nFees are sliding scale • No one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-a-review-of-volumes-1-and-2/2020-01-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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