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SUMMARY:Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
DESCRIPTION:The ongoing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET. We are reading and exploring: \n\nSelections from the Prison Notebooks\nSelections from Cultural Writings\nSelections from Political Writings\nGramsci’s writings on international politics\, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.\n\nParticipants may join in at any time. We share a vast archive of articles and secondary sources on Gramsci research and application of Gramsci’s approach to specific realities of our interest. \nPiruz Alemi\, PhD\, and Trudy Mercadal\, PhD\, facilitate this program. In addition\, all participants have the opportunity to lead discussions\, and we transcribe\, edit\, archive and share our discussion commentaries among the group. In effect\, we will collectively write on international issues of current interest\, applying Gramsci’s approach. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/antonio-gramsci-studies-2026-sessions/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Gramsci,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically - Spring 2026 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Alternate Mondays\, next on June 15\, 5-6:30 pm ET \nMEP’s alternative literature group begins a new series of novels\, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction\, reborn from traditional science fiction\, and also known by its alter ego “visionary fiction” and other identities\, including horror\, more than ever offers space for exploration of class\, race\, gender\, freedom struggles and authoritarian repression. Join with us to sample the best of this socially conscious and political literature. We read it to envision the futures we seek and empower our commitments\, enliven our reflection\, and energize our communities. \nIn May\, we read:\nWe Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest\, Resistance\, and Hope\, edited by Malka Older\, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord \nOther Spring readings have been:\nThe Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist\, Emile Habibi\n“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience\,” Rebecca Roanhorse\n“Delhi\,” Vandana Singh\nShikasta\, Recolonized Planet 5\, Doris Lessing \n\nConvened by the Science and Speculative Fiction Reading Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/speculative-fiction-politically-spring-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Dystopian literature,featured,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Spring 2026,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction,Women
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SUMMARY:A People's Guide to Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Summer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism\nIn ten weekly sessions starting June 8\, we will read and discuss Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. This work offers a lively\, accessible\, and timely guide for those who want to understand\, dismantle\, and replace the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. Despite the efforts of mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, growing numbers have begun to question why this system has produced vast inequality\, recurring war\, and wanton disregard for the destruction of our planet. Hadas Thier’s book develops answers to these questions\, grounded in  key concepts from Marx’s Capital and related works. \n“A People’s Guide to Capitalism is a breath of fresh air on the left. Avoiding the obscure jargon of economics\, Hadas Thier provides a rich\, accessible introduction to how capitalism works. Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance\, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy. Along the way\, Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism. In addition\, A People’s Guide to Capitalism reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on Marx’s Capital\, political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, history\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/peoples-guide-to-capitalism-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Imperialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026,Summer 2026
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SUMMARY:Topics in Strategic Studies - Spring 2026 Series
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 7-9 pm ET\n \nJoin us for a new format for the “Historical Roots…” study\, reworked for 2026 as Topics in Strategic Studies. We will select and read one significant book of political theory or history a month\, focused on understanding the stresses and directions for change in the present moment. Each week\, we will invite one of us or a guest to present a current topic along with optional readings. This new format will enable us to dig into breakthrough studies and analyses while also ensuring continuing new and lively discussions on topics of interest. \nThis month\, we are reading The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work “a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic\, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life\, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare.” \nAs we confirm additional readings for the spring and summer\, we will add them to a new syllabus which you can request\, while continuing to update our long-term bibliography of supplementary readings.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-strategy/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Marx and the Body with Søren Mau
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Søren Mau will argue that Marx’s writings on the body have been underestimated and that a critical reconstruction of his analysis contains the basis for a theory of the corporeal roots of historicity and freedom. Throughout the history of Western thought\, the body has often been overlooked\, devalued\, or treated with mistrust and hostility. The failure to fully acknowledge human corporeality and its entanglement with the rest of nature is deeply connected to contemporary ecological crises\, and has since the 1980s been subjected to a thorough-going critique by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mau argues that the body occupies a central place in Marx’s thought\, and that a critical reconstruction of his dialectical understanding of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature and his concepts of corporeal organization\, labor\, tools and metabolism provides a foundation for an eco-Marxist theory of human nature and the corporeal roots of human historicity and freedom. \nThis talk is based on Søren Mau’s article “Karl Marx and the Body: Towards an Eco-Marxist Philosophical Anthropology” in Body & Society 32(1). \nSøren Mau is a political philosopher and the author of Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Verso Books\, 2023). His work centers on critical theories of capitalism\, power\, ecology\, the body\, technology\, human nature\, and utopian thought\, with the central theme of freedom: its nature and sources\, the political and economic barriers to its realization under contemporary capitalism\, and its potential forms in a post-capitalist world.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-the-body/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Critical Theory,Ecosocialism,featured,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Summer 2026,Women
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SUMMARY:Planetary Crises: 'Metabolic Rifts'
DESCRIPTION:Next monthly session June 24\nThe MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency\, the nature of economic and ecological crises\, and related topics. We are currently meeting on a monthly basis\, reading and discussing one book each month. At our next session on June 24 we will cover Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System\, by Ian Angus. \nLike an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in\, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts builds on Karl Marx’s insight that while capitalism is dependent on the natural world\, it is also waging war on the natural systems that sustain life on Earth. Focusing on deadly rifts in the most important natural systems\, Ian Angus explains and elaborates on the Marxist view that capitalism is massively disrupting essential exchanges of matter and energy between society and the rest of nature\, putting the entire Earth System in danger. After tracing the long-neglected history of metabolic rift theory in scientific and socialist writing\, Angus draws on a wealth of modern research to extend and deepen the natural science basis of Marxist ecology. \nOther recently published books of interest to this group are listed below. \nPreviously read: \n\nAgainst the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World\, by Ståle Holgersen\nFree Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature\, by Alyssa Battistoni\nExtraction\, by Thea Riofrancos\nThe Alibi of Capital\, by Timothy Mitchell\n\nTo be considered: \n\nAnthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster\, by Paul Guillibert\nOvershoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown\, by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm\nThe Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late\, by Carton and Malm\nMore\, More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy\, by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\nWorking Nature: A History of the Energy Economy\, by Daniela Russ\n\nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, political economy\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research and reported from Latin America for several socialist publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/planetary-crises-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T140000
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SUMMARY:Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:A panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register\nThe newly published 2026 volume of Socialist Register – entitled “Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins” – interrogates anew the notion that global capitalism is in its end time (a recurring theme among Marxists since 1848). At the heart of this concept are indications that capital accumulation is running up against some inherent limits. just as the hucksters of private capital are crowing that so-called Artificial Intelligence will usher in a capitalist utopia of unlimited prosperity (for whom?). Socialists warn the world’s working classes to prepare instead for a late-capitalist dystopia\, characterized by irreversible damage to the natural environment\, wars brought on by new modes of global competition among capitals\, and the inevitable squeeze on capitalist profits and human labor if robotic production alters the organic composition of capital to the extent predicted by the AI boosters. Based on their essays in the 2026 Socialist Register\, our panelists speak to the utility of the concept of “late-stage capitalism\,” both for understanding contemporary political economy and for devising strategies for the working class to defend itself and advance a universalist vision of human emancipation. \nPanelists: Michael Roberts\, “Capitalism in the 2020s and Beyond”; Alfredo Saad-Filho\, “The Rise of Neoliberal Fascism and the Challenges for the Left”; and Stephen Maher\, “Profitable Immiseration: Finance Capital at the End of the World.” Invited commentator: Catarina Principe\, a political activist from Portugal\, a co-editor of Europe in Revolt\, and a contributing editor of Jacobin magazine.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,Capital Studies,Class,Crisis,featured,Financialization,Globalization,History,Imperialism,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Money,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Socialist Register,Summer 2026,Transition from Capitalism,War
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SUMMARY:Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group hosts this series\, meeting at 2 pm US ET on or about the last Saturday of each month (however\, we are not meeting in June). We discuss a single book each month. Selections are not limited to fiction – we now include memoir\, biography\, essays\, and other forms that investigate and challenge literary norms. We encourage participants to recommend books and topics. (Note that our weekly series on Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance is also ongoing.) \nJuly 25\nThe Glass Key\, by Dashiell Hammett (various publishers). Published in 1930\, Dashiell Hammett wrote a scathing description of small-town corruption when capitalism supported local economies and power elites. The novel has inspired many movies\, all worth watching and worth discussing in this session. \nPrevious discussions: \nMay 30\nFaraway the Southern Sky: A Novel\, by Joseph Andreas. (New York: Verso Press\, 2024\, 82 pages). A narrator walks through contemporary Paris\, identifying the locations where a young Vietnamese refugee/revolutionary lived and worked through a city marked by rebellions and massacres. This novel will resonate with MEP members who read The Sorrow of War. \nApril 4\nMy Country\, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria\, by Andrée Blouin\, in collaboration with Jean MacKellar (Verso Books\, 2025\, 288 pages). We suggest reading this book while streaming Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. The Literature Group has read a number of fictions set in Africa; Blouin’s memoir gives background on the turbulent postcolonial period in Africa and the unrecognized contributions of women to national liberation movements. \nFebruary 28\nVictor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary\, by Mitchell Abidor (Pluto Press\, 2025\, 424 pages). On November 3\, 2025\, Mitch Abidor spoke at the MEP on how his biography of Victor Serge could disturb readers who have a romantic view of Serge’s dissidence. We will discuss how this biography brings out the difficulties of Serge’s living within defeat and poverty and whether Abidor’s reportage changes our assessment of Serge’s novels. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/literature-group-new-2026-monthly-series/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Literature,Multi-session Classes,Reading Group,Spring 2026
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