We offer new author events, panels and studies each season along with significant ongoing study and reading groups. Here are the continuing and new featured programs.
Events
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Monthly Literature Group: ‘Tijuana Straits’
Online Event – Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP Literature Group’s new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our August selection is ‘Tijuana Straits’ by Kem Nunn, a noir fiction set along the US-Mexico border.
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Mikhail Baitalsky’s ‘Notebooks for the Grandchildren’
Online Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelTranslator Marilyn Vogt-Downey presents a poignant memoir by Mikhail Baitalsky, a Ukrainian survivor of the 1930s purges in Soviet Union. ‘Notebooks for the Grandchildren’ is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917.
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P DJeli Clark on ‘Ring Shout’, Writing Stories, Building Worlds, Usually Fantastic
FeaturedOnline Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelPhenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novel Ring Shout, which MEP’s Speculative Fiction will read next. Clark also … Read more
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Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
FeaturedOnline Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelJoin us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book ‘The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World.’ Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.
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Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
FeaturedOnline Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelJoin editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter for a discussion of Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism, and the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marxist theory.
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Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’
FeaturedOnline Event – Zoom MeetingReading GroupOctober Selection for the Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group Alternate Mondays, Next on October 12, at 5 pm ET “It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, … Read more
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‘The Future of Revolution’ with Jasper Bernes
FeaturedVirtual EventBook Event or PanelHow might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Join us for a conversation with Jasper Bernes, author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Bernes reads the revolutionary history of workers’ councils and communes in the light of thinkers from Karl Marx to Paul Mattick and C.L.R. James.
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Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
Online Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupA weekly study group on Marx’s Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best’s ‘The Automatic Fetish.’ Marx’s work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system.
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Topics in Political Strategy: End Times Fascism
FeaturedOnline Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupAs we head toward the US fall elections, the Topics in Political Strategy reading group will continue our mix of currently-published substantive analytical pieces and a monthly book-length treatment of important topics of political theory. Readings include ‘We Still Here’ by Marc Lamont Hill, and ‘The Nerd Reich’ by Gil Duran.
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Online Event – Zoom MeetingReading GroupJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight … Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
Online Event – Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 4 of Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’. Smith’s notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx’s understanding of capital, and Marx frequently quoted from Smith in his discussions in Capital and other writings.
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Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production
FeaturedOnline Event – Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.