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1 event 4 1 event, 4 Featured Virtual Event 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson Featured Virtual Event Sun, October 4 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson Join 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. Get Tickets Free	0 events 5 0 events, 5	0 events 6 0 events, 6	0 events 7 0 events, 7	0 events 8 0 events, 8	0 events 9 0 events, 9	2 events 10 2 events, 10 Featured Virtual Event 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver Featured Virtual Event Sat, October 10 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver Join 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and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the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. Free, Featured Virtual Event 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production Featured Virtual Event Sat, October 10 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production Have 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.
2 events 11 2 events, 11 Featured Virtual Event 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures Featured Virtual Event Sun, October 11 @ 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures We introduce the work of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre through four monthly lectures presented by cultural studies scholar Iván Zatz-Díaz. Get Tickets Free, Featured 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Contribution Featured Sun, October 11 @ 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Contribution Carl Ratner presents a new edition of this six-week series, in which we explore Lev Vygotsky's approach to historical-materialist culture. Vygotsky (1896-1934) was a dedicated academic Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. He said, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” Free	1 event 12 1 event, 12 2026-10-12 Featured Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’ Featured Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’ Featured Mon, October 12 @ 5:00 PM - Thu, October 15 @ 6:30 PM Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’ October 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, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy." So begins Infomocracy, Malka Older's political thriller of a science fiction ... Read more Get Tickets Free	2 events 13 2 events, 13 2026-10-12 Featured Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’ Featured Virtual Event 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Topics in Political Strategy: End Times Fascism Featured Virtual Event Tue, October 13 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Topics in Political Strategy: End Times Fascism As 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. Get Tickets Free	1 event 14 1 event, 14 2026-10-12 Featured Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’	1 event 15 1 event, 15 2026-10-12 Featured Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’	0 events 16 0 events, 16	1 event 17 1 event, 17 Featured Virtual Event 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ‘The Future of Revolution’ with Jasper Bernes Featured Virtual Event Sat, October 17 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ‘The Future of Revolution’ with Jasper Bernes How 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. Get Tickets Free
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0 events 25 0 events, 25	0 events 26 0 events, 26	0 events 27 0 events, 27	0 events 28 0 events, 28	0 events 29 0 events, 29	0 events 30 0 events, 30	1 event 31 1 event, 31 Featured 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Hegel for Radicals: On Art and Literature Featured Sat, October 31 @ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Hegel for Radicals: On Art and Literature Francis Fukuyama proclaimed The End of History in the 1990’s; art critic Arthur C. Danto proclaimed The End of Art in the 1960s. The genesis of both concepts are credited to Hegel. The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals resumes with a seminar on Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics, where we will study his understanding of art and literature. Get Tickets Free