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  • Socialist Register 2026

    Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins

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    Recording available on YouTube

    A panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register. The 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?).

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    A People’s Guide to Capitalism

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Summer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism: In 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%.

  • Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson

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    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.

  • Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Read 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

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    Virtual Event
    Reading Group

    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.

  • Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Virtual Event
    Reading Group

    A 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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