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SUMMARY:'The Future of Revolution' with Jasper Bernes
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 17\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nHow might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? A conversation with Jasper Bernes\, author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising (Verso\, 2026). 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. \n“In this extraordinary study into revolutionary histories and possibilities\, Jasper Bernes does not let his reader off lightly. He pushes us to think hard alongside him about the logics and activities of collective emancipation—in this task\, we couldn’t ask for a more brilliant guide than Bernes. We need this book now\, and will continue to need it long into the future.” —Natasha Lennard\, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life \nJasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California\, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail\, he is the author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization and two books of poetry\, We Are Nothing and So Can You and Starsdown.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/future-of-revolution/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Bolshevism,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Fall 2026,featured,Italian history,Labor History,Marx,Organizing,Political Strategy,Revolutions,Rosa Luxemburg,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism,Video Available,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T153000
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SUMMARY:Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 10\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nEditors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter present 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and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver\, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished\, translated\, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work\, class composition\, and the “inversion of the class perspective.” The book puts essential theoretical weapons into the hands of a new generation of militant workers and organizers re-energizing the class struggle. In these essays\, Cleaver rereads Marx to advance our collective search for points of departure from capitalism\, so we can end it before it ends us. \nRobert Ovetz holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas–Austin and is a senior lecturer in Political Science at San José State University\, where his work focuses on academic labor organizing and the labor movement. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back\, We the Elites\, and the forthcoming Rebels for the System. He writes on labor for Dollars & Sense and other publications. \nKevin Van Meter holds a PhD in Geography\, Environment and Society from the University of Minnesota\, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society\, and is a union organizer and labor educator who writes on contemporary labor issues\, labor history\, and working-class self-organization. He is author of Guerrillas of Desire and the forthcoming Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. His work has appeared in New Politics\, Notes from Below\, Dollars & Sense\, and other publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/writings-of-harry-cleaver/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,automation,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Fall 2026,featured,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Precarity,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Video Available,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T153000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 4\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World. Today\, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism—it touches almost every aspect of our lives\, and most people alive have never known another. Yet a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things can’t stay this way forever: an economy built on infinite amassing and consumption of resources is at odds with a finite planet. How did this happen? As Jackson argues in this powerful book\, It wasn’t always capitalism\, it didn’t have to be capitalism\, and capitalism didn’t have to be this way. \nWith a firm grasp on history and economics and a keen eye for the telling anecdote\, Jackson explains where capitalism came from\, how it spread across the globe\, and how it came to be the dominant way of organizing life. He traces capitalism’s development from the accidental construction of an international monetary system to the creation of banking\, the emergence of a new form of slavery in the eighteenth century\, fossil-fuel industrialization\, and finally the global capitalist system spread by imperialism in the nineteenth century. Along the way\, readers learn about the surprising role of Chinese mulberry trees\, Dutch cheese\, whale blubber\, imperial gin and tonics\, Spanish conquistadors\, Mexican mine workers\, and English bankers in the history and development of capitalism. \nFull 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/insatiable-machine/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Asia,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Imperialism,Modernity,Money,Political Economy,Slavery,US History,Video Available,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T153000
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Baitalsky's 'Notebooks for the Grandchildren'
DESCRIPTION:Translator Marilyn Vogt-Downey presents a poignant memoir by Mikhail Baitalsky\, a Ukrainian survivor of the 1930s purges in Soviet Union. Notebooks for the Grandchildren: Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917. Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself\, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s\, Baitalsky recounts the Revolution’s hopes—and its tragic unraveling under Stalin. He narrates how Stalin rose to power and carried out the “political counterrevolution” that silenced so many. Arrested three times by the Stalin regime\, Baitalsky survived to tell this story. \nMarilyn Vogt-Downey translated for the Writings of Leon Trotsky series (1970s) for Pathfinder Press and Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition (1974) and was a contributor to the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism (1990s) as well as to Truthout and Counterpunch. She taught high school economics and foreign policy in NYC for 26 years and is currently a delegate to the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Chapter.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/mikhail-baitalskys-notebooks-for-the-grandchildren/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Bolshevism,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,History,Radical Literature,Repression,Russia,Russian Revolution,Socialism,War,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T153000
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SUMMARY:'Black History Is for Everyone' with Brian Jones
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 2\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nLongtime educator Brian Jones explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race\, nation\, and the stories we tell about who we are. In Black History Is for Everyone\, Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history\, using his own experiences as a lifelong learner and classroom teacher to question everything — from the radicalism of the American Revolution to the meaning of “race” and “nation.” With warmth and immersive storytelling\, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history\, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high\, the effort is worth it. \nBrian Jones has taught many ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History\, his writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, the Guardian\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/black-history-jones/
LOCATION:See link above to watch the recording on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Civil War,Colonialism,Du Bois,featured,History,Labor History,Race and Class,Spring 2026,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T203000
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SUMMARY:Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nWill green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment\, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. \nThea Riofrancos\, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism\, unpacks these challenges through the lens of lithium\, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand\, exceeding existing supplies\, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to “secure” lithium\, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. \nMeanwhile\, Global South governments are attempting to leverage critical mineral deposits into sustainable and sovereign economic development. And\, across the world\, environmental and Indigenous movements contest the rapid expansion of extraction\, defending ecosystems\, livelihoods\, and waterways already under pressure from global warming from a new boom in mining. It is in the play of these forces\, unfolding amidst geopolitical rivalry and economic turbulence\, that the energy transition will be forged. To conclude\, Riofrancos will explore the possibility of a less mining-intensive pathway to zero-carbon transportation. \nThea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College\, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute\, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction\, renewable energy\, climate change\, the global lithium sector\, green technologies\, social movements\, and the Latin American left. She is also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writings have appeared in scholarly journals and in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, n+1\, and Dissent.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/extraction-a-book-talk-with-author-thea-riofrancos/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T210000
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SUMMARY:New Studies on the Left: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Contributors Erica Carter\, Jay Jurie\, Paul Krehbiel\, Harry Targ\, Janet Tucker\, Meta Van Sickle join editor Carl Davidson for a discussion of the latest New Studies on the Left. Contributors to this edition address four related themes: “Analysis and Global Reach\,” “Labor Rising Helps Everyone Else\,” and “Civil Society and Campaigns on Social Terrain\,” and “Theory for Our Time.” Our panel will tie these themes together to explore where we stand\, particularly in the United States\, in reaching a critical point in peaceful non-cooperation with the present regime’s policies at home and worldwide. Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism publishes this new series in tribute to the original\, early 1960s New Studies on the Left.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/new-studies-on-the-left-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Fall 2025,Panel Discussion,Present Moment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T160000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 16\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nIn her new book Free Gifts\, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to place value on nature. She argues that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified\, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. Why have some things come to have value under capitalism—and why have others not. Recovering and reinterpreting classical economists’ idea of “free gifts of nature\,” Battistoni builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. She addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought\, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry\, pollution in the environment\, reproductive labor in the household\, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing\, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers\, including Friedrich Hayek\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Garrett Hardin\, Silvia Federici\, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately\, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present\, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world\, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts. \nAlyssa Battistoni is assistant professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writing has appeared in The Nation\, the Guardian\, Boston Review\, n+1\, Dissent\, The New Statesman\, Jacobin\, and New Left Review.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/freegifts-battistoni/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Book talks,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Fall 2025,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Video Available
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T160000
DTSTAMP:20251118T153324Z
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SUMMARY:Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 8\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nBrian Kwoba‘s recently published Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism introduces the working-class journalist\, activist\, and educator Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)\, who generated an array of visionary solutions to the systemic injustices of his day. After blazing a trail for Black workers and organizers in the Socialist Party of America and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913\, Harrison emerged as the most prominent Black freethinker and free lover of his generation. He also practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist\, anti-imperialist “Colored International” alliance in the face of European colonization in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Most spectacularly\, Harrison’s Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of African people in modern history. Because of his fearless radicalism\, however\, the full scope of Harrison’s revolutionary legacy has been largely erased from popular memory … until now. \nDr. Brian Kwoba was born in Manchester\, Connecticut\, and raised in Boulder\, Colorado. After earning his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Cornell University\, he spent six years teaching high school and middle school history and social studies in Boston before heading to the University of Oxford for his doctoral degree in history. Dr. Kwoba is currently an associate professor of history and also the director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis. Over the past two decades\, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism\, immigrant workers rights\, climate justice\, Falastin\, decolonizing education\, pan-Africanism\, and the movement for Black lives. In his spare time\, he is a big time music lover (especially live jazz)\, an Afrobeats DJ\, and a frequent traveler to Kenya where he visits his dad’s side of the family. \nImage l/r: author Brian Kwoba; Hubert Harrison with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn\, Big Bill Haywood\, and other leaders of 1913 Paterson\, NJ silk workers strike; book cover.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/kwoba-on-hubert-harrison/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,American Imperialism,Book talks,Classes/Events,Fall 2025,History,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T153000
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary\, with Mitchell Abidor
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 1\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nMitchell Abidor\, author of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary presents the book in conversation with Jacob Plitman\, former publisher of Jewish Currents. \nToday\, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels\, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man\, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history? An anarchist? A Bolshevik? A Trotskyist? Or did he evolve into something else entirely? In this comprehensive account of Serge’s life\, work\, and political evolution\, Mitchell Abidor rescues his subject\, in all his complexity\, from the constraints of any single label. Painting a portrait of a man whose political ideas shifted continually in response to the major events of his life\, we are introduced to several Victor Serges: the youthful anarchist in Belgium and France; the leading Bolshevik in Moscow; the anti-Stalinist who faced imprisonment and expulsion from the Soviet Union. Examining the lacunae and errors of fact in his memoirs\, Abidor reveals the hidden Serge for what he ultimately was: an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions. \nMitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn\, New York. In addition to his many translation works\, he is the author of May Made Me and I’ll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender\, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge’s Notebooks (1936-1947). \nA 30% discount code for Victor Serge and other Pluto Press books by Mitchell Abidor will be provided to all ticket purchasers.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/serge-unruly-revolutionary/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Book talks,communism,Fall 2025,featured,France,History,Literature,Marxisms,Poetry,Radical Literature,Russia,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T160000
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 26\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nHistorian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book\, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation\, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith\, John Locke\, and Thomas Paine. Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures\, yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism’s centrality to American life. Karl Marx in America argues that even though Marx never visited America\, the country has been infused\, shaped\, and transformed by him. \nAndrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of Karl Marx in America (2025) and A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015)\, both published by the University of Chicago Press\, and Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008). He is also the coeditor of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times (2018). Hartman has been published in a host of academic and popular venues\, including the Washington Post\, The Baffler\, Chronicle of Higher Education\, American Historian\, Journal of American Studies\, Reviews in American History\, Journal of Policy History\, Salon\, Jacobin\, Bookforum\, and In These Times.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,Book talks,Civil War,Fall 2025,featured,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Republicanism,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,US History,Video Available,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T153000
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim
DESCRIPTION:In her new book\, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property\, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Ranging from the conception of philanthropy devised by the robber barons of the late nineteenth century to ongoing digitization projects\, Kim provides a new history of contemporary art that accounts for the complicated entanglement of race\, capital\, and labor behind storied art institutions and artists. Drawing on history\, theory\, and economics\, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution. \nEunsong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her practice spans literary studies\, critical digital studies\, poetics\, translation\, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. She is also the author of Gospel of Regicide (2017) and\, with Sung Gi Kim\, a translation of Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? (2019). In 2021 she co-founded the journal offshoot\, an arts space for transnational activist conversations.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/the-politics-of-collecting-with-eunsong-kim/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Book talks,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Fall 2025,Literature,Media Criticism,Poetry,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:'Fake Work' with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this September 24\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nUsing the most banal of office settings – corporate documentation – in the most extraordinary of circumstances – a looming Y2K apocalypse\, Leigh Claire La Berge‘s newly published Fake Work offers not only a unique experience of alienated labor\, but a novel type of Marxism: Marxist humor. The book recounts how a young white-collar worker discovers what capitalism is\, what it does\, and for whom. Described by the New York Times as a “memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil … superbly committed to its own beliefs — truthful\, dryly funny and often subtly moving\,” Fake Work is a story for anyone who has ever needed a job. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Fake Work\, Marx for Cats\, and Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin in 2021-2023.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/fake-work-la-berge/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Capital Studies,Fall 2025,featured,humor,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Media Criticism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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