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SUMMARY:Antonio Gramsci Studies
DESCRIPTION:The ongoing Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET.\n \nAt present 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.net/event/antonio-gramsci-studies-2026-sessions/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall 2026,featured,Gramsci,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky's Contribution
DESCRIPTION:Carl Ratner presents a new edition of this six-week series\, in which we seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nThe most sophisticated approach to historical-materialist psychology was developed by the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” This was a comprehensive psychological theory that encompassed child development\, adolescence\, cognition\, perception\, personality/self. Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marxist-psychology-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,Fall 2026,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
DESCRIPTION:Volume III of Marx’s Capital – The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole – integrates and completes Marx’s analysis\, 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 of capitalism. It is essential to understanding the current moment of late capitalist/imperialist development\, in which we see the rise of rentier and finance capital and the commodification of debt; continuously rising prices that bring still more poverty and starvation; new technologies turned into means of extracting rents; the privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; and the list goes on. \nIn this series of eight to ten weekly sessions\, we will be guided through the key concepts in Capital III using Beverley Best’s highly praised companion volume\, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital. View syllabus \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, 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.net/event/automatic-fetish-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Fall 2026,featured,Financialization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 against fascism. As the characters encounter each other clandestinely to discuss political questions\, they also discuss works of art and question how the art of the past can support their resistance to a horrific present: what can art suggest for a future they may not live to see? \nJust as Weiss’s characters rely upon group discussion\, readers of this trilogy have often formed reading groups to aid their understanding of the novelist’s ambitions. The MEP is joining this leftist tradition. We will read these challenging novels slowly and discuss themes such as strategy and tactics in the fight against fascism\, and the works of art that inspired the characters’ discussions. Familiarity with art history or with Europe in the 1930s is neither required nor expected. \nPublisher’s web pages for The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3\nSecond-hand bookstores\, online resellers\, and public libraries may have copies of these books available. \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.net/event/aesthetics-of-resistance/
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CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Fascism,Gender,Germany,historical materialism,History,Literary Studies,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Strategy,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,Spring 2026,War,War Fiction,Winter 2026
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