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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T143000
DTSTAMP:20210415T194520Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210417T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210417T160000
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Session 2—Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Alyssa Adamson\, Drucilla Cornell\, and Peter Hudis\nThis second session of the Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series will critically revisit debates over the potential revolutionary value of nationalism through exploring different stages of the Global Southern reception of Rosa’s thoroughgoing internationalism. \nThe panel will consist of Alyssa Adamson of Malcolm X College\, Drucilla Cornell\, Rutgers University and Peter Hudis\, Oakton Community College. Their essays are “Against a Single History\, for a Revaluation of Power: Luxemburg\, James\, and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy” by Alyssa Adamson; “The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination”\, Drucilla Cornell; and\, “A Troubled Legacy: Rosa Luxemburg and the Non-Western World”\, Peter Hudis \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-2-debating-revolutionary-nationalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Shifting Gears with Sean Sweeney and John Treat
DESCRIPTION:Labor Strategies for Low-Cost Public Transit Mobility\nSean Sweeney and John Treat\nWriting in the 2021 Socialist Register\, Sean Sweeney and John Treat call for a major shift in transport policy: a break from the model of development centered on private personal vehicles to one that places mass public transport at the center of future passenger mobility. The current approach – reliance on incentives and assurances to private investors – has failed miserably. While public transport has grown in many places\, this has not even slowed the rise in transport-related emissions. Similarly\, reliance on small electric vehicles (EVs) as a “replacement technology” for standard cars and trucks has reduced emphasis on minimizing unnecessary or unwanted mobility and exaggerated claims about the potential emissions benefits. \nSean and John will take a global look at road transport to envision urban transport systems that are organized on a “public goods” basis. They argue that the incursions of private corporations such as Uber and Lyft could be repelled\, at least partially\, by improved access to high quality public transport. At the same time\, given the car-dependent development of peri-urban and rural areas\, and the likely expansion of urban space in the coming decades (especially in the Global South)\, advocates of public transport will want to explore how “occupying the platforms” through public car-sharing schemes might meet these needs as part of municipal or communally owned fleets. Reclaiming and expanding public transport can and should be part of a broader project to re-imagine neighborhoods\, cities\, ecosystems\, systems of production\, and circulation. \nSean Sweeney is Director of the International Program for Labor\, Climate\, and Environment at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. John Treat is a writer\, researcher\, and organizer with Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. \n  \nall events are sliding scale. no one is denied participation for inability to pay. please write info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to attend this or another event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/shifting-gears-with-sean-sweeney-and-john-treat/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210207T160000
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SUMMARY:Anitra Nelson and Vincent Liegey: Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide\nVincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson\nSpokesperson for the degrowth movement Vincent Liegey (Budapest\, Hungary) and degrowth advocate Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne\, Australia) talk on the politics\, challenges\, strategies and visions of the burgeoning degrowth movement\, starting in France to spread worldwide. Chaired by Pluto’s FireWorks Series editor\, Gargi Bhattacharyya. \nAs a sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism and the Left\, the degrowth movement burst into the mainstream. In short\, as growth driven climate catastrophe looms\, degrowth is a political response based on changing how we live. Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide counters obsessions with growth to demand a slowing of our economies\, reorientation around provision of basic needs for all\, supported by political autonomy and cultures of living within Earth’s limits. \nAs the authors discuss the practices and strategies of the movement\, identifying its strengths and weaknesses\, they examine ‘frugal abundance’\, horizontal democracy\, ‘open relocalisation’\, conviviality and reduced paid work to argue why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nFor an extra discount this ticket includes admission to the presentation\, the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/exploring-degrowth-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T003000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T233000
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass:
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and May 31\, 2021. We are hosting many new series including a new literature class\, MAD Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War  beginning on January 14\, a continuation of Capital\, Volume 1 class\, a repeat of the popular Blood and Money\, Considerations on Bolshevism before Stalinism\, a reading and discussion group of Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\, a multi-session series covering the Socialist Register 2021 annual\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\, and  the 4 new events related to the Pluto Press Fireworks Series which begins on January 23 with Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar on Pandemic Solidarity\, the first book to be presented. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through May 21. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. You can also attend the new series sponsored by Palsgrave on Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms along with Rowan and Littlefield’s new Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series of events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/until-mid-winter-pass-now-through-january-31-2021/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201213T150000
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SUMMARY:Opening presentation: A People’s Guide to Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:with Hadas Thier \nA lively\, accessible\, and timely guide to capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath\, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, growing numbers of us are questioning why this system of reproducing ourselves has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for the environmental destruction inherent that capital accumulation requires. Hadas Thier’s book offers answers to the many questions in the form of a radical economic theory\, as in the subtitle of the book\, “An Introduction to Marxist Economics”.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/opening-presentation-a-peoples-guide-to-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200921T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200921T203000
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SUMMARY:China's Engine of Environmental Collapse
DESCRIPTION:Book discussion with author Richard Smith\nJust published this July\, 2020 by Pluto Press\nThis event is taking place at 6:30 pm originating in New York City (Eastern Standard Tune)\nAs the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion\, China is leading the charge. The nation’s CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new coal-fired power plants faster than renewables. The country’s lakes\, rivers\, and farmlands are severely polluted yet China’s police state can’t suppress pollution\, even from its own industries. \nThis is the first book to explain these contradictions. Richard Smith explains how the country’s bureaucratic rulers are driven by nationalist-industrialist tendencies that are even more powerful than the drive for profit under ‘normal’ capitalism. In their race to overtake the US they must prioritise hyper-growth over the environment\, even if this ends in climate collapse and eco-suicide. \nRichard contends that nothing short of drastic shutdowns and the scaling back of polluting industries\, especially in China and the US\, will suffice to slash greenhouse gas emissions enough to prevent climate catastrophe. Below is an image of the Yangtze River. \n \nHere is a link to Richard’s article in Foreign Policy\, published July 27\, 2020\, entitled The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe: Political ambitions make China’s emissions growth inevitable even as the economy falters \nhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/27/chinese-communist-party-environment-co2/\n\nThe book is available at the link below.\n\nhttps://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341576/chinas-engine-of-environmental-collapse/\n\nPeople can get it for 20% off with this coupon code: CHINA30.\nRichard Smith has published articles on the Chinese revolution\, China’s transition to capitalism\, and China’s environment for Against the Current\, New Left Review\, Monthly Review and the Ecologist. He is the author of Green Capitalism: The God that Failed (College Publications. 2016)\, and is a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change. \nSliding scale admissions. No on turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.com for info on admission on low or no cost admissions. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/chinas-engine-of-environmental-collapse/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,China,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200824T203000
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SUMMARY:What Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century?
DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Nancy Fraser\nIn the 2020 Socialist Register “a number of the essays interrogate central dimensions of how we live and how we might live in terms of educating our children\, housing and urbanism\, accommodation of refugees and the displaced\, and (to lean on that all too common phrase) the competitive time pressures for ‘work-life balance’. These are all key questions\, of course\, of ‘social reproduction\,’ a theme that has cut across many volumes of the Register. They are the counterpoint to ‘economic reproduction’ and ‘how we work’ at the heart of several essays here. Today\, this involves exploring and exposing all the hype and contradictions of the so-called ‘gig economy\,’ where automation’s potential for increased time apart from work is subordinated to surveillance\, hazardous waste\, speed-up\, and much else that makes for contingent work and precarious living. Finding new ways of living cannot but confront both these obstacles.” \nDrawing on an expanded conception of capitalism\, Nancy Fraser constructs an expanded conception of socialism that overcomes the narrow economism of received understandings. Disclosing the capitalist economy’s contradictory and destructive relation to its “non-economic” background conditions\, Fraser contends that socialism must do more than transform the economy. Over and above that desideratum\, it must also transform the economy’s relation to its background conditions\, especially non-human nature\, the unwaged work of social reproduction\, and political power. In a nutshell\, a socialism for the 21st century must be ecological\, feminist\, anti-racist\, and democratic. \nNancy Fraser is the co-author with Cinzia Arruzza and Titihi Bhattacharya of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso\, 2019) and with Rahel Jaeggi of Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (Polity\, 2018). Previous books include Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (Verso\, 2013)\, Redistribution or Recognition: A Critical-Philosophical Exchange with Axel Honneth (Verso\, 2003)\, and Unruly Practices: Power\, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (University of Minnesota Press\, 1989)\, among other books. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for the zoom code if you would like to attend.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/what-should-socialism-mean-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Gender,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200817T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200817T203000
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SUMMARY:For a Sustainable Future: The Centrality of Public Goods
DESCRIPTION:with Nancy Holmstrom\nvia Zoom\nIn the 2020 Socialist Register “a number of the essays interrogate central dimensions of how we live and how we might live in terms of educating our children\, housing and urbanism\, accommodation of refugees and the displaced\, and (to lean on that all too common phrase) the competitive time pressures for ‘work-life balance’. These are all key questions\, of course\, of ‘social reproduction\,’ a theme that has cut across many volumes of the Register. They are the counterpoint to ‘economic reproduction’ and ‘how we work’ at the heart of several essays here. Today\, this involves exploring and exposing all the hype and contradictions of the so-called ‘gig economy\,’ where automation’s potential for increased time apart from work is subordinated to surveillance\, hazardous waste\, speed-up\, and much else that makes for contingent work and precarious living. Finding new ways of living cannot but confront both these obstacles.” \nThe UN’s report on climate change makes clear that ways of living in the 21st century must be premised on the existential threat to our existence posed by multiple ecological threats. The current pandemic underlines this fact. For a sustainable future we have to transform some basic ways of thinking about the world and our place in it\, starting with broadened and more inclusive notions of security\, property and rationality. Instead of private property being the default as it is in capitalism\, public goods/‘the commons’\, should be the priority. And rationality must be understood principally in social terms\, since on the dominant individualistic model fully rational behavior can lead to the destruction of the species. Thus the central focus of socialist strategy in the 21st century should be protecting and radically expanding public goods/the commons. We should use every means we can to raise people’s understanding that they are 1) the only basis of real security; 2) should be accessible to all as a right\, like universal health care\, and hence no one should be excluded by the alleged rights of private property; and 3) are foundational to the most rational way to organize society. The paper considers some examples of strategies that fit this approach\, such as the Green New Deal\, and explores the crucial role of democratic planning both on a societal and a global level. \nNancy Holmstrom is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. \nTickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email: info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for the zoom code if you are unable to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/for-a-sustainable-future-the-centrality-of-public-goods/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200514T180000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-05-14/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200507T193000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-05-07/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200430T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200430T193000
DTSTAMP:20200303T152702Z
CREATED:20200303T152702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T152702Z
UID:10006706-1588269600-1588275000@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-04-30/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200423T193000
DTSTAMP:20200303T152702Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T152702Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-04-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200416T193000
DTSTAMP:20200303T152702Z
CREATED:20200303T152702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T152702Z
UID:10006704-1587060000-1587065400@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-04-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200409T193000
DTSTAMP:20200303T152702Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-04-09/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200402T193000
DTSTAMP:20200303T152702Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-04-02/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200326T193000
DTSTAMP:20200303T152702Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and Robbery: The Planetary Mine
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Fred Murphy and Gerardo Rénique\nThis eight-week study group will consider how capitalism is rooted in robbery—of the earth\, of the water\, air\, and soil of communities\, of the livelihoods of working people. Such theft is becoming more massive in scale and more technologically sophisticated\, but is also evoking new forms of popular resistance – as we will read in Martín Arboleda’s innovative new contribution to international political economy\, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. \nI see the mountains fall\, the terrain open up in angry dark cavities\, the desert\, the temporary shacks. The mineral is fired and beaten and handled to become military ingots\, battalions of merchandise. The ships depart. Wherever the copper arrives\, as utensil or wire\, no one who touches it sees the rugged solitudes of Chile\, or the small houses at the edge of the desert … —Pablo Neruda\, Ode to Copper \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged. \nFRED MURPHY has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGERARDO RÉNIQUE teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nContributions:\nClassroom attendance\, sliding scale: $65 / $80 / $95\nRemote participation via Zoom\, sliding scale: $40 / $50 / $60\nNo one is denied participation for lack of ability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-03-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MineAndBook.jpg
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