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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.
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:The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures
DESCRIPTION:We introduce the work of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre through four monthly lectures presented by cultural studies scholar Iván Zatz-Díaz. \nLecture 1—October 11\nMetaphilosophy: This introduction to Lefebvre’s work presents a framework to situate the overarching purpose of his thought as a form of political activism. Metaphilosophy sets an intent to move the act of thinking beyond itself and towards the living world\, beyond formal philosophy and sociology and towards the transformative. A brief look at Lefebvre’s work on Modernism\, Hegel\, Marx\, and Nietzsche will provide further context. \nLecture 2—November 15\nCritique of Everyday Life is Lefebvre’s overarching project from the immediate aftermath of WWII until his death in 1990. Volume 1 (1947) looks at Marx’s concept of alienation as a central explanation of life under capitalism. Volume 2 (1961) aims to set the path for a sociological analysis of late capitalist alienation. A brief account of his analysis of the French events of May-June 1968 will complete the presentation of this initial phase of the Critique. \nLecture 3—December 6\nThe Production of Space is Lefebvre’s best-known work in English and the reason he is often viewed reductively as an urban studies theorist\, especially in the United States. This presentation will approach the book rather as metaphilosophy\, highlighting its politically transformative intent. We will also address other Lefebvre writings on cities as an integral part of his look at everyday life. \nLecture 4—January 10\nCritique vol. 3 and Rhythmanalysis: In the last decade of his life\, Lefebvre returned to the Critique of Everyday Life in order to confront the imbrication of new technologies with the alienated life of latter-day capitalism. Rhythmanalysis\, his final work\, incorporates time into the analysis of everyday life\, particularly in the form of street rhythms seen from his window or observed in the spaces of Mediterranean cities. \nIván Zatz-Díaz is a retired Professor of Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in New York City. He has been a resident of three cities: Mexico City (by birth and upbringing)\, New York City (for much more than half his life)\, and Madrid (for the past two years and counting).
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/four-lectures-lefebvre/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Fall 2026,featured,France,Hegel,historical materialism,Marx,Marxisms,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Reading Group,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Volume I - A Short Course on Capitalist Production
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, September 19 through December 5 \n\nHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1\, but hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-session study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer facilitates as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This study group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. Lisa will be using the new Reitter-North translation of Capital\, but participants are welcome to use any available edition.  \n\nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-short-course-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
DESCRIPTION:Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat. \n(Postponed from September 20) \nJoin 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 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:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
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,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
DESCRIPTION:Join Russell Dale to read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. At present the group is 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.\n \nWe are reading the Oxford University Press edition of the work – the full title is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1976; General editors: R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner; textual editor: W. B. Todd). The book has been republished by The Liberty Fund and made widely available in a two-volume photographic reproduction edition. \nRussell Dale taught philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY\, for many years but is now retired. He has been a collaborator of the Marxist Education Project since its inception. He is on the Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/adam-smith/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,England,Fall 2026,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a 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:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
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,Working Class History
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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/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
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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SUMMARY:A People's Guide to Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Summer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism\nIn ten weekly sessions we are reading and discussing 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%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. Despite the efforts of mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, growing numbers have begun to question why this system has produced vast inequality\, recurring war\, and wanton disregard for the destruction of our planet. Hadas Thier’s book develops answers to these questions\, grounded in  key concepts from Marx’s Capital and related works. \n“A People’s Guide to Capitalism is a breath of fresh air on the left. Avoiding the obscure jargon of economics\, Hadas Thier provides a rich\, accessible introduction to how capitalism works. Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance\, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy. Along the way\, Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism. In addition\, A People’s Guide to Capitalism reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on Marx’s Capital\, political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, history\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nRegistration for this study group is now closed.\nFor information contact info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/peoples-guide-to-capitalism-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Imperialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T140000
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SUMMARY:Marx and the Body with Søren Mau
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Søren Mau will argue that Marx’s writings on the body have been underestimated and that a critical reconstruction of his analysis contains the basis for a theory of the corporeal roots of historicity and freedom. Throughout the history of Western thought\, the body has often been overlooked\, devalued\, or treated with mistrust and hostility. The failure to fully acknowledge human corporeality and its entanglement with the rest of nature is deeply connected to contemporary ecological crises\, and has since the 1980s been subjected to a thorough-going critique by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mau argues that the body occupies a central place in Marx’s thought\, and that a critical reconstruction of his dialectical understanding of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature and his concepts of corporeal organization\, labor\, tools and metabolism provides a foundation for an eco-Marxist theory of human nature and the corporeal roots of human historicity and freedom. \nThis talk is based on Søren Mau’s article “Karl Marx and the Body: Towards an Eco-Marxist Philosophical Anthropology” in Body & Society 32(1). \nSøren Mau is a political philosopher and the author of Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Verso Books\, 2023). His work centers on critical theories of capitalism\, power\, ecology\, the body\, technology\, human nature\, and utopian thought\, with the central theme of freedom: its nature and sources\, the political and economic barriers to its realization under contemporary capitalism\, and its potential forms in a post-capitalist world.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-and-the-body/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Critical Theory,Ecosocialism,featured,historical materialism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Summer 2026,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T130000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.  This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization.  We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and show the truly radical view that Hegel championed under difficult conditions of censorship and political persecution\, much like those of our own time. This study of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right is inspired by the insight of Andy Blunden\, in his recent book\, The Capital-Logic Debate\, that the key to understanding Marx’s dialectical method in his investigation of Capital lies in understanding the method Hegel employed in the Philosophy of Right. \nFor the main text the preferred version is Outlines of the Philosophy of Right\, edited by Stephen Houlgate (Oxford University Press\, 2008). Also acceptable is Elements of the Philosophy of Right\, edited by Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press\, 1991). \nPrevious classes in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and/or the Science of Logic will be helpful but are not a requirement for these sessions. Each participant will be expected to make at least one presentation during the ten-week seminar. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this supremely concrete application of Hegel’s dialectical method. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex has also been involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/hegels-philosophy-of-right/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegel,historical materialism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Reading Group,Science and Method,Spring 2026,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 2\, Extremities
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nIn this our second panel we question the socio-spatial manifestations of the limit and its political and property avatars: the border the boundary\, and the zone. Across these contributions\, to think at the extremity is to reevaluate the whole\, querying how limits animate entire systems of thought and distinction. (Panel 1 details here) \nNathaniel LaCelle-Peterson examines the function of infrastructure in the thought of Louis Althusser\, where it appears as substitute for “base” as the opposing category of “superstructure” in his structuralist articulation of the mode of production. Alan J. Alaniz analyzes the built and unbuilt architectural projects of the midcentury Mexico-United States borderlands to illuminate the spatial consequences of geopolitics at the international divide.  Madeleine Han examines the role of contemporary art in the transformation of Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—a geographical and imagined ‘limit’ marked by dreams of deferred reunification—into a visitation site. Javier Porras Madero explores how combined and uneven development along the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands produced newly alienated subjects who became the central social components of twentieth-century nationalisms. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a doctoral researcher in Film & Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Alan J. Alaniz is a doctoral researcher in the Yale School of Architecture. Madeleine Han is a doctoral researcher in the Yale American Studies program. Javier Porras Madero is a doctoral researcher in the history department at Yale University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/yale-wggc-extremities/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Immigration,Latin America,Modernity,Panel Discussion,Political Economy,Present Moment,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T160000
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SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 1\, Thresholds
DESCRIPTION:Panel Presentation by the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nThe first panel\, Thresholds: Limit Cases\,  takes on the exceptions that determine the rule. These limit cases of sound\, shock\, spirit\, and symbol problematize and contest the generic and ideological frames they operate within. Probing the thresholds of perception\, we address experience that re-taxonomizes the social and sensorial order. (Panel 2 details here) \nSuvij Sudershan asks why the qawwal (a traditional Sufi devotional form that often puts written poetry to music) came to enjoy uniquely prominent position within the global meta-genre of “World Music”? Michelle Chow explores Asian/American transnational ecopoetics\, an the literary\, philosophic\, cultural\, and botanical attempts to contend with the post-nuclear environment\, by centering around one tree\, the gingko. Jane Zhang links the origins of the first aid kit in railway surgery to the broader exchange between emergency protocol and industrial management. Michael Denning takes up Fredric Jameson’s challenge to “political” readings of Marx in the context of recent “republican” re-readings of the political dimension of “Citizen Marx\,” reconsidering the limits of and barriers to\, the political. And Sam Levin charts the shifting limits of belonging on the global far right as it coalesced in the last quarter of the 20th century. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology. A collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Suvij Sudershan is a doctoral researcher at Yale’s Department of English. His dissertation is on the representation of ground-rent and class-formation in 19th and early-20th century novels from Ireland\, England\, India\, and South Africa. Michelle Chow is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s English Literature and Film & Media Studies program\, and a Graduate Fellow of Yale’s Center for the Study of Race Indigeneity\, & Transnational Migration (RITM). Jane Zhang is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s Combined Program in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies. Her research focuses on the intersecting histories of popular literature and vernacular medicine from the 19th century onwards. Michael Denning teaches cultural studies in the American Studies program at Yale University; among his books are Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and Noise Uprising. The Twofold Labors of Marx is forthcoming from Verso. Sam Levin is a doctoral researcher in the American studies program at Yale University. He studies religion and the global far right in the 20th century.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/yale-wggc-thresholds/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Panel Discussion,Political Strategy,Republicanism,Seminars and Talks,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T200000
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Vol. II - On the Circulation of Capital
DESCRIPTION:In Volume I of Capital\, Marx analyzes the processes of capitalist production and accumulation and identifies the real sources of wealth: nature and the labor performed by working people. In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, he addresses the next big question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place\, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met\, in the necessary proportions\, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? In this study group\, we will discover some answers\, but we will also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society. Marx ‘s analysis in Volume II lays the groundwork for his system-wide summation in Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \nWe welcome all who have a basic knowledge of Volume I of Capital to this study group. Participants read selections on their own each week and meet for clarifying discussions\, guided by experienced students of Marx from the MEP. For certain key and/or difficult sections\, we do line-by-line readings in class. \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Fred has led several Capital study groups and numerous others on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-vol2-shortcourse/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,historical materialism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T173000
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SUMMARY:Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer.
DESCRIPTION:This six-week reading group\, facilitated by Lisa Maya Knauer\, will focus on one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work\, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory. Marx argued that capital accumulation depends not only upon the production of goods and the extraction of surplus value\, but also on the reproduction of capitalist social relations and above all of the class of people who have nothing to sell but their labor power. Social reproduction theory analyzes the processes whereby working classes and their conditions of life are sustained over time. Marx only sketched the concept in very broad terms\, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. Vogel and others argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. We will supplement Vogel’s classic work with some early writings by the Wages for Housework campaign and more recent scholarship\, including a newly published collection of Lise Vogel’s essays\, The Contested Domain. Some familiarity with Marxist and/or feminist theory is helpful but not essential. \nLisa Maya Knauer stumbled across the writings of the Wages for Housework campaign in the mid-1970s when she was a college student. A few years later\, she started reading Marx’s Capital at the MEP’s predecessor\, the School for Marxist Education. She is a co-founder of the MEP and has led our Capital Volume I reading groups for the past few years. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nRegistration for this group is now closed. Contact info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/social-reproduction-theory-with-lisa-maya-knauer/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Fall 2025,Gender,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T173000
DTSTAMP:20260202T145354Z
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SUMMARY:Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
DESCRIPTION:A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner\, in which we will 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. \nBridging political economy and psychology\, we will review Marx’s writings on the structure of social systems that encompass cultural emergents such as religion. As emphasized by Wendy Brown in her Foreword to the Reitter-North translation of Capital\, “Marx developed an understanding of political economy as the distinctive mode through which we build entire worlds through our singular cooperative powers—transforming nature\, elaborating divisions of labor and organizations of ownership\, producing wealth\, creating ways of life\, institutions\, social forms\, subjects\, and subjectivities… Capital brings into being not only particular kinds of markets\, technologies\, and industries\, but classes\, families\, and political structures; race and gender orders; relations with ‘nature’; new formations of space and time; and legal codes and conflicts.” \nTurning to the field of cultural psychology\, we will explore how cultural forms stimulate and organize human psychology. Here we will focus on the work of the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” Vygotsky was a dedicated Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. Vygotsky said\, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science\, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” 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-ratner/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260113T150139Z
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally’s recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally’s book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Over the past decade\, Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nEnrollment for this study group is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/slavery-and-capitalism-a-reading-group/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 2025,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Slavery,Social Reproduction,US History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T200000
DTSTAMP:20251212T183931Z
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SUMMARY:Reading 'Karl Marx in America'
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman’s recently published 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. \nFacilitated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-karl-marx-in-america/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Civil War,Fall 2025,historical materialism,Housing,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Reading Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T203000
DTSTAMP:20251224T170853Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel\, Marx\, and Capital
DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 17\, 2025 event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAndy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx’s use of Hegel’s Logic in the writing of Capital. The Capital/Logic Debate offers a critique of the discourse around the relation between the two thinkers. Previous writers have looked for homologies between the Logic and Capital\, despite the fact that the Logic has no definite content\, while any positive science\, political economy included\, does have definite content originating from some problem or phenomenon with its own logic. In Marx’s Capital: Hegelian Sources\, Blunden explores the three-layered structure of Capital\, where each layer has a basis in Hegel. The distinct ethical strata of Capital – bourgeois society\, productive capitalism\, and finance capital –  parallel Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Marx applies a Hegelian syllogism in which the immediate production of capital (volume 1) and the circulation of capital (volume 2) combine to yield capitalist production as a whole (volume 3). These two synthetic processes are built on 15 “units” – unique products of analysis\, as detailed in the penultimate chapter of Hegel’s Logic\, “The Idea of Cognition.” \nAndy Blunden has long been active on the Left as an activist and educator. Since the early 2000s he has been Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org). Andy has presented courses on Activity Theory\, Marx and Hegel at summer schools at Melbourne University. currently retired from waged work\, he has worked as a teacher\, a technician\, or an engineer\, and has been an active trade unionist throughout. Among his other books are Hegel for Social Movements; Hegel\, Marx\, and Vygotsky; and Concepts: A Critical Approach. All are available from Haymarket Books.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/hegel-marx-blunden/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Critical Theory,Fall 2025,featured,Hegel,historical materialism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Philosophy,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T130000
DTSTAMP:20251212T184126Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel's Preface to the 'Phenomenology'
DESCRIPTION:(ends on December 13) \nThis eight-session course with Alex Steinberg concludes our ongoing studies of Hegel’s mysterious work\, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will do a close reading of the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit\, a work that can be read on its own and is considered the most succinct and comprehensive statement of Hegel’s philosophy. \nThese sessions introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nThere are 3 acceptable translations of the Phenomenology of Spirit available:\nOne by A.V. Miller published by Oxford University Press\, another by Terry Pinkard from Cambridge University Press\, and another translation that includes only the Preface\, by Yirmiyahu Yovel from Princeton University Press with a detailed commentary. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/hegels-preface-to-the-phenomenology/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Fall 2025,Hegel,historical materialism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T180000
DTSTAMP:20251130T213743Z
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Volume I - A Short Course on Capitalist Production
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, September 20 through December 13 \n\nHave 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-session study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer will facilitate as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This reading group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. \n\nLisa Maya Knauer\, our facilitator\, has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nEnrollment in this series is now closed – please watch for future sessions on Marx’s Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-short-course/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Fall 2025,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T160000
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA book talk by David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally injects new life into Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor\, presenting a new\, systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature\, planter records and diaries\, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \n“David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ‘constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers.”—Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class \nDavid McNally is the author of many works of Marxist analysis and history\, including Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance and Empire; Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance; and Monsters of the Market: Zombies\, Vampires and Global Capitalism. David is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. Earlier he taught political economy at York University Toronto for over thirty years. David is the editor-in-chief of Spectre\, a biannual and online journal of Marxist theory\, strategy\, and analysis. \nJoin our five-week reading group on Slavery and Capitalism starting December 1.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/mcnally-slavery-capitalism/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 2025,featured,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Slavery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T200000
DTSTAMP:20251130T213549Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume III
DESCRIPTION:Volume III of 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. \nParticipants in this long-running study group have been closely reading and discussing Volume III\, using a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we do a line-by-line reading with pauses for questions and commentary. Participants read other sections on their own\, along with occasional supplemental materials such as passages from Beverley Best’s highly praised companion to Volume III\, The Automatic Fetish. The series is nearing completion with study of Part Six on Ground-Rent.\nRegistration is now closed\, but please email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com if you are interested in further Capital studies. \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on 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/capital-volume-iii/
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Financialization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2025
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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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SUMMARY:Aristotle\, Hegel\, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:A video of this June 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nJoin us for a dialogue on philosophical themes featuring two authors of forthcoming books from Stanford University Press. Michael Lazarus is the author of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle\, Hegel and Marx\, and Jensen Suther is the author of True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom.  Lazarus situates Marx within a shared tradition of ethical inquiry\, placing him in close dialogue with Aristotle and Hegel. His book traces the ethical and political dimensions of Marx’s work missed by Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre\, two of the most profound critics of modern politics and ethics. Ultimately\, the book claims that Marx’s value-form theory is both a continuation of Aristotelian and Hegelian themes and at the same time his most distinctive theoretical achievement. In True Materialism\, Suther engages with three titans of literary modernism—Franz Kafka\, Thomas Mann\, and Samuel Beckett—to pursue not only an account of Hegel’s materialism but also a new critique of capitalist modernity. Breaking with the received view of Marx’s relation to German Idealism\, the book argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel’s idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition. \nMichael Lazarus is a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University. \nJensen Suther received his PhD from Yale University and is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/aristotle-hegel-marx/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Antiquity,communism,featured,Hegel,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Summer 2025,Video Available
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SUMMARY:'Roses for Gramsci' with Andy Merrifield
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 17\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAuthor Andy Merrifield presents Roses for Gramsci\, a remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist\, Antonio Gramsci. \nIn the summer of 2023\, Merrifield and his family move from the UK to Rome to begin a new life. Soon after his arrival\, the author visits Gramsci’s grave and decides to take a volunteer position helping to maintain the cemetery. At the Non-Catholic Cemetery\, home also to the great Romantics\, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats\, he keeps a watchful eye on Gramsci’s tombstone\, talking to some of his visitors\, admiring the roses and notes that Gramsci’s guests leave\, and communing with the sentinel cat that keeps watch near the gravesite. Thus begins Merrifield’s deep dive into Gramsci’s life almost a century after his death. \nThe result is a stunning portrait that offers fresh insights into nearly every aspect of Gramsci’s often tortured existence: a childhood scarred by severe health problems; his grasp of the culture of workers and peasants; his growing understanding of political economy; his friendship with the economist Piero Sraffa; his frustration trying to communicate with and be father to the son he never saw; his generosity and kindness. Above all\, Merrifield illuminates how Gramsci kept his humanity\, suffering horribly in prison while writing a revolutionary classic\, The Prison Notebooks. Personal\, compassionate\, moving—and illustrated with the author’s photographs —Merrifield revives both the legacy and meaning of Gramsci’s work and the dying art of belles lettres. Roses for Gramsci is an evocative and indelible book. \nAndy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books including\, most recently\, Beyond Plague Urbanism and Marx\, Dead and Alive: Reading “Capital” in Precarious Times. He has written numerous articles\, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review\, The Nation\, Harper’s Magazine\, New Left Review\, The Guardian\, Literary Hub\, Jacobin\, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about urbanism\, political theory and literature.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/roses-for-gramsci/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Class,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fascism,featured,Fordism,Gramsci,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Italian history,Poetry,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Spring 2025,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital Volume 1: A Short Course for Today
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, February 1 – April 26 \n\nHave 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. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer will facilitate as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This reading group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. \n\nLisa Maya Knauer\, our facilitator\, has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nThis group is approaching completion – please email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com if you still wish to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marxs-capital-volume-1-short-course-for-today/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Winter 2025
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SUMMARY:'The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads' with author Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nKevin B. Anderson presents his newly published book\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads\, based on systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s “Ethnological Notebooks” and related Marx texts from his final years\, 1869-1883. \nIn these writings\, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts\, turning his attention to colonialism\, agrarian Russia and India\, Indigenous societies\, and gender. Anderson’s book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat but would be touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups\, peasant communes\, and Indigenous communist groups\, in many of which women held great social power. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities that continues to speak to us today. \nThe Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism is available from Verso and from other online booksellers. \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has been a scholar-activist since the 1970s\, working in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, and the Frankfurt School. Among his numerous books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He is is the coeditor\, with Peter Hudis\, of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader. He writes regularly for New Politics\, The International Marxist-Humanist\, LA Progressive\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/late-marx-revolutionary-roads/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Colonialism,communism,historical materialism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Modernity,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Russia,Seminars and Talks,Winter 2025
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SUMMARY:Hegel’s 'Science of Logic' - An Epilogue and a Prologue
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals introduces what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. We are reading the Introduction and Preliminary Concepts from Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic\, sometimes called “The Shorter Logic.” The material we are discussing can stand alone as an Introduction to Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. But for those who have already studied the Science of Logic with us this can serve as completion of the Circle of the dialectic. \nWe are reading from:\nG. W. F. Hegel\, The Encyclopaedia Logic\, also known as Part I of the Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences\, translation by T. F. Geraets\, W. A. Suchting\, and H. S. Harris. Hackett Publishing Company\, 1991. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar and lifelong socialist who has taught classes in Marxist philosophy\, Hegel\, the dialectics of nature\, Heidegger\, and Nietzsche at the New Space for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education\, The Brecht Forum\, the Marxist Education Project\, and other venues. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. In addition to his scholarly activities Alex has been involved with the governance of WBAI radio\, most recently as Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019 – 2021. \nMatthew Strauss is an independent scholar and a revolutionary communist. He is affiliated with the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists (CORS) of Columbus\, Ohio\, and was a member for eleven years of the International Socialist Organization until its dissolution. \nRegistration for this group is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/hegels-science-of-logic-an-epilogue-and-a-prologue/
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Classes/Events,Fall 2024,Hegel,historical materialism,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:The Circulation of Capital: Volume II of Marx's Capital
DESCRIPTION:In Volume I of Capital\, Marx analyzes the processes of capitalist production and accumulation and identifies the real sources of wealth: nature and the labor performed by working people. In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, he addresses the next big question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place\, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met\, in the necessary proportions\, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer\, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society. Marx thereby lays the groundwork for the system-wide analyses in Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \nWe welcome all who have a basic knowledge of Volume I of Capital to this ongoing weekly study group. Participants are closely reading and discussing Volume II\, guided by Fred Murphy and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants read other sections on their own\, and we summarize and discuss when we meet. The series is ongoing until we have read the entire book. At present we are reading Part Three\, “The Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital.” \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Fred has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nRSVP below to join the group in progress. There is no registration fee but a suggested donation of $50 or whatever amount you can afford will help support the work of the MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-ii-4-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,historical materialism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Summer 2024
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SUMMARY:Studies in Marx's Capital
DESCRIPTION:Following up on the MEP’s long-running study of Karl Marx’s Grundrisse\, this group has been reading closely and discussing Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value and related articles and books analyzing and amplifying the three volumes of Marx’s Capital.  At present (November 2024) we are completing a study of  capitalist landholding and ground rent. Future readings may include Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital\, by Søren Mau\, and The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital\, by Beverley Best. \nRSVP below if you wish to join this ongoing study group and we will send you the Zoom link. A suggested donation of $50 or whatever amount you can afford is welcome and appreciated.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/theories-surplus-value-4/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Money,Political Economy,Science and Method,Summer 2024
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