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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:The Sinking Middle Class with David Roediger
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author David Roediger\nIn the 2020 elections\, both major US political parties stressed their support for the “middle class.” David Roediger corrects this in his pointed and persuasive polemic The Sinking Middle Class. Roediger demonstrates that such an obsession is relatively new in US politics\, starting with Bill Clinton’s attempt to win back the so-called Reagan Democrats\, aided by legendary pollster Stanley Greenberg. Their efforts were marked by covert appeals to white racism and the avoidance of wealth redistribution — features that remain prominent to this day. \nDrawing on rich traditions of radical social thought\, Roediger debunks the thinly sourced idea that the United States was\, for much of its history\, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swaths of middle-income America\, only accelerated by the current pandemic\, reveals the fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressive change. \nDAVID R. ROEDIGER teaches American Studies at the University of Kansas. His books include Seizing Freedom\, The Wages of Whiteness\, How Race Survived U.S. History\, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness. His book The Production of Difference (with Elizabeth Esch) recently won the International Labor History Association Book Prize. \n“Brilliant and insightful… Explores the ways in which appeals to save the middle class in electoral politics harm the very constituencies they purport to help.”\n—George Lipsitz\, author of How Racism Takes Place
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/the-sinking-middle-class-a-new-book-from-david-roediger/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-01-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Marina Sitrin on Pandemic Solidarity with Colectiva Sembrar
DESCRIPTION:Pandemic Solidarity:\nMutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis\nedited by Marina Sitrin with Colectiva Sembrar\nMarina Sitrin (editor) joins key contributors Eleanor Finley and Lais Gomes Duarte (Colectiva Sembrar) to speak on activist solidarity\, horizontalism and autonomy expressed through the constitution of this riveting collection of real-life stories. Chaired by FireWorks series editor — Anitra Nelson (MSSI\, University of Melbourne\, Australia). Collective \nPandemic Solidarity collects first-hand experiences of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. In times of crisis institutions of power are laid bare and people turn to one another. Underneath the media’s narrative of selfish individualism and runs on supermarkets\, we find an opposing story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions\, including India\, Rojava\, Taiwan\, South Africa\, Iraq and North America\, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture\, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present\, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like\, and reflect the existing skills and relationships to create it\, challenging institutions of power in all their fragility. \nThis ticket is for admission to the event along with 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/pandemic-solidarity-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Pandemics,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200914T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200914T201500
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living\nVolume 56 of the Socialist Register\nEach year a new volume of the Socialist Register appears\, effectively laying out for socialists and communists what are burning issues of the day—we now have 56 years of coverage\, and many of the burning issues are now in a full blaze. This year’s edition was published before the global pandemic\, the 40 million additional unemployed in the US alone\, and the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. The whole world watched the video and responded with a movement that is more widespread than was Occupy Wall Street in 2011 or the first Black Lives Matter upsurge in 2014. \nIn the preface to Socialist Register 2020\, co-editors Greg Albo and Leo Panitch discuss much of what the working classes of the world are confronting with capital’s market dystopia. At one point they cite Colin Leys\, a former co-editor of the Register from his 2001 text\, “Market-Driven Politics\, Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest” \nA strong non-market domain\, providing various core services\, as the common sense of a civilised and democratic society may sound far-fetched in an era of market-driven politics. But it is debatable whether it is really as far-fetched – as hard to imagine or as absurd – as the world towards which market-driven politics is tending\, in which more and more of the workforce is absorbed in ever-intensified competition for ever higher output and consumption\, while the collective services for which democracy depends gradually decay. \nThe editors go on to state that “It is precisely this sensibility that informs this volume\, Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living. By challenging our contributors to address what are the actual and possible ways of living in this century\, we saw this as way of probing how to get beyond the deep contradictions of neoliberal capitalism. We did not want contributors to conceive their remit as future-oriented per se\, but rather to see their mandate as locating utopic visions and struggles for alternate ways of living in the dystopic present. To this end\, a number of he 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 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.Yet even amidst all that appears so new in today’s capitalism\, classical socialist themes\, dilemmas\, challenges\, and struggles are still very much with us. Indeed\, several essays in this volume undertake political archaeologies of the past to find their vestiges providing new meaning for the practices of socialism in the twenty-first century. \nWe will meet for ten weeks to consider eleven of this year’s presentations\, one essay per week except for our last session (see schedule below). This reading of the Socialist Register could become a regular feature of MEP summers: it allows for frequent participation but takes into account that all of us may miss a week or more due to summer travel and vacations. \nFour of the ten sessions remain as follows: \nAugust 24 • What Should Socialism Mean in the Twenty-First Century?\nNancy Fraser author will be present \nAugust 31 • The Affordable Housing Crisis: Its Capitalist Roots and the Socialist Alternative\nKarl Beitel author will be present \nSeptember 14 • Communism in the Suburbs?\nRoger Keil\nAnd The Retroactive Utopia of the Socialist City\nOwen Hatherley\nboth authors will be present \nDiscounted copies of the book (2 remaining) are available from The MEP. Write to: info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com or to revsgroup@gmail.com for information. A separate product line will be an on-line item —check website after 6/20 for ordering information.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/socialist-register-2020-beyond-market-dystopia/2020-09-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Immigration,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Beyond Market Dystopia: 2 Events Special Price
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY • August 24 via Zoom\nWhat Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century?\nNANCY FRASER\nDrawing on an expanded conception of capitalism\, this presentation will construct an expanded conception of socialism that overcomes the narrow economism of received understandings. NANCY FRASER is the co-author with Cinzia Arruzza and Titihi Bhattacharya of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso\, 2019) \nMONDAY • August 31 via Zoom\nThe Affordable Housing Crisis: Its Capitalist Roots & the Socialist Alternative\nKARL BEITEL\n\n\n\nThe essay proceeds as follows: I begin with a short summary of the argument advanced by neoclassical economists that assert that the root of the affordability crisis is excessive regulatory interference on the part of governments. This is followed by a section presenting an alternative approach that draws heavily on Marx’s own work on the circuit of capital to explain the factors underlying the long-term inflation of building costs and housing prices. I briefly discuss the impacts of the long-term decline in interest rates and ‘financialization’ on housing prices in major capitalist cities. I conclude with a section that outlines how socialists can envision the transformation of the provisioning of housing during the transitional phase of creating a postcapitalist\, socialist economy. \n\n\n\n\nSliding Scale—no one turned away for inability to pay • email to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for link to events if you cannot pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/beyond-market-dystopia-3-events-special-price/2020-08-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Immigration,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Beyond Market Dystopia: 2 Events Special Price
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY • August 24 via Zoom\nWhat Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century?\nNANCY FRASER\nDrawing on an expanded conception of capitalism\, this presentation will construct an expanded conception of socialism that overcomes the narrow economism of received understandings. NANCY FRASER is the co-author with Cinzia Arruzza and Titihi Bhattacharya of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso\, 2019) \nMONDAY • August 31 via Zoom\nThe Affordable Housing Crisis: Its Capitalist Roots & the Socialist Alternative\nKARL BEITEL\n\n\n\nThe essay proceeds as follows: I begin with a short summary of the argument advanced by neoclassical economists that assert that the root of the affordability crisis is excessive regulatory interference on the part of governments. This is followed by a section presenting an alternative approach that draws heavily on Marx’s own work on the circuit of capital to explain the factors underlying the long-term inflation of building costs and housing prices. I briefly discuss the impacts of the long-term decline in interest rates and ‘financialization’ on housing prices in major capitalist cities. I conclude with a section that outlines how socialists can envision the transformation of the provisioning of housing during the transitional phase of creating a postcapitalist\, socialist economy. \n\n\n\n\nSliding Scale—no one turned away for inability to pay • email to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com for link to events if you cannot pay
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/beyond-market-dystopia-3-events-special-price/2020-08-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Climate Change,Immigration,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living\nVolume 56 of the Socialist Register\nEach year a new volume of the Socialist Register appears\, effectively laying out for socialists and communists what are burning issues of the day—we now have 56 years of coverage\, and many of the burning issues are now in a full blaze. This year’s edition was published before the global pandemic\, the 40 million additional unemployed in the US alone\, and the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. The whole world watched the video and responded with a movement that is more widespread than was Occupy Wall Street in 2011 or the first Black Lives Matter upsurge in 2014. \nIn the preface to Socialist Register 2020\, co-editors Greg Albo and Leo Panitch discuss much of what the working classes of the world are confronting with capital’s market dystopia. At one point they cite Colin Leys\, a former co-editor of the Register from his 2001 text\, “Market-Driven Politics\, Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest” \nA strong non-market domain\, providing various core services\, as the common sense of a civilised and democratic society may sound far-fetched in an era of market-driven politics. But it is debatable whether it is really as far-fetched – as hard to imagine or as absurd – as the world towards which market-driven politics is tending\, in which more and more of the workforce is absorbed in ever-intensified competition for ever higher output and consumption\, while the collective services for which democracy depends gradually decay. \nThe editors go on to state that “It is precisely this sensibility that informs this volume\, Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living. By challenging our contributors to address what are the actual and possible ways of living in this century\, we saw this as way of probing how to get beyond the deep contradictions of neoliberal capitalism. We did not want contributors to conceive their remit as future-oriented per se\, but rather to see their mandate as locating utopic visions and struggles for alternate ways of living in the dystopic present. To this end\, a number of he 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 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.Yet even amidst all that appears so new in today’s capitalism\, classical socialist themes\, dilemmas\, challenges\, and struggles are still very much with us. Indeed\, several essays in this volume undertake political archaeologies of the past to find their vestiges providing new meaning for the practices of socialism in the twenty-first century. \nWe will meet for ten weeks to consider eleven of this year’s presentations\, one essay per week except for our last session (see schedule below). This reading of the Socialist Register could become a regular feature of MEP summers: it allows for frequent participation but takes into account that all of us may miss a week or more due to summer travel and vacations. \nFour of the ten sessions remain as follows: \nAugust 24 • What Should Socialism Mean in the Twenty-First Century?\nNancy Fraser author will be present \nAugust 31 • The Affordable Housing Crisis: Its Capitalist Roots and the Socialist Alternative\nKarl Beitel author will be present \nSeptember 14 • Communism in the Suburbs?\nRoger Keil\nAnd The Retroactive Utopia of the Socialist City\nOwen Hatherley\nboth authors will be present \nDiscounted copies of the book (2 remaining) are available from The MEP. Write to: info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com or to revsgroup@gmail.com for information. A separate product line will be an on-line item —check website after 6/20 for ordering information.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/socialist-register-2020-beyond-market-dystopia/2020-08-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Immigration,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain
DESCRIPTION:Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain: An insurgent mapping workshop \nSupply chains justify their increasing reach into our daily lives by claiming that they provide us with critical necessities when we most need them. But do they? What are the unseen forms of violence\, dispossession and exploitation that are concealed in the objects we buy with a simple click of the check-out button? Is there ethical consumption under capitalism? Does an ethical purchase at one site travel through multiple other sites of violence? How have logistical systems grown\, developed\, and shaped our spaces? Who funds them? Whose lives are considered expendable in their construction? This workshop will map the global supply chain through tracing the passage of everyday commodities from their point of production to your doorstep. In doing so\, we will examine the infrastructure and ‘externalized costs’—human\, economic\, social and environmental—of the international flow of things. We will explore the potential for our own insurgent mapping projects\, seeking to understand how supply chains are resilient yet vulnerable and fragile—and to identify where working-class solidarity has the greatest possibility to spread up and down the chain\, across sectors\, borders–and even oceans.   \nCharmaine Chua is a member of the Empire Logistics collective and Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. Her work examines the rise of logistics and containerized shipping in the context of the transPacific supply chain\, and seeks to uncover how supply chains that claim to provision life actually distribute inequality\, containment\, and ‘vulnerability to premature death’.\n\nLaurel Mei-Singh serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests include land and militarization\, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war\, and the Pacific. She is writing a book on military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Hawai’i. \nTickets are sliding scale: no one turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/counter-cartographies-of-the-global-supply-chain/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Immigration,Labor History,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Reading “Finally Got The News”: 3rd Sessions\, Part 4
DESCRIPTION:The 3rd Four-Week Session\nA reading group facilitated by Lisa Maya Knauer of The Marxist Education Project and members of Interference Archive \nAll are welcome to join at any session! \nThe 70s were a turbulent decade for the left\, both in the U.S. and worldwide – from the student protests against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia in 1970\, through the Nicaraguan and Iranian revolutions.  \nThis reading group\, designed to accompany Interference Archives’ exhibit Finally Got The News will explore some of the key liberation movements of the 1970s U.S. through the lens of written documents included in the exhibition\, as well as excerpts from publications by the activists and intellectuals who led\, chronicled and theorized about them. This is not a nostalgia trip\, but an opportunity to critically examine some important and often-overlooked threads of our collective history in order to inform our own politics of liberation in the 21st century.  \nOur reading will be divided into three four-week sessions\, using key protest events as entry points into the larger issues that they embodied.In each session\, we will try to put the social movements we examine into dialogue with each other — as they generally were at the time. Often\, individuals became politicized through one specific protest or movement\, which then opened up an array of questions and issues\, so there were a lot of flows of people and ideas between and among movements. Reading sessions will take place at Interference Archive on the Saturdays listed below\, from 3-5pm. Please email info@interferencearchive.org if you would like to participate\, so that we can provide access to reading material. All who pre-register will receive reading materials for the first session in advance. \nThe reading group is a collective undertaking\, and we welcome those whose entry in radical politics came long after the events we are studying as well as veterans of those movements. \nPart One: (February 25 remaining session—come join in at any time!) \nWe’ll start with the Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)\, the role of race in the formation of the U.S. working class\, and trade union radicalism as an alternative to business unionism. We will then read about the prisoners’ revolt and brutal put-down at Attica\, looking at the naked exercise of militarized state power and the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Saturday\, February 25 will be a discussion of the politics\, writings and assassination of George Jackson and the aftermath. \nPart Two: (March 11\, 18\, 25\, and April 1) \nNext\, we turn to the American Indian Movement and the 1973 stand-off at Wounded Knee\, echoes of which resonated through the encampments at Standing Rock. We’ll then continue to talk about the interaction of social movements and the state while looking at the New York City fiscal crisis\, the politics of austerity\, grassroots responses\, and anti-authoritarianism. The role of finance capital in imposing deep cuts on working people’s lives in 1975 will begin in the second part of the discussion on March 25. \nPart Three: (April 15\, 22\, 29\, and May 6) \nThinking broadly about decolonization\, we’ll look at how the 1975 Portuguese revolution and the independence struggle Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau provide an opportunity to explore the relationship between colonialism and national liberation. The 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua opens a window into Latin American revolutionary struggles and the challenges to U.S. imperialism in former client-states. We will then delve into radical feminism and its sometimes uneasy relationship with Marxism and socialism\, and we’ll continue our discussion of sexual politics in the gay and lesbian movements. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a lifelong radical who came of age politically in the 1960s and 1970s. She was active in the anti-war\, civil rights\, women’s\, farmworkers support\, anti-apartheid and other movements. She moved to New York in 1977 and quickly immersed herself in the New York left. She found the School for Marxist Education in the phone book and joined the Marxist Education Collective\, and has been involved with this educational undertaking through its various incarnations\, including the Marxist Education Project. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university and does research on indigenous resistance in Guatemala and immigrant worker organizing in the U.S. \nThe Marxist Education Project (MEP) has been formed as a place to study\, and to work to consciously identify what questions we must address and together answer\, each bringing to the discussion our diverse locations and experiences within society as a whole. We are confronting great possibilities and great challenges which require that we socially and politically find common ground while embracing not only our own but also each others different needs as our own into one organized emancipatory voice that represents the needs and aspirations of all humanity with social and political programs to begin the remediation of ourselves and our relations to each other and the ecology of our planet. In this first quarter of the 21st Century it has become clear that we as a species have a great challenge and responsibility—to bring together all our different needs and knowledge into an organized and diverse political force that can not only impede the prerogatives of an imperialist capitalism but also start to put in place means for transitioning to different ways of producing while in doing so we take into account all the needs of nature. In the next year we will begin offering classes and events in other boroughs and neighboring cities including Saturday morning sessions in Newark. \nInterference Archive: The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection\, publications\, a study center\, and public programs\, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements. \nThe archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters\, flyers\, publications\, photographs\, books\, tee shirts and buttons\, moving images\, audio recordings\, and other materials. \nThrough our programming\, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions. \nAs an all-volunteer organization\, all members of our community are welcome and encouraged to shape our collection and programming; we are a space for all volunteers to learn from each other and develop new skills. We work in collaboration with like-minded projects\, and encourage critical as well as creative engagement with our own histories and current struggles. \nAs an archive from below\, we are a collectively run space that is people powered\, with open stacks and accessibility for all. We are supported by the community that believes in what we’re doing. \nAdmission to the reading group is free to all. Contributions are accepted.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-finally-got-the-news-2/
LOCATION:Interference Archive\, 131 8th Street\, No. 4\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Science and Technology,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Resistance and Solidarity Across the US-Mexican Border
DESCRIPTION:Gerardo Renique will cover the history and political implications of the making of the US-Mexican international for contemporary struggles for labor\, immigrant and civil rights across the US-Mexican border. Significant consideration will be given to the tensions and contradictions generated by the uneven interdependence of capitalist development in the borderlands; the long history of solidarity\, struggle and resistance against racial and capitalist oppression waged by Native Americans\, Mexican Americans and the multinational working class in the region; and\, the potential of these developments for the political challenges posed by transnational capitalism and globalization in Mexico and the United States.\nGerardo Renique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research looks at the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America; race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. He co-directed with Tami Gold the video-documentary Frozen Happiness. Elections\, Repression and Hope in Oaxaca\, Mexico; and co-authored with G. Katsiaficas “A New Stage of Insurgencies: Latin American Popular Movements\, the Gwangju Uprising\, and the Occupy Movement” in Socialism and Democracy.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/resistance-and-solidarity-across-the-us-mexican-border/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History
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