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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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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
DESCRIPTION:Final session\, December 16 \nA study group on nonhuman animals’ relationship with capital as living\, breathing\, “commodified” beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. A vibrant discourse is currently emerging around the question of nonhuman labor and the ways in which non-waged forms of labor contribute to value accumulation under capitalism. In this study group\, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies\, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism. We will consider how harnessing and enhancing the metabolic labor of nonhuman animals is connected to fields such as waste management\, biomedical research\, big data\, and the reproduction of the human labor force. \nConvened by Gizem Haspolat and Terike Haapoja. Gizem holds a PhD in Anthropology and specializes in critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human-nonhuman animal relations. In her dissertation research\, she explored live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of live cattle imports in Turkey. Her current research project examines the application of ‘smart’ technologies and artificial intelligence in industrial agricultural settings. Terike is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings\, and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her current research on animal labor and multispecies anticapitalist struggle\, with an extensive open bibliography\, can be found on animalcapitalism.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/metabolic-labor/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Fall 2025,featured,Labor Process,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Social Reproduction
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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:20250924T190000
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SUMMARY:'Fake Work' with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this September 24\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nUsing the most banal of office settings – corporate documentation – in the most extraordinary of circumstances – a looming Y2K apocalypse\, Leigh Claire La Berge‘s newly published Fake Work offers not only a unique experience of alienated labor\, but a novel type of Marxism: Marxist humor. The book recounts how a young white-collar worker discovers what capitalism is\, what it does\, and for whom. Described by the New York Times as a “memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil … superbly committed to its own beliefs — truthful\, dryly funny and often subtly moving\,” Fake Work is a story for anyone who has ever needed a job. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Fake Work\, Marx for Cats\, and Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin in 2021-2023.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/fake-work-la-berge/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Capital Studies,Fall 2025,featured,humor,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Media Criticism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241126T130000
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SUMMARY:AI versus Labor: Luddism and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Weekly sessions on Tuesdays at 1 pm through December 2024 \nIs Artificial Intelligence (AI\, sic) really the dire threat to the future of humanity as even some of its proponents claim\, or is it a more mundane and familiar threat to working people who face loss of their livelihoods and/or further speed-up and alienation? The entire history of industrial capitalism is punctuated by recurring waves of automation to reduce labor costs and turnover time\, each time provoking strong resistance by the affected workforce. This reading group will probe the history both of AI and computer technology specifically and of working-class resistance to capitalist automation in general. In eight weekly sessions we will read\, discuss\, and critique two recent works: Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job\, by Gavin Mueller; and The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence\, by Matteo Pasquinelli. Both are available in paper and eBook format from the publisher\, Verso Books. Additional reading selections will be provided in PDF format. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. 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. \nThere is no fee for this eight-week online reading group – RSVP below if you wish to attend 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/ai-versus-labor-luddism-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Fall 2024,featured,Gender,History,Labor History,Labor Process,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Reading Group,Science and Technology,Solidarity,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T210000
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SUMMARY:Animals\, Capitalism\, Marxism:   A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the authors of two major works on animals and capitalism for an event exploring the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette bring to the Marxist Education Project an ongoing conversation they have been conducting this spring as Visiting Fellows at the Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm. Both books have recently been featured in MEP reading groups. \nDinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at The University of Sydney. He has been active in anti-poverty and disability rights movements. Previous books include The War against Animals and\, as co-editor\, Foucault and Animals (Brill\, 2016). \nAlex Blanchette is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Tufts University. He also co-edited How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet\, which analyzes how non-human beings are enlisted into capitalist work regimens. His current research addresses the politics of quitting meatpacking\, based on ethnographic interviews with ex-workers from across the United States. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-capitalism-conversation/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,featured,Food and politics,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Pandemics,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T133000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-06-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-06-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-06-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T133000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T153000
DTSTAMP:20230328T143825Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T153000
DTSTAMP:20230328T143825Z
CREATED:20230328T143723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T153000
DTSTAMP:20230328T143825Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T160000
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SUMMARY:Worn Out: Retail Workers vs. Digital Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:A video of this April 29\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nWith Author Madison Van Oort\nBeneath the success of fast fashion\, a grimmer story is told by Madison Van Oort in Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back. Going undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City\, she observed firsthand how data and surveillance shape the lives of the people who do the actual producing and selling. Van Oort’s interviews with dozens of front line workers and labor activists show how workers are fighting back\, and her research exposes the exploitative reality of retail labor as digital tools lubricate the shift toward just-in-time retail by collecting real-time data on not only customer behavior but also worker performance. Automated scheduling platforms\, biometric time clocks\, and cashier metrics increase these workers’ already heightened insecurity. One of the first ethnographies of this “thriving” industry\, Worn Out pulls open the curtain between production and consumption and reveals the real cost of fast fashion. \nMadison Van Oort is a researcher based in Minneapolis. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2018\, and her academic writing has appeared in the journals Critical Sociology\, Ethnography\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society as well as the anthology Captivating Technology: Race\, Carceral Technoscience\, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Worn Out is her first book. \nWorn Out is available from the publisher\, MIT Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/worn-out/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Precarity,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
CREATED:20230307T154017Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T153000
DTSTAMP:20230328T143825Z
CREATED:20230328T143723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T153000
DTSTAMP:20230328T143825Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \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. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
CREATED:20230307T154017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T153000
DTSTAMP:20230323T182706Z
CREATED:20221209T231124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T182706Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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