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Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupA weekly study group on Marx's Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best's 'The Automatic Fetish.' Marx's work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system.
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 4 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'. Smith's notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx's understanding of capital, and Marx frequently quoted from Smith in his discussions in Capital and other writings.
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Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupHave 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.
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Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Contribution
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupCarl Ratner presents a new edition of this six-week series, in which we explore Lev Vygotsky's approach to historical-materialist culture. Vygotsky (1896-1934) was a dedicated academic Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. He said, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science, how to approach the investigation of the mind.”
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Lefebvre Lecture 2: The Critique of Everyday Life
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupWe introduce the work of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre through four monthly lectures presented by cultural studies scholar Iván Zatz-Díaz.
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