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SUMMARY:'The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads' with author Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nKevin B. Anderson presents his newly published book\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads\, based on systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s “Ethnological Notebooks” and related Marx texts from his final years\, 1869-1883. \nIn these writings\, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts\, turning his attention to colonialism\, agrarian Russia and India\, Indigenous societies\, and gender. Anderson’s book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat but would be touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups\, peasant communes\, and Indigenous communist groups\, in many of which women held great social power. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities that continues to speak to us today. \nThe Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism is available from Verso and from other online booksellers. \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has been a scholar-activist since the 1970s\, working in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, and the Frankfurt School. Among his numerous books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He is is the coeditor\, with Peter Hudis\, of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader. He writes regularly for New Politics\, The International Marxist-Humanist\, LA Progressive\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/late-marx-revolutionary-roads/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Colonialism,communism,historical materialism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Modernity,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Russia,Seminars and Talks,Winter 2025
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SUMMARY:'Citizen Marx' with author Bruno Leipold
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 26\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAs some of the most powerful capitalists in history are openly disavowing political democracy and calling for the unbridled rule of private wealth\, now is a good time to revisit Karl Marx’s revolutionary republicanism and his ideas about political power and social classes. In his recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought\, Bruno Leipold argues that Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Challenging common depictions of Marx that downplay or ignore his commitment to politics\, democracy\, and freedom\, Leipold shows that Marx viewed democratic political institutions as crucial to overcoming the social unfreedom and domination of capitalism.  \nPlacing Marx’s republican communism in its historical context—but not consigning him to that context—Leipold traces Marx’s shifting relationship to republicanism across three broad periods. First\, Marx began his political life as a republican committed to a democratic republic in which citizens held active popular sovereignty. Second\, he transitioned to communism\, criticizing republicanism but incorporating the republican opposition to arbitrary power into his social critiques. He argued that although a democratic republic was not sufficient for emancipation\, it was necessary for it. Third\, spurred by the events of the Paris Commune of 1871\, he came to view popular control in representation and public administration as essential to the realization of communism. Leipold shows how Marx positioned his republican communism to displace both antipolitical socialism and anticommunist republicanism. One of Marx’s great contributions\, Leipold suggests\, was to place politics (and especially democratic politics) at the heart of socialism. \nBruno Leipold is a fellow in political theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.\nHe is the coeditor of Radical Republicanism: Recovering the Tradition’s Popular Heritage.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/citizen-marx-bruno-leipold/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Capital vs. Labor,communism,England,featured,France,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Republicanism,Revolutions,Social Democracy,Winter 2025
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SUMMARY:Reading Gramsci for Today's Movements
DESCRIPTION:Sundays at 11 am ET \nAn ongoing study group on the Prison Notebooks and other works of Antonio Gramsci. We explore Gramsci’s themes and concepts\, including state-civil society relations\, historical bloc\, hegemony\, spontaneity\, strategy and tactic\, and language. We follow Gramsci’s philological method\, addressing such areas as linguistics\, cinema\, critical theory\, literature\, journalism\, comics\, animation\, plastic arts\, mass media and Machiavellian political studies. We draw on Iran’s Woman\, Life\, Freedom movement and its documentary evidence\, along with other shared historical movements\, experiences and cultures in U.S.\, Iran and worldwide\, towards change and “What-ought-to-be.” \nNo prior knowledge of Gramsci is required. Session contributors lead the discussions on passages from Gramsci’s works and bring their own experiences\, philosophies and scholarship to our readings.  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. \n\nConvened by Piruz Alemi. Piruz has a PhD in Political Economy and an MFA in Documentary Film Making from City University of New York (CUNY). Piruz is an independent scholar-activist in Gramsci’s work and cultural studies\, with a focus on the common struggle of politics of race in the U.S. and gender segregation in Iran and the wider region.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/reading-gramsci-for-todays-movements-spring-2024/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Iran,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Winter 2025
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SUMMARY:Fascism\, Antifascism\, Gaza\, and Political Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Where does the rising wave of authoritarianism and “late fascism” fit in the global relations of force at work today?   And what paths of resistance work in response?  \nThe war in Gaza has brought to a head the left’s strategic dilemmas facing new\, overt forms of fascism. Questions include the historical relationship of settler colonialism and national forms of fascism; the horrific escalation of the long war on Palestine; the opportunities and dangers for the left in national elections in the US and other countries.   \nWe will explore these questions through three points of departure that touch on race\, gender\, settler colonialism\, fossil fascism\, and the carceral state.   \n\nRashid Khalidi\, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance\, a moving\, unnerving essential reading today to understand the background to the present war. \nAlberto Toscano’s Late fascism: Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism\, Toscano gives us powerful tools and perspectives to understand fascism as a changing\, evolving process. \nAndreas Malm and the Zeitkin Collective\, White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. The authors lay bare fossil fuel’s roots in racism and European white supremacy toward colonial peoples. \n\nWe will structure this as a focused\, six to eight-week study emphasizing selections from these three books that most relate to the present moment\, with other parts optional readings.  And we will supplement these books with important analyses of the present moment.  \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich \n Photo: An uncredited photo obtained by The Times shows an inverted US flag\, a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” phenomenon\, at Supreme Court Justice Alito’s residence on Jan. 17\, 2021\, three days before the Biden inauguration.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/fascism-antifascism-gaza-and-political-strategy/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Summer 2024
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SUMMARY:If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:What can the last fifteen years of worldwide mass protests teach us about strategy and organization for socialism? Street protests and organizing from Seattle WTO to Occupy and on to George Floyd Black Lives Matter demonstrated new tactics\, new generations of activists\, and new lessons about the future. Likewise\, worldwide protests from the Arab Spring to Latin America\, Europe\, and Hong Kong also struck hard and have brought many important lessons. Join us for reading and discussion probing three connected themes: \n\nMass street protest since Occupy. We will analyze the rich legacy of largely leaderless mass mobilizations as well as new labor struggles\, locally and globally\, over the last fifteen years.\nCrowdsourcing the Revolution: Digital possibilities\, real-world limitations in networked movements. How has digital communications media changed the organizing landscape since the Arab Spring? A critical assessment of the politics and practicalities of digital networking and communication for effective political strategies.\nFrom mass mobilization to accumulating power against capitalism: new long-term strategy for socialism. What remains important and what has changed in connecting strategy and organization?\n\nReadings will include selections from newly published analyses of and theoretical reflection on recent struggles in the United States and globally: \nIf We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution\, by Vincent Bevins (PublicAffairsBooks)\nTwitter and Tear Gas:  The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest\, by Zeynap Tufekci (Yale)\nCommunism and Strategy: Rethinking Political Mediations\, by Isabelle Garo (Verso)\nNeither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization\, by Rodrigo Nunes (Verso) \nBringing direct experience from Brazil\, France\, Turkey\, and the United States\, these authors invite reconsideration of political and organizational strategy in light of the worldwide extent of recent struggles. We will make this a new\, collaborative exercise and add related readings\, multimedia\, and possibly guest talks suggested by participants in the reading group. \nTuesdays\, at 6:30 pm EST; Winter series ends April 30; RSVP for information about coming Spring series.\nPhotos: Occupy Wall Street\, 1 year later (credit Glenn Halog: 2012); Black Lives Matter (credit: Taymaz Valley 2020) \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/if-we-burn-political-strategy-for-21st-century/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Organizing,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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