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A People’s Guide to Capitalism
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupSummer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism: In ten weekly sessions starting June 8, we will read and discuss 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%.
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Topics in Political Strategy: ‘Nerd Reich’ and ‘We Still Here’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupAs we head toward the US fall elections, the Topics in Political Strategy reading group will continue our mix of currently-published substantive analytical pieces and a monthly book-length treatment of important topics of political theory. Readings include 'We Still Here' by Marc Lamont Hill, and 'The Nerd Reich' by Gil Duran.
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P DJeli Clark on ‘Ring Shout’, Writing Stories, Building Worlds, Usually Fantastic
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelPhenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novel Ring Shout, which MEP's Speculative Fiction will read next. Clark also has written Abeni’s Song and A Master of Djinn, and the novellas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have ... Read more
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Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
FeaturedRecording available on YouTubeBook Event or PanelJoin us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World.' Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.
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Elections and Tech Futures: Read Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupOctober Selection for the Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group Alternate Mondays, Next on October 12, at 5 pm ET "It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy." So begins Infomocracy, Malka Older's political thriller of a science fiction ... Read more
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‘Beneath the Wage’ with Annie McClanahan
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelA conversation with author Annie McClanahan on 'Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.' Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
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Hegel for Radicals: On Art and Literature
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupFrancis Fukuyama proclaimed The End of History in the 1990’s; art critic Arthur C. Danto proclaimed The End of Art in the 1960s. The genesis of both concepts are credited to Hegel. The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals resumes with a seminar on Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics, where we will study his understanding of art and literature.
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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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Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
FeaturedOnline 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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Reports From the European Uprisings: A Roundtable
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingA roundtable of speakers presenting eyewitness accounts and first-hand analysis of the dramatic events unfolding as students, youth, and working people in France, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Albania, and elsewhere rise up against capitalist austerity, police brutality, and authoritarian regimes.
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Topics in Political Strategy: End Times Fascism
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupAs we head toward the US fall elections, the Topics in Political Strategy reading group will continue our mix of currently-published substantive analytical pieces and a monthly book-length treatment of important topics of political theory. Readings include 'We Still Here' by Marc Lamont Hill, and 'The Nerd Reich' by Gil Duran.
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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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