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SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 against fascism. As the characters encounter each other clandestinely to discuss political questions\, they also discuss works of art and question how the art of the past can support their resistance to a horrific present: what can art suggest for a future they may not live to see? \nJust as Weiss’s characters rely upon group discussion\, readers of this trilogy have often formed reading groups to aid their understanding of the novelist’s ambitions. The MEP is joining this leftist tradition. We will read these challenging novels slowly and discuss themes such as strategy and tactics in the fight against fascism\, and the works of art that inspired the characters’ discussions. Familiarity with art history or with Europe in the 1930s is neither required nor expected. \nPublisher’s web pages for The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3\nSecond-hand bookstores\, online resellers\, and public libraries may have copies of these books available. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/aesthetics-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Fascism,Gender,Germany,historical materialism,History,Literary Studies,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Strategy,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,Spring 2026,War,War Fiction,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Topics in Political Strategy: 'Nerd Reich' and 'We Still Here'
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 7-9 pm ET Next on September 1\n \nAs 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. \nThis fall\, we read two critical commentaries on two very different ends of the present moment and organizing responses to it. \nWe Still Here: Pandemic\, Policing\, Protest and Possibility\, by Marc Lamont Hill. We trace back to 2020 and the uprising that “marked a new phase in the Movement for Black Lives.” Hill “critically examines the “pre-existing conditions” that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval\, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities\, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future.” (from Bookshop.org listing) \nThe Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy\, by Gil Durán\, a journalist traces back from the rise of JD Vance\, to Peter Thiel\, and then further to the right. “These guys were never libertarians\,” says Durán. “Now that they are the government\, we see their true face: They’re fascists\, and they’re authoritarians.” (Quoted on Democracy Now!) \nWe study together to understand the wave of reaction which once again has washed over politics\, its reflection in both long historical currents and fast-changing global trends\, and ways to think strategically about advancing in new directions for the socialist left.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/topics-in-political-strategy-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence AI,Classes/Events,Gramsci,Multi-session Classes,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Summer 2026
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Baitalsky's 'Notebooks for the Grandchildren'
DESCRIPTION:Translator Marilyn Vogt-Downey presents a poignant memoir by Mikhail Baitalsky\, a Ukrainian survivor of the 1930s purges in Soviet Union. Notebooks for the Grandchildren: Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917. Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself\, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s\, Baitalsky recounts the Revolution’s hopes—and its tragic unraveling under Stalin. He narrates how Stalin rose to power and carried out the “political counterrevolution” that silenced so many. Arrested three times by the Stalin regime\, Baitalsky survived to tell this story. \nMarilyn Vogt-Downey translated for the Writings of Leon Trotsky series (1970s) for Pathfinder Press and Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition (1974) and was a contributor to the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism (1990s) as well as to Truthout and Counterpunch. She taught high school economics and foreign policy in NYC for 26 years and is currently a delegate to the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Chapter.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/mikhail-baitalskys-notebooks-for-the-grandchildren/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Bolshevism,Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,History,Radical Literature,Repression,Russia,Russian Revolution,Socialism,War,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:P DJeli Clark on 'Ring Shout'\, Writing Stories\, Building Worlds\, Usually Fantastic
DESCRIPTION:Phenderson 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 appeared in online venues such as Tor.com\, Daily Science Fiction\, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly\, Apex\, Lightspeed\, Fireside Fiction\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and in print anthologies including\, Griots\, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons. \nBorn in New York and raised mostly in Houston\, Texas\, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents\, Trinidad and Tobago. When not writing speculative fiction\, P. Djèlí Clark works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World. He melds this interest in history and the social world with speculative fiction\, and has written articles on issues ranging from racism and H.P. Lovecraft to critiques of George Schuyler’s Black Empire\, and has been a panelist and lecturer at conventions\, workshops and other genre events. \nJoin us for what promises to be a wide-ranging\, exhilarating conversation. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/p-djeli-clark-on-ring-shout-writing-stories-building-worlds-usually-fantastic/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Literature,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction
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