2011 Programs
2011 Programs
ONLY OPEN TO BRECHT FORUM SUBSCRIBERS!
David Harvey
A close reading of the text of Volume II and some of Volume III of Marx’s Capital. A limited number of seats are available for Brecht Forum subscribers who register online here. The Union...
Russell Dale
Hegel's...
Russell Dale
Hegel's...
Italy: 1968-1980
Michael Lardner
We are approaching 50 years since students united with workers rose throughout the world inspired by the national liberation struggle of the Vietnamese. France and Italy entered the 1960s with large Communist...
Jose Rosa
Students will develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this level...
Martin Davis
This class will introduce participants to Vol 1 of Marx's Capital in a seminar and discussion format. We will focus on Marx’s presentation of the production of...
Raising Money for our Movements
Shaun (Sha) Grogan-Brown, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Ash Hammond, Allison Thompson Julien, Charles Long, Caroline Loomis, Doyin Ola, Kevin Ryan, Jeremy Rye, Dara Silverman, Max Uhlenbeck & More Speakers TBA
Friday Opening Plenary: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday Workshops: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Whether you are part of a small collective, a medium sized local non-profit or a national organization, now more than...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
From the Civil War to the Soviet 20th Congress, 1956
Stanley Aronowitz
This course will provide an overview of the main currents in radical movements and thought. Topics include: The Left before 1900; the Rise of the Socialist Party; the Industrial Workers of the World and...
Michael Pelias
This eight week course will trace retrospectively the beginning and development of the concept, movement, and “practice” of materialism in philosophical discourse from the militant materialism (in its two...
Lessons from the Great Recession 2008
Harriet Fraad & Rick Wolff
This short course will build a sturdy bridge between the two worlds we live in: the world of political economy, and the world of personal relationships. This is particularly urgent now that desperate...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Ganesh Trichur
Giovanni Arrighi’s 1994 work, The Long Twentieth Century, is a masterpiece of historical sociology and political economy of the capitalist world system over seven long centuries of accumulation and...
A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer
Steve Bloom
Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include:
- What is poetry?
- ...
Jeffrey B. Perry with Others
This course will focus on Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) and Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005), two autodidactic, anti-white supremacist working class intellectuals and two of the twentieth centuries most...
Jose Rosa
Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms...
Part Two
Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the...
33rd Annual Intensive Introduction to Marxism
Younes Abouyoub, Kazembe Balagun, Nyaza Bandele, Matt Birkhold, David Braun, J.J. Brown, Harriet Fraad, Tess Fraad Wolff, Harmony Goldberg, Randy Martin, Donna Murch, Shahid Stover, Juliet Ucelli, Lincoln Van Slutyman, Tim Schermerhorn, Ganesh Trichur, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
The Brecht Forum’s annual Summer Intensive is designed as an introduction to the theoretical and practical traditions that trace their origins to the works of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. In laying bare...
Jose Rosa
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish...
Jose Rosa
Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical...
Kenyan National Uprising Against British Colonialism 1952-60
Michael Lardner
This is an ongoing study group, participants can join at any time. Each term takes on a specific facet of anti-capitalist and often socialist revolutionary dynamics. This summer...
Ganesh Trichur
Giovanni Arrighi has made compelling interventions in debates within the global Left. This seminar will engage with these interventions to get a stronger purchase on the related crises of world capitalism...
The Decline of the US Empire?
Vijay Prashad
Join Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), at the Brecht Forum for a special...
Ganesh Trichur
The rise of China in the world economy has invited considerable speculation on the nature of Chinese growth and development from writers and scholars across the spectrum. Giovanni Arrighi 's (2007) Adam...
Russell Dale
Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more that was quite important to Marx and Engels. Reading and...
David Laibman
An exploration of Marxist political economy, which seeks both to capture the core elements in the foundational work of Marx, and to reconstruct that legacy using tools from conventional (capitalist) economic...
Part 2
Michael Pelias
This course will continue the investigation of the philosophical struggle between idealism and materialism through close readings of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach the sections on historical materialism...
Part II
Stanley Aronowitz
This course traces the development of the US left from the Khrushev revelations of the crimes of stain in 1956 to the present. Among the topics: the breakup of the Communist movement; the rise of the black...
Spain Part 1: 1800 to the 2nd Republic & Civil War
Michael Lardner
This autumn we will look at the history of Spain beginning with the resistance to the Napoleonic invasions at the beginning of the 19th century. We will also look at the stages of capitalist development in...
A Dialectical Method
Kevin Keating
A series of lectures/screenings with filmmaker Kevin Keating. An opportunity to analyse and discuss American documentary long-form films, their production, potential audiences, social change impulses and...
Martin Davis
This class will introduce participants to Vol 1 of Marx's Capital in a seminar and discussion format. We will focus on Marx’s presentation of the production of...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish...
The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish...
Socialist, Social Democratic & Capitalist
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse
- The housing problem from a Marxist perspective: Engels and after
- Subprime foreclosures, rent control, land speculation: Marxist perspectives
- Socialist and social democratic...
Jose Rosa
Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish...