2013 Programs
2013 Programs
Mexico: 1910-1920 – Part 2
Michael Lardner with Gerardo Renique
This reading group will take up Alan Knight’s in-depth two-volume study, The Mexican Revolution, as our main text along with other readings to be provided during the sessions.
This is an...
Russell Dale
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates with Hegel only to be...
Jeffrey B. Perry
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical understanding. This...
Part I: The Cycle of Revolution
Richard Greeman
On Monday, February 11, Richard Greeman will deliver thei lecture originally sceduled for Saturday, February 9, that was postponed due to the storm. The event is open to the general public as well as those...
Ben Davis
Based on the book 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, this class will engage several current debates in art criticism from a marxist standpoint and engage questions such as "How does creative labor fit into...
Russell Dale
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates with Hegel only to be...
Jeffrey B. Perry
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical understanding. This...
By W.E.B. DuBois
Tim Schermerhorn
Black Reconstruction is an essential and primary building block in understanding the culture and politics of the United States. It is also an excellent (arguably the best) place to start...
Housing & Displacement after Sandy
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests
Government policies to address climate change after Sandy are geared towards protecting private property and reproduce deep social and environmental inequalities. How can our communities advance alternative...
Lisa Maya Knauer & Friends
Are you tired of capitalism (and its good buddies like racism, patriarchy, homophobia and militarism)? Are you tired of the life you find yourself living, a life you're seemingly forced to live? Are you...
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...
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...
“The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America,” the second volume of “The Invention of the White Race” (Verso Books, 2012) by Theodore W. Allen will be discussed this Friday night, March 8, 2013 at 7:30...
The Creeping Privatization of Public Housing
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests
In the last three decades federal, state and local housing agencies have drastically reduced public housing subsidies, demolished many projects, and entered into public-private partnerships that give banks...
Beyond Boundaries, Building Solidarities
The course will serve as a ‘primer’ for progressives and leftists on contemporary South Asian politics in the region, while also providing a historical context for current events. The purpose of the course...
Mortgage Foreclosures: Socially Just Solutions
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests
NOTE: Due to illness, this session is POSTPONED to APRIL 6.
How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them...
Mortgage Foreclosures: Socially Just Solutions
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests
How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them be helped to stay? Should banks or lenders be made whole by government help if there...
Rent Control: Economics & Social Justice
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests
What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...
Rent Control: Economics & Social Justice
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests
What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...
Russell Dale
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy in spite of the fact that he explicitly defended the most outrageous views about people of color. Kant's works...
Selections from the American Cold War Scene
Michael Lardner & Members of the Revolutions Study Group
Schedule:
June 17: Opening discussion
June 24, July 1 & 8: Philip Roth’s I Married A Communist
July 15, 22 & 29: E.L. Doctorow’s Book...
Zay D. Green
Class schedule:
Class #1: July 16
The Moral Issue and the Status of Blacks
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Our current period is marked by capitalist imposed austerity that has ripped the fabric of working people's lives. The continued assault on the public sector, alongside the environmental degradation of the...
Featuring Sam Anderson, Matthew Birkhold, Pamela Brown, Cliff Conner, Jodi Dean, Silvia Federici, Reg Flowers, Rust Gilbert, Michael Lardner, Randy Martin, Liz Mestres, Cesare Ottolini, Rob Robinson, Shahid Stover, Greg Wilpert, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
Our current period is marked by capitalist-imposed austerity that has ripped the fabric of working people's lives--displacing people from their homes, communities and jobs. The continued assault on 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...
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...
Shahid Stover
An Emancipatory Aesthetics is unapologetically concerned with Art, Music, Film, Theatre, Poetry and Literature, only in so far as these various forms of media sustain, question, inform or contribute towards...
A Marxist Analysis
Chris Williams
This class will examine the capitalist roots of the multi-faceted ecological crisis via a Marxist economic and political analysis. Background will include discussion of the science of climate change, the...
Russell Dale
Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence on much of what has happened in the world since this time (1770 - 1831) and is crucial to nderstanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding...
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 over-...
M.A.D. Fiction continued
Members of the Revolutions Study Group
We will be reading and discussing The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, a novel that both protests and reflects the cultural impact of American plans for Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) by nuclear...
Reform or Revolution? Working-Class Politics in Europe from the Defeat of the Paris Commune to the 1914 Outbreak of World War I – Part 1
John Dudley, Rust Gilbert, Michael Lardner, Branden Rippey, Thomas Smith & David Worley
This class will provide an invaluable background for the study of the worldwide workers radicalization beginning toward the end of World War I whose greatest success was the Russian Revolution of 1917. The...
Marcus Graetsch
Note: The start of this class was postponed from Oct 1 to Oct 8.
Be prepared for a long journey because we want to try to read that whole classic book! It still is an indispensable read if...
By W.E.B. DuBois
Tim Schermerhorn
Black Reconstruction is an essential and primary building block in understanding the culture and politics of the United States. It is also an excellent (arguably the best) place to start...
Stanley Aronowitz
A close reading of the crucial chapters of Marx's Capital, Volume III including crisis theory, tendency of the rate of profit to fall, the Trinitarian formula and the oft misunderstood fictitious...
Historical Materialist Encounter with the "New Materialisms" of Post-structuralism & Post-modernism & the Biopolitical- a Continuation of the History of Materialism Project.
Michael Pelias
Beginning with Bacon's experimental method and Hobbes' mechanical materialism , this course will engage the development of philosophical materialism through the French enlightenment to the historical...
Peter Bratsis
A comprehensive engagement with political theory from the ancient- Aristotle's Politics, the modern- Machiavelli's The Prince to the all too contemporary- Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political...
On Wednesday October 23rd, the Brecht Forum organized a panel discussion on What Do We Mean When We Say Privilege, Ally & Comrade? One of the male panelists, a long time comrade and former employee of...
Richard Greeman
This six-week course will explore Victor Serge's history of the crucial year 1917-18, written in 1928-29 after the author's expulsion from the Communist Party as a Left Oppositionist. Comparisons with...