Announcing a new series of discussions beginning in April...
April 2000
Beyond Capitalism: The Struggle for a New Society Against Today's Globalized Capital
As the mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle showed,
new movements are bringing Marx's Marxism to life. His greatest work
CAPITAL and his encounters with new phenomena and new movements after
completing it speak to today's new stage of globalization of capitalism and
the emerging revolts against it.
This class series will connect Marx's theory of globalization with today's
movements through the modern theory of state-capitalism and the
philosophyof Marxist-Humanism as articulated by Raya Dunayevskaya. Her work
ROSA LUXEMBURG, WOMEN'S LIBERATION AND MARX'S PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTON will
be the central reading.
When new modes of organizing have been the preoccupation of so many
movements, the time is now also to connect liberatory theory to the
dialectics of organization.
Class 1
From the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion to the 1994 Chiapas, Mexico uprising to
the 1999 Seattle anti-WTO protest: What is new in today's struggles against
global state-capitalism?
Class 2
What is capital? The humanism and dialectical structure of Marx's CAPITAL
Class 3
Capital's expanded reproduction-its ultimate limit in capital itself
Class 4
After CAPITAL-Marx's writings of his last decade on the Third World and
women's liberation
Class 5
What happens after? Developing an alternative to global capitalism through
a unity of philosophy and organization
Click here for a copy of ROSA LUXEMBURG, WOMEN'S LIBERATION AND MARX'S PHILOSOPHY OF
REVOLUTON and other readings and for more information, contact the News
and Letters Committee nearest to you.
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