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Coronavirus, Capitalism, and Class Struggle
April 14, 2020 01:08 - 109 MBCoronavirus, Capitalism, and Class Struggle Dennis Kosuth David McNally Sherry Baron Jessica Hansen-Weaver Sean Petty Healthcare Seemingly overnight, the world as we know it has been fundamentally transformed into an unrecognizable, dystopian nightmare. The coronavirus has brought to the sur...
Queering Social Reproduction
January 17, 2020 21:01 - 84 MBQueering Social Reproduction Kate Doyle Griffiths Aaron Jaffe Barms Armstrong Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time LGBT Social feminism has been revitalised in recent years by a revived interest in ‘social reproduction’, which an increasing number of Marxist theorists have used both to explain change...
The Revolutionary Left and Broad Parties
January 17, 2020 20:58 - 71.1 MBThe Revolutionary Left and Broad Parties Aaron Amaral Aldo Sauda Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International The revolutionary left has participated in broad parties in many parts of the world in an attempt to build an alternative to capitalist and social democratic parties that have adopted neoliberalism. This panel will ...
Leninism, Social Democracy, and the State
January 17, 2020 20:56 - 47.1 MBLeninism, Social Democracy, and the State Juan Ferre Stephen Maher Jordan House Wladek Flakin Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism Socialists and elections: what way forward for the US left? - Juan Ferre, Left Voice 100 Years After the German Revoluti...
The Role of Socialists in Building the Labor Movement and the Labor Movement in Building Socialism
January 17, 2020 20:53 - 75.3 MBThe Role of Socialists in Building the Labor Movement and the Labor Movement in Building Socialism Zyad Hammad Jia Lee Sarah Dowd Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions This panel discussion will focus on current and prospective organizing efforts in several key NYC industries: education,...
The Menace of the Workers: Self-Organization and Recomposition in the US, Mexico, and South Africa Today
January 17, 2020 20:51 - 74.6 MBThe Menace of the Workers Self-Organization and Recomposition in the US, Mexico, and South Africa Today Immanuel Ness Patrick Gun Cuninghame Robert Ovetz Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics Class struggle is slowly back on the agenda around the world. In the US,...
Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism
January 17, 2020 20:48 - 70 MBCase Studies in the Origins of Capitalism Charles Post Xavier LaFance Nicole Leach Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism As Marxist economist Anwar Shaikh puts it, ‘capitalism's sheath mutates constantly, but its core remains the same’. To understand the distinct core logic of capit...
What's at Stake in the Fight for Abortion Access
January 17, 2020 20:47 - 68.9 MBWhat's at Stake in the Fight for Abortion Access Jenny Brown Lillian Cicerchia Kate Castle Phoebe Abramowitz Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Women Abortion access is critical to bodily autonomy and women's liberation, and that access has been chipped away at since Roe...
New Ways of Thinking
January 17, 2020 20:42 - 60.4 MBNew Ways of Thinking Campbell Jones Willie Johnson AK Thompson Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism Rethinking Economic Planning —Campbell Jones A Radical New Approach to the Socialist Study Group —Willie Johnson Marxist Responses to Christianity Today —AK Thompson
Abundant Futures for Whom: Possibilities for (and Despite) a Scarred Earth
January 17, 2020 20:41 - 35.7 MBAbundant Futures for Whom Possibilities for (and Despite) a Scarred Earth Kate Aronoff Alyssa Battistoni Daniel Aldana Cohen Jesse Goldstein Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment The implications of Green New Deal politics for left o...
Aesthetics of Resistance/Defense
January 17, 2020 20:38 - 74.2 MBAesthetics of Resistance/Defense Jason Loebs Alan Ruiz Park McArthur Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Art & Culture Leftists have long lamented the depoliticization of art in our so-called “post-critical” era. However, Trump’s election has renewed attention to the complicity of the arts with the l...
Imperialism and the Nation-State
January 17, 2020 20:35 - 65.6 MBImperialism and the Nation-State Michael Bray Walter Daum Chris Gilligan Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time War & Antiwar Having No Country and Constituting the Nation: Towards the Coherence of Popular Politics —Michael Bray Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation and Marxist Theory —Walter Daum C...
Socialism and the International Fight for Reparations
January 17, 2020 20:32 - 49.2 MBSocialism and the International Fight for Reparations Edna Bonhomme Bianca Cunningham Justin Charles Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Racism & Civil Rights
Revisiting Marxist Economics
January 17, 2020 20:30 - 71.8 MBRevisiting Marxist Economics Fred Moseley Rebecca Carson Jared Sacks Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics Unequal Turnover Times: Another Cause of Deviations of Prices of Production from Values —Fred Moseley Using the sphere of reproduction to rethink Marx's category of surplus-value —Jar...
America's Opioid Epidemic: Profiting from Pain
January 17, 2020 20:28 - 51.2 MBAmerica's Opioid Epidemic Profiting from Pain Nikki Blazek Helen Redmond Jacob Clary Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare In the United States, 145 people die every day from opioid overdose. Drug overdose is the #1 cause of preventable death among people younger...
The Struggle to Abolish Private Health Insurance and Establish Medicare for All
January 17, 2020 20:25 - 80.1 MBThe Struggle to Abolish Private Health Insurance and Establish Medicare for All Natalie Shure Adam Gaffney Dustin Guastella Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare The demand for Medicare for All has captured the political limelight. Since 2016 no other transformative demand has garnered nearl...
Institutions and Left Strategy
January 17, 2020 20:19 - 59.9 MBInstitutions and Left Strategy Michael Hirsch Shannon Walsh Steve Lyons Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism In the past 50 years, the right has outgamed the left, engineering a broad-scale takeover of media and public institutions. To rebuild left power, we need institutions that ...
Abolish Silicon Valley: Technology and Working-Class Recomposition
January 17, 2020 20:16 - 93.6 MBAbolish Silicon Valley Technology and Working-Class Recomposition Magally Miranda J. S. Chen Sarah Mason Jason Prado Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics Moderated by Wendy Liu. Sponsored by Notes from Below.
Political and Social Crisis in Germany and Beyond: A Discussion of Oliver Nachtwey's "Germany's Hidden Crisis"
January 17, 2020 20:13 - 53.7 MBPolitical and Social Crisis in Germany and Beyond A Discussion of Oliver Nachtwey's "Germany's Hidden Crisis" Oliver Nachtwey Ajay Singh Chaudhary Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International What are the origins and causes of the current political crisis and the rise of right-wing populism in G...
How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West
January 17, 2020 20:10How America Became Capitalist Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West Charles Post John Clegg James Parisot Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time U.S. Politics Has America always been capitalist? Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capita...
Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy
January 17, 2020 20:08 - 64 MBCrises and Hegemonic Transitions From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy Lorenzo Fusaro Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics Crises and Hegemonic Transitions reworks the concept of hegemony at the international level and analyses its relation to world market crises. read more
China and the US: Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Solidarity from Below
January 17, 2020 20:07 - 67.9 MBChina and the US Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Solidarity from Below Au Loong Yu Kevin Lin Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International The intensifying rivalry between the US and China fills the daily news. The US remains the world’s predominant political and economic power, but it now views China...
Energy for the People: The Green New Deal and the Technical/Political Potentials of Grid Transformation
January 17, 2020 20:03 - 107 MBEnergy for the People The Green New Deal and the Technical/Political Potentials of Grid Transformation Ashley Dawson Irene Shen Josh Karpoff Lia Soorenian Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment The US electric grid is often described ...
The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
January 17, 2020 19:59 - 56.3 MBThe People’s Republic of Walmart How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Michal Rozworski Leigh Phillips Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the l...
Forging New Radical Traditions in Europe
January 17, 2020 19:55 - 85.1 MBForging New Radical Traditions in Europe Kate Seidel Daniel Finn Kathleen Brown Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International Waiting for the Post-post-Soviet: Old and New Challenges to Building a Left in Russia Today - Kate Seidel Ireland’s Radical Tradition? The IRA and Left Politics in Moder...
Critical Perspectives on the Venezuelan Crisis
January 17, 2020 19:53 - 74.6 MBCritical Perspectives on the Venezuelan Crisis Gabriel Hetland George Ciccariello-Maher Andreina Torres Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International As the political, economic, and humanitarian crises in Venezuela continue to unfold amid a protracted power struggle between the Maduro regime and ...
Women's Oppression and Care Work
January 17, 2020 19:50 - 69.2 MBWomen's Oppression and Care Work Marta Baradic Edna Bonhomme Anamarija Šiša Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Women The relation between political and economic crises and mass female labour migration through history —Marta Baradic On the international women's movement in Germany —Edna Bonhomme ...
Critical Perspectives on Law from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
January 17, 2020 19:48 - 67.4 MBCritical Perspectives on Law from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century Camila Vergara Sam Menefee-Libey Rob Hunter Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism Law and capitalism are co-constitutive. Commodities, property, and the wage relation are all legally constructed. The relati...
The Question That Never Goes Away: Imperialism, Revolution, and the Agrarian Question in East Asia
January 17, 2020 19:44 - 83.8 MBThe Question That Never Goes Away Imperialism, Revolution, and the Agrarian Question in East Asia Tiffany Yang Harlan Chambers Benjamin Kindler Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International How China's Communist Party approached taxation, particularly grain extraction...
Anti-Communism and "Taliban Governance" in Pakistan Afghanistan
January 17, 2020 19:42 - 42.2 MBAnti-Communism and "Taliban Governance" in Pakistan Afghanistan Zenab Ahmed Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International
Queer and Trans (Counter)Cultural Marxism
January 17, 2020 19:40 - 77.9 MBQueer and Trans (Counter)Cultural Marxism Jordy Cummings Jules Joanne Gleeson Omnia Sol Anja Weiser Flower Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time LGBT This panel brings together Red Wedge, the only English language Marxist journal with a mission of engaging cultural product...
What Would Happen If Bernie Won?: Strategic Opportunities and Challenges for Social Democracy Today
January 17, 2020 19:35 - 86.5 MBWhat Would Happen If Bernie Won? Strategic Opportunities and Challenges for Social Democracy Today Meagan Day Nantina Vgontzas Kate Doyle Griffiths Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time U.S. Politics The idea of social democracy is regaining popularity in the capitalist co...
Opioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project: Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism
January 17, 2020 19:32 - 77.4 MBOpioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism Honoria Guarino Peter Ikeler Samuel Friedman Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions In 2017, opioid overdoses claimed 49,068 lives in the US. This epidemic now surpasse...
Labor and the Fight for Single Payer Healthcare
January 17, 2020 19:29 - 69.6 MBLabor and the Fight for Single Payer Healthcare Sean Petty Laura Gabby Jeff Mikkelson Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare
Academic Workers: Worker-Student Solidarity
January 17, 2020 19:27Academic Workers Worker-Student Solidarity Amelia Horgan Edward Remus Sara Swerdlyk Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions New forms of disciplining at work, and new disciplinary forms of work in the academy, are made invisible by the inability to understand a...
Gestational Labor Pains: A Discussion of Sophie Lewis's "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family"
January 17, 2020 19:24 - 62.9 MBGestational Labor Pains A Discussion of Sophie Lewis's "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" Sophie Lewis Jules Joanne Gleeson Natasha Lennard Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Women A panel on social reproduction, gestation as labor, family abolition, and strug...
Subjectivity and Strategy Against Accursed Austerity
January 17, 2020 19:20 - 82.7 MBSubjectivity and Strategy Against Accursed Austerity Bruno Gulli Despina Lalaki Chris Knight Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism An examination of the possible ways that new political subjectivities can be conceived and created at the present moment of capitalist austerity, democr...
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Middle East
January 17, 2020 19:17 - 45.6 MBRevolution and Counter-Revolution in the Middle East Yasser Munif Frieda Afary Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International
Ten Theses on Science and Research Under a Left Government
January 17, 2020 19:14 - 34.3 MBTen Theses on Science and Research Under a Left Government Cliff Conner Chris Dols Seshat Mack Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment Government support for science, industry R&D, and other technical research has been a longstanding feature of American capitalism. Modern science has expanded...
Marx at the Arcade
January 17, 2020 19:09 - 35.9 MBMarx at the Arcade Jamie Woodcock John McDonald Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Art & Culture A book launch panel for Jamie Woodcock's "Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle," published by Haymarket Books. read more
US Policy, US Labor
January 17, 2020 17:55 - 90.6 MBUS Policy, US Labor Andy Battle Marc Kagan Erik Van Deventer Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time U.S. Politics The 1954 sit-down strike at the American Safety Razor company and the economics of racial discrimination —Andy Battle How a “capital strike" after World War II led the government to invest...
Persistent Inequalities: How Inequalities Are Reproduced by Capitalist Competition
January 17, 2020 17:52 - 56.9 MBPersistent Inequalities How Inequalities Are Reproduced by Capitalist Competition Charles Post Kate Doyle Griffiths Howard Botwinick Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism This panel will present a theory of how wage inequalities are reproduced by capital...
Law and Social Movements
January 17, 2020 17:50 - 84.3 MBLaw and Social Movements Megan Lessard Lea Ramirez Brian Sullivan Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism Capitalist society is supposedly based on the rule of law, but has relied on slavery, oppression of women, and constant rule breaking by the elites in order to continue. In the Tr...
Fighting Trumpism and Left Accommodation: Marxist-Humanist Perspectives
January 17, 2020 17:47 - 74.7 MBFighting Trumpism and Left Accommodation Marxist-Humanist Perspectives Andrew Kliman Chris Gilligan Brendan Cooney Adam Plante Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time U.S. Politics
Brexit: WTF?
January 17, 2020 17:43 - 55.1 MBBrexit WTF? Richard Seymour Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International Sponsored by Jacobin.
Endnotes 5 Preview
January 17, 2020 17:41 - 51 MBEndnotes 5 Preview John Clegg Michelle O'Brien Shyam Khanna Jasper Bernes Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Art & Culture Introduction —John Clegg Abolition of the Family —Michelle O'Brien Revolutionary Motives —Jasper Bernes From Desert to Oasis in Five Years —S...
Rebuilding a Principled Anti-Imperialism: Lessons from Syria, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
January 17, 2020 17:37 - 55.8 MBRebuilding a Principled Anti-Imperialism Lessons from Syria, Nicaragua, and Venezuela Shireen Akram-Boshar Dan La Botz Dan LaBotz Mercedes Gallego Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International
Making a Living on a Toxic Planet: The Struggle for Good Work and a Clean Environment
January 17, 2020 17:29 - 75.3 MBMaking a Living on a Toxic Planet The Struggle for Good Work and a Clean Environment Erik Wallenberg Caitlin Myers Fern MacDougal Eva Swidler Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment From mining accidents to bomb trains, from the Denora...
Outsiders in the Art World
January 17, 2020 17:24 - 76.9 MBOutsiders in the Art World Crystal Stella Becerril Adam Turl Laura Fair-Schulz Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Art & Culture Sponsored by Red Wedge.
Greece: The State and Left Strategy
January 17, 2020 17:13 - 11.3 MBGreece The State and Left Strategy Panagiotis Sotiris Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International Greece: social and economic crisis, political crisis, crisis of hegemony