Decolonial Marxism Today

A reading group on Marx’s late writings on indigenous people, colonialism and ecology

This online reading group will explore Marx’s late writings (1868-83) on Indigenous peoples, communal formations in the non-Western world, and capital’s destructive impact on the environment in light of ongoing efforts to envision an alternative to capitalism-imperialism.

All readings are available from the International Marxist-Humanist Organization.

Join us via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 875 8752 0083) at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87587520083?pwd=LgA5OtPTqBfN2POte3mmYLN70Bx40c.1

Saturday, November 23, at 12 Noon [Chicago time]:

Marx After Capital: The Ethnological Notebooks on Native American Societies

Reading: “The Last Writings of Karl Marx,” chapter 12 of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, by Raya Dunayevskaya

Saturday, December 14, at 12 Noon [Chicago time]:

Communal Forms, the Peasantry, and Paths to Revolution in the Non-Western World

Readings: “Draft Letters to Vera Zasulich” (1880-81) and “Introduction to 1882 edition of the Russian Edition of The Communist Manifesto,” by Karl Marx

Saturday, January 4, at 12 Noon [Chicago time]:

Palestine and the Commons: Re-Reading Marx with Eyes of Today’s Struggles Against Occupation and Genocide

Reading: “Palestine and the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a,” by Peter Linebaugh, Counterpunch, March 1, 2024

Saturday, January 25, at 12 Noon [Chicago time]:

The “So-Called Primitive Accumulation of Capital”—Then and Now

Readings: 1) “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation,” chapter 26 of Marx’s Capital 2) “Pathways to Development: Marx and Luxemburg on Colonialism,” by Peter Hudis

Saturday, February 15, at 12 Noon [Chicago time]:

Marx’s Notebooks on Capital’s Destructive Impact on the Environment

Reading: “Marx as a De-Growth Communist,” ch. 6 of Marx in the Anthropocene, by Kohei Saito

Saturday, March 8, at 12 Noon [Chicago time]:

The Late Marx and “De-Growth Communism”: A Perspective for the Future?

Readings: “Marx as a De-Growth Communist,” ch. 6 of Marx in the Anthropocene, by Kohei Saito; “Late Writings on Non-Western Societies,” ch. 6 of Marx at the Margins, by Kevin Anderson

Sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization

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