EVENTS

Eco-Socialism or Extinction: Can We Overcome the Existential Threat of Capitalism?
“Before the spark reaches the dynamite, the lighted fuse must be cut.” – Walter Benjamin

Speaker: Mariah Brennan Clegg, Sherry Lear, Sydney Ghazarian, and Gene Warren
Moderating: Javier Sethness

[Chicago] A series of open discussions on Socialism and the Possibility of Human Freedom

December 20, 2018
September 6-December 20
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Harold Washington Library
400 S. State St., Chicago

A series of open discussions on Socialism and the Possibility of Human Freedom

In the face of rampant racism, sexism, inequality, environmental destruction, and growing authoritarianism, the question facing us is can humanity become free? This is not just the problem of our era; it also the theme of Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic book, Marxism and Freedom, first published in 1958. Join us for our exploration of this work in light of the search for a viable socialist alternative to capitalism today.

Meetings every other Thursday, starting September 6, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St., Chicago, 7th floor (Room 7N-5)

Sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization

All readings are available for free by contacting us at arise@internationalmarxisthumanist.org

[Los Angeles] Marx’s Humanism: Philosophical Foundation for a Humanist Alternative to Capitalism

November 18, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

[London, UK] 60 Years of Raya Dunayevskaya’s ‘Marxism and Freedom’: On Class, Race and Automation

November 7, 2018
7:00 PM

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DY

[Los Angeles] 1968, Year of Protest and Revolution, Fifty Years Later – Its Lessons for Today

October 14, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

The revolutionary waves of 1968 crisscrossed the globe and involved a variety of forces of revolution in the US, from students to the Black and Latinx communities and the nascent women’s liberation movement. The Chicanx East LA school walkouts will get particular attention in our discussion. 1968 reached its revolutionary high point in France, where workers joined students in occupying everything, almost toppling the capitalist state. Important developments also occurred in Czechoslovakia, where an experiment in socialist humanism was crushed by Russian tanks, in Mexico where students faced massacre by the state, and with Japan’s radical student movement.

[Los Angeles] Understanding MARXISM & FREEDOM 60 Years Later – A Discussion of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Text

September 23, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic 1958 book speaks to contemporary struggles and debates over automation and precarity, race and class, the exploitation and alienation of labor, the causes of economic crises, and the dialectic in Hegel and Marx.

Upcoming Events

[Los Angeles] Public Online Reading Group on “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution”

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