Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital but also the state. Neglected by the statist versions of socialism, whether social democratic or Stalinist that left a wreckage of coercion and disillusionment in their wake, this new annotated translation of Marx’s Critique – just issued by PM Press with commentaries by Peter Hudis and Peter Linebaugh — makes clear for the first time the full emancipatory scope of his notion of life after capitalism.

Save 20% on Critique of the Gotha Program book and e-Book by using coupon code GOTHA at the PM Press website: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1241

Sponsor:

• International Marxist-Humanist Organization

Co-Sponsors:

• Global Latinidades Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Chapman University

Zoom:

• Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84615701327?pwd=QTdaY2xvdURKOUowTXoxb1lxNm9vUT09
• Passcode: 525497
• Meeting ID: 846 1570 1327

Saturday, March 18

Start time 10:00 (am) LA Time, 17:00 GMT (We think the GMT is correct, as US time switches to summer on March 12 and UK/Europe not until March 26.)

Panel 1: 10:00-11:45 AM

• Karel Ludenhoff, labor activist and writer, co-translator of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo, US, co-author of The Many-Headed Hydra: Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
• Esther Leslie, Birkbeck-University of London, UK, author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism 
• Ricado Jacobs, University of California-Santa Barbara, US, and South Africa, writer for Journal of Peasant Studies and other journals

Panel 2: 12:00-1:45 PM

• Peter Hudis, Oakton College, US, author of Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
• Eleonora Roldán Mendívil, Kassel University/University of Witwatersrand, Germany/South Africa
• Lalan Kishor Singh, long-time trade union activist associated with the revolutionary communist movement, India (with extra time for interpretation from Hindi to English)

Panel 3: 2:00-3:45 PM

• Kevin B. Anderson, University of California-Santa Barbara, US, author of Marx at the Margins
• Heather A. Brown, Westfield State University, US, author of Marx on Gender and the Family
• Lyndon Porter, Black student activist and writer, California, US
• Andres Magon-Marmol, XikanIndio Marxist communitarian organizer, California, US

There is no admission charge.