[Chicago] Transcending Capitalism: The Dialectic of Race, Class and Gender in Light of Today’s Economic, Social, and Environmental Crises
Corboy Law Center, Room 206
25 East Pearson St., Chicago
(1 block North of Chicago Ave, ½ block East of State St.)
Today’s ongoing struggles against racial injustice, economic inequality and environmental destruction raise new possibilities–as well as new questions–concerning whether a viable alternative to capitalism can be developed for our time. Join us for a discussion in which the panelists will probe this issue from a variety of critical perspectives.
Chair: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, author, Neither Victim Nor Survivor: Thinking Toward a New Humanity
Speakers:
Ba Karang, “Political Crises in Africa and the Globalization of Racism”
(Political activist from Gambia, West Africa)
Kevin B. Anderson, “Race, Colonialism, and Revolution: From Marx to Today”
(author of Marx at the Margins and co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution)
Sandra Rein, “Rosa Luxemburg, Dialectics and Emancipation”
(author of Reading Raya Dunayevskaya)
Peter Hudis, “The Ecological and Social Imperative for Exiting Capitalism”
(author of Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades and Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism)
Sponsored by Loyola University Department of Sociology
Co-Sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
(Email: arise@internationalmarxisthumanist;
Web: http://www.internationalmarist-humanist.org;
Twitter: @IMHO_Journal; Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/imhorg)