February 20, 2019 to May 1, 2019

This series of discussions is aimed at providing theoretical and experiential resources that can aid the ongoing effort to develop a viable socialist alternative for our time. We will do so by re-examining the full expanse of Marx’s work, as discussed in Raya Dunayevskaya’s Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.  All readings can be obtained free of charge from [email protected]

Session 1—Wednesday, February 20: Rethinking Marx’s Thought in Light of Today’s Struggles of Women, Labor, and Black and Latinx peoples

Suggesting reading: Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution: Introduction (pp. ix-xii)

Presenter: Peter Hudis, author Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism

Session 2—Wednesday, March 6: Marx Discovers a New Continent of Thought and of Revolution: 1841-48

Suggesting reading: Rosa Luxemburg…chapter 9 (pp. 115-132)

Presenter: Thomas Burke, Marxist-Humanist activist and writer

Session 3: Wednesday, March 20: From the Grundrisse to Capital

Suggesting reading: Rosa Luxemburg…chapter 10 (pp. 133-152)

Presenter: Reza Omid, Iranian activist

Session 4: Wednesday, April 3: Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg’s Theories of Accumulation of Capital, its Crises and its Inevitable Downfall

Suggesting reading: Rosa Luxemburg…chapter 3 (pp. 31-50)

Presenter: Lautaro Tapia, Marxist-Humanist activist and writer

Session 5: Wednesday, April 17: The Philosopher of Permanent Revolution Creates New Ground for Organization

Suggesting reading: Rosa Luxemburg…chapter 11 (pp. 153-164)

Presenter: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, author Neither Victim nor Survivor

Session 6: Wednesday, May 1: The Last Writings of Marx on Non-Western and Indigenous Societies

Suggesting reading: Rosa Luxemburg…chapter 12 (pp. 175-198)

Presenter: Ali Reza, Iranian activist and writer, and Charles Nissim-Sabat. retired civil rights attorney

Meetings held every other Wednesday, at 6:30 pm
Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St., Chicago, Room 7 North

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