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Los Angeles PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL: DISPOSSESSION, SLAVERY, AND REVOLUTION

Speaker: Ali Kiani, Iranian Marxist thinker, and translator
Commentator: René Moya, socialist and immigrant rights activist

Sunday, December 17
6:15-8:00 PM

Art Share
801 East Fourth Place (Arts District)
Los Angeles

Reading: Chs. 26-32 of Capital I

Supplementary: Luxemburg, from “Struggle Against Natural Economy” (pp. 368-77) in Accumulation of Capital; Lautaro Tapia, “Remembering Dependency Theory: A Marxist-Humanist Review,” New Politics (Summer 2017) http://newpol.org/content/remembering-dependency-theory

Topics: Dispossession of the British peasantry, the Atlantic slave system, and the origins of capitalism; centralization of capital and workers’ revolution (negation of the negation)

Note on sources: We are using Capital I (Ben Fowkes,) from Penguin Books, but note that the older translation is out of copyright and easily available free  https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1 Print copies of Capital I will be on sale at the meeting at a low price.


Sponsored by the West Coast Chapter, International Marxist-Humanist Organization

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