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Public Reading Group with intro by Peter Hudis on “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution”

 

Every 2 weeks, continuing on

Sunday, September 13, 2020 6-8:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time

 

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Meeting ID: 840 4945 7939
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We will be meeting biweekly over the next several months to read Marxist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic book, “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution”

 

Reading for September 13: Ch. 3, “Marx’s and Luxemburg’s Theories of Accumulation of Capital, Its Crises and Its Inevitable Downfall”

Book can be found here: https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Raya-Dunayevskaya-Rosa-Luxemburg-Womens-Liberation-and-Marxs-Philosophy-of-Revolution.pdf

 

With introductory remarks by Peter Hudis, general editor of the “Collected Works of Rosa Luxemburg” and author of “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”

 

Our discussions during the reading group will cover topics like

• Race, class, gender, and revolution
• Dialectics as philosophy and as principle of organization
• The relationship of spontaneity to revolutionary organization
• War, imperialism, and capitalism
• Capital accumulation and imperialism
• Nationalism vs. national liberation and anti-colonialism
• Women and revolution
• Feminism, class struggle, and revolution
• Black feminism
• Black masses as vanguard in the U.S.
• Rosa Luxemburg vs. V.I. Lenin on revolutionary democracy
• Karl Marx’s concept of “revolution in permanence” and Trotsky’s of “permanent revolution”
• From Marx’s “Grundrisse” to “Capital”
• Marx’s concept of the new society: “Critique of the Gotha Programme”
• Marx’s late writings on non-Western and Indigenous societies and gender
• Falling rate of profit and economic crises

 

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