This series of four open discussions on Kevin B. Anderson’s new book The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism will explore how Marx’s largely neglected writings from 1868 to 1883 on non-Western and precapitalist societies speak to ongoing debates over the relation of class, race, and gender, multilinear paths of social development, and an ecologically sustainable alternative to capitalism.

The reading group will consist of four discussions; the book is available from Verso Books.

 

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Monday, June 16, 6:30 pm [Central time]

The Revolutionary Potential of Indigenous Communal Formations—from Native Americans to India and Ireland

Reading: chapter 1, “Communal Social Formations and Their Vicissitudes”

 

Monday, July 7, 6:30 pm [Central time]:

Gender and the Resistance to Patriarchy

Reading: chapter 2: “Temporalities and Geographies of Gender, Kinship, and Women’s Empowerment”

 

Monday July 28, 6:30 pm [Central time]:

Unilinear Stages of Development or Revolutionary Forces as Reason?

Reading: chapter 3, “Multilinear Concepts of Historical and Social Development” and chapter 4, “Colonialism and Resistance”

 

Monday, August 18, 6:30 pm [Central time]:

The Late Marx’s Vision of Communism

Reading: chapter 5, “New Concepts of Revolutionary Change and of Alternatives to Capitalism”

 

Sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization

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