[In first few minutes we’ll hear brief reports/analysis of current issues like the struggle against ICE, new developments in Trumpist fascism, etc.]

Marx’s “Civil War in France,” his epochal essay on the Paris Commune of 1871, showed how the takeover of the entire city by radically democratic, anti-state, and anti-capitalist revolutionaries was paving the way for the true liberation of humanity as never seen before, and seldom since. What can we take from Marx’s writings on the Commune for today, especially for our struggles against genocidal imperialism (Palestine, Ukraine), imperialist war (Iran), and anti-immigrant and anti-trans crackdowns (USA), as well as the labor struggles all around us? How can we see all this globally? Is a real alternative to capitalism possible? What steps can we take, both theoretically and practically, to define and to enhance that goal? How can we see all this globally?

 

Speakers:

• Jackson Aquino
• Judy Zhang

 

Suggested readings:

• Excerpts from Marx, Civil War in France https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch05.htm
• Ch. 6 of Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vK9txskDht67NLtquDD5yhNClkxyKuT5/view
• Jackson Aquino, “On Solidarity Protests for Palestine,” https://imhojournal.org/articles/on-solidarity-protests-for-palestine/
• Jackson Aquino is a writer on critical and urban theory; has been active in the student labor struggles at UC, the Palestine encampments, and the recent anti-ICE mobilizations
• Judy Zhang is a critical philosopher writing on Marx’s humanist, anti-colonial dialectics and its differences with Kant and the liberal Enlightenment

 

 

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