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[Chicago] What to do With the State? Reading Group on the New Edition of Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program”

Join us for a reading group on PM Press’s publication of a new translation of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program which also contains extensive commentary on its contemporary significance. Order your copy at: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1241

Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a socialist future, free from the shackles of capital but also the state. Neglected by the statist versions of socialism, whether social democratic or Stalinist that left a wreckage of coercion and disillusionment in their wake, this new annotated translation and analysis of Marx’s Critique makes clear for the first time the full emancipatory scope of his notion of life after capitalism.

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Session 4: Monday, March 27, 6:30 pm (Central time)

What to do With the State?

“It is by no means the aim of the workers, who have got rid of the narrow mentality of humble subjects, to set the state ‘free’… [it is wrong to] treat the state as an independent entity that possesses its own ‘intellectual, ethical, and libertarian bases.’”

This session will explore non-statist forms of association that can promote the abolition of the police, prisons, and the criminal injustice system in the struggle for a new society.

 

Saturday, March 18—a one-day conference (via zoom) on the new edition of the Critique of the Gotha Program Watch for coming details

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

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