What Is New in Today’s Imperialism?
The new form of imperialism eschews direct territorial control and is driven by the tendential decline in the rate of profit. More than oil, current US imperialism’s militarization creates an image o…
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Repensando la idea de revolución [Rethinking the Idea of Revolution] (On Holloway)
Summary: Originally appeared in Herramienta: debate y crítica marxista. A translation by Mónica Menacho of Hudis’s 2003 critique of John Holloway’s Change the World without Taking Power — Editors
Repensando la idea de revolución
Originally appeared in Herramienta: debate y crítica marxista. A translation by Mónica Menacho of Hudis’s 2003 critique of John Holloway’s Change the World without Taking Power – Editors Repensando la…
Hegel’s Absolutes and the Crisis of Marxism
A discussion of Hegel’s concept of absolute negativity as ground for Marxist dialectics, in light of the work of Gillian Rose and especially Raya Dunayevskaya, as well as the differing forms of the di…
War on Iraq, Resistance, and the Shift in Global Politics
George W. Bush’s illegal, unwarranted and barbarous war against Iraq clearly has nothing to do with “liberating” the Iraqi people and everything to do with extending U.S. global power at the expense o…
Rethinking the Idea of Revolution (on Holloway)
Of the many issues facing the effort to rethink the idea of revolution today, few are more vexing than that of state power. Does social revolution center on the political seizure of state power? If it…
Workers as Reason
The traditional perception of the American working class as apolitical or even backward, since it has never built a labour party of its own or embraced Marxist parties in any signicant way, has been C…
Bush’s War Against Iraq Threatens Global Disaster
What is new today is not that the U.S. is willing to unilaterally invade other countries, but that Bush has declared the right to do so against any country, at any time, at any spot on the globe. Ther…
Israel-Palestine Crisis at Boiling Point
Through his brutal attacks on Gaza, reminiscent of his criminal actions in Lebanon in 1982, Israel’s Ariel Sharon is trying to rid the minds of Israelis and Palestinians of the very idea that they can…
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[[New York]] Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
April 17, 2021
2:00-4:00 pm East Coast DST/18:00-20:00 GMT
Zoom
[[Chicago]] Race, Class and Gender in Today’s Social Movements
April 19, 2021
6:30 PM (CST)
Zoom
[Glasgow] Peter Hudis on Race, Class and Gender since the Black Lives Matter Movement
January 29, 2021
16:00 – 18:00 CET
Zoom
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-hudis-on-race-class-and-gender-since-the-black-lives-matter-movement-tickets-134254455691?aff=erelexpmlt
[Los Angeles] Public Online Reading Group on “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution”
September 13, 2020
6-8:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84049457939?pwd=QjBKKzIzZnZqdDJvek9yYnFGU09nZz09
[Chicago] Racist U.S. Capitalism on Trial
June 18, 2020
6:30 p.m. CDT (UTC/GMT -5:00 hours)
Internet
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87850888223?pwd=VUhLa0JkcmNxdzk4STRWNXAzaGpzdz09
[Chicago] What is Socialism? What is Needed to Bring it into Existence?
February 26, 2020
6:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, Room 7 #N5 Floor (across the 7th floor elevators)
400 S. State St., Chicago Loop
[Chicago] A Tale of Two South Americas – Chile and Bolivia
January 8, 2020
6:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, 7th Fl Room South
400 S. State St., Chicago Loop
[London] Marx, Ecology, and the Climate Emergency
November 6, 2019
7:30 PM
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL
[Chicago] The Green New Deal: Realistic Proposal or Fantasy?
October 23, 2019
6:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, 5th Fl North Room
400 S. State St., Chicago
[Chicago] Marx’s Philosophy of Liberation: Its Meaning for Today (Feb 20 to May 1)
April 3, 2019
6:30 - 8:30
Harold Washington Library, Room 7 North
400 S. State St., Chicago
[Chicago] REVITALIZING REVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND PRACTICE
July 13, 2018
6:30 PM
Loyola University (downtown campus), Corboy Law Center Room 1401
25 East Pearson (between State St. and Wabash Ave)
[Chicago] Race, Class, and Identity Politics
April 2, 2018
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Freedom School
719 S State St # 300, Chicago, IL 60605
[Culver City (LA area)] Racism and the Logic of Capital
March 11, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM
Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd.
[Los Angeles] Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of Revolution and Its Meaning for Today
July 23, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102 (press #22 at door to get into building)
[Chicago] Environmental Crises: Resistance & Alternatives
February 13, 2017
6:30 — 8:30 pm
Hosteling International, Nichols Room
24 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago loop