The Obama Effect Undermines the Left
Interview by Simon Birnbaum with Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson [Published in German as “Der Obama-Effekt untergräbt die Linke,” iz3w No. 317 (Freiburg, March-April 2010), pp. 33-35]
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The Obama Effect Undermines the Left
Interview by Simon Birnbaum with Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson [Published in German as “Der Obama-Effekt untergräbt die Linke,” iz3w No. 317 (Freiburg, March-April 2010), pp. 33-35]
Towards an Organizational History of the Philosophy of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S.
Of all the problems and contradictions that have afflicted the radical movement since the time of Marx, those pertaining to the dialectics of organization has proven to be the most difficult and perpl…
Rethinking the Crisis of Capital in Light of the Crisis of the Left
“Far from expressing a sequence of never-ending progression, the Hegelian dialectic lets retrogression appear as translucent as progression and indeed makes it very nearly inevitable if one ever tries…
Today’s Global Financial/Economic Crisis and the Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
My main argument is that blaming “greedy capitalists” for the present crisis is completely misguided, misleading, and counterproductive… And we will continue to deflect attention from the inhumanity…
Hegel’s Phenomenology Today: a Marxist-Humanist View
An exploration of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 200 years after its publication, with particular attention to Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Hegel’s absolute knowing as a new beginning rather than…
Labor Unrest and Economic Distress Impact U.S. Politics
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Anti-Capitalist Struggles in the ‘New’ South Africa
A decade and a half after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains caught in an assortment of contradictions — foremost of which is the growing friction between the government of Thabo Mbeki and th…
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution with Eyes of Today
An examination of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution fifty years later, focusing on the creativity of its workers councils, the differing responses to the revolution at the time by C.L.R. James and Raya Du…
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[[New York]] Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
April 17, 2021
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[[Chicago]] Race, Class and Gender in Today’s Social Movements
April 19, 2021
6:30 PM (CST)
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[Glasgow] Peter Hudis on Race, Class and Gender since the Black Lives Matter Movement
January 29, 2021
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[Los Angeles] Public Online Reading Group on “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution”
September 13, 2020
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[Chicago] Racist U.S. Capitalism on Trial
June 18, 2020
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[Chicago] What is Socialism? What is Needed to Bring it into Existence?
February 26, 2020
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[Chicago] A Tale of Two South Americas – Chile and Bolivia
January 8, 2020
6:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, 7th Fl Room South
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[London] Marx, Ecology, and the Climate Emergency
November 6, 2019
7:30 PM
Conway Hall
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[Chicago] The Green New Deal: Realistic Proposal or Fantasy?
October 23, 2019
6:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library, 5th Fl North Room
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[Chicago] Marx’s Philosophy of Liberation: Its Meaning for Today (Feb 20 to May 1)
April 3, 2019
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[Chicago] Race, Class, and Identity Politics
April 2, 2018
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Freedom School
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[Culver City (LA area)] Racism and the Logic of Capital
March 11, 2018
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Westside Peace Center
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[Los Angeles] Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of Revolution and Its Meaning for Today
July 23, 2017
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