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24th annual Marxist Intensive Study July11-14 by Trich Ganesh 20 June 2002 02:53 UTC |
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Dear WSN members, some of you may be interested in this. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date forwarded: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:15:15 -0400 From: "Liz Roberts" <lroberts@brechtforum.org> To: <reminders@brechtforum.org> Subject: 24th annual Marxist Intensive Study July11-14 Date sent: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:29:54 -0400 Forwarded by: reminders@www.brechtforum.org Upcoming 4 Day Marxist Intensive @ The Brecht Forum 122 West 27th St. 10th Fl. NYC (Betw. 6th & 7th Aves.) 1,9,N,R to 28th St. F to 23rd St., PATH to 23rd St, C/E to 23rd St. 212.242.4201 info@brechtforum. www.brechtforum.org PLEASE REPOST***CIRCULATE WIDELY****PLEASE REPOST****CIRCULATE WIDELY*****PLEASE REPOST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it." Karl Marx, from the Theses on Feuerbach. That the world is in need of change is itself not a Marxist discovery. Injustice and oppression, usually by the few over the many, have historically combined to ensure the emergence of a perspective rooted in the vision of a better, more just world. Indeed, the violent social dislocations that accompanied the triumph of capitalism over feudal tradition in Europe produced many theories and movements seeking a way to a better world. From its 15th century beginnings, capitalism has spread to become a global system of wealth generation. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, more than two billion inhabitants of the planet exist on less than $2 per day, while the assets of the three wealthiest capitalists in the world surpasses the GDP of the 48 poorest nations. Capitalism has enmeshed the world's population in relationships of extreme exploitation and degradation, and has managed this state of affairs through wars, the threat of war, even to the point of nuclear annihilation. So, what are our dreams of a better world? If another world is possible, how shall we achieve it? What do we need to know about this world if we want to create a different one? These are the kind of questions that prompted Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels to undertake their pathbreaking study of capitalist society. They began their work from a very down-to-earth investigation of “real individuals, their activity and the material conditions under which they live, both those which they find already existing and those produced by their activity.” Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many activists equate the defeat of that attempt at socialism with the inadequacy of marxism as a theory of sustainable revolutionary change. We think that they are missing out on invaluable tools for understanding today’s world and how we can change it. Participants in this 4-day Intensive will explore ways that marxism can help us to grapple with the roots and branches of today’s problems and the grounds for a political response that can confront the interdependence of capital with racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. WHAT: A 4-DAY INTENSIVE STUDY OF MARXISM that will explore marxism, how it can help us understand today's world, and how understanding our reality can help us to change it. With today's global economy as our starting point, we will examine some of the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels as well as the contributions of some of the more recent theorists of social change and the strategies of current movements for social change. WHEN: July 11-14, 2002, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Registration: Thursday, July 11th at 8:30 am (Preregistration is advised.) WHERE: At the Brecht Forum's New York Marxist School, 122 West 27th Street, New York City. HOW MUCH: Sliding scale: $75-$125 for the 4-day seminar.Limited scholarships available. FOR OUT-OF-TOWNERS: If you are planning to attend from out of town and need a place to stay, please let us know as we have a very limited ability to place you in someone's home in the New York City area for the four days of the intensive. As this kind of housing is scarce, we will post a list of low-cost lodgings and hostels on our website. To insure low-cost housing it is important to make your reservations early. For more information and program updates: Check our website at www.brechtforum.org or call, (212) 242-4201. TEACHERS & ORGANIZERS Carlos R. Alicea Negrón is an Environmental Science Planner for the South Bronx Clean Air Coalition and a teacher of Advanced Spanish at the Alternative Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. Steve Brier is Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and External Programs and co-director of the New Media Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a founder of the American Social History Project, and co-author of Who Built America? Horace Campbell, who teaches at Syracuse University, is chairperson of the International Caucus of the Black Radical Congress and author of The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation: Lessons from Zimbabwe. Sangeeta Kamat teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India. Nan Rubin, has been involved with community broadcasting, technology planning, policy analysis and media advocacy for more than twenty years. She is currently organizing a national gathering of media and technology activists to plan strategies for new local and international policy initiatives relative to the Information Society. Annette T. Rubinstein, a member of the Brecht Forum Advisory Board, is the author of American Literature: Root and Flower and The Great Tradition in English Literature from Shakespeare to Shaw. Neil Smith teaches anthropology and geography at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Brenda Stokely serves as chair of the New York Labor Party and is president of DC1701/ AFSCME . Bill Tabb teaches economics at Queens College. He is a member of the Brecht Forum’s Advisory Board and author of, among other books, The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Lincoln Van Sluytman, Education Coordinator at the Brecht Forum, has been a political activist for more than 25 years. While always an internationalist, his main area of work has been the Caribbean and especially Guyana. He has been a member of the Committee of Conference, and the Executive Committee of the Working People's Alliance since 1990. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you would like to unsubscribe please go to www.brechtforum.org, click "Program" link and then click blue "unsubscribe" link.
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