Articles tagged “Anderson; Kevin”

Date: Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM

Speaker: Kevin Anderson
Location: Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609

 Marx’s dialectic of race and class is related to that of Frantz Fanon and to the Civil War in the U.S., which unleashed many revolutionary possibilities – Editors.

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October 12th, 2011 7:30 PM

Race, Class and Slavery:
Marx’s Civil War Writings, 150 Years Later
Kevin Anderson

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Loyola University Chicago,
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26 E Pearson, Room 303-304
(1 block N of Chicago Ave; ½ block E of State St.)

Monday, October 10th, 2011 6:30 PM

Race, Class and Slavery:
Marx’s Civil War Writings, 150 Years Later
Kevin Anderson

Sponsored by Loyola University Department of Sociology and Department of Philosophy

This translation by Said Tah and Yashar Shaf of parts of Anderson’s April 2011 article on “Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads” was published in Iran in Shargh Online, Oct. 8, 2011. The translation includes the introduction, conclusion, and discussion of Libya – Editors

Speaker: Kevin Anderson

Date: Sunday September 18th, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609

The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and the uprising in Libya have exhibited a post-Islamist and post-nationalist character.  After challenging both the political and the economic order, they face dangers from old forces like the military and the Islamists (Egypt) or of violent repression (Libya) – Editors

While Marx’s major writings concentrated on capital and class in Western Europe, he also wrote extensively on ethnicity and nationalism, colonialism, and non-Western societies. A slightly different version appeared in Socialism and Democracy, Nov. 2010. Parts of the first half were presented at plenary sessions at the Historical Materialism Conference, London, November 14, 2010; parts of the second half were presented at a panel on “Marxism Beyond the Boundaries,” sponsored by the Hobgoblin Online Journal and the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, London, November 11, 2010 — Editors

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From the series Our World, Our Times

The French and European-wide strikes reveal mass discontent, but also illustrate the limitations facing today’s labor and leftist movements.  – Editors

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Protests against the police killing of a day laborer in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles – populated by impoverished Central American immigrants – reveal the real grassroots of US society as it suffers through the Great Recession — Editors

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