Here is a video of the first meeting in the on-going series. It includes talks by Andrew Kliman: “The economic crisis and left responses,” and by Anne Jaclard: “A new organization for a time of crisis,” and discussion with the audience.
Check out information for rest of the seminars in this series. Andrew Kliman’s charts for the presentation in this movie are posted below the jump for reference.
Panel presentation at Left Forum 2009: “Turning Points,” Pace University, NYC, April 17-19, 2009
The panel was recorded, edited, and posted online by the Platypus Affiliated Society (http://platypus1917.org/).
Alexander L. Hanna (chair): former organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops
Atlee McFellin: Students for a Democratic Society, New School Radical Student Union
Pam Nogales: Platypus (New York)
C. J. Pereira Di Salvo: former organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops
Laurie Rojas: Platypus (Chicago), former member of Students for a Democratic Society
A short description of the panel, along with C. J. Pereira’s talk, are posted below the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
The Marxist-Humanist Initiative, along with the New SPACE, sponsored the panel “Concretizing Marx’s Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective” at the 2009 Left Forum. Below is the audio from that panel’s presentations and along with the discussion that took place afterwards.
Chair: Ray McKay Presenters:
Joshua Howard – “Commodity Fetishism and Today’s Economic Crisis.”
Seth G. Weiss – “Silicon Valley Socialism: A Critical Examination of Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick’s Conception of Post-capitalist Society.”
Anne Jaclard – “One System, Two Moments” Discussant: Andrew Kliman
The video series below contains an introduction by Radhika Desai and presentations by Brendan, Andrew Kliman, and Alan Freeman.
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MHI @ the Left Forum
Join us March 20 & 21 at the Left Forum in NYC! MHI is sponsoring two panels, and we will have a literature table as well. The Left Forum will be held at Pace University in lower Manhattan. For directions and registration info, visit www.leftforum.org.
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Saturday, March 20, 12:00 pm, room W628
FALSE ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM: PROUDHONISM AND ITS PROGENY
Michael Joseph Roberto, “Proudhonism, Then and Now”
Anne Jaclard, “You Can’t Change the Mode of Production with a Political Agenda”
Greg Meyerson, “Green Capitalism”
Andrew Kliman, “Not Another ‘Labor Money’ Scheme: Marx’s Lower Phase of Communism”
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Sunday, March 21, 12:00 pm, room W617
ECONOMICS & POLITICS OF THE CURRENT CRISIS: CAUSES & PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
Andrew Kliman, “Roots of the Economic Crisis: The Persistent Fall in Profitability and Debt Financing”
Brendan Cooney, “Value, Crisis, and Marx's ‘Order of Operations’"
Anne Jaclard, “Do We Have an Uncoupled Economy?”
Interviews on the Economic Crisis of 2007-?
by Andrew Kliman
How long will it last? What will happen once the artificial stimulus, financed by massive borrowing against the future, ends? Four journal interviews address these questions, the immediate and long-term causes of the crisis, and “What is socialism, and what needs to be done to advance toward it?” Just published by MHI and only available in paper, this new pamphlet also includes an introduction by the author.
To order, send $4.00 by check or money order and your street and e-mail addresses to MHI, P.O. Box 414, Planetarium Station, New York, NY 10024