Video: June 23 NYC Meeting in Series on “Confronting Capitalism’s Economic Crisis”

Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Author: A | Filed under: Economic Crisis, Events, News, Organization | Tags: , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

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.


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Why a New Organization?

Posted: April 10th, 2009 | Author: MHI | Filed under: News, Organization | Tags: , | 2 Comments »

As the global capitalist economy spirals ever deeper into the most severe and acute crisis since the Great Depression, we are proud to respond by announcing the formation of the Marxist-Humanist Initiative. This new U.S. organization is a freely associated collective that seeks to rebuild an organization capable of projecting, developing, and concretizing the bodies of ideas of Karl Marx and of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987), who founded Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. We aim to renew the legacy of Marxist-Humanism for the new times in which we live.
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