Join us for the second of three conversations with community and union organizer Jane McAlevey about her book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, and its lessons for democratic socialist organizers. Jane will give remarks then take questions.
Our inaugural reading group concluded with reflections on a question posed by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper: “Can we imagine forms of sovereignty that are better able than either empires or nation-states to address both the inequality and diversity of the world’s people?” Four and a half decades ago, the Third World grappled with precisely ... Read more
A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout District 2. We are haunted by a ghost—the ghost of Communism! Join our brand-new District 2 Reading group for our first meeting. We will be reading and discussing socialists texts from throughout our rich shared history, from Marx and Engels through contemporary writers. In this session, we will be reading ... Read more
Join us for the final of three conversations with community and union organizer Jane McAlevey about her book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, and its lessons for democratic socialist organizers. Jane will give remarks then take questions.
A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout District 2. We are haunted by a ghost—the ghost of Communism! Join the District 2 Reading group, where we will be reading and discussing socialists texts from throughout our rich shared history, from Marx and Engels through contemporary writers. In this session, we will be reading selections from Audre Lorde’s ... Read more
Join our discussion of the first 4 chapters of The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm or google for various pdf formats). Feel free to bring discussion topics and questions of your own, or to come and listen in. Hope to see you there!