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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!
We'll be doing a special reading for September: Nancy Fraser's The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born! The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown—symbolized by Trump’s election—has destroyed faith that neoliberal capitalism is beneficial to the majority. Nancy Fraser explores how this faith was built through the late twentieth century by ... Read more
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 part of Bhaskar Sunkara’s ... Read more
Join our discussion of Chapters 1 and 4 of Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright. Available free in electronic format here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%2520writing/Alternatives%2520to%2520Capitalism.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiFzqql2b_kAhWOpZ4KHTFIDgIQFjAPegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw2iq8LqtvDiWJRBxFc9DHYb Feel free to bring discussion questions of your own, or to come and listen in. Hope to see you there!
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