Learn about Revolutionary Journalism with Marxist-HumanistsWorkshop/Classes on Current Events and the Dialectical MethodMarxist-Humanist Initiative is proud to announce a series of five workshop/classes that seek to bring the dialectical method to bear on current events. The primary goal of the series is to further develop ourselves as practicing dialecticians, rather than to host a public discussion. The series is therefore intended especially for Members and Supporters of Marxist-Humanist Initiative. However, we would also like to invite others who wish to participate in these working sessions. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like to be invited to participate, either in person or electronically.If you wish to attend but cannot come in person, then you can watch and listen to a streaming video on your computer and can write us your questions and comments during the actual workshop/class. If you can’t join us in real time, then you can view a video on a private page of our website shortly after the workshop/class and can correspond with us about it.The first workshop/class will be held on August 9, 2011, in New York City. Please apply soon if you wish to be invited, so we can get you the preparatory materials and make arrangements for your participation.Each workshop/class will focus on current events rather than philosophical or theoretical readings. As part of his or her presentation, the presenter will include a draft of a short article (200–600 words) for With Sober Senses, MHI’s online publication, which discusses an event that took place during the last week or two. Other participants will also come prepared to discuss recent events related to the topic of the particular workshop/class session.Philosophical, theoretical, and other materials are listed in the full description of the workshop/class series, on our website athttp://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/philosophy-organization/workshopclasses-on-current-events-and-the-dialectical-method.html. They are included in order to help the presenter and other participants reflect upon and analyze current events related to the session’s topic. In other words, they are background materials, and not the focus of the presentation, the draft article for With Sober Senses, or the discussion.This workshop/class series is modeled on the original one that Raya Dunayevskaya developed a quarter-century ago. When proposing it, she stressed that “[t]he meaning of the event is grounded in the event itself,” and that “we [will] approach a current event not in an abstract manner, but concretely.” However, she cautioned, what “concrete” means here is not the event in the form in which it immediately appears––to our senses, or in the mainstream or Left media––but the essence of the event, “which flows from Concept.”The titles of the workshop/classes are:I. The Recession and its Aftermath; Workers’ Revolts and Marx’s CapitalII. The “Youthquake” in the Middle East and North Africa: What Happens After the Revolution?III. The State-Capitalist Mindset, Then and NowIV. The Capitalist System Today vs. the Revolts of Women, Black, and Indigenous PeoplesV. The Road from Marx’s Last Decade to Today: Revolutionary journalism and “the absolute method”Again, please write us soon if you’d like to be invited.
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