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Aesthetics of Resistance/Defense Jan 17, 2020

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Aesthetics of Resistance/Defense Jason Loebs Alan Ruiz Park McArthur Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Art & Culture

Leftists have long lamented the depoliticization of art in our so-called “post-critical” era. However, Trump’s election has renewed attention to the complicity of the arts with the legitimating discourses and infrastructures of neoliberal class rule, sparking protests at museums and galleries. How have artists responded to this repoliticized context within their work?

Imperialism and the Nation-State Jan 17, 2020

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Imperialism and the Nation-State Michael Bray Walter Daum Chris Gilligan Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time War & Antiwar

Having No Country and Constituting the Nation: Towards the Coherence of Popular Politics
—Michael Bray

Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation and Marxist Theory
—Walter Daum

Critique of the strand of the Left that argue in favor of strengthening state sovereignty, in the face of neoliberalism and/or globalization
—Chris Gilligan

Socialism and the International Fight for Reparations Jan 17, 2020

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Socialism and the International Fight for Reparations Edna Bonhomme Bianca Cunningham Justin Charles Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Racism & Civil Rights

Revisiting Marxist Economics Jan 17, 2020

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Revisiting Marxist Economics Fred Moseley Rebecca Carson Jared Sacks Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics

Unequal Turnover Times: Another Cause of Deviations of Prices of Production from Values
—Fred Moseley

Using the sphere of reproduction to rethink Marx's category of surplus-value
—Jared Sacks

Returning to Suzanne de Brunhoﬀ’s Marxist monetary theory, to conceptualize the relationship between production and social reproduction
—Rebecca Carson

America's Opioid Epidemic: Profiting from Pain Jan 17, 2020

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America's Opioid Epidemic Profiting from Pain Nikki Blazek Helen Redmond Jacob Clary Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare

In the United States, 145 people die every day from opioid overdose. Drug overdose is the #1 cause of preventable death among people younger than 55 and average life expectancy has fallen for the last three years due to diseases of despair--alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide--in the longest sustained decline since World War I.

The Struggle to Abolish Private Health Insurance and Establish Medicare for All Jan 17, 2020

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The Struggle to Abolish Private Health Insurance and Establish Medicare for All Natalie Shure Adam Gaffney Dustin Guastella Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare

The demand for Medicare for All has captured the political limelight. Since 2016 no other transformative demand has garnered nearly the same amount of attention and enthusiasm from American workers, nor the same amount of scrutiny and criticism from the business press, establishment politicos and the ire of the business community.

Institutions and Left Strategy Jan 17, 2020

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Institutions and Left Strategy Michael Hirsch Shannon Walsh Steve Lyons Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism

In the past 50 years, the right has outgamed the left, engineering a broad-scale takeover of media and public institutions. To rebuild left power, we need institutions that represent our interests, but what should our institutions look like? This panel considers the challenge of building institutional power for the left, proposing new tactics, strategies, and forms of organization.

Abolish Silicon Valley: Technology and Working-Class Recomposition Jan 17, 2020

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Abolish Silicon Valley Technology and Working-Class Recomposition Magally Miranda J. S. Chen Sarah Mason Jason Prado Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics

Moderated by Wendy Liu.