Announcement

THE LONGER WORKING DAY/ABSOLUTE SURPLUS VALUE, AND THE DIALECTICS OF RACE AND CLASS- LA, 5 November

24th Oct 2017

THE LONGER WORKING DAY/ABSOLUTE SURPLUS VALUE, AND THE DIALECTICS OF RACE AND CLASS

 

Speaker: Kevin B. Anderson, UCSB Professor and author of Marx at the Margins

Commentator: TBA

 

Sunday, November 5

6:15-8:00 PM

Art Share

801 East Fourth Place (Arts District)

Los Ángeles

(Free parking in lot across the street on Hewitt St. by the Aztec calendar)

 

Reading: Ch. 9, Ch. 10:5-7 of Capital I

Supplementary: Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom, Ch. 5; Dustin Guastella, “Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek” (DSA 9-6-14)

 http://www.dsausa.org/shorter_work_weeks

 

Topics: Accumulation of absolute surplus value by increasing the working day; workers struggle for shorter working day; slavery, racism and class divisions in the U.S., from the Civil War to today

 

Part of a seven-part series on CAPITAL

 

Sponsored by the West Coast Chapter, International Marxist-Humanist Organization

More information: <arise@internationalmarxisthumanist.org>

 

http://www.internationalmarxisthumanist.org/