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Your Free Time isn't Free: Social Reproduction, Social Isolation, and the Marxist Theory of Alienation
7/17/2018
Your Free Time isn't Free
Social Reproduction, Social Isolation, and the Marxist Theory of Alienation
Jessie Muldoon
Socialism 2018
Women
Duration:00:34:29
U.S. Imperialism under Trump
7/12/2018
U.S. Imperialism under Trump
Joel Geier
Socialism 2018
War & Antiwar
China, Iran, North Korea- sanctions, tariffs,protectionism, economic warfare,- Trump lunacy or are there more profound objective conditions creating these daily crisis , with their threat of new wars. The new phase of imperialim which we wil discuss will determine the political fate of the now emerging socialist movement, and of this generation.
Duration:00:43:28
Marxism, Colonialism, and Revolution
7/12/2018
Marxism, Colonialism, and Revolution
Pranav Jani
Socialism 2018
Socialism & Marxism
Colonialism, settler colonialism, and the transatlantic slave trade are intertwined with the rise of capitalism. Anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle are essential to any possibility of socialist revolution.
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Duration:00:43:48
The Future of the Socialist Left
7/12/2018
The Future of the Socialist Left
Ella Mahony
Jen Roesch
Jason Farbman
Socialism 2018
Socialism & Marxism
For a left so small, we hardly know each other. Ella Mahony (Democratic Socialists of America) and Jen Roesch (International Socialist Organization) talk to each other about their organizations’ work, and the opportunities for socialists today.
Duration:01:04:00
Capitalism and the Gender Binary
7/12/2018
Capitalism and the Gender Binary
Lichi D'Amelio
Socialism 2018
Labor & Unions
Duration:00:35:06
What Do Socialists Say About White Privilege?
7/12/2018
What Do Socialists Say About White Privilege?
Khury Petersen-Smith
brian bean
Socialism 2018
Racism & Civil Rights
The questions of understanding and fighting racism, and Black liberation, are central ones for socialists in the US. At the moment, there is a set of conversations on the left about how socialists understand white privilege, and they are related to the question of where the fight against racism fits in the class struggle.
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Duration:00:54:26
Poverty, Pain, and Pill Mills: Social Crisis and America’s Opioid Epidemic
7/12/2018
Poverty, Pain, and Pill Mills
Social Crisis and America’s Opioid Epidemic
Nicole Colson
Socialism 2018
U.S. Politics
The opioid epidemic is ravaging large swathes of America—from once-thriving Rust Belt communities to inner cities. So many lives have been lost to this crisis that annual opioid deaths in the U.S. now outnumber deaths due to breast cancer, and American life expectancy has fallen two years in a row.
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Duration:00:46:14
A War Resister in the Ranks
7/12/2018
A War Resister in the Ranks
Spencer Rapone
Rory Fanning
Socialism 2018
War & Antiwar
What does it mean to resist as an active duty soldier in the 21st century? Socialist revolutions share a vibrant historical legacy with disaffected soldiers who have laid down their arms and refused to serve the interests of the rich and powerful.
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Duration:00:30:25
South Africa: How Apartheid Was Defeated
7/12/2018
South Africa: How Apartheid Was Defeated
Trevor Ngwane
Socialism 2018
International
The British and Dutch colonizers of South Africa built from the outset a society based upon the oppression and exploitation of the indigenous African population, where the latter were restricted from buying land outside of special “reserves,” given the worst jobs and legally considered “sojourners” in urban areas.
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Duration:00:26:10
Vanguard Party, Democratic Centralism, and Workers' Revolution
7/11/2018
Vanguard Party, Democratic Centralism, and Workers' Revolution
Todd Chretien
Socialism 2018
Socialism & Marxism
The Bolsheviks developed a theory and practice of political organization that is both coherent and recognizable, and it is absolutely relevant for today. This talk will explain terms and history for beginners, but also address the rise of a new socialist movement in the U.S.
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Duration:00:42:50
Final Rally: Another World Is Necessary
7/11/2018
Final Rally
Another World Is Necessary
Sharon Smith
Khury Petersen-Smith
Socialism 2018
Socialism & Marxism
Duration:01:05:48
Marxists, Elections, and the State
7/11/2018
Marxists, Elections, and the State
Eric Ruder
Socialism 2018
Socialism & Marxism
The surprise primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over a high-ranking Democrat has given fresh energy to a longstanding debate about how the left should relate to elections and the Democratic Party.
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Duration:00:42:53
Syria and the Left
7/11/2018
Syria and the Left
Ashley Smith
Socialism 2018
International
Duration:00:39:06
A Nation under the Gun: Gun Violence and Gun Control
7/11/2018
A Nation under the Gun
Gun Violence and Gun Control
Danny Katch
Socialism 2018
U.S. Politics
For years each horrific mass shooting has followedby a loud but largely empty partisan debate: Republicans and Democrats pointfingers at each other while avoiding uncomfortable questions about why guns andgun violence are so prevalent in a country founded on stolen land and stolenbodies and maintained with the violence of mass incarceration and globalempire.
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Duration:00:45:39
From Apathy to Rebellion: What Makes Workers Fight?
7/11/2018
From Apathy to Rebellion
What Makes Workers Fight?
Jen Roesch
Socialism 2018
LGBT
The teachers' rebellion that broke out in West Virginia this spring followed years of historically low strike levels. And rather than emerging in the places where unions are strongest and most organized, these strikes have rocked the so-called "red states" - places where Trump won handily and governed by Republican governors and legislatures.
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Duration:00:44:19
Opening Plenary: Fighting Racism in Trump's America
8/31/2017
Opening Plenary: Fighting Racism in Trump's America
Khury Petersen-Smith
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Socialism 2017
Racism & Civil Rights
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a professor at Princeton’s Center for African American Studies and author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, was forced to cancel two speaking engagements following her May 30 commencement speech at Hampshire College, where she called President Trump a “racist, sexist megalomaniac.” After Fox...
Duration:01:02:57
Trump, Economic Nationalism, and Imperialism Today
8/31/2017
Trump, Economic Nationalism, and Imperialism Today
Lee Sustar
Socialism 2017
U.S. Politics
Trump famously broke with Republican orthodoxy by criticizing free trade deals and promising to champion manufacturing workers. He also denounced surviving Cold-War era institutions like NATO—causing some pundits to worry that he would undermine the post-war agreement that placed the U.S. at the center of a “liberal” imperial order.
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Duration:00:48:14
Marxism and Cultural Appropriation
8/31/2017
Marxism and Cultural Appropriation
Nicole Colson
Socialism 2017
Socialism & Marxism
A University of Texas fraternity holds “border” themed party where attendees wear construction gear, ponchos, and sombreros. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak utilizes a well-known Black spiritual as the basis of his most famous symphony. GM names one of its most iconic brands after a famous Ottawa chief, Pontiac, who led a resistance against European conquest.
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Duration:00:54:35
Not Just Your Pay Grade: How do Marxists Understand Class?
8/27/2017
Not Just Your Pay Grade: How do Marxists Understand Class?
David Whitehouse
Socialism 2017
Socialism & Marxism
Class in the U.S. is usually defined in terms of income and status. The “middle class” denotes the majority who are neither poor nor rich. This descriptive way of looking at class obscures more than explains—for example, how someone gets rich who doesn’t work at all while someone else who works hard is poor.
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Duration:00:45:33
The Theory of the United Front
8/27/2017
The Theory of the United Front
Kirstin Roberts
Socialism 2017
Socialism & Marxism
The united front strategy was developed in the era immediately after the Russian Revolution as a tool for revolutionaries to win over in and through struggle the majority of the working class, which still held reformist views, to a revolutionary perspective.
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Duration:00:43:54