Class on Class Part 4: Capitalism Today "Late Capitalism"
Start: 2020-11-12 18:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
This is a virtual event
The DSA Los Angeles Political Education Committee is proud to present The Class on Class! This study series examines a selection of foundational concepts and inquiries, with the goal of more deeply grounding our collective struggle in rigorous socialist analysis. The Class is comprised of four individual yet interconnected modules — each featuring a selection of readings and discussion questions, as well as a presentation followed by opportunity to discuss, dissect & debate these concepts. RSVP through this page to receive the zoom link!
The final Class takes up critical questions
facing the movement, and a discussion of
these readings is meant to help us develop
strategy and organizational methods that respond
to the capitalism of our time. Neoliberalism is a
conscious political project of the capitalist class to
eliminate legal, political, cultural, and physical barriers
to expansion. Deregulation, privatization, and austerity
are more than just bad ideas; they are key pillars of the
modern social order. Social Reproduction Theory helps us
understand the oppressions and alienation we experience
and their relationship to capitalism. The perpetuation of
capitalism requires a daily and generational renewal of a
subordinate class; this is a burden offloaded onto particular
sections of that class in the sphere of reproduction (the home).
Lastly, the Right to The City allows us to theorize methods of resistance
to the developers and financiers to whom the urban landscape - our
gentrifying neighborhoods and disappearing common spaces - is a
laboratory for commodifying every aspect of life; their neoliberal dream
and our everyday nightmare.
All attendees are encouraged, but not required, to read the associated module texts in our class reader which can be found here.
If this is your first time reading Marx, Luxemburg, Bhattacharya & others—join us! And if you’re already well-acquainted—welcome back. The potential for socialism is greater than it has been in decades & this is part of our work together.