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Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
At NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609
Info: contact Gene Ruyle: Ph:
510-332-3865.
Email: cuyleruyle@mac.com
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
(NOTE:
These are all tentative and may be changed.
Please check back the week before, or sign up for our weekly
reminders/updates at cuyleruyle@mac.com)
NOTE:
Many of our programs are being recorded and placed on the "icss marxist" channel on
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=icss+marxist+
Our Sunday
morning programs are scheduled pretty much on a “first come, first served”
basis and confirmed at our planning sessions. The opinions expressed are
those of the speakers only and do not represent a group consensus on the
issues by the members of ICSS. Our general practice is to allot at least half
of the time to comradely discussion of the issues so that we include as many
voices as practical
Sun, Feb
16, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Rabelais: Renaissance Humanist, Bacchic
Christian, and Proto-Utopian Socialist.
A
look at a giant of literature.
Recommended reading: Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic Hermetic Tradition by Mallary Masters
ICSS Member Lew Finzel
will lead our discussion
Sun, Feb
23, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Harriet Tubman as a Woman Warrior
by Al Sargis, Director, Friedrich Engels
Institute of Marxist War & Military Analysis
The recent (2019) film, Harriet,
left many aspects of Harriet Tubman’s life and work unexplored.
Tubman's military exploits include being head of military intelligence of the
Department of the Potomac and her planning, organizing and leading the only
amphibious assault by a woman in US history. Also, little known is both
her co-planning of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry and furnishing many of
John Brown's troops. Additionally, she was an army hospital
nurse. This perspective on Tubman is described in one book as
"America's most unsung Civil War general." It is why General
Grant regarded Harriet Tubman as "worth many regiments in the Northern
forces" and John Brown called her "General". While known
for her work in the Underground Railroad, little is mentioned about how this
prepared her for her later activities with John Brown and during the Civil
War. This lecture will cover how each phase of her life groomed her for the
next one: from before and during the Underground Railroad, her relationship
with John Brown and, finally, her little known Civil War exploits. Tubman's
turn to armed revolutionary struggle to abolish slavery in contrast to many,
if not most, abolitionists, and its political, moral and religious basis,
will be an underlying theme.
Gerald Smith may join us to say a few words from a
Black HISTORICAL context.
Sun, Mar
1, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
TENTATIVE: China as Number One
John Walsh has developed a PP Presentation on China as the world's number one
economic power and related matters based on his article that appeared in DissidentVoice: >>>
https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/china-number-one-economic-power-for-half-decade-dashes-on/
Sun, Mar
1, 2019: 12:45-1:45 Pm
Planning Session
We get together after
the morning session on the first Sunday of every month to discuss things in
general and plan the schedule for our Sunday morning at the Marxist Library
forums. This is an open meeting. Everyone is welcome to help plan our future
sessions. Please come with suggestions and concrete plans. Also, please
review our web site to familiarize yourself with our current proposals.
Newcomers and old timers welcome.
Sun, Mar 8, 2020: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm - DST
SPRING FORWARD
‘Marxists Behaving Badly.’
Why don’t Marxists study the
Soviet experience in order to learn what these
pioneers of the communist movement did, and what we can learn from them?
For Marx, as for all materialists,
practice was – is -- primary. Theory must be tested through practice. To base
theory on the basis of a false understanding of
reality is as fatal to knowledge as it would be to base theory, as idealists
do, on ideas alone, without regard to material reality.
The Stalin era was the heroic era of
the worldwide communist movement. Indeed, the 20th century may be fairly
described as the “Soviet century,” since all the important political and
social events and upheavals took place with reference to
the Soviet Union.
If, following Marx, we want to build
an egalitarian, communist society, we must study the practice of those who
came before us in this endeavor. That means studying the Soviet Union after
the Bolshevik Revolution, especially the period when Joseph Stalin was in the
leadership of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet state.
Why don’t today’s Marxists do this?
My talk will explore the reasons for this fatal neglect and urge a
corrective. — Grover Furr, Montclair State University
Sun, Mar
15, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Cold War Chinatown: Dave
Ewing suggests a program on the long battle -- 1930s till now -- between
Communist and KMT supporters in Chinatown. Reds were hunted and
deported. It involved intelligence operations by the CIA and Taiwan
CIA. There are several unsung heroes of the Chinatown Wars.
Pro-PRC forces are dominant today. But Taiwan agents remain
active. The American intelligence focus today is on recruiting PRC
students and local business people to spy inside China. Lotus might want
to help.
Sun, Mar 22, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Group Reading of the Communist Manifesto
As Albert Einstein noted,
“Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance
in our age of transition.” Einstein’s comment remains as the growing interest
in socialism is matched by a growing confusion about socialism. This week, we
will continue with our annual reading of the Communist Manifesto. In
preparation, participants are urged to read, or re-read, this important
document.
Sun, Mar 29, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
TENTATIVE: Trump and the Disaster of Occupational Health
ICSS Member Nina Was is
preparing a talk on this.
Sun, Apr 5, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open, TBA.
Sun, Apr 12, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Apr 19, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Apr 26, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, May 3, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, May 10, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, May 17, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, May 24, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, May 31, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
ELAZAR ON THE SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF STALINISM
(Elazar 87th Birthday
celebration after:12:35-2:45)
Sun, Jun 7, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Jun 14, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Jun 21, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jun 28, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jul 5, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jul 12, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jul 19, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jul 26, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Aug 2, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Aug 9, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Aug 16, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Aug 23, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Aug 30, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Sep 6, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Sep 13, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Sep 20, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Sep 27, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Oct 4, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Oct 11, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Oct 18, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Oct 25, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Nov 1, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Nov 8, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Nov 15, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Nov 22, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Nov 29, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Dec 6, 2020: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Dec 20, 2020: 10:30 am
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Sun, Dec 27, 2020: 10:30 am
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Sun, Jan 3, 2021: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jan 10, 2021: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jan 17, 2021: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jan 24, 2021: 10:30 am
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