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The
Institute for the Critical Study of Society
at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Sunday
Morning at the Marxist Library
OUR CURRENT SCHEDULE
(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)
Sun, Apr 18, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
Law and
People’s Rights in India
Synopsis of the talk from Mihir Desai: I will be speaking about legislative and policy
changes during the Modi Government affecting rights of people. This will
include the new labour codes, farmers laws, laws
concerning citizenship, love jihad laws, education policy, AADHAR act,
changes in laws affecting NGOs, Environmental laws, laws concerning
elections, demonetisation, etc. This will include
the erosion of parliamentary democracy and
federal structure. The talk will also include the use of existing and
new draconian laws. It will be in the overall context of the present context
of the Establishments efforts to suppress all dissent and to hollow out all
institutions of accountability.  Speaker’s Profile: Mihir Desai is a designated Senior Advocate practising in Bombay High Court and Supreme Court of
India. He mainly practises human rights law. He is
a cofounder of Human Rights Law Network and was Director of India Centre of
Human Rights and Law for 10 years. He was also the Editor of Combat Law- a
human rights law magazine for the same period. He is presently the National
Vice President of Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). He has done
litigation on various human rights issues including the Gujarat carnage of
2002, challenging the CAA and NRC in Supreme Court and various issues arising
out of NRC in Gawhati High Court, litigation
concerning the tool kit concerning farmers movement, issues concerning hate
speech, representing number of accused in the Bhima Koregaon
‘urban naxal’ case, challenging the abrogation of
Article 370 of the Constitution concerning Kashmir. He has also been involved
in a number of other cases concerning environment, women’s rights, child
rights, police brutality and freedom of speech and expression and right to
protest. He has been member of number of independent peoples tribunals
concerning human rights issues. He was the Legal Counsel for International
Tribunal on Kashmir.
LOGIN INFORMATION
We Intend to start the presentation as close to 10:30
am as possible, but the Zoom room will be opened up, as usual, at 10:15 for
anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say
Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room
will remain open until about 1 pm for informal discussion.
ICSS is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Login info wil be posted on Friday April
16, 2021
PLANNED
FUTURE PROGRAMS
The following programs are in various stages of planning.
Sun, Apr 25, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
Grover Furr on Issues in Soviet History
Grover writes that he will discuss two subject in his talk.
First, he will talk about his new book Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy,
available from Amazon.com. Second, he will discuss the issues concerning
evidence: what evidence is; how to analyze it; what logical fallacies
and false arguments are employed to avoid facing the evidence.
Sun, May 2, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
CONFIRMED: Socialism: Scientific and Utopian
Just as Darwin discovered the law
of motion of biological evolution, so Marx and Engels discovered the law of
motion of human history and with it, placed the science of human society on a
firm, working class basis. In 1880, Engels published Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, explaining how socialism had been transformed
from a utopia into a science. This science was further developed by Lenin who
led the world historic October Revolution and is continuing to develop in
other world historic revolutions in China, Vietnam, and Cuba, and well as
revolutionary movements throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Unfortunately, some comrades have chosen to reject science and revert to
utopianism. We will examine this question in Group Discussion in which
everyone may participate fully.
Organizer: Eugene
E Ruyle is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
at CSU, Long Beach; President of
Veterans For Peace, East Bay Chapter 162 (Berkeley/Oakland); and active in a
variety of working class organizations, including the ICSS.
Sun, May 9, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
CONFIRMED: Mehmet Bayram on Revolutionary Theory.
More info soon!
Sun, May 16, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
TENTATIVE The Significance of the
Alabama Amazon Strike,
with Judy Greenspan, member of
the Peace and Freedom Party, the Bay Area Chapter of Workers World Party, and
the San Francisco Bay Area local organizing committee to support Alabama
Amazon workers, on Building Solidarity for the Amazon Union Struggle.
TENTATIVE: Roger Harris on Biden’s
Foreign Policy: Hope or Horror
More info soon!
Sun, May 23 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, May 30, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jun 6, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
POSSIBLY: Open discussion on the Global Counter Revolution of 1989.
Two things happened on June 4,
1989: First, the counter-revolutionary Solidarity won an important election
in Poland, part of the movement that led to the overthrow of the Soviet Union
and the banning of the Communist Party. Second, the counter-revolutionary
demonstrators in Beijing were defeated allowing the continued development of
socialism led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). Proposal from ICSS
member Eugene E Ruyle.)
Sun, Jun 13, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jun 20: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Pacific
Open
Sun, Jun 27, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jul 4, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jul 11, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jul 18, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jul 25, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Aug 1, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Aug 8, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Aug 15, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Aug 22, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Aug 29, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Sep 5, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Sep 12, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Sep 19, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Sep 26, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Oct 3, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Oct 10, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Oct 17, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Oct 24, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Oct 31, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Nov 7, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
FALL BACK: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS
POSSIBLY: Open discussion on the October Revolution
Sun, Nov 14, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Nov 21, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Nov 25, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Dec 5, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Dec 12 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Dec 19, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Dec 26, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jan 2, 2022: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jan 9, 2022: 10:30 am to 12:30
pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jan 16, 2022: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jan 23, 2022: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
Sun, Jan 30, 2022: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm Pacific
Open
UNDER CONSIDERATION
Sun, Jan xx, 20XX: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
AS NEEDED: Group Reading: The Communist Manifesto
This is the foundational work of Marxism and we will go through it paragraph
by paragraph, with ample opportunity for discussion. Be prepared to voice,
and defend, your views!
Sun, Jan xx, 20XX: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
PERHAPS: Is Facebook Rewiring Our Brains? "If you are not paying for the
product, you are the product."
Open discussion of Netflix film.
The Social Dilemma. Gene might organize.
Sun, Jan xx, 20XX: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
PERHAPS?: The Social Metabolism of Imperialism This will
continue the theoretical work of ICSS member Eugene E Ruyle which applies
Marx’s labor theory of value to the analysis of non-capitalist as well as
capitalist systems, leading to a theoretic framework Ruyle calls social
thermodynamics or social metabolism. Ruyle’s talk
will be part of a larger project, “The
Evolution of Human Energetic Systems”
Sunday near May 3, 2021: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
TENTATIVE Postponed from last
year: Elazar on the Scientific Analysis of Stalinism.
(Elazar 88th Birthday celebration after)
Sunday, Sep 5, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
Possible: Reclaiming the True Legacy of Labor Day
This will an updated repeat of a talk given at the San Jose Peace Center
in 2017 by ICSS member Eugene
E Ruyle.
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