Join the ISO and guest speaker
TODD CHRETIEN
for a discussion and debate about the relevance of Marxism in today’s world as well as how activists and militants can best organize to actually win the socialist society that we so badly need.
10am-noon * Seattle Central Community College * Broadway Performance Hall
7-9pm * Univ. of Washington * Gowen Hall , room 201
7-9pm * Univ. of Washington * Gowen Hall , room 201
They said that Marx was dead--that capitalism had triumphed. Then came the realities of globalization and neo-liberalism, the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The recession-headed-for-depression has vindicated Karl Marx's critique of capitalism, and the endemic crises, which is produces. Even mainstream journalists and economists have started to admit that Marx was onto something on this score. But they want nothing to do with the alternative he put forward: democratic workers' control of production, distribution and exchange.
The time has come to revive genuine socialism--not simply as a critique of the system, but as an organized force that can link the new generation of struggles that are just beginning to arise to the future struggle to uproot the exploitative system that created crazed financial speculation, enormous inequality, a gravely damaged environment and endless imperial wars.
The ISO is committed to, participating in the struggles for justice and liberation today as well as laying the foundations for a revolutionary socialist party. Join us for a discussion and debate about the relevance of Marxism in today’s world as well as how activists and militants can best organize to actually win the socialist society that we so badly need. As Marx himself said, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it!"
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Guest Speaker: Todd Chretien
Todd is a longtime activist and socialist in the International Socialist Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, and is the editor of the forthcoming Debating the State: Marx, Bakunin, Lenin and Kautsky (Haymarket Books). Todd was an organizer in the national presidential campaigns of Ralph Nader in 2000 and of Nader and Peter Camejo in 2004. He was the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2006.
Todd Chretien, 2008 Post-Election Perspectives, Dec 14, 2008
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Part 1 - The Return of Marx Part 2 -Marx becomes a Marxist
Part 1 - The Return of Marx Part 2 -Marx becomes a Marxist
Part 3 - Marx's vision of Socialism
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