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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 7:00 PM ET
KPFT Outreach Committee Conference - Not Streamed
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Teresa Allen teresajallen@sbcglobal.net
Posted: 01/06/2016 - 7:40 PMUpdated :01/21/2016 - 9:20 PM

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 7:30 PM ET
Community Advisory Board-WBAI Live Meeting - Not Recorded
Address:
the commons
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Committee Members
New York - WBAI


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the challenge and burden of HISTORICAL TIME
CONDUCTED BY ISTVAN MESZAROS

A TEN WEEK CLASS

10 Sessions:Wednesdays, February 17 – April 20

21st Century Socialism Study Group

Capital cannot tolerate any limitations to its own mode of social metabolic reproduction. Accordingly, considerations of time are totally inadmissable to it if they call for restraining its uncontrollable imperative for capital expansion. There can be no exemption from that imperative. Not even when the devastating consequences are already glaringly obvious both in the field of production and on the terrain of the ecology. The only modality of time in which capital can be interested is exploitable labor time.
—István Mészáros, from the Introduction to The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time

Over ten weeks, we will read through this important book by Iztvan Mézáros.

From a recent interview with Mézáros
Eleonora de Lucena: What are your expectations about socialism or communism in the future?
Will it happen? Is it simply an unattainable goal? How about the risk of barbarism?
István Mészáros: I wrote in a book [The 21st Century: socialism or barbarism] published also in Brazil that if I had to modify today Rosa Luxemburg’s famous words about “socialism or barbarism” I would have to add: “Barbarism if we are lucky.” Because the extermination of humanity is the unfolding menace. For as long as we fail to solve our grave problems, which extend over all dimensions of our existence and relationship to nature, that danger will remain on our horizon.

The 21st Century Socialism Study Group will begin this term and continue with a range of works that pose essential questions for developing a critique of the capitalist world order and prospects for building a movement towards socialism in our time, now 150 years since Karl Marx published Volume I of Capital and one century since th
Jim Dingeman jimdingeman@yahoo.com
Posted: 02/03/2016 - 11:26 AMUpdated :02/05/2016 - 11:07 AM

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 9:30 PM ET
KPFK Fundraising Committee Meeting Cancelled - Live Meeting - Not Recorded
Address:
3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West
Studio City/North Hollywood CA
Purpose: Establish committee for new year, elect officers pro tem, discuss off-air fund-r Committee Members
Los Angeles - KPFK
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Michael Novick mnovick.kpfklsb@gmail.com
Posted: 01/31/2016 - 6:51 PMUpdated :02/04/2016 - 3:09 AM

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:30 PM ET
KPFK Governance Committee Live Meeting - Not Recorded
Address:
Aris & Carolyn Anagnos Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd
Culver City, CA 90230
Committee Members
Los Angeles - KPFK
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Jaime Gomez jgogogomez@yahoo.com
Posted: 01/31/2016 - 1:03 PMUpdated :01/31/2016 - 1:03 PM

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