[cs_edworkers] CSEW members: please respond: New date and time for Marxism and Education Series
- From: Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:31:40 -0500
Hi comrades,
Please let me know if you can be there on Friday, February 27, from 5:30-7,
so I can send out a new posting to the various educator lists. Charlie,
who has agreed to present at the next session, can do it on February 27th,
but he cannot be there on March 6.
Everyone is looking forward to his leading the discussion on Engels,*The
Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State. *
So we went back to square one, and with San's help, were able to get space
on Friday February 27, but we must start an hour later. So it will be 5:30
to 7 (an hour later than usual).
This is an important discussion for a bunch of reasons. It raises the
crucial question of the state, as its (lack of) understanding was glaring
during the recent experience with the Ferguson-Eric Garner protests.
That is, the bulk of the radical youth were angry and ready to shut down
the streets over "bad apple" choke-hold cops. But they did not understand
the role of the system, the capitalist state, its cops and its courts whose
class role is to repress the working class and the oppressed. And so the
whole movement came to a grinding halt in confusion after the December
killings of two other policemen.
Secondly, the Engels work has come under polemical attack from the
feminists who wish to discredit Marxism, and seize on Engels' association
with the early anthropologist Lewis P. Morgan, and the questions raised
therein.
So--to do this discussion well, we need comrades there, and particularly
hope Portia can be there, as well as others adding their wisdom.
Please let me know...
*On the Readings*:
For Session 2, we decided to read Engels, *The Origins of the Family,
Private Property and the State.* I have 4 new copies of the 1972
International Publishers edition with the important introduction by Eleanor
Burke Leacock. These are $10 and will go to the first 4 people who contact
me.
This same edition with the Leacock introduction is also available on
Amazon for as little as $0.01 + $3.99 postage. And the Leacock
introduction is on line at
http://www.marxistschool.org/classdocs/LeacockIntro.pdf
*Class Time*
Most people indicated Friday was their best day. That could be changed for
future meetings.
This series is initiated by Class Struggle Education Workers. We
are active in the UFT, CUNY PSC, and other unions with education
workers.
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