Well, for what it's worth, I have a B.A. in anthropology (studied under Eric Wolf, *Sons of the Shaking Earth*), but in those years we weren't going to classes, only to teach-ins and sds meetings. So I can't help in that respect.... On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Charlie Brover <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Yes, I can be there. Now all we need are a couple of anthropologists, > archeologists, primatologists, classicists, classical philologists, > paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. No problem. cb > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:31 PM > *Subject:* [cs_edworkers] CSEW members: please respond: New date and time > for Marxism and Education Series > > 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. > > cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://edworkersunite.blogspot.com > > > > >