[cs_edworkers] Re: 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 15:34:59 -0500

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.
>
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