[cs_edworkers] Re: CSEW members: please respond: New date and time for Marxism and Education Series
- From: Henry Lesnick <henrylesnick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:44:25 -0500
Hi Marjorie,
Don't think i'll be able to make it, as much as I'd like to. my four day
teaching schedule requires a full three day recovery period.
h
Sent from my iPad
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>
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