[cs_edworkers] Re: CSEW members: please respond: New date and time for Marxism and Education Series
- From: "Aubeen Lopez" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "the_great1917@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:47:46 -0500
I can be there at around 6.30pm in that day
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On Feb 17, 2015, 1:31 PM, 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.
>
>cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxx
>http://edworkersunite.blogspot.com
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