[cs_edworkers] Reply to Aubeen -- date and time for Marxism and Education Series

From: Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:50:57 -0500
Aubeen, thanks, but I don't think that will help us, as we have to be out
of the room by 7 (at least formally and for sure if someone else wants it).

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Aubeen Lopez <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I can be there at around 6.30pm in that day
>
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> 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.
>>
>> cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://edworkersunite.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>
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