Events

  • Is There Life on Marx? Capital as a theory of exploitation and as a theory of crisis

    Haaren Hall Room 335

    With Riccardo Bellofiore, Former Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy) The seminar will present a quick overview of the content of Capital, showing that it is at the same time a theory of impersonal domination and of class domination in capitalism. In the argument money is a constituent of value and ... Read more

  • Nathan Tankus. The Federal Reserve Under Trump: A Unitary Executive Crisis

    L2.84 NB

    From the first day Trump was sworn into office for his second presidential administration, administrative agencies have been under attack. These attacks have been a mixture of the longstanding agendas of far right think tanks who have disdain for the administrative state and big tech's technological agenda. The legal core of this assault is the ... Read more

  • Rick Wolff, Laura Flanders, Chris Hedges, Cornel West. It’s Time…

    L.63 NB

    It's Time...For Big, Beautiful, Basic Change Presented in collaboration with Democracy at Work. Don’t miss this opportunity to gather, explore, organize, and implement a big, beautiful, basic change. Join us for a conference-style plenary discussion and Q&A by some of the greatest minds of our time on what needs to be done now, before it’s ... Read more

  • Alex Vitale. “Mamdani and Public Safety: Charting a New Path”

    Room L2.85 John Jay College 524 West 59th Street

    Prof. Alex Vitale will discuss the Mamdani campaign's proposal to create a new Department of Community Safety to address a wide variety of public safety concerns independently of the NYPD. Over 50 cities have created similar departments or offices, and the results have been very positive. What will it take to get such a Department ... Read more