Conference: Marx 2013 Stockholm

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Marx2013 Stockholm 19th-20th October

Since the financial crisis in 2008, Karl Marx’ analysis of society has been discussed in wider circles, even amongst mainstream economists, in order to grasp the crisis of the global economy. What more can Marx’ analysis and social critique contribute with, if we want to understand contemporary society also in other senses? At the conference marx2013, distinguished international scholars discuss about the importance of Marx’ theories to understand today’s development of society, economy and culture, focusing concepts as class, crisis, critique and capitalism. The conference will also air live on youtube.
http://marx2013.com/?lang=menu


Key notes
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the socialist journal Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His areas of research include political economy, environmental sociology and marxist theory.

Gérard Duménil is former Research Director at French National Centre for Scientific Research, member of the editorial board of Actuel Marx and has, together with Dominique Levy, co-authored numerous influential books.

Wolfgang Fritz Haug is professor emeritus in philosophy, earlier at the Free University Berlin. Since 1958, he has been the chief editor of the journal Das Argument.

Michael Heinrich teaches economics in Berlin and is managing editor of the journal PROKLA – Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft.

Anne Steckner is a Marxist theorist connected to the Rosa Luxemburg foundation. She has taken part in PolyluxMarx, a collection of pedagogic tools to present Marx’ Capital, and Gramsci Lesen, an introduction to the study of Antonio Gramsci’s texts.

Full program: http://marx2013.com/sessions/

The full conference will also air live on youtube!


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Time and location
The conference will start on Saturday 19 October at 09:00 and end on Sunday 20 October at 16:00, and will be held at ABF-huset, at Sveavägen 41 in Stockholm (https://maps.google.se/maps?q=ABF-Huset+Stockholm&hl=sv&ll=59.342819,18.059893&spn=0.025953,0.064802&sll=62.032975,17.378555&sspn=24.887,66.357422&oq=abf-huset&hq=ABF-Huset&hnear=Stockholm&t=m&z=14&iwloc=A). ABF-huset translates "the Workers’ Educational Association building".

Facebook-event: http://www.facebook.com/events/459738597433597

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Moved from /Theory to /Upcoming Events.

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Who are the organising it? What tendency are they?

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Centrum för Marxistiska samhällsstudier (CMS) - connected to the ex-eurocommunist Left Party. Stands to the left of them.
Tidskriften Fronesis - a magazine vaguely connected to the social democracy, but presents a lof of different views, like new readings of Capital etc.
Forskningsprojektet Arbetarrörelsen i Östersjöområdet (Arioso) vid Södertörns högskola - a local "university", which has a reputation of being more left than the rest. Is home to a couple of researchers of the working class movement.
Tidskriften Tiden - a social democratic paper, to the left of the party, but still reformist.
Tidskriften Tidsignal - the magazine of the Socialist Party, a part of the Fourth International (this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International )
ABF Stockholm - an education institute for the workers movement, pretty much everybody with an organization is a member here, from the anarchosyndicalist union SAC to the right wing of the social democracy.

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Centrum för Marxistiska samhällsstudier (CMS) - connected to the ex-eurocommunist Left Party. Stands to the left of them.
Tidskriften Fronesis - a magazine vaguely connected to the social democracy, but presents a lof of different views, like new readings of Capital etc.
Forskningsprojektet Arbetarrörelsen i Östersjöområdet (Arioso) vid Södertörns högskola - a local "university", which has a reputation of being more left than the rest. Is home to a couple of researchers of the working class movement.
Tidskriften Tiden - a social democratic paper, to the left of the party, but still reformist.
Tidskriften Tidsignal - the magazine of the Socialist Party, a part of the Fourth International (this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International )
ABF Stockholm - an education institute for the workers movement, pretty much everybody with an organization is a member here, from the anarchosyndicalist union SAC to the right wing of the social democracy.

Also supported by the magazine Clarte, Left Party, Human Ecology institution at Lund University, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

I guess all tendencies will be represented at this conference. But it has a more libertarian feel to it than a marxist-leninist...
Final schedule: http://media.marx2013.com/2013/10/Marx2013-program-final-webb.pdf

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The conference will be broadcast live on this site: http://www.abfplay.se/Video/Index

It will be broadcasted from the Zätasalen and Katasalen, all Key Notes will be in english. http://media.marx2013.com/2013/10/Marx2013-program-final-webb.pdf