The Marxist School of Sacramento
February Point of View Lecture:
Thursday, February 16, 7-9pm
“Empty Homes and Homeless People”
This presentation by Richard Becker focuses on the current U.S. housing crisis to demonstrate the "criminal absurdity" of the capitalist system. In 2010, there were more than 18.7 million vacant housing units in the country, while millions are homeless, or living doubled-up in overcrowded conditions.
Richard Becker is Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and is with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. For more on Becker's analysis of the housing crisis, see this article.
Our lectures (are held at the Sol Collective, 2574 21st Street, Sacramento, CA (1 blk south of Broadway)
7:00pm–9:00pm
February Discussions
Tuesday, February 14, 2012. An Ecological Discussion: Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe, by John Bellamy Foster, from Monthly Review, December, 2011. Bellamy Foster is the editor of the Monthly Review, an environmental sociologist, and teaches at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Ellen Schwartz will lead the discussion. The article is available at
http://monthlyreview.org/2011/12/01/capitalism-and-the-accumulation-of-catastrophe
Tuesday, February 28. Another Ecological Discussion: Capitalism vs the Climate, by Naomi Klein, in the November 2011 Nation. Naomi Klein is a journalist, syndicated columnist, a fellow at The Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Roy Dahlberg will lead the discussion. Read the article at: http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate?page=0,0
Our classes and discussions are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at the SMUD Customer Service Center, 6301 “S” St. 7-9pm
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All Marxist School events are free and open to the public.