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Interactive workshop will raise issues and stimulate participatory discussion. Presentations will focus on three issues connecting the current capitalist crisis with key issues in Marxist thought. First presentation identifies the profit motive/wage system as structural features unique to capitalism, arguing that both must be abolished to end reoccurring capitalist crises. The second discusses the ecological crisis created by a constantly expanding capitalist system, creating alienation from nature, which can only be overcome through a life affirming socio-ecological regime: ecosocialism, characterized by freely associated workers controlling all aspects of a decommodified world society living in solidarity with each other and in harmony with nature. The third focuses on the political tactics followed by the Unites States “neo-left” in merging its aspirations with Barack Obama and the Democratic party, thereby strengthening and legitimating an illegitimate system while providing left cover for regressive policies. In contrast, Marx advocated for independent political action by workers and their own organizations, arguing against joining capitalist political parties.
