Capitalism / Socialism / Democracy
CAPITALISM / SOCIALISM / DEMOCRACY is an initiative that invites scholars to present work on democracy as it relates to capitalist, socialist, or other economic ideologies. It seeks to address the intellectual and political question of whether any discussion of democracy lacks reality if not connected to fundamental issues of economic organization. While some recognize commerce and markets as essential contributors, for good or ill, to the health of democratic societies, others ask whether we there are ways to remake our material lives that maintain, or even enhance, democratic participation.
Past Events
Work Won't Love You Back: How Capitalism Exploits Labors of Love
In her new book, Work Won't Love You Back, SARAH JAFFE explores the way we relate to work under the conditions of capitalism. From the unpaid intern to the professional athlete, Jaffe reveals the alienating ideology of "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life."…
The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights
Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/91059650513 Read Prof. Benhabib's papere . Presented by the Mitchell Center and the Penn Political Theory Workshop Seyla Benhabib (Yale University) THE 1951 REFUGEE CONVENTION AND ITS 1967 PROTOCOL are the main legal documents governing the…
The Case for Climate Reparations: A Philosophical Conversation
AS PART OF THE MITCHELL CENTER'S CAPITALISM/SOCIALISM/DEMOCRACY SERIES, join OLÚFẸ́MI O. TÁÍWÒ and BEBA CIBRALIC for an in-depth discussion of their work on climate reparations with M. EDITH SKLAROFF. A partnered investigation between ProPublica and the New York Times has…
Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of examining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars…
Race, Class, and Socialism (Asad Haider)
College Hall, Room 209 (History Lounge)
Free and open to the public / LUNCH PROVIDED
Read excerpts from Prof. Haider's book, Mistaken Identity, here . IN HIS 2018 BOOK, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso), ASAD HAIDER argues that contemporary identity politics, rather than bolstering the grassroots struggle against racism, help to…
