<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR> <DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT size=1><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=6>THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS OF </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=6>KARL MARX</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=3>With Guest Speaker:</FONT> </FONT><FONT size=4>LEE SUSTAR</FONT></DIV> <DIV>writer for <EM>Socialist Worker</EM> newspaper and co-editor of <EM>Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader</EM></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Every so often -- usually after a period of economic instability and crisis that has given way to stabilization and
growth -- some talking-head comes along and declares that Marxism is dead and capitalism is the final form of human fulfillment.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>A variety of arguments are put forward as evidence: that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels predicted that capitalism would collapse, and it hasn't; that the fall of the Berlin Wall exposed the failure of Marxism; that class struggle can't survive in a world of cable television, the Internet, and SUVs.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Yet every generation -- whether it be the workers of the great union struggles of the 1930s, student radicals in the 1960s or millions who struggled to overthrow apartheid or who joined the Solidarity resistance movement against Stalinist Poland -- havce rediscovered the "buried" ideas of Marxism as a way to understand the world around them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Again and again, the ideas of Karl Marx have gained a mass audience as people have fought to change their world into a more just and equitable one. Join us for a discussion of Marx's legacy and how these ideas can provide a way to undestand the callenges of our generation. Because the goal is not simply to understand the world, but to change it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>Thursday, May 3, 6:30pm </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>Curtis Hall Community Center</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>20 South Street, Jamaica Plain</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT size=1>(Take the #39 bus to the Monument. </FONT><FONT size=1>Or take the Orange Line to Green Street station, </FONT></DIV> <DIV
align=center><FONT size=1>exit station and walk up Green Street, toward Centre Street, and take a left to get to South Street).</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG>Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=center>617-648-0561</DIV> <DIV align=center><A href="mailto:isoboston@yahoo.com">is<SPAN class=617194712-30042007>o</SPAN>boston@yahoo.com</A></DIV> <DIV align=center><A href="http://www.socialistworker.org/">www.socialistworker.org</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----</DIV> <DIV>Socialism 2007: Socialism for the 21st Century<BR>June 14-17, 2007 <SPAN id=lw_1177694057_5 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Chicago</SPAN><BR><A href="http://www.socialismconference.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN id=lw_1177694057_6 style="BACKGROUND: none
transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><FONT color=#003399>www.socialismconference.org</FONT></SPAN></A><BR><BR>Join John Pilger, <SPAN id=lw_1177694057_7 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Amy Goodman</SPAN>, Dahr Jamail, Dave Zirin, Anthony Arnove, Sharon Smith, Laura Flanders, Dr. John Carlos, Jeff St. Clair, IVAW's Kelly Dougherty, and a host of other speakers at Socialism 2007, and participate in the discussion over the future of radical and socialist politics in the 21st Century. </DIV> <div>----<SPAN class=617194712-30042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN> <div><SPAN class=617194712-30042007></SPAN> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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