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DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Loren Goldner, to be followed by discussion:\n\nThat world 
 capitalism is in a profound crisis is no secret, especially in hard-hit 
 areas such as California. But a radical response requires an understanding 
 of the deep, "epochal" causes of the crisis, beyond now-mainstream banter 
 about financialization or sub-prime or Wall Street bailouts and bonuses. 
 What has happened since 2008 is merely an acceleration of the "slow motion" 
 crisis that has been with us in reality since the late 1960's/early 1970's. 
 The crisis is global, and the response to it must ultimately be 
 global.\n\nLoren will give an overview of this decades-long crisis and its 
 deepening in the past three years, and discuss what must be done to avoid 
 the obvious capitalist "solutions" to it, which are much greater austerity 
 and possibly a major war. He will talk about some attempts to organize 
 against the crisis, such as in Greece or California or the recent strikes 
 in China.\n\n    Loren Goldner is a writer based in New York. He lived in 
 South Korea from 2005 to 2009 working on a book on the Korean working 
 class. He is an editor of the new on-line journal Insurgent Notes 
 (http://insurgentnotes.com).\n\n    Much of his work is available on the 
 Break Their Haughty Power web site:\n    
 http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner\n\n    To have a more focused 
 discussion, people attending might look at these recent articles by Goldner 
 on the crisis:\n\n    "Global Leveraged Buyout or the 'Longest Boom in 
 Capitalist History'" 
 http://libcom.org/library/global-leveraged-buyout-or-longest-boom-capitalist-history-reply-robert-fitch\n\n 
    "The Biggest October Surprise of All: A World Capitalist Collapse" 
 http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/october.html\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/15/18656129.php
SUMMARY:World Capitalist Crisis & Prospects for a Radical Response
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Avenue (at 65th 
 Street)\nOakland, CA 94609\n510-595-7417
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/15/18656129.php
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