The New Space
(The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)

Fall 2005 Courses start next week!

READING JOHN HOLLOWAY’S _CHANGE THE WORLD WITHOUT TAKING POWER_
Instructor: Andrew Kliman
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., alternate Wednesdays Oct. 5 - Dec. 14
Sliding scale

A READING OF HEGEL’S _PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT_
Instructor: Alex Steinberg
7:30 - 9:00 p.m., every Tuesday Oct. 4 - Dec. 20
Sliding scale

BANKING AND INVESTMENTS
Instructor: Howard F. Seligman
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., every Tuesday Oct. 4 - Nov. 8
Sliding scale

See course descriptions below. See the New SPACE website for registration info.
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Fall 2005 Talks

THE ECOSOCIALIST VISION
Joel Kovel
Wed. Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m.

THE PEOPLE’S PENSION: THE ANARCHIST ORGINS OF SOCIAL SECURITY
AND TODAY’S BATTLE OVER ITS FUTURE
Eric Laursen
Wed. Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

MODERN CRISIS THEORY: WHY A DYNAMIC UNDERSTANDING OF TODAY'S
CRISES IS CRITICAL FOR ORGANIZING A PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
AND VISION OF AN ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY
Roz Bologh and Len Mell
Wed. Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Suggested Donation for Talks: $7 - $10

See the New SPACE website for details, and please check our website for additional talks to be scheduled.

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The New SPACE has moved to the

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center at 107 Suffolk Street, NYC.

Located between Rivington and Delancey Streets in the Lower East Side.
We meet in the second floor Art Gallery. F train to the Delancey Street
station or J, M, Z to Essex Street station. See the New SPACE website for a map.

The New SPACE
(The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)
http://new-space.mahost.org
new-space@mutualaid.org
Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183
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Fall course descriptions:

Reading John Holloway’s _Change the World Without Taking Power_

Andrew Kliman
Alternate Wednesdays, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
6 Sessions: Oct. 5 & 19,
Nov. 2, 16 & 30, Dec. 14
Tuition: $75 - $100, sliding scale

Revolution has frequently been identified with the capturing of state power. This notion is now discredited. But the idea of revolution itself will also be discredited unless a different concept of revolution that can replace it is worked out concretely. In _Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today_ (Pluto, 2002), John Holloway argues that genuine revolution cannot be a process of capturing power – not even in order to abolish state power and other relations of domination. Power must be dissolved.

The premise of this course is that, whether one ultimately agrees or
disagrees with this idea, Holloway’s book deserves serious consideration. It is an important recent effort to come to grips with the need to work out an alternative concept of revolution for today. We will read and discuss the whole of _Change the World_. Since fetishism and anti-fetishism are among its major concepts, we will also read and discuss the section on the fetishism of the commodity in Marx’s Capital. Other readings include Peter Hudis’ and Cyril Smith’s reviews of Holloway’s book.

Students should read the Preface and first two chapters of _Change the
World_ (a total of 19 pages) before the first class session and be prepared to discuss them. See the syllabus for the other readings, which are available online. For more information contact the instructor at Andrew_Kliman@msn.com.

Andrew Kliman taught a course on Volume I of Marx's _Capital_ last Spring at the New Space.
Kliman, a professor of economics at Pace University, has published extensively on Marx’s _Capital_, crisis theory, and value theory. Co-editor of _The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics_ (2004), he has recently finished a book that reclaims Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency. Many of Kliman's writings are available at his new website: http://akliman.squarespace.com

BANKING AND INVESTMENTS

Howard F. Seligman
Tuesdays, 6:00 - 7:30pm
6 Sessions, October 4 – November 8
Tuition: $75 - $100, sliding scale

This course will explore banking, investment, and financial markets. We will begin with an introduction to financial accounting and discounted cash flow in order to construct a toolkit for further analysis.

Using several conventional MBA textbooks, we will examine fractional reserve banking -- the underlying mechanical basis of monetary expansion in the United States. We will also scrutinize the role played by "the Fed" in money creation and economic regulation, and look at stock and bond markets from both a historical and a regulatory perspective.
The techniques of security analysis and asset valuation will, then, be
presented in simple lay persons' terms (and in mathematical detail if
students are interested). The same tools will also be applied to
non-investment materials such as air pollution and birth control.

Finally, we will compare different banking systems across the globe -- with an eye toward the impact of emerging economic powers like China and India on the world scene.
Howard F. Seligman taught a course on taxation and finance last Spring at the New SPACE. He has been a self employed financial and tax consultant since 1984. His practice specializes in the arts and entertainment fields, and he serves as the treasurer to more than fifteen arts and cultural organizations. Howard has taught accounting and finance at The Pratt Institute. His hobbies include playing Howie Solo, a singer and stand up comedian who can host your local fundraising event. He is currently researching a book on the history of the Jewish gangster in America.

A READING OF HEGEL'S _PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT_

Alex Steinberg
Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:00pm
12 Sessions, October 4 – December 20
Tuition: $150 - $180, sliding scale

The True is the Bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk.
--from Preface to the _Phenomenology of Spirit_

It has been said that one cannot understand much of what has transpired in terms of art, culture, politics or philosophy in the last 200 years without having read Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_. For good reason, many have considered this work to be the culmination of the Western philosophical tradition that began in ancient Greece.

In this 12-session series, we will explore the different shapes of
consciousness that have inhabited our culture and continue to shape our
world. We will go on a journey that takes us from the Inverted World, to the Master-Slave dialectic, to the Unhappy Consciousness, to the Beautiful Soul, to Absolute Freedom and Terror and finally to Absolute Knowing. Along the way, we will consider Hegel's relationship to the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the French Revolution, and to his student, Karl Marx.
By the end of this study, students should be able to judge for themselves what is living and what is dead in the work of this titan of the Western tradition. No prior background in philosophy is expected or assumed.

Students should get the A.V. Miller translation of the _Phenomenology_
(Oxford University Press). The reading for the first session is Hegel's (not Findlay's) Introduction -- not the Foreword, which is supposed to be read last. The instructor has prepared an annotated reading list.

Alex Steinberg holds an MA in Philosophy from the New School for Social
Research; he left the PhD program after participating in the student
takeover of the New School following the Kent State massacre in 1970.
Steinberg is facilitator of a philosophy and literature discussion group in Brooklyn and author of several essays, including "The Case of Martin Heidegger" and "From Alienation to Revolution: A Defense of Marx's Theory of Alienation." He has also served as a member of the WBAI Local Station Board (2004) and as Chairperson of the WBAI LSB Programming Committee.

See the New SPACE website for more details about courses and registration info, as well as our pluralism page.
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The New SPACE teachers, speakers, and organizers include:
Stanley Aronowitz, Roz Bologh, Jack Z. Bratich, Stephen Eric Bronner, Andrea Fishman, Jeannette Gabriel, Loren Goldner, David Graeber, Robin Hahnel, Jesse Heiwa, Charles Herr, Joshua Howard, Anne Jaclard, Andrew Kliman, Louis Kontos, Joel Kovel, Raymond Lampe, Eric Laursen, Len Mell, Alan W. Moore, Bertell Ollman, Howard Seligman, Stevphen Shukaitis, Tom Smith, Alex Steinberg, Bill Weinberg, Seth G. Weiss


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The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education (New SPACE) is a new anti-capitalist educational project dedicated to developing and advancing ideas for liberatory social change. Together with the new movements for global justice, we believe that "another world is possible" -- a world free from the domination of capital and free for the flowering of human powers and talents.

The New SPACE holds that free dialogue and the protection of dissenting views are essential for the development of liberatory ideas and for forging real unity among those struggling for liberation. We reject the suppression of dissenting views and individuals in the name of "unity," convinced that such suppression is antithetical to the working out of real unity. "Freedom," as Rosa Luxemburg reminds us, "is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Accordingly, one distinguishing aspect of our mission is to create an educational space - not existent at present - in which pluralistic dialogue and dissident perspectives are respected and encouraged.

The New SPACE will be a place for exploring challenging questions that today's movements confront, such as: How do we build non-hierarchical movements that can sustain themselves? How can such movements safeguard grass roots democracy? How do consciousness and ideas relate to movements for social transformation?

Resolutely anti-authoritarian and non-sectarian, the New SPACE brings together anarchists, humanist Marxists, and others. All those who share our mission and goals are invited to join us as students, teachers, and partners in the development of this project. In particular, we will encourage and facilitate the participation of women, people of color, GLBT people and others who face exclusion and discrimination. e also envision a new space that young people, without ties to the old Left, will find welcoming. We seek, through our classes and other activities, to create an environment in which youth, working people from diverse backgrounds, intellectuals, and activists can dialogue and collaborate in order to make sense of, and transform, our world.

New York City
November 8, 2004
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The New SPACE
(The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)
http://new-space.mahost.org
new-space@mutualaid.org
Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183"