Where: Westside YMCA, Room 201 5 West 63rd Street New York NY 10024
When: October 30th
Time: 07:00 pm
End Time: 09:00 pm
Price Range: Free
Sign up for the NYC DSA Academy Course: Capitalism & Democracy
This course meets alternating Thursdays, starting September 18
What is the relationship between capitalism and democracy? Are they allies or antagonists? Since the start of the Cold War, the dogma was that capitalism and democracy were mutually reinforcing. Over the last decade or so, that belief has been shaken considerably even in the metropole. The world around us prompts us to ask not only whether capitalism corrodes democratic institutions but whether capitalist accumulation requires significant curtailing of democratic politics. These questions are not new – they have been asked by political thinkers and raised by people on the streets for more than two centuries. In this course we will draw from that entangled history to ask – both historically and analytically – what is the relationship between capitalism and democracy. We will be looking at events and texts from the global periphery – where this questioning has often been more vociferous – along with those from the metropole.