UPROOTING CAPITALISM
A 10-Month Virtual Study Group To Decode, Challenge, And Dream Beyond Capitalism
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
Welcome In Beloved!
This study group is a shared exploration — a deep dive into the system that shapes so much of our world and our lives. Over the course of 10-months, we’ll work through eight thought-provoking books, spending time together to understand, critique, and imagine alternatives to capitalism.
Our Monthly Timeline
This is the monthly timeline for our journey together. You'll log into this portal each month to access the course materials. Throughout the month, you'll receive email notifications as materials are released as a reminder so you know when to log into the portal.
FIRST OF EACH MONTHStudy Guide
Each guide breaks down the key ideas, provides important context, and gives you focus areas to help you get the most out of the book.Audio Lecture
These are like having a thoughtful conversation with someone who knows the book inside out. They expand on its themes and give you fresh perspectives.Reflection Questions
These reflective questions will help you think about how the book’s ideas relate to your experiences, challenges, and the world around you.Defiance Practices
These are small, actionable steps to experiment with resisting capitalism in your everyday life. They’re about trying on new ways of being and doing.Dates:
Feb 1st, Mar 1st, Apr 1st, May 1st, Jun 1st
July 1st, Aug 1st, Sep 1st, Oct 1st, Nov 1st
LAST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTHOn the last Saturday of each month from 3 pm est - 4 pm est, we’ll come together as a larger group to reflect, discuss, and explore the book. These gatherings are a space to share insights, hear diverse perspectives, and connect with the wider community.Dates:
Feb 22nd, Mar 29th, Apr 26th May 31st, Jun 28th
Jul 26th, Aug 30th, Sep 27th, Oct 25th, Nov 29th
WORKSHOPSSaturday, May 10th
3 pm est - 4:30 pm est
The Weight of Capitalism: A Workshop for Grief and Possibility
We often feel the weight of capitalism costs—on our lives, our communities, and the planet. Yet, our fast-paced culture leaves little room to acknowledge or process these losses. This workshop is a space to pause, grieve, and honor what has been taken by capitalism’s relentless systems of exploitation and inequity.Saturday, September 13th
3 pm est - 4:30 pm est
Dreaming of a Post-Capitalist World
The act of dreaming can be a radical and transformative practice. This workshop will invite you to step into a space of imagination and possibility, where we collectively envision what life could look like beyond capitalism.CLOSING GATHERING: REFLECTING ON OUR JOURNEYSaturday, December 13th
3 pm est - 4 pm est
Our Journey Together
Below you'll find the roadmap for our time together.
As we journey along, simply click on the current month
that we're exploring to access the material for that month.
START HERE: CHECK-IN WITH YOURSELF
Value And Belief Mapping
The exercise encourages curiosity and introspection, priming you to question your assumptions and remain open to new perspectives as you progress through the next 10-months.
Capitalism and Me: A Self-Assessment
This self-assessment is designed to help you explore your personal relationship with capitalism and its impact on your life.
Tools To Expand Your Imagination
And Ground You
A carefully curated soundtrack to inspire you as you awaken, reflect, imagine, and explore.
I Am More Than Capitalism
A guided meditation to remind you of your worth beyond what you produce or consume. Use any time you need to be grounded during our time together.
SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
FEBRUARY - MAY
Our first four months together are dedicated to building a strong base for our study. These books are fundamental, helping us understand the inner workings of capitalism and its historical connections to race and repression. We're giving ourselves the time to fully absorb these key concepts before moving forward.
February & March: A People's Guide To Capitalism
This book is our foundation, a clear and accessible guide to how capitalism works. It breaks down big concepts like exploitation, class struggle, and inequality in ways that are easy to grasp, setting the stage for deeper exploration.
April & May: Black Scare / Red Scare
Next, we turn to the U.S. context, exploring how anti-Blackness and anti-communism have been used to uphold capitalism. This book unpacks the intersections of race, repression, and economic systems, giving us a critical historical lens.
SECTION TWO: EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING
JUNE - AUGUST
With a solid foundation, we'll broaden our perspective, focusing on resistance, intersectionality, and systemic impacts. This section helps us explore how capitalism intersects with race, care work, the environment, and disability, offering deeper critiques and pathways for resistance.
June: As Black As Resistance
This book is bold, hopeful, and challenging. It shows how Black liberation can also be a rejection of capitalism and white supremacy. It’s not just about critique—it’s about imagining and building radical alternatives together.
July: Cannibal Capitalism
Here, we zoom out to the global scale, exploring how capitalism consumes the social, ecological, and economic systems it depends on. It’s a striking critique of capitalism’s self-destructive tendencies.
August: Capitalism & Disability
We’ll explore how capitalism marginalizes disabled people, treating them as less “profitable” or “productive.” This book reminds us that any critique of capitalism must be inclusive and intersectional.
SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE DREAMS
SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER
We finish our time together by turning our focus to solutions and visions for change. These final books help us imagine alternatives and provide actionable strategies for challenging capitalism in our personal lives and communities.
September: Lost In Work
Now we bring our study to a more personal level, exploring how capitalism shapes our daily lives, especially at work. Why does it feel like work takes over everything? And why does it often feel so meaningless? This book dives into the alienation and exploitation that many of us feel but struggle to articulate.
October: Radical Intimacy
This book invites us to think about care and intimacy as acts of resistance to capitalism’s alienation. What would life look like if connection, not profit, was at the center?
November: How To Be An Anti-Capitalist
Finally, we end with action. This book is a guide to practical strategies for challenging capitalism and imagining alternatives. It ties everything together and helps us think about the next steps beyond this journey.
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UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Our first four months together are dedicated to building a strong base for our study. These books are fundamental, helping us understand the inner workings of capitalism and its historical connections to race and repression. We're giving ourselves the time to fully absorb these key concepts before moving forward.
February
A People's Guide To Capitalism
This book is our foundation, a clear and accessible guide to how capitalism works. It breaks down big concepts like exploitation, class struggle, and inequality in ways that are easy to grasp, setting the stage for deeper exploration.
Read:
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
(101 pages total)
FEBRUARY LECTURE
FEBRUARY SALON GATHERING
Sat, Feb 22nd
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Our first four months together are dedicated to building a strong base for our study. These books are fundamental, helping us understand the inner workings of capitalism and its historical connections to race and repression. We're giving ourselves the time to fully absorb these key concepts before moving forward.
March
A People's Guide To Capitalism
This book is our foundation, a clear and accessible guide to how capitalism works. It breaks down big concepts like exploitation, class struggle, and inequality in ways that are easy to grasp, setting the stage for deeper exploration.
Read:
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Conclusion
Afterword
(134 pages total)
MARCH LECTURE
MARCH SALON GATHERING
Sat, Mar 29th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
A 10-Month Virtual Study Group To Decode, Challenge, And Dream Beyond Capitalism
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UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Our first four months together are dedicated to building a strong base for our study. These books are fundamental, helping us understand the inner workings of capitalism and its historical connections to race and repression. We're giving ourselves the time to fully absorb these key concepts before moving forward.
April
Black Scare / Red Scare
We turn to the U.S. context, exploring how anti-Blackness and anti-communism have been used to uphold capitalism. This book unpacks the intersections of race, repression, and economic systems, giving us a critical historical lens.
Read:
Introduction - Chapter 6
(136 pages total)
APRIL LECTURE
APRIL SALON GATHERING
Sat, April 26th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Our first four months together are dedicated to building a strong base for our study. These books are fundamental, helping us understand the inner workings of capitalism and its historical connections to race and repression. We're giving ourselves the time to fully absorb these key concepts before moving forward.
MAY
Black Scare / Red Scare
We turn to the U.S. context, exploring how anti-Blackness and anti-communism have been used to uphold capitalism. This book unpacks the intersections of race, repression, and economic systems, giving us a critical historical lens.
Read:
Chapter 7 - Epilogue
(117 pages total)
MAY LECTURE
The Weight of Capitalism: A Workshop for Grief and Possibility
Sat, May 10th
(3 pm est - 4:30 pm est)We often feel the weight of capitalism costs on our lives, our communities, and the planet. Yet, our fast-paced culture leaves little room to acknowledge or process these losses. This workshop is a space to pause, grieve, and honor what has been taken by capitalism’s relentless systems of exploitation and inequity.
MAY SALON GATHERING
Sat, May 31st
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION TWO: EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING
With a solid foundation, we'll broaden our perspective, focusing on resistance, intersectionality, and systemic impacts. This section helps us explore how capitalism intersects with race, care work, the environment, and disability, offering deeper critiques and pathways for resistance.
JUNE
As Black As Resistance
This book is bold, hopeful, and challenging. It shows how Black liberation can also be a rejection of capitalism and white supremacy. It’s not just about critique—it’s about imagining and building radical alternatives together.
Read:
The Whole Book
(120 pages total)
JUNE LECTURE
JUNE SALON GATHERING
Sat, June 28th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION TWO: EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING
With a solid foundation, we'll broaden our perspective, focusing on resistance, intersectionality, and systemic impacts. This section helps us explore how capitalism intersects with race, care work, the environment, and disability, offering deeper critiques and pathways for resistance.
JULY
CANNIBAL CAPITALISM
Cannibal Capitalism pulls back the curtain on how capitalism survives by devouring the very things it needs to function like care work, nature, racialized labor, and public systems. Nancy Fraser shows that the crises we’re living through aren’t separate or accidental. They are all connected, all built into how capitalism is structured. This book challenges us to stop looking for surface-level fixes and start imagining a whole new way of organizing life, one that centers care, justice, and collective power.
Read:
The Whole Book
(165 pages total)
JULY LECTURE
JULY SALON GATHERING
Sat, July 26th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION TWO: EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING
With a solid foundation, we'll broaden our perspective, focusing on resistance, intersectionality, and systemic impacts. This section helps us explore how capitalism intersects with race, care work, the environment, and disability, offering deeper critiques and pathways for resistance.
AUGUST
CAPITALISM & DISABILITY
Capitalism and Disability argues that disability oppression isn’t accidental—it’s built into capitalism. Marta Russell shows how work, law, healthcare, and even war keep disabled people marginalized, and why their fight for justice is bound up with the struggles of underpaid care workers.
Read:
The Whole Book
(169 pages total)
AUGUST LECTURE
AUGUST SALON GATHERING
Sat, August 30th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE DREAMS
We finish our time together by turning our focus to solutions and visions for change. These final books help us imagine alternatives and provide actionable strategies for challenging capitalism in our personal lives and communities.
SEPTEMBER
LOST AT WORK
Capitalism and Disability argues that disability oppression isn’t accidental—it’s built into capitalism. Marta Russell shows how work, law, healthcare, and even war keep disabled people marginalized, and why their fight for justice is bound up with the struggles of underpaid care workers.
Read:
The Whole Book
(165 pages total)
SEPTEMBER LECTURE
Dreaming of a Post-Capitalist World
Saturday, September 13th
(3 pm est - 4:30 pm est)The act of dreaming can be a radical and transformative practice. This workshop will invite you to step into a space of imagination and possibility, where we collectively envision what life could look like beyond capitalism.
SEPTEMBER SALON GATHERING
Saturday, September 27th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE DREAMS
We finish our time together by turning our focus to solutions and visions for change. These final books help us imagine alternatives and provide actionable strategies for challenging capitalism in our personal lives and communities.
OCTOBER
RADICAL INTIMACY
This book invites us to think about care and intimacy as acts of resistance to capitalism’s alienation. What would life look like if connection, not profit, was at the center?
Read:
The Whole Book
(173 pages total)
OCTOBER LECTURE
OCTOBER SALON GATHERING
Saturday, October 25th
(3 pm est - 4 pm est)
UPROOTING CAPITALISM
SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE DREAMS
We finish our time together by turning our focus to solutions and visions for change. These final books help us imagine alternatives and provide actionable strategies for challenging capitalism in our personal lives and communities.
NOVEMBER
How To Be An Anti-Capitalist
This book is a guide to practical strategies for challenging capitalism and imagining alternatives. It ties everything together and helps us think about the next steps beyond this journey.
Read:
The Whole Book
(157 pages total)