Link to an article by Miguel Altieri & Fernando Funes-Monzote:
“The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture”
Bonus link: “In Cuba, Greener Farming Means Cleaner Rivers”
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Cecilia Gingerich – Frances Fox Piven: From Protest to Resistance
Link to an interview of Frances Fox Piven by Cecilia Gingerich:
Herman Daly – Trump’s Growthism: Its Roots in Neoclassical Economic Theory
Link to an article by Herman Daly, from real-world economics review, issue no. 78, 22 March 2017, pp. 86-97:
“Trump’s Growthism: Its Roots in Neoclassical Economic Theory”
Moshe Marvit – Staughton Lynd Is Building a New World in the Basement of the Old
Link to an interview of Staughton Lynd by Moshe Marvit:
“Staughton Lynd Is Building a New World in the Basement of the Old”
Johnny Cash – Boom Chicka Boom
Johnny Cash – Boom Chicka Boom Mercury 842 155-2 (1990)
Continuing along the path of Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series (a collection of re-recordings of old Cash favorites), Boom Chicka Boom goes back to the way Cash used to sound long ago rather than trying to update him. “Farmer’s Almanac” is derivative of his last big hit “One Piece at a Time,” though most of the rest tries to sound like Cash of the 1950s and 60s. But he’s going through the motions, and some real problems with his band become apparent. Guitarist Luther Perkins was the man responsible for Cash’s iconic boom-chicka-boom sound. But Perkins died in 1968 after being caught in a fire in his home. The thing is, no replacement featured here has any of the charisma of Perkins. In the passing years Cash often did best when Carl Perkins (no relation), Marty Stuart or session guitarists like Norman Blake were involved instead of a Luther Perkins imitator. This one isn’t terrible but it’s boring, in large part due to the various Perkins imitators on guitar.
Paul Kivel – Social Service or Social Change?
Link to an article by Paul Kivel:
“Social Service or Social Change?”
Bonus links: “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex” and “Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at Home and Abroad” and “Foundations and Cultural Imperialism An Interview with Robert Arnove” and “The Ford Foundation in the Inner City: Forging an Alliance with Neighborhood Activists” and “Science of Science and Reflexivity” and Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History and Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism and Under the Mask of Philanthropy (plus review) and No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (this one is underwhelming) and “The Real Agenda of the Gates Foundation” and Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power and Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism and “The Philanthropy Racket or: How The People Destroying the World Anoint Themselves Its Saviors” and “Medicalizing Society” and Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint and “Philanthropic Power and Development: Who Shapes the Agenda?” and “Professional Societies: Corporate Service, or Public Services for You!” and Against Charity (plus review) and Wrong Kind of Green and “Class Struggle and the Parable of an Environmental Victory” and “The Philanthropy Hustle” and “The Problem With Capitalist Philanthropy” and “The Ultrarich Don’t Deserve Our Gratitude for Small Acts of Philanthropy” and “How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return” and “The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture” and “An Interview With John Stauber on the Impotence of the Progressive Movement” and “Which Side Are ‘Liberal’ Lawyers On?” and “The Political Economy of Effective Altruism” and “Reputational Laundering” Definition and Stephen Gowans Comment (“Change the institution, or make people behave in a contra-institutional way?“) and The Good Woman of Setzuan and “Socialism and Religion” (“those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven.”)
100th Anniversary of February Revolution
Links to articles about the February 1917 Revolution in Russia:
“A Guide to the February Revolution”
“The Story of the February Revolution”
Bonus links: Revolution at the Gates and The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 and “The Russian Revolution Reconsidered”
Adeshina Emmanuel – DOJ: To Address “Defective” Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts
Link to an article by Adeshina Emmanuel:
“DOJ: To Address ‘Defective’ Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts”
Bonus links: “Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People” and “Police Violence and Police Unions”
Michael Hudson – Euphemise to Conceal
Link to parts of an interview with Michael Hudson, discussing his book J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception:
“Alluring Infrastructure Income”
“Why Deficits Hurt Banking Profits”
“Retirement. What Social Obligation?”
Bonus links: Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power and Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and “Social Chauvinism” (a critique easily leveled at Hudson’s admiration for protectionism)
Francisco Fortuño Bernier & Aaron Jaffe on Feminism
Francisco Fortuño Bernier & Aaron Jaffe:
By declining to confront our anti-egalitarian social structure at its roots, an individualistic, corporate feminism will never transform society. It can only offer a select few the entirely insufficient hope of catching up; of taking their turn; of being represented. The patience of the oppressed is rapidly transformed into a strategy of their oppressor.
Bonus link: Fortunes of Feminism (“Instead of arriving at a broader, richer paradigm that could encompass both redistribution and recognition, we would have traded one truncated paradigm for another—a truncated economism for a truncated culturalism. The result would be a classic case of combined and uneven development: the remarkable recent feminist gains on the axis of recognition would coincide with stalled progress—if not outright losses—on the axis of distribution.”)