Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
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:
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.”)
Link to an article by Stclair:
Link to an article by Daniel Geary:
Bonus links: “Chomsky vs. Žižek” and “The Man With Two Brains”
Link to an article by Luke Savage:
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
Link to a report by Demos:
“The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap”
Selected quote: “This paper explores a number of these popular explanations for the racial wealth gap, looking at individual differences in education, family structure, full- or part-time employment, and consumption habits. In each case, we find that individual choices are not sufficient to erase a century of accumulated wealth: structural racism trumps personal responsibility.”
Bonus link: “From the Cold War to Clinton: How Liberals and Conservatives Have Separated Race From Class”
Link to an article by Simon Davis-Cohen:
“Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention”
Link to machine translation of Robespierre‘s speech of April 24, 1793:
“Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
Superior in every way to the final version.