Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by James Plested:
“Recycling Crisis is Capitalist Business as Usual”
Bonus links: “As the Ocean Waters Rise, So Do the Islands of Garbage” and “Against Recycling” and “How Europe’s ‘Trash Market’ Offloads Pollution on Its Poorest Countries” and “A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling” and “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again” and Portlandia Season 2, Episode 8 “Which Bin Does It Go In?” and The Closing Circle
Link to an article by Pete Dolack:
“If You Incentivize Pollution, You Incentivize Death”
Bonus link: …And the Poor Get Prison
Link to an article by Michael Hudson:
“Palatial Credit: Origins of Money and Interest”
This information is of tremendous importance.
Bonus link: Debt: The First 5000 Years
Links to articles by Eric London:
“The New York Times on Race and Class: What Determines Social Mobility in America?” and Part 2
Bonus links: “Why Liberals Separate Race from Class” and “Beyond the Class Ceiling: Education and Upward Social Mobility” and “America’s Political Economy: Lost Generations — Cumulative Impact of Mass Incarceration” and “Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies: The New York Times, 1917–2017” and Liberalism: A Counter-History and “How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth” and “Between Obama and Coates” and “How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence” and Review of Class, Race and Marxism and Walter Benn Michaels on Left Neoliberalism and The Trouble With Diversity and The Condemnation of Little B and “The Controversy Surrounding the Roseanne Television Series” and “Social Class in the 21st Century“
Bonus quote:
“it is not simply a matter of seeing which account of reality best matches the ‘facts’, with the one that is closest being the least biased and therefore the best. As soon as the facts are determined, we have already — whether we know it or not — made our choice; we are already within one ideological system or another. The real dispute has already taken place over what is to count as the facts, which facts are relevant, and so on.”
Rex Butler, “What is a Master-Signifier”
Link to an article by Joel Lexchin:
“The Pharmaceutical Industry in Contemporary Capitalism”
Bonus link: “Phillip Zweig on Legalized Kickbacks in Healthcare”
Link to a machine translation of an article by Felipe Demier:
“The Senses of a Prison: Lula, Democracy and the People in the Dining Room”
Link to an interview of Stephanie Coontz:
Link to an article by Kenneth Surin:
“Lucrative Dealing in the Age of Austerity”
Bonus links: Making Money and Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism and The Triumph of Conservatism
Link to an article by Jerry White:
“Teachers Unions Intensify Efforts to Suppress Growing Class Struggle in the US”
Bonus link: Poor People’s Movements and “Making Greater Possibilities Inconceivable: Another Thought or Two on the Logic of Lesser Evilism”