Link to an article by Eric Blanc:
“The Billionaires Dismantling Oakland Schools”
Bonus links: “They’ve Been Doing This Massive, Anti-Democratic Model of Education Reform” and Richard Shaull Quote
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Justin Fox – Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
Link to an article by Justin Fox:
“Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same”
The claims about environmental benefits of wood (over concrete) and a few other things might be debatable.
Bonus link: “Minneapolis’ Housing Plan Rewards Developers, Punishes Working People”
McKinsey & Company: Capital’s Willing Executioners
Link to an anonymous article:
“McKinsey & Company: Capital’s Willing Executioners”
Bonus links: “The Sociology of C. Wright Mills” (“As modern management becomes the reigning ethos of the age, the shift from explicit authority relationships to more subtle manipulation becomes the preferred form of power. *** The goal of manipulation is to have men internalize managerial directives without knowing that these directives are not their own motives, without recognizing that they are being victimized.”) and Critique of Cynical Reason and Making Money
Saker Interview with Michael Hudson on Venezuela
Link to an interview with Michael Hudson:
“Saker Interview with Michael Hudson on Venezuela”
Bonus links: “Trump’s Coup in Venezuela: The Full Story” and “The Siege of Venezuela and The Travails of Empire” and “Venezuela-Baiting: How Media Keep Anti-Imperialist Dissent in Check” and “Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela” and “Leaked: USA’s Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela”
Daniel Lopez – The Conversion of Georg Lukács
Link to an article by Daniel Lopez:
Jim Kavanagh – “Taxpayer Money” Threatens Medicare-for-All (And Every Other Social Program)
Gerald Coles – Education, Jobs and Capitalism
Link to an excerpt from the book Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures (2018) by Gerald Coles:
“Education, Jobs and Capitalism”
In Lars Lih‘s excellent biographical study of V.I. Lenin, he noted how Lenin’s parents were involved in education and were frustrated that the tsarist autocracy in Russia prevented education (and widespread literacy) in order to constrain the expectations of citizens, in order to maintain the extreme inequality that prevailed under tsarism. When Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power, reforms were swiftly instituted that resulted in historically unprecedented advances in literacy and education more generally. It was not a matter of pedagogical impediments to expanding literacy, or a lack of a notion to improve education and literacy, it was that the education system was subordinated to the maintenance of a particular socioeconomic hierarchy. What was needed was a shift in who held power, and the ideologies of those people, and Coles’ book excerpt makes that point abundantly clear. Capitalists simply disavow their real motivations.
Bonus links: “The Tech Education Con” and Pedagogy of the Oppressed and “Red Diaper Babies” and Democracy and Education and The Higher Learning in America and …And the Poor Get Prison and The Scapegoat
Lea Ypi – From Reform to Revolution
Link to an article by Lea Ypi:
Imen Neffati – Charlie Hebdo and the Gilets Jaunes
Link to an article by Imen Neffati:
“Charlie Hebdo and the Gilets Jaunes”
Bonus links: “In the Grey Zone” and “The Specter of Democracy” and “The Left Case Against Open Borders” and “For What It’s Worth: The Yellow Vests and the Left”
Ian Graye – Review of Lacan and Postfeminism
Link to Ian “Marvin” Graye’s Review of Lacan and Postfeminism (2001) by Elizabeth Wright:
Review of Lacan and Postfeminism
Bonus links: The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan and “About the Fate of Contemporary Girls” Excerpt and “On Sex Without Identity: Feminist Politics and Sexual Difference”