Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
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”
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”
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)
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”