Below are assignments for next week. If you hate reading guides that much then simply take notes on what you think are the key elements and the supporting arguments. The overriding issue here is what is class and class consciousness and how does it develop.
Rius, Beginners guide to Marx (cartoon format)
Thompson, Making of English working class (4 pages from intro)
Wright, Class Counts
Weber, Class, Status and Party
Extra points for anyone who finds another economist's perspective on the recession. You can post it for us and offer some comparison.
Well, here is the IMF saying that there is a path to recovery which differs from the video that we watched in class which told us that the recovery would be very long...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFZmgorrMM. This economist gives an hour plus talk on how we have gotten to where we are. Some of the topics he hits on are housing prices, interest rates, and high unemployment rates along with the banking collapse (which was a secondary cause) ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awJZQoL0r4E. I am not quite sure if these are the types of videos that you were looking for but it was what I found in a quick search!
ReplyDeletehttp://zcommunications.org/the-global-economic-crisis-by-peter-bohmer
ReplyDeletePeter Bohmer a highly cited anti-authoritarian economist who is also respected in the anti-racist community in this article goes after the current capitalist melt down to analyse the causes of our current predicament. He places broad blame on the 40 plus years of Neoliberalism spreading world wide as a reactionary effort by elites against the rise in developmentalism and self determination in the third world. He then goes further into the process of neoliberalism becoming the doctrine of more local authorities and the nonsensical creation of the religion of the financiers infallible market. The greatest part of this article is the Peter's attempt provide a thoughtful possibility to change the current course of events.