Posts Tagged with ‘class’
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Hard times are a comin’
14 Jul 2012
The UK economy is going through a turbulent phase. Although not quite at the depths of the Greek or Spanish economy, hard times are a comin'. Greece and Spain gives us an insight into what may happen, with increased levels of destitution, prostitution and despair, accompanied by brutal crack downs …
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Class and the means of re/production
12 Jun 2012
One of the recurrent themes in lefty blogs that I frequent that have a non-Marxist perspective is the theory of "classism". Now as any good Marxist knows from when they were just a little ity, bity Marxlet, class is based on the relationship to the means of production - yes …
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Money, Debt and Marx
22 Mar 2012
One of the pre-occupations (gettit?) of the Occupy Movement which is emerging as a major theme is that of the monetary system. But as Norfolk Community Action Group points out the narrative being presented is populist, shallow and frequently interfused with a good dose of conspiraloonacy and outright racism. Videos …
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How to undermine a CIA plot
02 Mar 2012
Laurie Penny had an interesting wee exchange the other day with Mark Crispin Miller. When on asking him why the panel called to discuss Occupy Wall Street was made up of middle aged white males, he responded with reference oto a theory that studies into gender and race had been …
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You Ignorant (Hard-Working) African
28 Jan 2012
There is an interesting anecdote doing the rounds at the moment, written by Field Ruwe, a Zambian novelist and journalist currently based in California. It tells the story of a chance meeting on a plane between Ruwe and 'Walter', a former IMF official now working in a similar capacity for …
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Culture and Class
10 Jan 2012
Over on искра/iskra, Kit Withnail has been thinking over the whole "chav" culture and the way in which it is looked down and the snobbery associated with the use of the term. I have problems with the whole "classism"(discrimination on the basis of class) narrative. Class is a relationship to the …
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Kyriarchy and Class
16 Nov 2011
Since discovering the term kyriarchy earlier this year, I've become a big fan. I've always been quite uncomfortable about the inter-relationship between feminism and race, not only with the temptation to "rank the oppressions" (as one wit said on twitter - being feminist and anti-racist is all very well, but …
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On the English Insurrection
17 Aug 2011On 6th August 2011, England erupted. First Tottenham, then Hackney, then all across London and beyond to Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester and even Gloucester erupted in the most widespread wave of insurrectionary activity in a century. Sparked by the death of a man at police hands, further escalated by …
