Political Economy
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Money never sleeps. And, when it comes to drilling holes in Dodd-Frank, it never gets tired. Matt Taibbi explains the 5 easy steps Wall Street is using to kill financial reform in the United States. Step 1 is to “strangle it in the womb,” for example, by watering down the new regulatory concepts in the bill. The second is to “sue, sue, sue”—by tying up the reforms in court. Step 3 is, “if you can’t win, stall,” so that major provisions are postponed indefinitely.
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Communist Realism
Not the word before the notion, but the word as notion and as historical agent. "Communism" is a word with a strange story. It is very difficult to rigorously trace its origin. Nevertheless, it is sure that the word "communist" existed already in the XIVth century, with the meaning of "people having in common a property belonging to the category of main morte – that is, not being submitted to the law of heritage": a monastery belongs to the community of the Monks, which is, as community, independent from the individuals.
It's coming up to that time of year again. The timetable for Marxism 2012 is up on the website. You'll see that I'm speaking on ' Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in the Liberal Tradition ' on Friday 6th June. There'll be time later to explain what that's all about. As for other speakers, well ...
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Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Reading Capital
Class 9, Chapter 15 continued Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License .