Capitalism has learned to create host organisms, article by Zygmunt Bauman, The Guardian
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In the face of financial crisis, any hope that the parasite will die when it runs out of food is in vain – capitalism is far too inventive. The news of capitalism’s demise is (to borrow from Mark Twain |
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
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http://www.thepressproject.gr/external.php?id=12257
Our world is changing dramatically. Social upheaval has followed worldwide economic crisis and the gulf between the haves and the have-nots is widening. In 2011, this profound disconnect found expression in events that we were told had been consigned … |
An absolute refusal? Notes on the 12 February demonstration in Athens
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A good analysis from the edufactory.net on the 12/2 demonstrations and riots in Athens and the threshold that the official political system in Greece stands: An absolute refusal? Notes on the 12 February demonstration in Athensdi PAVLOS HATZOPOULOS, ILIAS … |
POPULAR UPHEAVALS, THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM, AND THE MARXIST ANALYSIS OF THE VALUE-FORM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2FrGHX5OA0 Presentation abstract: The “Arab Spring,” the occupation of the statehouse in Madison Wisconsin, the encampments in Spain, the occupation and violent struggle in Syntagma square in Athens, are all responses to the … |
ALAIN BADIOU. SAVE THE GREEKS FROM THEIR SAVIORS!
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http://www.egs.edu/faculty/alain-badiou/articles/save-the-greeks-from-their-saviors/
At a time when one Greek youth out of two is unemployed. Where 25,000 homeless wander the streets of Athens. Where 30% of the population has fallen under the poverty line and where millions of families are forced … |
The crisis, Occupy, and other oddities in the autumn of capital
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Translation of the editorial of Kosmoprolet #3 All over the world, events are keeping up with the pace of a crisis, the end of which was just recently cheerfully proclaimed by people who thought ludicrous |
The Making and Unmaking of the Precariat (Loïc Wacquant)
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2 videos
Loïc Wacquant, University of California Berkeley In the second part of the lecture, Loïc Wacquant sketches his analysis about the formation of the neoliberal state on the whiteboard.
http://www.rosalux.de/class-in-crisis/class-in-crisis-freitag/the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-precariat.html… |
