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Compulsive Behavior by Sabine Nuss Originally published in German in the daily newspaper neues deutschland The Deutsche Theater in Berlin recently celebrated the premiere of the play “Das Himbeerreich” (“The Raspberry Empire”). Director Andres Veiel interviewed over twenty prominent bankers in order to trace “the connecting threads between personal motives and social structures in the financial sector.” That’s [...]

Just as a heads up, the blog Reification of Persons and Personification of Things has published a series of critical observations on Moishe Postone that are very worth reading. Part 1 ,Part 2, ,Part 3 ,Part 4 ,Part 5 ,Part 5a ,Part 6 ,Part 7 ,Part 8 ,Part 9 , and Conclusion.

I just finished TLSD. As you’ve probably noticed [...]

My favorite time of year, and my favorite stuff to listen to this time of year:

I remain curious why the “debate” over antiracism as a politics takes such indirect and evasive forms—like the analogizing and guilt by association, moralistic bombast in lieu of concrete argument—and why it persists in establishing, even often while denying the move, the terms of debate as race vs. class. I’m increasingly convinced that a likely reason [...]

There is no place yet in America for a third party, I believe. The divergence of interests even in the same class group is so great in that tremendous area that wholly different groups and interests are represented in each of the two big parties, depending on the locality, and almost each particular section of the [...]

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(thanks to Hektor for the link)

“Critical Whiteness” has always been a domesticated, watered-down version of the original theory of “whiteness” formulated by thinkers of the militant class-struggle left in the United States such as Noel Ignatiev and Theodore Allen . Whereas thinkers like Ignatiev and Allen attempted to offer a rigorous theoretical Marxist answer to the eternal question of social sciences — Why [...]

The blog “Reification of Persons and Personification of Things” gives a nice endorsement of the Heinrich Capital Introduction (at the end of a critique of David Harvey’s):

As a result, Harvey’s stated attempt to provide a close reading that reads Capital in ‘Marx’s own terms’ ultimately fails. Fortunately, the recently published Heinrich introduction does address these issues. It [...]

This and the Keiji Haino/ Peter Brötzmann duo from Saturday are the best shows I’ve seen this year. Hopefully the latter will turn up on YouTube soon too.

Why don’t more Jazz groups do Stooges covers?!

Now available from Monthly Review Press!

I hear from many people who’d love to read Capital, but find the thing almost prohibitively daunting. Michael Heinrich has written an excellent little introduction to Marx’s masterpiece. Among its many virtues is that it takes money and finance seriously, which many Marxists don’t. But even if you’ve read lots of [...]

yankee dollar talk, to the dictators of the world; in fact it’s giving orders, and they can’t afford to miss a word…