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roseweird posted:
this is my favourite video on the internet
conec posted:/me nr: walter rodney - how europe underdeveloped africa
are you seriously reading this?
i've never read it because i've always felt uncomfortable with rodney's "friendly" acceptance of african culture. i disagree with him at a fundamental level, the african and indian peoples of the west indies have just as much in common with africa and india respectively as the two regions have in common with one another in regards to culture, nothing. they have been entirely, 100% anglicized.
and i didn't mean "are you seriously reading this" in a bad way, just didn't realize someone here would even know who rodney is, let alone read a book he wrote.
gwarp posted:just didn't realize someone here would even know who rodney is, let alone read a book he wrote.
uh thats probably one of the most widely read books in this forum?
blinkandwheeze posted:uh thats probably one of the most widely read books in this forum?
oh wow, and i thought i was walter rodney's only secret admirer, i feel so uncool now
Understanding Capitalism by Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards, and Frank Roosevelt
Creating Economic Order: Record-Keeping, Standardization, and The Development of Accounting In The Ancient Near East edited by Michael R. R. Hudson and and Cornelia Wunsch
Crisis in the Eurozone edited by Costas Lapavitsas
today i got the idea to go back to read some stuff by Mircea Eliade and this fascinating book called The Roots of Civilization by Alexander Marshack maybe when i finish what i'm currently working on
gwarp posted:my whole problem with similar writers is just a personal bias i guess, a "why care about those that don't care about you" kind of thing.
and i didn't mean "are you seriously reading this" in a bad way, just didn't realize someone here would even know who rodney is, let alone read a book he wrote.
i only read it because it was posted here (like last year or so) (by discipline i think)
conec posted:hm, weird, i think rodney is a pretty renowned historian. http://i.imgur.com/Y6eKD3v.jpg i posted this pic pages ago, has some of my books either on africa or by african intellectuals, i forgot to place a couple books in the frame. too lazy to fig out which. i have a bunch more on kindle, some novels written in the shadow of fanon, some dealing nothing w marxism:
w.e.b du bois -
the souls of black folk
the suppression of the african slave trade to the united states
booker t. washington -
the negro problem
up from slavery: an autobiography
cheikh anta diop -
the african origin of civilization: myth or reality
kwame anthony appiah -
in my father`s house: africa in the philosophy of culture
frantz fanon -
the wretched of the earth
david birmingham -
kwame nkrumah: the father of african nationalism
novels (nd a play)
ngugi wa thiong'o
a grain of wheat
wole soyinka -
death and the king's horseman
mariama ba -
so long a letter
chinua achebe -
anthills of the savannah
chimamanda ngozi adichie -
americanah (iv yet to read this one, i think it came out last year im looking forward to reading it)
http://socialiststories.net/liberate/God's%20Bits%20of%20Wood%20-%20Sembene%20Ousmane.pdf i read this recently too
plus i now have twenty books on genocide, so of c some africa sh`d up in there. these two were crazy:
jean hatzfeld -
life laid bare: the survivors in rwanda speak
machete season: the killers in rwanda speak
in the survivors one, this boy talks about how he saw his pregnant sister raped and then split open. fcked up
Nowadays a theoretical problem of prime importance is being set, on the historical plane as well as on the level of political tactics, by the liberation of the colonies: when can one affirm that the situation is ripe for a movement of national liberation? In what form should it first be manifested? Because the various means whereby decolonization has been carried out have appeared in many different aspects, reason hesitates and refuses to say which is a true decolonization, and which a false. We shall see that for a man who is in the thick of the fight it is an urgent matter to decide on the means and the tactics to employ: that is to say, how to conduct and organize the movement. If this coherence is not present there is only a blind will toward freedom, with the terribly reactionary risks which it entails.
-Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
I wish I could smack people like Graeber with these words
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littlegreenpills posted:in other news im still reading capital in the 21st century by pikety-chan. come at me bros
pikkechu
babyhueypnewton posted:I'm reading Kliman, whenever anybody talks about the reproduction schemes and department 1 & 2 my eyes glaze over. Anybody know some good stuff on Cap' v. 2 that isn't rly boring or revisionist?
have you tried David Harvey's lectures yet?
laika posted:babyhueypnewton posted:I'm reading Kliman, whenever anybody talks about the reproduction schemes and department 1 & 2 my eyes glaze over. Anybody know some good stuff on Cap' v. 2 that isn't rly boring or revisionist?
have you tried David Harvey's lectures yet?
Yeah and I read the Limits to Capital. Problem is Kliman uses department 2 as an example of why underconsumptionist arguments are logically flawed (production can expand indefinitely without approaching explosive growth), from what I remember Harvey finds the opposite (or at least justifies this as a matter of Marx's assumptions leading to unrealistic results).
When it comes to an argument like that I literally can't say who's right or wrong,way too much econ. for me 
would like a better understanding of what Marx says without slogging through Vol. 2 again.
Virtualism: A New Political Economy by James G. Carrier (Editor), Daniel Miller (Editor)
We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades. In the last thirty years, economics has ceased to be just an academic discipline concerned with the study of economy, and has come to be the only legitimate way to think about all aspects of society and how we order our lives. Economic models are no longer measured against the world they seek to describe, but instead the world is measured against them, found wanting and made to conform.
