Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, drinking […]
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A short clip from Harvey’s final lecture on reading Marx’s Capital, where he gives some thought on the relevance of class analysis, and, indeed, class struggle, to today’s society.
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The consumption of labour-power is completed, as in the case of every other commodity, outside the market or the sphere of circulation. Let us therefore, in company with the owner of money and the owner of labour-power, leave this noisy sphere, where everything takes place on the surface and in full view of everyone, and […]
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I’m standing at the corner of Cathal Brugha Street and Thomas Lane, waiting for my friend Lida to arrive. She’s starting up her own business soon, and wants me to write a blurb for the website. The buses are running a bit late but she gets here around 6.30pm and so we head off for […]
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It is not the poverty
Of soil in Leitrim that makes me raise my hat
To fools with fifty pounds in a paper bank” (Lough Derg, Kavanagh)
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “he who tires of Bray, tires of life”. And there’s more than a line of truth in that one. As for myself, today […]
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Donagh’s reference to Mark Steel below got me thinking about Steel’s BBC radio lecture series, in particular his talk on Karl Marx. It’s such an entertaining piece that I’ve put it up on the site (see below). It’s about 25 minutes long, and while it borrows heavily from Francis Wheen’s biography of Marx, the lecture […]
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It was Donagh who first told me about this. For the last few weeks David Harvey has been putting up on the web his lectures on Marx’s Capital. The idea is to read the book in tandem with the lectures themselves. I’ve tried to read Capital before, but always gave up. This time I’m […]
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