Posted in Marx, Working Class on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in Marx, Working Class on Sep 12th, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Marx, Economy, Working Class, Politics on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Working Class, Film on Jun 4th, 2008 No Comments »
From YouTube blurb:
Shane Meadows visited Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge in sept 2004 to show an A-level Film Studies class a few of his short films, talk about his up coming release of Dead Man’s Shoes. And to answer questions about his career and techniques. He speaks of Once Upon A Time In […]
Posted in Working Class, satire on Apr 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
Thanks to Seán Baite for this one.
Posted in Irish Middle Class, US Politics, Irish Working Class, Working Class, Politics on Mar 5th, 2008 12 Comments »
The race for the White House, in particular the race for the Democratic nomination, is proving once again that in American politics, it’s the economy, stupid.
For the rest of the world, American foreign policy looms large. The American economy is also an issue, but our coverage and analysis tends to focus on Iraq, the […]
Posted in Working Class, Media on Mar 5th, 2008 8 Comments »
In Monday’s Media supplement in the Guardian there was an article about a new season of documentaries that will soon be aired on the BBC called the “White” season. The suggestion behind it is that ‘white’ working class British people are no longer represented in the media except through a series of negative cliches. They […]
Posted in philosophy, Zaragoza, aesthetics, Working Class, Labour, satire on Nov 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Sometimes, just sometimes, ideology can be piss-funny. I mean, intentionally so, not in an Eoghan Harris piss-funny kind of way. The following is taken from Wikipeida:
La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?, in English, “Can Dialectics Break Bricks?”, is a 1973 Situationist film produced by the French director René Viénet which explores the resolution of conflict […]
Posted in US Politics, Working Class, Film, TV on Nov 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
This quote comes from “Heard on the Picketline” section of the Hollywood writers strike weblog.
This morning, I picketed with an 86 year writer, who wrote for ‘Mr. Ed.’ He said, ‘It pisses me off that that fucking horse wound up speaking Italian, Polish and Rumanian, and I never made more than a nickel.’”
I have to […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish working Class Culture, Irish Working Class, Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jun 17th, 2007 10 Comments »
Two broad problems face social historians in Ireland.
One is the fact that almost all traditional document-based material relating to the poor and the working class - the stuff in the libraries and archives that historians use to write history - is material that is concerned with social problems, with the analysis of these problems, […]
