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Response By David N. Gibbs, David N. Gibbs
Response By David N. Gibbs, David N. Gibbs
Class, Race and Corporate Power
David N. Gibbs responds to the six scholars who addressed his article in this issue of Class, Race and Corporate Power.
Responses To David N. Gibbs Article By John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, Kees Van Der Pijl, And John Feffer, Various Authors
Responses To David N. Gibbs Article By John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, Kees Van Der Pijl, And John Feffer, Various Authors
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This piece comprises the responses of six scholars to the article posted in this same issue of Class, Race and Corporate Power by David N. Gibbs titled "How the Srebrenica Massacre Redefined US Foreign Policy."
The Martian: A Nasa-Tionalist Utopia, Bryant W. Sculos
The Martian: A Nasa-Tionalist Utopia, Bryant W. Sculos
Class, Race and Corporate Power
The Martian presents the audience with a near-future that is a pervasively depoliticized neoliberal utopia—and what is scariest is that it does so very successfully. That is, The Martian is a very well-made and largely entertaining film that is also one of the shallowest movies likely to be considered for an Academy Award, though the competition for that will likely be strong.
How The Srebrenica Massacre Redefined Us Foreign Policy, David N. Gibbs
How The Srebrenica Massacre Redefined Us Foreign Policy, David N. Gibbs
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This special perspectives section features commentary on the implications of the Srebrenica massacre for U.S. foreign policy. Given the 20-year anniversary of the massacre, we felt that it was appropriate to invite a range of scholars to participate in a forum to address different aspects of the tragedy and its aftermath in the context of U.S. foreign policy. The forum is structured around a commentary by David Gibbs, author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. Gibbs article, "How the Srebrenica Massacre Redefined U.S. Foreign Policy," is featured below. Within the …
Marx In Miami: Reflections On Teaching And The Confrontation With Ideology, Bryant W. Sculos, Sean N. Walsh
Marx In Miami: Reflections On Teaching And The Confrontation With Ideology, Bryant W. Sculos, Sean N. Walsh
Class, Race and Corporate Power
In composing this piece we hope to detail some of our strategies and pedagogical experiences teaching Marx and Marxism in Miami, Florida. Although Miami is certainly a special case regarding the intensity and character of ideological fervor against Leftist political and social theory, we believe the lessons adapted to this specific environment can be generalized for instructors regardless of geography. Teaching Marx in the United States often poses unique challenges. In Miami, those obstacles feel frequently amplified.
Cut From The Same Cloth: The Us Textile And Apparel Industry And Post-Disaster Designs For Haiti., Ransford F. Edwards Jr.
Cut From The Same Cloth: The Us Textile And Apparel Industry And Post-Disaster Designs For Haiti., Ransford F. Edwards Jr.
Class, Race and Corporate Power
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, various neoliberal strategies have been advanced to help in short-term disaster mitigation and reconstruction, as well as more long-term improvements in the country’s overall economic integration and growth. One such strategy has been focused on revitalizing the country’s apparel assembly industries through an aggressive expansion of export processing zones (EPZs). The disaster, it appears, represented an important opportunity to improve economic conditions by reorganizing the country’s role in the global apparel commodity chain. However, this reorganization conflicts with the preferences of US textile and apparel producers who have used trade preference programs …
Crises And The Myth Of The Money Supply, James H. Nolt
Crises And The Myth Of The Money Supply, James H. Nolt
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Money, credit and capital are three fundamental economic terms that every high school student, at least, should understand. Yet we live in a society that does not treasure clarity about itself. Power prefers obscurity. So not only do few high school students understand these concepts, but few PhDs in economics do either. If you learn anything from this article, at least I hope you will understand these three. If you already know, or think you do, what money, credit and capital are (readers of this journal should know these), perhaps nonetheless you will be somewhat surprised by the simplicity, clarity …
Economic Aid To Egypt: Promoting Progress Or Subordination?, Dina Jadallah
Economic Aid To Egypt: Promoting Progress Or Subordination?, Dina Jadallah
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This article evaluates the political economy of U.S. aid in Egypt, arguing that transnational actors worked symbiotically with political and crony capitalist Egyptian elite to formulate and implement aid policies. The transnational elite project, narratively described as promoting ‘market democracy,’ defined reforms within a narrow frame where political and economic engagement would not challenge the dominant U.S.-Israeli security structure. The aid regime used a dual strategy based on partnerships and privatization, whereby reforms functioned to enhance asymmetric elite profit-making, economic integration into the U.S.-dominated capitalist system, and the geostrategic stability, and hence, dictatorship, within that order. Dictatorial power was central …
400 Parts Per Million: An Eco-Political Music Video, William K. Carroll
400 Parts Per Million: An Eco-Political Music Video, William K. Carroll
Class, Race and Corporate Power
400 ppm is an eco-political music video which encapsulates climate crisis and climate justice in three minutes flat. It is an intervention in popular political ecology/economy, aimed at those who are uneasy with the increasingly obvious deterioration of the living systems of which we are an inextricable part.
The Bankruptcy Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age, Ronald W. Cox
The Bankruptcy Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age, Ronald W. Cox
Class, Race and Corporate Power
The increasing similarity between the economic policies of center-left and center-right political parties has effectively diminished the legitimacy of governments in relationship to their citizenry in Western Europe and the U.S. Capitalist democracies during the period of managed capitalism gained legitimacy by the appearance of the separation of capitalist ownership rights in the marketplace from the political institutions that govern capitalism. During this period, Social Democratic parties in Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Democratic Party in the U.S., paid some amount of attention to labor unions and mass constituents in formulating their policy agendas. The era of …
Utopia, A Must: A Review Essay On Benjamin Kunkel’S Utopia Or Bust, Bryant William Sculos
Utopia, A Must: A Review Essay On Benjamin Kunkel’S Utopia Or Bust, Bryant William Sculos
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Utopia or Bust, more than many foundational alternatives, forcefully though with non-sectarian wisdom, re-implants the notion of utopia to the front-of-the-line of Left theory (whether economic, geographic, political, social, and/or cultural). Kunkel's introductory survey reminds us through Harvey, among others, that “Utopia exists and that other systems, other spaces, are still possible."
Automatons, Robots, And Capitalism In A Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay On Neill Blomkamp’S Chappie, Bryant William Sculos
Automatons, Robots, And Capitalism In A Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay On Neill Blomkamp’S Chappie, Bryant William Sculos
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Contrary to prevailing opinions, Neill Blomkamp’s recent feature film Chappie is not a movie about robots or artificial intelligence. It is not Robocop. It is not Short Circuit. It is also not District 9 or Elysium. Chappie is a movie about humanity’s dialectically creative and destructive potential. It is a movie about how it is that humans come to behave how they do through their social and material circumstances, as well as the barbaric results when the two are mixed under the thoroughly undemocratic conditions of neoliberal capitalism.
Neglected Masterpieces Of Cinema, Louis Proyect
Neglected Masterpieces Of Cinema, Louis Proyect
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This article will acquaint you with ten of the more important leftwing films I have reviewed over the past sixteen years as a member of New York Film Critics Online. You will not see listed familiar works such as “The Battle of Algiers” but instead those that deserve wider attention, the proverbial neglected masterpieces. They originate from different countries and are available through Internet streaming, either freely from Youtube or through Netflix or Amazon rental. In several instances you will be referred to film club websites that like the films under discussion deserve wider attention since they are the counterparts …
Ballots For Equality: An Approach To The Radical Tradition In U.S. Electoral Politics, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Ballots For Equality: An Approach To The Radical Tradition In U.S. Electoral Politics, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Posing radical challenges to structural inequality is the defining quality of the Left. What role electoral politics might play in such processes is a dilemma of radical politics, the contours of which vary by historical and national contexts. For the U.S. Left there is a distinctive aspect of the dilemma directly related to the failure of a "Left" party of even the most moderate social democratic type to take root, creating a seemingly never ending debate over the value if any of "third party" progressive organizing. This debate is current, as illustrated by three divergent approaches; independent left electoral politics …
Is The Corporate Elite Fractured, Or Is There Continuing Corporate Dominance? Two Contrasting Views, G. William Domhoff
Is The Corporate Elite Fractured, Or Is There Continuing Corporate Dominance? Two Contrasting Views, G. William Domhoff
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This article compares two recent analyses of continuity and change in the American power structure since 1900, with a main focus on the years after World War II. The first analysis asserts that the “corporate elite” has fractured and fragmented in recent decades and no longer has the unity to have a collective impact on public policy. The second analysis claims that corporate leaders remain united, albeit with moderate-conservative and ultra-conservative differences on several issues, and continue to have a dominant collective impact on public policies that involve their major goals. After comparing the two perspectives on key issues from …