From Alpha To Omega

We start Chapter 5 - “Michael Mann’s Two Frameworks of Class Analysis”

Book Project:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Patreon:
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Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VsmYazOfhWjueQI7OqbUC7qCAU8J49mlUZNV4WTWLYw/edit?usp=sharing

This week we welcome Frieder Otto Wolf to the show to talk about Rudolf Hilferdings marxist classic ‘Finance Capital’. Frieder is a philosopher, political scientist, politician, and humanist, and an honorary professor of philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2007. He has also recently co-edited with Judith Dellheim ‘Rudolf Hilderding: What Do We Still Have to Learn from His Legacy?’ from Palgrave, New York. We talk about what we have to learn from Hilferdings seminal work, what it got right, and where it falls down.

Book Project Website:

https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Patreon:
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We finally finish Chapter 4 - ‘Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorensen’s “Toward a Sounder Basis For Class Analysis”’. But not before we get down and dirty with worker rents.

Book Project:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z0yNkmlmN30z2pW-Q7hoxboqzdCeasQZ8mxWSxDq8nc/edit?usp=sharing

We continue Chapter 4 - ‘Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorensen’s “Toward a Sounder Basis For Class Analysis”’ and give neoclassical economics both barrels

Book Project: https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

The slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z0yNkmlmN30z2pW-Q7hoxboqzdCeasQZ8mxWSxDq8nc/edit?usp=sharing

We continue Chapter 4 - ‘Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorensen’s “Toward a Sounder Basis For Class Analysis”’

Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z0yNkmlmN30z2pW-Q7hoxboqzdCeasQZ8mxWSxDq8nc/edit?usp=sharing

Book Project:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega

We finish our reading of the Paul Mattick 1970 Introduction to the ‘Fundamental Principles’.

https://libcom.org/library/introduction-paul-mattick

Book Project website: https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

The second part of our discussion with Sorrel on his time living in egalitarian communes.

This week we welcome Sorrel to the podcast to talk about his experiences living in egalitarian communes. These communes are based upon a labour time system, similar to that proposed by the GIC in the Fundamental Principles.

Today we read Paul Mattick's 1970 introduction to the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.

The book project website:

https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

The Paul Mattick Introduction:

https://libcom.org/book/export/html/616

We begin Chapter 4 - ‘Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorensen’s “Toward a Sounder Basis For Class Analysis”’.

The book project website:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

The link to the slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z0yNkmlmN30z2pW-Q7hoxboqzdCeasQZ8mxWSxDq8nc/edit?usp=sharing