This Wreckage

Jamie, Sean and special guest Jake Flores (@feraljokes) of Pod Damn America (@PodDamnAmerica) get together to discuss Harmony Korine's seminal 2012 film Spring Breakers. We trust you've already seen this masterpiece, but in case you haven't, major spoilers ahead!

Outro: Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

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HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?

The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?

Part 2 of 2.

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Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave

Suggested Readings:

Ellan Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View

Jainus Banaji - Theory as History

Gred Grandin - The End of the Myth

Ed. - The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe

Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure

G.M. Tamas - Telling the Truth About Class

HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?

The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?

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The second part will be out on Friday.

Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave