[Xmca-l] Re: poverty/class

[Avram Rips]

Innovation and entrepreneurship  in some ways means capital crowding out 
social space and solidarity. This is evident in cities-whole neighborhoods 
taken over by wealthy crafts people, and little focus on co-operative 
movements for working class people-where a new focus on participatory 
democracy can be developed ,and working class culture in the Gramscian 
sense. take care! Avram
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com>
To: "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net>
Cc: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:31 AM
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: poverty/class


> Andy--- My intent in the garbled sentence you query was to suggest that 
> the
> discourse in the US around vicious inequalities has increased markedly in
> the past year in tandem with a kind of frenzy in those parts of academia I
> come in contact with about "design, culture, and creativity" all of which
> are linked to innovation and entrepreneurship. I very interested in the
> nature of imagination and creativity but I they often appear to be new 
> code
> words for social and individual salvation in a lean, mean, neo-liberal
> world.
>
> Maybe just another of my confusions.
> mike
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>
>> Mike, could you clarify a little your comment below ...
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *Andy Blunden*
>> http://home.mira.net/~andy/
>>
>>
>> mike cole wrote:
>>
>>> ... My fear that is appearance is non-accidentally rated to explosion of
>>> concern about poverty/class (the 1%/99% idea has become ubiquitous in
>>> American
>>> discourse).
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>