[Xmca-l] Re: poverty/class

[Avram Rips]

The problem is the connection between people alienated from their labor, or 
no labor and building a new democratic structure- that can happen in a small 
scale , and spread out to new modes of production away from the destruction 
of capital-such as chiapas and taking over factories in Argentina.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 8:35 AM
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: poverty/class


> Yes, it seems to me that the burgeoning inequality created by 
> neoliberalism is a situation crying out for imaginative social 
> entrepreneurship, i.e., social movement building. It is good to hear that 
> the 1/99 protests have generated talk about inequality, but that in itself 
> does not create a solution, does it?
> Andy
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> *Andy Blunden*
> http://home.mira.net/~andy/
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> Avram Rips wrote:
>> 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 ...
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>>>>
>>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>>> http://home.mira.net/~andy/
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>>>> 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
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