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Bezig met laden... Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of Historydoor Malcolm Harris
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From the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality, police violence, and exploitation have come to define our lives In these new and selected pieces, Malcolm Harris, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics, examines everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism--and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way, he explores protest strategies past and present; questions the wrong (and often racist) lessons we've learned from American history; and, most comfortingly, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we're in. Rarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside down that we can finally understand it for what it really is, but Harris's wry and biting essays do just that, and help us laugh at what we see. Our economic situation, political discourse, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said "Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit" to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? The over thirty pieces collected here offer compelling answers to these questions and more. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)909.83History and Geography History World history 1800- 2000-2099, 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.88)
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Shit is all Fucked Up and Bullshit is collection of essays about politics and culture from the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 to the progressives' verbal resistance to the government of Donald Trump as the president of the USA 2017-2019. Some of earliest essays were written as articles about the Occupy Wall Street protest. The collection title refers to a sign carried by a protester in one of the marches in that event. Harris takes credit for the hoax about afree public concert by Radiohead on October 2011. Harris appears to want to position his journalism at a distance from the idea that Occupy’s main accomplishment is the slogan "We are the 99%".
Some of the essays are for and about young Americans who enrolled in colleges and universities to improve their “human capital” (financial futures), but found themselves with student loan debt in an economy that does not pay educated people for their knowledge.
Harris has a Woke sensibility but disagrees with the majority of American and Western socialist and liberal thinkers. He relies on post-Modern French and German sources. His Marxism has American ingredients - it is generational, individual and intersectional. He argues that some groups are uniquely exploited by late capitalism including workers, women and young people. (