During his State of the Union address, President Obama coined the term “middle class economics.” Days later a blog post appeared on the Huffington Post further explaining what he meant. He opened by asking “Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to anContinue reading “middle class economics and the industrial reserve army”
Tag Archives: Karl Marx
anxious for revolution
Like any new relationship, we set high expectations for the New Year. Of ourselves we determine that this year we will be fit, love more, find a new job, get out of debt, and the list goes on. These demands give way to disappointment and if we weren’t already anxious about the resolutions, we certainlyContinue reading “anxious for revolution”
prisons, cultural lag, and the church
Early definitions of cultural lag focused specifically on industry and society. In Marxian terms it refers to how the substructure (production, relations to production,etc) advances in its use of technology, while the superstructure (philosophy, art, religion, family) falls behind this advancement. A simple example in today’s world would be who can purchase certain products, suchContinue reading “prisons, cultural lag, and the church”
anarchism and its discontents
The other week I came across my copy of Paul Tillich’s book Dynamics of Faith and decided to misread the title, thinking of it not as relating personality and faith, as Tillich did, but comparing it to expressions of faith. Dynamic represents the overarching ideology of a particular movement, denomination, political party, etc. For example,Continue reading “anarchism and its discontents”
black flag theology 