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Author Archives: Christopher Carrico
ECONOMIC STIMULUS FOR WHOM?
GOVERNMENT SPENDING TODAY IS DIFFERENT THAN IT WAS DURING THE 1930s and 1940s. Paul Krugman wrote in his New Year’s Day column in the NY Times that “Nobody understands debt.” He complained about the “wrong-headed, ill-informed … Continue reading
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INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: A CRISIS OF NEO-LIBERALISM OR A CRISIS OF CAPITALISM?
…all the forces which promote full employment can only remain operative if they do not themselves undermine the rate of profit, or if they are not accompanied by other trends which do so. Likewise, all … Continue reading
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INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: OCCUPY WALL STREET AND THE HARD TASKS AHEAD
The Occupy Wall Street movement is one of the most significant developments on the American left to have emerged in years. An important victory has been won by the fact that the movement has already shifted American public discourse to … Continue reading
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: Theorizing Wisconsin
“It was telling that Obama said in his 2010 State of the Union Address that universities would have to make more sacrifices in the current economy. FDR gave a similar speech once, except he called on bankers and the captains … Continue reading
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Socialism or Barbarism in Egypt and Beyond: An Open Question
also republished as “Revolution in Egypt? What Revolution?” on Pambazuka on 16 February, 2011 and on ccarrico.wordpress.com Pambazuka summarized my argument as follows: Whether Egypt’s association with US-backed capitalism has been disrupted is a question that factory workers might yet … Continue reading
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INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: CAST AWAY ILLUSIONS, PART 2
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: CAST AWAY ILLUSIONS, PART TWO By Christopher Carrico http://ccarrico.wordpress.com 1. Neoliberalism & Neoconservatism in practice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5.3.10SarahPalinByDavidShankbone.jpg One contradiction that both neo-liberals and neo-conservatives face is the difficulty of how to protect the free pursuit of liberty (especially … Continue reading
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INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: CAST AWAY ILLUSIONS, PART 1
By Christopher Carrico reprinted as “Cast Away Neoliberal Illusions: Insurgent Anthropologies” in CounterPunch, Weekend Edition, January 21 – 23, 2011 1. THE TEA PARTY AND OTHER PALEO-CONS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Klan-sheet-music.jpg Just as it is ironic for the name of the fight against … Continue reading
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INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: CONQUEST ABROAD AND REPRESSION AT HOME
Conquest Abroad and Repression at Home By Christopher Carrico http://ccarrico.wordpress.com “Civilization originates” Stanley Diamond tells us, “with conquest abroad and repression at home.” Diamond himself had seen both firsthand. Stanley was a WWII veteran who served in North Africa, and, … Continue reading
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: AMERICAN CAPITALIST TRIUMPHALISM AND THE LIBERAL HUMAN RIGHTS PARADIGM
By Christopher Carrico http://ccarrico.wordpress.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SaddamStatue.jpg Before the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad, the iconic moments of American capitalist triumphalism were the fall of the Soviet Union and Eastern European socialism, and the spread of the neo-liberal … Continue reading
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: A DIALOGUE WITH PAN-AFRICAN HISTORIAN DR. TONY MARTIN
By Christopher Carrico http://ccarrico.wordpress.com Photo from: http://www.themajoritypress.com/ I. How I came to know Tony Martin, and initiate a dialogue with him about his scholarship and activism. I first came across Tony Martin’s work in the late 1990s while I was … Continue reading
