Is there a new 'transformative' class?
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We close of the 2022 Reading Club, and the final section on 'Neo-Feudalism', by discussing how class is changing. Through readings by Guy Standing and Ruy Braga, we ask if the precariat are the new serfs in a supposed feudal-ish social formation.
It's clear the old Fordist arrangements have broken down, so what does the working class look like today? Is it still a class in the old sense? Braga argues we are witnessing 'class struggle without class'. But why then do the precariat's revolts only target state political authority, and not property relations?
Readings:
/36/ Portugal: The Soft Whip? ft. Catarina Príncipe
/35/ (Dis)Arm the People? ft. Reid Kane
/34/ War Propaganda ft. Tara McCormack
/33/ Hungary's Illiberal Democracy ft. Tamas Gerocs
/32/ Brazil Moves Right? ft. Sabrina Fernandes
/31/ Woke Neoliberalism ft. James Heartfield
/30/ Italy: Country of the Future? ft. David Broder
/29/ Therapeutic Politics ft. Ashley Frawley
/28/ Cinema & Hopelessness ft. Maren Thom
/27/ After Zuma ft. Sean Jacobs
/26/ Prometheans United ft. Leigh Phillips
/25/ Prometheans Unite! ft. Leigh Phillips
/24/ #IranProtest ft. Arash Azizi
/23/ Bonus - 2017: Year in Review
/22/ Sport & Scandal
/21/ Be Normie ft. Angela Nagle
/20/ The Coup in Zimbabwe
/19/ New Clarity? ft. Michael Brooks
/18/ Lenin Lives!
/17/ Hypersatireality ft. @KarlRemarks
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