I'm not a big sports fanatic, but an intellectual who can effectively use sports analogies that both make sense and demonstrate they actually know something about sports is a level above in my opinion.
The interpretation of the fable of the grasshopper and the ant is clearly wrong. The difference in wealth between the ant and the grasshopper in this case is not because of their "attributes," "dispositions" or "individual responsibility" it's because of the real consequences of their actual activities. If the ant works by gathering food for winter it clearly gets that food because it has actually got it and stored it. If that applies to particular human societies is another story but one must not deny that actions have consequences in any society. For the audience that this lecture is directed to, you may better understand it like this: If you don't make the revolution things aren't getting better.
In my opinion Wright is the best intellectual/teacher on class. Rest in peace and power. Comrades, we have a torch that needs to be carried.
Let's carry it
I'm not a big sports fanatic, but an intellectual who can effectively use sports analogies that both make sense and demonstrate they actually know something about sports is a level above in my opinion.
RIP...Your work here is done.
Rest in peace Erik
Sleep well brother x
Rest in Power
A rich man cannot exist without someone else paying for it!
Very helpful and relevant
Thanks for the upload.
market capacities vs means of production.
I was scared no analytical Marxists would still be alive today. It seems possible that Wright might still be alive; compared to G.A. Cohen.
He is dead.
Vivek Chibber continues the tradition of precise analysis.
Many of us studied with Erik in Madison -- the torch remains lit
@@nasanka7428 I second this. So glad we still have Vivek with us
The Other Others podcast brought me here
The interpretation of the fable of the grasshopper and the ant is clearly wrong. The difference in wealth between the ant and the grasshopper in this case is not because of their "attributes," "dispositions" or "individual responsibility" it's because of the real consequences of their actual activities. If the ant works by gathering food for winter it clearly gets that food because it has actually got it and stored it. If that applies to particular human societies is another story but one must not deny that actions have consequences in any society. For the audience that this lecture is directed to, you may better understand it like this: If you don't make the revolution things aren't getting better.