Thread by @culanth

In 10 minutes on Saturday, Day 3! "Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid"

This panel also marks the beginning of the last loop of #Distribute2020!!!

Follow below from some livetweets on this short film by me, @afleisch_anthro!

https://twitter.com/culanth/status/1258907031114625024

We're off!
Distribution/re-distribution presupposes something exists that can be appropriated—like an artifact (rather than a commodity).
The thing or commodity or artifact is produced socially but appropriated individually! But there's nothing naturally private about it!

The film then discusses the making of a few (left) economists in the South African post-apartheid context

These three left economists Rasigan Maharajh, Chris Malikane & Samantha Ashman were all active in the anti-apartheid movement, faced various dangers and all came to economics after studying in other fields

The economists lay out history of land dispossession, extraction from colonialism to racial capitalism, whose highest form, Rasigan says, is apartheid.

Post-liberation in South Africa: the question of redistribution of wealth and land that was once mainstream in the liberation movement, became unthinkable for the ANC in mainstream politics

The panel closing with some big questions:
What is the future of redistribution?

What might redistribution look like in neoliberal capitalism?
#Distribute2020

The panel ends with looking toward a more ecologically and economically sustainable future!

Now over in the Zoom Virtual Hallway for this panel! #Distribute2020