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Nov 25, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
While there is much to be gained from reading Edward Said, I think it's very telling (about the class position of the majority of people in academia) that so much academic discussion the past year has revisited Said's work but less so Samir Amin's /1
Amin 'criticised Said’s view of empire from the Left and offered an alternative view, one based not on culture or discourse, but on a materialist understanding of capitalism & imperialism'. Said remained in NY while while Amin lived mostly in Africa, attempting to build /2
Oct 26, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Strange how analyses like this side-step insights from social reproduction theory. When you approach social phenomena like falling birthrates from an idealist rather than a materialist standpoint, dehistoricised, basic observations 'more choice = complexity' seem revelatory
Without a unifying framework through which to understand how labour, production, social reproduction & patriarchy gel in our particular time, & across various but interconnected locations of capitalist accumulation, then housing, education, cost-of-living, lifestyle choice,
