File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postco_1995/postco_Aug.95, message 175


Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:41:07 -0800
From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (jones/bhandari)
Subject: re: information requested


>. A really excellent book that
>might fuel a similar discussion would be Aihwa Ong, -Spirits of Resistance
>and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia-.
>One general study I have found useful for thinking about some relevant
>issues is Allan Pred and Michael Watts, -Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms
>and Symbolic Discontent-; another I rather like is Michael Burawoy, -The
>Politics of Production-.

I had to respond to Timothy Burke's post.  All the writers he mentions are
profs here at UC Berkeley the institution in which I find myself presently.
   

I will introduce myself.  A Ph.D. candidate in the Dept of Ethnic Studies,
I working through a dissertation on the concept of late capitalism and the
politics of imperialism and racism specific to it.  I do not work with
these professors, though I have been profoundly influenced by an economic
theoretician who is a collegue of Pred's and Watt's--Richard A Walker.  As
an undergraduate I took two classes with Aihwa Ong from whom I learned
much.  

Above all, I have been influenced by a classic Marxian text of 1929: Henryk
Grossmann's Law of Accumulation and the Breakdown of the Capitalist System,
recently translated and abridged by Pluto Press.  Grossmann's magnum opus
was the most elaborate attempt to develop and correct Lenin's Imperialism. 

Rakesh Bhandari

ps I am using my roommate's e-mail line


 






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