{"id":188949,"date":"2010-07-02T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/02\/a-marxist-analysis-of-the-financial-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T01:47:00","slug":"a-marxist-analysis-of-the-financial-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/02\/a-marxist-analysis-of-the-financial-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marxist Analysis of the Financial Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"389\" height=\"234\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qOP2V_np2c0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qOP2V_np2c0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"389\" height=\"234\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">It&#8217;s kind of like watching a dinosaur walking down main street<\/span><\/div>\n<p>There is some things here that are right, and some that are wrong, and the hard part is determining which is which, but the white-board cartoons make it entertaining. (11:10)<\/p>\n<p>To be true, I&#8217;m not sure just how &#8220;Marxist&#8221; the lecturer, David Harvey is.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know him, and this lecture really sounds a bit more Fabian Socialist than full blown Marxist, but in any case it is a new way to look at what happened, and heterodoxy is what is needed here.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2010\/07\/02\/communism-and-the-financial-crisis-cartoon-edition\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+felix-all+%28Felix+Salmon+-+All%29\">Felix  Salmon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of like watching a dinosaur walking down main street There is some things here that are right, and some that are wrong, and the hard part is determining which is which, but the white-board cartoons make it entertaining. (11:10) To be true, I&#8217;m not sure just how &#8220;Marxist&#8221; the lecturer, David Harvey is. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,973,1004,1003,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-economy","category-finance","category-philosophy","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}