Tag Archives: James C. Scott

James C. Scott’s Against the Grain

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By chilke Source: The HipCrime Vocab During my long discursion on the history of money, the academic James C. Scott published an important book called Against the Grain: A Deep History of the First States. Regular readers will know that this has … Continue reading →

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The System: Deserving Contempt, Resistance and Undermining

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Luther Blissett

By Rob Kall Source: OpEdNews.com Let’s face it, the system is pathologically broken, designed to hurt and exploit the middle class. it is contemptible. The courts are contemptible, the Judges are contemptible, the politicians– almost all of them– are contemptible, … Continue reading →

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