Stan Goff audio: Exploitation Economics

In perparation for a local workshop some of us organized in Durham NC on “The Economics of Exploitation,” we decided to substitute an introductory CD – accessible to most people – for what we’d done in the past: issue reading assignments in obscure and often archaic language from various of the holy texts, and issue so many of them that the beleagured reader felt like she was being asked to take a drink from a fire hose.

This has turned out to be immensely popular and remarkably easy.

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I broke this into tracks, because if someone wants to hear a piece again, they don’t want to muddle through a single cut that is 43 mnutes long. Those tracks are here, and even though they specifically refer to our workshop, there may be something people find of value there. It ain’t pretty, and I don’t have the best voice around… which is the point. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress; and the struggle is a temporal phenomenon.

Written and narrated by me (ergo the occasional lapses into Arkansas-ese)
Edited by Bridgette Burge (edited in the writing, not the recording)
Recorded by Brian Russell

Track 1 - Science, Inquiry or Mask?
Track 2 - The Naturalization Fallacy
Track 3 - Ideology & Standpoint
Track 4 - Scarcity & Religion
Track 5 - Pubic Rituals & the Rational Man
Track 6 - Commodity as Thing, Commodity as Person
Track 7 - Reproduction & Colonization
Track 8 - Crisis & Concentration

You can listen to the tracks on Stan's blog here. I heard Stan in front of a Washington committee on TV once, and in another clip before an informal group once, and I don't know what he's talking about his voice - I think it's pretty easy listening.

Stan Goff