The most unlikely places create stimulation. Stepping out into Kings Cross from a train that’s just arrived from the coast. Into the middle of a world city. The train ran up from east Kent and the Channel could be seen alongside the track. Grey and steel-like, container ships and tankers and bulk carriers in theContinue reading “(Night) train to Antwerpen”
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Reading Capital in a Supermarket
The more Marx is bought to earth, the more fascinating his ideas become. By earth, I mean the local area in which I live. If Marx is relevant to this somewhat shabby and run down urban area then his ideas can be scaled up to a global level. Marx had a lot of theories andContinue reading “Reading Capital in a Supermarket”
Commodity Fetishism 