Posts tagged ‘Gayatri Spivak’

Gayatri Spivak: The Long and Short of Capitalism’s Demise

by , posted on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 2:19 pm

from The Nation

The short-term work of strikes and sensational displays of worker power will not be enough to dislodge capitalism’s grip on our lives, says Professor Gayatri Spivak of Columbia University. These short-term tactics must be paired with the longer-term efforts of education and organization. This educational work, Spivak insists in this video, is “not really the pedagogy of the oppressed, it is indeed the pedagogy of the liberated, because if you do not have training in the practice of freedom, when you win… it will not last.”

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Gayatri Spivak: The General Strike Is Not Reformist

by , posted on Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 1:29 pm

from The Nation

The idea of the general strike is not reformist simply because it demands changes to laws and working conditions. Rather, as Professor Gayatri Spivak of Columbia University argues in this video, the general strike is one vital tool in the array of tactics that must be used to fundamentally alter the relations between the classes. What’s more, revolution will not come about through a “catastrophic change” as was once imagined, and that concept should be given a decent burial.

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