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Steven Ray

stevenray@sfba.club

Joined 1 year, 4 months ago

I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race, class struggle, wine, baseball, music…

So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year.

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Kim Moody: On New Terrain (Paperback, 2017, Haymarket Books) 4 stars

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An excellent primer on the changes that American Capitalism and organized labor have gone through over the past few decades. Fairly heavy on economic and labor statistics, the book nonetheless is written in an approachable style and offers strategies for labor’s reacendence as a force to counter Capitalism in the 21st century.

Stuart Hall, David Morley: Essential Essays, Volume 1 (2019, Duke University Press) 5 stars

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to …

To me, this book is so crucial to understanding the media, politics and culture. You have to climb the mountain of Stuart’s vocabulary if, like me, your own is of a more pedestrian variety. But his perspective on how things ‘are’ and how we got here, even when some of these essays are several decades old, is so insightful. I’m very glad that I read this. Thanks for the education.