Posts by Maniza Ahmed
S1E1: The Gentleman from MIT

EPISODE 1: THE GENTLEMAN FROM MIT

Jason Jackson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning at MIT

Phil Thompson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning at MIT

Visit the Service Employees International Union

More information about CIO organizing

Keynesian Economics

Karl Marx, Capital

Lessons of Brexit and rise of far-right in Europe

Rise of right in India; Norenda Modi

Selected Readings:

Hayek, Friedrich “The Use of Knowledge in Society”

Thompson, Philip Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Maniza Ahmed
S1E4: Displacement, Capital, and the International Bourgeoisie

EPISODE 4: DISPLACEMENT, CAPITALISM, AND THE INTERNATIONAL BOURGEOISE

Tianna Paschel, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UC Berkeley

Read her book: Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil

Essay on Items: “Walter Rodney and the Racial Underpinnings of Global Inequality”

Suggested Reading: “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness,” chapter by Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth


Maniza Ahmed