Simon’s Reviews > Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism > Status Update
Simon
is on page 105 of 152
no wonder Gorz has fallen out of favour and kinda become forgotten by today's leftists even though he predicts some of the ideas currently fashionable - he spends wayyy more page space criticizing traditional left wing economics than he does criticizing either conservative or liberal ideologies
— Oct 29, 2018 04:17AM
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Simon
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To be honest I get the impression I'd get more insight out of this if I had more familiarity with the economics/sociology jargon this book is VERY heavy on, there's a lot of terms and theories where I think I have a good idea what he means but I'm not 100% sure unless he explains things in terms of nuts-and-bolts examples.
— Nov 06, 2018 12:44AM
Simon
is on page 54 of 152
very interesting book, its thesis is that the lot of most working people in industrialized countries now only superficially resembles the diagnosis given by traditional left wing economists - what Gorz describes instead seems to very closely match the "precariate" that 21st century left wing commentators frequently talk about, even though Gorz' terminology is more old fashioned (he wrote this in the 1980s)
— Oct 25, 2018 01:32AM
