Antifada's History is a Weapon 10.2: 'Farm Aid 1985' w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW

HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America? The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis? Part 2 of 2. Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada for this premium content and more. Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave Suggested Readings: Ellan Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View Jainus Banaji - Theory as History Gred Grandin - The End of the Myth Ed. - The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure G.M. Tamas - Telling the Truth About Class