CUNY Academic Commons | JASON L MYERS | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jmyers/activity/ Activity feed for JASON L MYERS. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6fff19215d01e545d3b43e10dd3fd9f8 JASON L MYERS commented on the post, Lesley Gill and Sharryn Kasmir, on the site Anticapitalist Thought & Action https://anticapitalist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/12/09/lesley-gill-and-sharryn-kasmir/#comment-119 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:08:44 -0500 First, I’d like to say “nice work” to our bloggers for this week. What a detailed account of the talk! That said, I’d like to take a stab at responding to the second prompt.

To do so, I think I may first h […]

]]> d676e01b25e9ca537ae2fcd4e46e0e6b JASON L MYERS commented on the post, 11/28 Bianca Williams, on the site Anticapitalist Thought & Action https://anticapitalist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/12/03/11-28-bianca-williams/#comment-110 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:27:17 -0500 Hi all,

Great questions! I would like to respond to prompt one, because I think it’s important. I also think that Lenin provides us an answer to this question in State and Revolution (S & R)–at least within […]

]]> 5987d76bd3c852fa3ff6ff1e59d59ea3 JASON L MYERS commented on the post, 10/31 Don Robotham, on the site Anticapitalist Thought & Action https://anticapitalist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/06/10-31-don-robotham/#comment-92 Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:46:03 -0500 I would like to respond briefly to question 1: Is historical materialism a trans-historical social science or are its categories specific to capitalist societies? The question reminded me of a statement Terry […]

]]> 12dff74a9294998954faa803784763c3 JASON L MYERS commented on the post, 10/16 Cindi Katz #2, on the site Anticapitalist Thought & Action https://anticapitalist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/20/10-16-cindi-katz-2/#comment-70 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:46:20 -0400 Great summary of the conversation Katz led as well as questions for further thought. As someone studying composition and rhetoric at CUNY, I actually think a lot about how university functions to reproduce the […]

]]> 9491bfdfe0978841283a51c0f3113458 JASON L MYERS commented on the post, Week 3 Lecture Notes & Questions, on the site Anticapitalist Thought & Action https://anticapitalist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/01/week-3-lecture-notes-questions/#comment-39 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:32:27 -0400 I just want to respond quickly to Austin’s liberal pluralist suggestion that we may need to think of social “totality” as “totalities” in order to avoid reifiying the term, if I’m reading his post correctly. I […]

]]> 4ae6b3732f6b987a50ed823293c32724 JASON L MYERS commented on the post, Lecture #2: Value Theory and the Falling Rate of Profit, on the site Anticapitalist Thought & Action https://anticapitalist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/09/15/lecture-2-value-theory-and-the-falling-rate-of-profit/#comment-24 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:33:00 -0400 I agree with Anthony to a point. I think understanding how workers experience alienation at the point of production is very important for the development of political consciousness and for solidarity building. Of […]

]]> a9d3bfc1fe38a5fc6ca6d989da698b22 JASON L MYERS became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/486674/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:35:47 -0500