At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

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  PIG IRON: Capital is Forcing Labour To Go On Strike

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore AI and the Demand Deficit Contradiction

  May 27, 2026
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  Harvey and the Continentals

  David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and the Cultural Spine of Political Economy

  May 24, 2026
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  What’s the Big Idea

  A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.

  May 20, 2026
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  PIG IRON 3: Alienation, or Why He Feels Like a Tourist at Home

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 3: In which we explore the defining contradiction: Alienation

  May 10, 2026
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  PIG IRON 1: How Money Works

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.

  April 21, 2026