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Looking forward to watching this

I'm excited to watch this and the Anwar Shaikh lectures all the way through. David's got a great ability to isolate and explain relevant conceptual points that help us understand the economy (in a very "political" way.) Definitely helpful to me, at least, in my effort to play catch-up on marxist economics over the past several months.

We really need to think more about the implications of the internet on communication, education, and organizing on the Left. I've always been envious of New Yorkers who constantly have things like the Left Forum, etc etc etc dropped in their lap. (I realize people have gripes with it being mainly academic and so on - but still, there's nothing like that within hundreds of miles of anywhere I've lived.)

So, now, talks can be posted on the increasingly affordable internet, making them available to millions of people (except those trying to check out Solidarity's website from public libraries, which block it...!) But at the same time, we lose the actual organizing function of conferences like this. You don't meet anybody, plan things in the hallway, or any of that; just watch it from your bedroom in between Lil Wayne music videos.

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