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How Karl Marx Ruined My Dinner Party

June 2, 2016 by Carie Little Hersh 4 Comments

How Karl Marx Ruined My Dinner Party

At dinner one night, I made two fatal social errors in rapid succession. First, during casual conversation with two good friends, I began talking about American culture. Not just culture, but how culture is linked to power and the broader social structure. If your eyes are glazing over at this point, you are beginning to understand how my dinner guests felt. Now imagine you are only half-way through dinner and I am seated between you and the door. My second social gaffe was that I invoked the name of the infamous social critic, Karl Marx. And I had the audacity to state my opinion that part of what he observed about culture is correct. The conversation went a little like this: Me: You know, I was thinking lately about Marx’s observation that modern society is divided between the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: American Culture, Culture, Law and Politics, Social Class, Uncategorized Tagged With: advertisements, advertising, American culture, bootstraps, Bourgeois, Bourgeoisie, capitalism, class structure, Communism, Communist Manifesto, consumer culture, Cultural Anthropology, elections, labor, Marx, Marxism, poor, possessions, Proletariat, social class, sociology, superdelegates, voting, wealth gap, wealthy

Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the Election Hunger Games

May 4, 2016 by Carie Little Hersh Leave a Comment

Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the Election Hunger Games

With Donald Trump defending the size of his hands, Ted Cruz dropping out of the race the week after recruiting former opponent Fiorina as a running mate, Hillary Clinton marketing a fundraising “woman card” to take advantage of Trump’s misogynistic gaffe, and Sanders supporters arguing that voter fraud is to blame for his losses in New York and Arizona, the 2016 presidential campaign has been nothing if not entertaining. But just ask Katniss Everdeen—whether you find the games entertaining or deadly depends very much on where you are in the system. Welcome to the 58th quadrennial American Presidential Hunger Games. The term “Bread and Circuses, or “Panem et Circenses”, was used by Roman author Juvenal to describe the political strategy that kept the diverse and contentious Roman … [Read more...]

Filed Under: American Culture, Law and Politics, Social Systems Tagged With: American politics, Anthropology, Bernie Sanders, Bread and Circuses, Catching Fire, Discipline and Punish, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Michel Foucault, Mockingjay, outsiders, Panem et Circenses, party politics, populism, presidential election, rebellion, revolution, Suzanne Collins, Ted Cruz, The Hunger Games, voters, voting, Woman Card

Dr. Carie Little Hersh

Dr. Carie Little Hersh is an American cultural anthropologist, former attorney, and teaching professor in Anthropology at Northeastern University. This is her personal blog about anthropology and its relevance to everyday life.

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