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1/12/12 Teach-In – Capitalism, Crisis, and Occupy Economics 101


Occupy and Educate Denver Teach-In:
Capitalism, Crisis, and Occupy Economics 101
Chad Kautzer

We’ve been suffering from not only the worst recession in the U.S.
since the Great Depression, but also from a global crisis in
capitalism. People took to the streets in the Occupy movement as a
response to the crisis and to the state’s legitimation crisis that
followed. Effective strategies of resistance, however, demand informed
analysis and the right conceptual tools—not just to understand the
present crisis, but to understand capitalism and class relations in
general.

In this teach-in we will therefore begin with a brief overview of the
more immediate causes of our current economic crisis, before taking up
the fundamental concepts and relations necessary for a developing a
critique. We will develop a basic understanding of capitalism,
neoliberalism, class, and class’s relation to gender and race.

This is a lot to introduce in one teach-in, but it’s only the
beginning. Subsequent teach-ins will take up several of these topics
in greater detail.

The format of the teach-in will be approx. 30 minutes of lecture
followed by a facilitated discussion for the remaining time. Handouts
will be provided.

Chad Kautzer is a member of Occupy Denver’s education committee and
foreclosure working group, and an associate editor for Radical
Philosophy Review. He is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy and
Director of the Social Justice Minor at the University of Colorado
Denver, where he teaches courses on Frankfurt School critical theory,
Marxism, Hegel, critical race theory, and feminism