POL 507 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-4: Paul Krugman, Luddite, Class Conflict

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 507
• Professor: Matthew Flisfeder

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Paul krugman takes up the banner of the. He takes up the banner of the luddites, the workers who revolted against the mechanization process that was putting them out of jobs and leaving their families to starve: And, if we are, what are we going to do about it? . Gavin responds to paul"s as - we, of course, means the middle class, which is according to him the new york. Times" editorial policy for framing problems which people have faced for decades as new. - now highly educated workers are as likely as less educated workers to find themselves displaced and devalued. Even bourgeois commentators have to admit that the belief that technology doesn"t destroy jobs, but merely creates new and better ones, is a baseless assumption. He agrees with paul that this is an eminently political problem, not a neoliberal technocratic one. Paul just realized that there is class struggle that is going on.