Bertell ollman biography of william
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Taking Exams, Taking on Capitalism
Margaret Mikesell Tabb teaches English at John Jay College, City University of New York. Kathryn Cressida Tabb is a freshman at the University of Chicago. William K. Tabb teaches economics at Queens College, City University of New York and is the author of The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century ().
Bertell Ollman, How to Take an Exam…& Remake the World (Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, ), pages, $ paper.
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Part I: Introduction by English Professor Mom
Bertell Ollman’s How to Take an Exam…& Remake the World has a double agenda, which Ollman candidly acknowledges: to offer advice about studying (which the student wants) and to make a powerful plea for socialism (which Ollman wants). As a study guide, the book offers suggestions for exam preparation that are mostly serious (persistently remi
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In Search of Critical Games
This is the first chapter of Bertell Ollman&#;s new book, Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman (New York: William Morrow, ), reprinted here by permission. The author is professor of politics at New York University.
In the piece was reprinted as part of Ballbuster?: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman (New York: Soft Skull, )
Sol Yurick writes radical novels, good ones, and loves to speculate on how culture gets inside people&#;s bones. In the early s, Sol and I spend a lot of time musing over Monopoly, a game many leftists love to hate, others hate to love, and practically everybody plays. According to Shelly Berman, the comedian, &#;Monopoly evokes a unique emotion, the surge of thrill you get when you know you&#;ve wiped out a friend.&#; But what else is going on as we accumulate property and scheme how to beggar our neighbors? Are we simply expressing some atavistic urge for power, or tuning in, consciously or unconsciously, to the attitudes that are most highly prized in our business-oriented society?
As in most games, people play Monopoly as individuals and take individual credit or blame for the result. Where skill counts, it is personal decisions that determine who wins. Where chanc
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