Jagged honed down

I found a new site that is purported to help stimulate distracted writers. This site, Write or Die, provides negative stimuli (text boxes, screech-y violin music, or deleting what you wrote permanently word by word) whenever you stop working. This leads to some hasty writing, with no breaks for as long as was designated. However, at least for me, this process is infuriating. I like to sit and plan what I am going to write. If the sentence doesn't work, I rewrite it, giving it time to come to fruition. This is a luxury that isn't available on the website. My misspellings, illogical phrases, and unorganized thoughts are scattered about the document. This means that I have to completely ignore this rough sketch and redo whatever I was trying to say. Which defeats the whole purpose of the site.

However, I have discovered that the site can have some alternative uses - as a sounding board for ideas. As I have a paper due tomorrow that has a fairly vague topic, I was hunting around for a thesis that both fits the statement that I was supposed to respond to and that was also vaguely interesting and easy. This was quite hard. However, after surfing Facebook for most of the afternoon, I wrote out this on the site. As you see, this is fairly crappy writing - it's chaotic, misspelled, boring and lacks a common focus. It just is interesting to see that I eventually did come around to picking a topic. Write or Die may have some potential for me after all.

So clearly some issues are at hand. The prompt is looking at the existance of shock therapy and marketization form the perspective of primitive accumulation. Now. Marx was a smart guy, but could I do a cross analysis with Smith? Hmmm. Or do some cross-evaluation with China and Ussr and Poland. So. Perhaps the real issue at hand is the true nature of shock therapy by Sacchs. But what opinion does Schinke want us to have? This is the important bit.

So. What I could do - cross - analysis of Smith and Marx and then apply to russia

OR Marx :the theory and then Russia vs Poland OR China.

It all depends on how rebellious I'm feeling. And how much research I want to do.

Cohen has some stuff on the evils of shock therepy and has a quote about hoe the manipulating basterds didn't apply the theory correctly. But that may not really be in the prompt.

What do I believe thhe answer is? Perhaps the prob lem is that I don't know enough about the subject and I don't trust most of the information that schinke sends our way. He's much too biased to give us the fulol picture.

What do I know? Shock therapy, as it was applied in Russia was very bad and hurt many people's lifestyles - but not all. Total quality of life? - not sure.

Yeltsin altered the nature of the system and today there are ogliarchies in Russia - big difference in top 1% and rest of country. But I think the real question is if Primitive accumulation is what happened during this time. Beccause that is worth writing about. So Smith said it was gradual and based on worthiness but Marx said it was manipualtion. Basic difference.

What happened in Russia. Does the theory of primitive accumulation of capital apply? Why?

Sw33t. I have something to work off of. Now. Does it? Probably we need to look though some sort of lens. Marxist primitive accumulation would work best, since that is what was advocated in that class. But an explanation of the original idea from Smith would be in order.

Then what? Explain what happened in Russia under abit or Gorbachev and then Yeltsin. But need schok therapy before that;. Because it might make more sense. Explain why there are/aren't true to the theory and then apply Marx's primive accumulation.

Outline accomplished!

Sourcces?

Cohen has some quotes about the evilness of the USSR and Yeltsin's system. And sopme about the deviation of Yeltsin from schock therapy. As he's legit by schinke - use heqavily.

Main hanout. Idiotic to not use.

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Any other handouts? Probably - there are many pages in the collection. Has to be something....

USe scholar google search because something mayturn up. Who knows? Word.