Moving Beyond Marx: A More Complicated Choreography of Truck Driving
When I write about truck driving in the academic world, admittedly, the end results are a little disheartening. I love reading Marx, Foucualt, and Bourdieu, but applying them critically to a profession one loves is... Well, you can imagine. While worthwhile in a context of confronting problems of economy and class, this overlay of Marxist theory can easily take the pleasure out of doing something one simply enjoys. Take, for example, this quote from the Manifesto: “Masses of