Ecosocialism: An Alternative To Global Capitalism By Hans Baer, Green Left. November 4, 2020 Ecosocialism: An Alternative To Global Capitalism2020-11-042020-11-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/eco-e1604523189738.jpg200px200px Above photo: Climate justice rally, Sydney, February. Peter Boyle. Over the past four decades or so, various leftists have become more sensitive to the environmental degradation in developed and developing capitalist societies and post-revolutionary societies, particularly in the former Soviet Union and, in recent times, China. […]
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Why We Need To End Capitalism To Defeat Fascism By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. October 26, 2020 Why We Need To End Capitalism To Defeat Fascism2020-10-262020-10-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/fascism-e1603727489593.jpg200px200px With the presidential election coming up, there is a lot of focus on how the election will go and who will win. One thing is certain, no matter which corporate candidate wins, the people and the planet will lose. […]
Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us October 26, 2020 Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us2020-10-262020-10-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/pollution.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty images. We pay from our wallets only for our future to be stolen from us. Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That word is […]
Book Review: ‘Capitalism On A Ventilator’ By Ted Kelly, Workers.org. October 15, 2020 Book Review: ‘Capitalism On A Ventilator’2020-10-152020-10-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/capitalismventilatorcover-e1602790822543.png200px200px Above photo: The impact of COVID-19 in China And the U.S. “Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S” chronicles the terminal decline of capitalism. The book itself is an example of what can be accomplished through cooperation by progressive working-class organizations. […]
The city of Seattle apparently paid street artists to restore a Black Lives Matter mural near the former CHOP autonomous zone, in the process funding such eyebrow-raising messages as “ACAB,” “abolish ICE” and “100% Antifa.” Twitter user Kitty Schackleford posted a livestream video Wednesday of an unidentified artist showing parts of the mural with messages written on the BLM letters, including “abolish capitalism,”“F**k 12” and “pigs […]
Pope Francis sounded downright woke in parts of a newly released encyclical – railing against free market, private property, racism and social injustice – but he couldn’t get through the title without offending some observers. Francis said the Covid-19 pandemic proved that free-market policies have failed to produce the societal benefits promised by their proponents. “The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we […]
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi, on Oct. 3, 2020. Vatican Media via AP hide caption toggle caption Vatican Media via AP Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi, on Oct. 3, 2020. Vatican Media via AP Pope Francis has presented his blueprint for a post-COVID-19 world, covering a […]
The failed revolution The internet in 2030? To answer, two assumptions: First, we are still alive. Second, things on Earth are improving for more than just a few as we shake off our 20th century monetary systems and our 18th century systems of governance. There has been a radical transformation in these infrastructures of sociality for two main reasons: First, survival. The old political, monetary and […]
Modern US Racial Capitalism By Charisse Burden-Stelly, Monthly Review. September 22, 2020 Modern US Racial Capitalism2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bacc-e1600784755926.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Facebook – Save Bethesda African Cemetery. Some theoretical insights. In recent years, “racial capitalism” has ascended across the humanities and social sciences. It has arisen as a conceptual framework to understand the mutually constitutive nature of racialization and capitalist exploitation, inter alia, on a global scale, in specific localities, […]
Recapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI. Source link
Scheer Intelligence: Trump Is The Sweaty Armpit Of Monopoly Capitalism By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. September 11, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: Trump Is The Sweaty Armpit Of Monopoly Capitalism2020-09-112020-09-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/page-header-1-e1599869565421.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. The journalist examines how the greatest danger to American society doesn’t come from the White House, but from a few obscenely powerful corporations. Over the past several decades, the largest corporations have absorbed and […]
Price Point Bitcoin was slightly lower early Friday, leaving the cryptocurrency on track for its first weekly price decline since mid-July. The largest cryptocurrency broke above $12,000 earlier in the week and failed to hold the gains, though John Willock, CEO of crypto asset manager Tritum, told CoinDesk Thursday that “maybe we’ve got $13,500 in the next phase up in the coming days.” You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets […]
The Commie Democrat convention kicked off Monday evening and it was a total dumpster fire. Socialist Bernie Sanders lashed out at President Trump and bragged about how far left the Democrat party has moved. “Our movement continues and is getting stronger every day. Many of the ideas we fought for just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream,” Bernie Sanders said. The Democrat […]
Capitalism May Not Survive The 2020 Global Crisis July 24, 2020 Capitalism May Not Survive The 2020 Global Crisis2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/wolff.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images/pidjoe. The crisis will cut deeper and last longer than many predict. The current global crisis triggered by Covid-19 is the third capitalist crash in this century. And governments’ incapacity to consider non-capitalist solutions threatens to keep deepening this crisis into capitalism’s worst. The first […]
US Capitalism Is In Total Meltdown By Sarah Jaffe , The Progressive. July 24, 2020 US Capitalism Is In Total Meltdown2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/hurricane-katrina-e1595616539642.jpg200px200px Above photo: >A plea for help appears on the roof of a home flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 4, 2005. Getty Images/ Robert Galbraith. The COVID-19 pandemic is like Hurricane Katrina, but for the entire country. And things are only […]
COVID-19 Exposes The Weakness Of Capitalism By Richard D. Wolff, Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. July 11, 2020 COVID-19 Exposes The Weakness Of Capitalism2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/health-care-wealth-care-e1594485979198.jpg200px200px Above photo: John Flores. COVID-19 exposes the sham of orthodox economics. A cornerstone of orthodox economics is the idea that capitalists’ decisions about investing and producing are inherently “efficient.” This means that capitalists select among all alternative courses […]
Pandemic Capitalism: Pervasive Inequality Is A Chosen Catastrophe By Chris Oestereich, Open Democracy. July 8, 2020 Pandemic Capitalism: Pervasive Inequality Is A Chosen Catastrophe2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/capitalism-isnt-working-unity-by-andy-roberts-from-flickr-cc-by-2.0.-e1594226873394.jpg200px200px Above photo: Capitalism Isn’t Working, Unity, By Andy Roberts, from Flickr, CC BY 2.0. It’s Time To Rethink. I was a canary in the economic coal mine. It was a normal workday. I woke up and started my daily routine. Brush, shave, shower, dress… […]
Capitalism – The Cause Of COVID-19 Deaths By Sara Flounders, Workers.org. June 29, 2020 Capitalism – The Cause Of COVID-19 Deaths2020-06-292020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/chinapa-e1593397958142.jpg200px200px Above photo: China set up a system for checking the people entering residential buildings for COVID-19 symptoms. Here a security guard checks temperatures on Feb. 26 in Beijing. Does the COVID-19 virus operate differently in capitalist countries than in socialist countries? Based on a comparison of […]
Police Violence And Racism Have Always Been Tools Of Capitalism By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. June 21, 2020 Police Violence And Racism Have Always Been Tools Of Capitalism2020-06-212020-06-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police1percent-e1592781124667.jpg200px200px The system-wide challenges the United States faces with policing are entrenched and deeply rooted. When the historical and current practices of police are examined, it is evident police have been designed to uphold the status […]
When Shoshana Zuboff returns my call 15 minutes late, it’s because her previous call with an organization in Israel dropped halfway through and it took them a while to reconnect. Such is the peril of functioning in quarantine, even as tech companies exert more power than ever. Rather than having time over the summer to reflect and plan her next book as she intended, Zuboff has […]
As Elon Musk sues Californian authorities for stopping a Tesla factory from reopening, he has found a somewhat novel way of dealing with his critics – dismissing them with short Russian insults. The target of Musk’s Cyrillic ire is Robert Reich, an economist and labor secretary under the Clinton administration. A well-known proponent of fairer distribution of wealth, Reich shared a story about the Tesla CEO’s […]