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History Doesn’t Go In a Straight Line
History Doesn’t Go In a Straight Line Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change. Noam Chomsky in 2011. Andrew Rusk / Flickr Throughout his illustrious career, one of Noam Chomsky’s chief preoccupations has been questioning — and urging us to question — the assumptions and […]
What It Means to Be a Socialist
What It Means to Be a Socialist Chris Hedges gave this speech Sunday at a Santa Ana, Calif., event sponsored by the Green Party of Orange County. We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The […]
The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly […]
Global Capitalism and the Culture of Mad Violence
Global Capitalism and the Culture of Mad Violence Mohsen Abdelmoumen: The concept of “disposability” frequently returns in your writing, whether speaking of youth, politics, the future, etc. Why do you insist on this theme? Henry Giroux: Global capitalism has taken on a range of characteristics that demand a new language for understanding such shifts along with the […]
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina (Photo: Eric Gay/AP) For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies. […]
Alternatives to Capitalism
Alternatives to Capitalism It is said that capitalism believes in competition but hates competitors. With this thoughtful book, Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright aim to strengthen the resources of anti-capitalist politics against the charge that ‘there is no alternative’. While there is a debate on the left over the value of engaging in utopian […]
Does Capitalism Cause Poverty?
Does Capitalism Cause Poverty? Capitalism gets blamed for many things nowadays: poverty, inequality, unemployment, even global warming. As Pope Francis said in a recent speech in Bolivia: “This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself – our sister, Mother […]
Why is it So Hard for the West to See Everything is Connected?
Why is it So Hard for the West to See Everything is Connected? QUESTION: Marty, you have written many times how everything is connected and how in Asian culture that is the foundation of all understanding. Why is it so hard in the West to comprehend this fundamental concept? All the best GD ANSWER: I think it […]
The Social Cost of Capitalism
The Social Cost of Capitalism Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties. For example, currently 3 million gallons of toxic waste water from a Colorado mine has escaped and is working its way down two […]
Gold and the Grave Dancers
Gold and the Grave Dancers The Asset They Love to Hate … Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a well-known essay that to this day is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the present-day monetary and economic system (which is a kind of “fascism lite” type of statism, masquerading as capitalism) […]
Cronies, Polluters and Funny Money
Cronies, Polluters and Funny Money What’s Really Killing Capitalism VANCOUVER, Canada – Hillary is taking the bull by the horns… and putting the knife between her teeth. She is a “take-charge” candidate and aims to let us know. Yes, earlier his week, she promised to improve capitalism. Now, it’s the climate of planet Earth that […]
The Dismal and Hopeful Future
The Dismal and Hopeful Future One doesn’t have to be a brilliant social analyst to see that the contemporary world order is doomed, destined to start visibly crumbling within the next decade or two at the latest. The neoliberal system, in fact the corporate capitalist system, is radically unsustainable. It is too unstable, too universally […]
Ecological Crisis and the Tragedy of the Commodity
Ecological Crisis and the Tragedy of the Commodity We live in an era of ecological crisis, which is a direct result of human actions. Natural scientists have been debating whether the current historical epoch should be called the Anthropocene, in order to mark the period in which human activities became the primary driver of global […]
Is another way possible?
Is another way possible? A roundup of news, views and ideas from the mainstream press and the blogosphere. Click on the headline link to see the full article. Urban Gardening in Greece – a New Form of Protest Orestes Kolokouris, Green European Journal Guerrilla gardening and local consumer-producer networks are redefining life in today’s Greek cities. […]
