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Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or at least seek to understand why. Business blames consumers. […]
The West Continues to Rot at the Core as it Obsesses Over the Short-term
The West Continues to Rot at the Core as it Obsesses Over the Short-term The stock market, by and large, is a farce. This is not to say that it does not have a purpose, because undoubtedly it does. This cannot and will not be denied, except by those who identify themselves as having anarchist […]
Is Capitalism Killing Us?
Is Capitalism Killing Us? Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss. External costs are huge and growing larger. Historically, manufacturing and industrial […]
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature” The skyline of Manhattan at sunset in New York, May 23, 2018. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images THIS SUNDAY, THE entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a […]
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to author Yasha Levine and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus. In our next installments, we will continue […]
Population: what’s the problem?
Population: what’s the problem? Apologies for the clickbait-y title. My question isn’t a rhetorical one intended to suggest that human population levels aren’t a problem. I don’t doubt they are. But it seems to me much less clear than a lot of people seem to think exactly what kind of problem they are, and what […]
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through military force, economic dominance and diplomatic hegemony. Imperialism is driven by what Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. identified at the end […]
George Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage; A friendly critique
George Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage; A friendly critique Few have made a more commendable contribution to saving the planet than George Monbiot. His recent book, Out of the Wreckage, continues the effort and puts forward many important ideas…but I believe there are problems with his diagnosis and his remedy. The book is an excellent […]
What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism?
What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism? The status quo, in all its various forms, is dominated by incentives that strengthen the centralization of wealth and power. As longtime readers know, my work aims to 1) explain why the status quo — the socio-economic-political system we inhabit — is unsustainable, divisive, and doomed to collapse under […]
Direct Democracy – Is it Possible?
Direct Democracy – Is it Possible? The advancement in technology today certainly allows us to scrap the Republican form of government with pretend representation of the people by career politicians. There is no reason we cannot vote from home on every bill and that no bill may be merged with any other subject matter. There […]
Socialism Always Moves to Tyranny
Socialism Always Moves to Tyranny The economic message taught in most universities is very distorted. It universally teaches children to judge economic systems from the perspective of their victims. They will endlessly point out the impoverished people and the devastation of the climate as proof that capitalism is evil and that we need government […]
Flying Blind, Part 2: The Destruction Of Honest Price Discovery And Its Consequences
Flying Blind, Part 2: The Destruction Of Honest Price Discovery And Its Consequences In Part 1 we noted that the real evil of Bubble Finance is not merely that it leads to bubble crashes, of which there is surely a doozy just around the bend; or that speculators get the painful deserts they fully deserve, which is coming big time, too; or even […]
It’s Time to Retire “Capitalism”
It’s Time to Retire “Capitalism” Our current socio-economic system is nothing but the application of force on the many to enforce the skims, scams and privileges of the self-serving few. I’ve placed the word capitalism in quotation marks to reflect the reality that this word now covers a wide spectrum of economic activities, very little […]
The American system is not capitalism
The American system is not capitalism One of the great myths of our time is that America is a capitalistic country. It is not, and has not been close to capitalistic for more than 150 years. Capitalism is a social system in which an individual’s rights, including his rights to own property, are recognized and […]
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics If people can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, why would those same people be trusted to make decisions for the rest of us? “Ordinary people can’t be trusted to make the right decisions about what’s best for themselves and others. That’s why we […]
