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Une version maximaliste du projet de court-circuitage des processus démocratiques a été proposée par le gigantesque gestionnaire d’actifs financiers BlackRock en 2019 : l’étude envisage des banquiers centraux toujours indépendants, mais dotés d’une ressource fiscale et d’une capacité budgétaire qui leur soient propres, affranchissant définitivement
... See moreBenjamin Lemoine • La démocratie disciplinée par la dette (French Edition)
one of the powerful aspects of American society is that those who are economically desperate and socially displaced get to vote, and those who will be falling into the abyss are not a small marginal class but a large, multiracial, multiethnic class containing equal numbers of women and men. Their actions are inevitable and the results obvious. The
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Unreasonable distributions of wealth have always turned their fire on reason.
Matthew Stewart • An Emancipation of the Mind
nineteenth-century abolitionist Lysander Spooner, whose 1869 essay “The Constitution of No Authority”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Determined to unshackle market forces from the heavy hand of the state and the millstone of “tax and spend,” the classes that led this bloc aimed to liberalize and globalize the capitalist economy. What that meant, in reality, was financialization: dismantling barriers to, and protections from, the free movement of capital; deregulating banking and
... See moreNancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
