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Thus the problem with capitalism is not economic growth, but lack of planning, and so our target should be the mode of production (capitalism), not growth itself. Our goal is a democratically planned economy, or at the very least a much more democratic supervision of private decisions on investment and production, not degrowth or a steady-state
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Rakesh Bhandari • Tweet
It is not a coincidence that the Book of Genesis makes Cain, the first murderer, “a tiller of the ground.” Indeed, it is part of the uncanny prophetic power of the Bible that its story was entrusted to shepherds who readily understood how farming gave leverage to violence. In a few verses the biblical account encapsulates logic that took thousands
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David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World
Or, in the absence of effective counterpower, will we witness more reactionary changes that legitimate the daily violence of capital, or at least remove the most offensive aspects from plain sight?
Cedric Johnson • After Black Lives Matter
Once in office, and freed from Southern obstructionism after the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln and his Republican majority unleashed a blitz of prodevelopment legislation almost without parallel in American history—a “second American Revolution,” in the words of historians Charles and Mary Beard. The Republican achievement has been obscured by the
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