Some nice thoughts, but most missing the forest, and the trees. This segment was close to getting it: He hit the nail recognizing monopolies as the outcome of capitalism. Tucker and others did the same long ago. He also saw markets as good, but there was no mention of markets …
A Freakonomics Radio episode called “Why Are We Still Using Cash?” (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player here. Consider the Money Monopoly while listening.
source: read entire article PJ Rey on November 8, 2011 [Other than conflating anarchist and libertarian, or not seeing them as the same, I thought this piece was worth posting here. He is not aware that markets can be anti capitalist. See this as well: Corporations versus the Market; or, …
by Jeffrey St. Clair + I’ve spent the week greedily consuming the treats offered up by Wikileaks’s excavation of John Podesta’s inbox. Each day presents juicy new revelations of the venality of the Clinton campaign. In total, the Podesta files provide the most intimate and unadulterated look at how politics really …
democracy…exists fully at the moment of elections…This moment once past, democracy retreats; it withdraws into itself again, and begins its anti-democratic work. It become Authority. Proudhon The swindle When you have political democracy without economic justice, you have form without content. Karl Marx, who with Engels studied the emerging …
A Guide, A Syllabus, A Conversation, A Process source So, you understand that the police force in the U.S. upholds a system of racialized violence and white supremacy. You know that, when police get involved, black people, Latinx people, Native Americans, people of color, queer & trans people, sex workers, …
International Ignore the Constitution Day Also see No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/09/13/u-s-poverty-and-income-inequality-in-9-charts/
Some of this reminds me of the Situationists, who pointed to the near death of work via technology.