The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions, infrastructure problems,…
From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where…
As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to produce ever-greater economic inequality. Oxfam,…
Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to…
Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and departed…
The Washington Postās journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from societyās richest 1 percent pressured university administrators and political leaders…
By āclass systemā we mean the basic workplace organizationsāthe human relationships or āsocial relationsāāthat accomplish the production and distribution of goods and…
When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried…
In 1863, the Russian social critic, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, published a novel entitled āWhat Is to Be Done?ā Its story revolves around a…
Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government…
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