If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldnāt vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many
Obama’s economic significance lies in his being the latest and most outsider of postwar presidents serving the conservative agenda and likely the last
A besieged labor movement needs again to become part of a much broader social movement
Professor Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to talk about Janet Yellen
2013 drove home a basic lesson: US capitalism’s economic leaders and their politicians now regularly ignore majority opinions and preferences. For example,…
Capitalism as a system seems incapable of solving its unemployment problem. It keeps generating long-term joblessness, punctuated by spikes of recurring short-term…
Center-right governments in Britain and Germany do it. So do the center-left governments in France and Italy. Obama and the Republicans do…
After 200 years of concentrating its centers in Western Europe, North America, and Japan, capitalism is moving most of its centers elsewhere…
The economic aim of both major US political parties is, in the end, the same: to protect and reinforce the capitalist system.…
Many Germans in the years before 1933 dismissed the little man with the mustache: He could never take power, let alone keep…
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