Marrying the Social and Economic Revolutions
One of the biggest divides I’ve seen on the Left is not knowing whether to focus on social issues or economic issues, or believing one is vastly more important and the other is irrelevant.
One of the biggest divides I’ve seen on the Left is not knowing whether to focus on social issues or economic issues, or believing one is vastly more important and the other is irrelevant.
Calling out the omission of facts from a recent Counterpunch article concerning the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Progressives seem to genuinely wonder why mainstream Americans would object to these proposals. Why would American voters be put off by proposals they’d obviously gain so much real””and in many cases personal””benefit from?
While the Market Economy system causes truly wondrous and useful things to be made available to American consumers, there are certain things it fails to provide.
So long as progressive leaders are allowed to back-pedal on this topic. little progress can ever be made to address the Big Three challenges that are growing more formidable every day.
Most professionals refuse to risk the comfortable and lucrative positions they’ve staked out in the false debate of the mainstream narrative.
Here, I see not only the irony, but the dishonesty, gaslighting behavior, and outright immorality in the Republican blueprint for paying off their donors while planning to scream “fiscal irresponsibility” at progressive policies which would provide for deficit spending for public purpose rather than for the benefit of donors.
We don’t need a resistance, we need a REVOLUTION of mind, body and spirit — the kind of revolution that changes how we see the world!
Not “believing in” the insights coming from the MMT lens is denying the institutional reality of how money is created and operationalized.