A (belated) Look at Finding the Money
The documentary is a good first step, like a union organizer’s introductory pamphlet. But it’s only telling half the story.
The documentary is a good first step, like a union organizer’s introductory pamphlet. But it’s only telling half the story.
Don’t cross the picket line when there’s a labor dispute. And if you have the opportunity, give a striking worker a sandwich.
Time and again, liberals claim to oppose fascism while enabling its rise. From Weimar Germany to Biden’s America, their ‘moderation’ serves capital, not people. This isn’t incompetence, it’s class war.
Inflation is not some natural economic phenomenon, nor is it merely the result of too much money chasing too few goods. That’s the myth popularized by Milton Friedman and his monetarist acolytes.
The claim that money developed as a medium of exchange to overcome the limits of bartering has become an article of faith in neoclassical economics, but it’s dead wrong.
MMT insights become revolutionary only when wielded by movements strong enough to break capital’s structural power.
The next time you see a frog, remember that no matter how small you are, there’s always hope for you to persevere against the largest and most powerful enemies.
The ruling class wants us fighting each other over our frustration with life under capitalism. The best thing we can do is learn together and understand how the mechanisms of bureaucracies work.
In comic books, wealth is a superpower. Superheroes and villains can perform super-powered acts of labor, or they have access to other people’s labor.
Every subject always comes back to the struggle between labor and capital, even bananas.