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How the Elites Weaponize the Economic Illiteracy of the Working Class

How the Elites Weaponize the Economic Illiteracy of the Working Class

August 4, 2025August 3, 2025 by Steven D. Grumbine

Either we tear down the monetary veil and seize our collective future, or we perish under the weight of capitalist lies.

Categories Op Ed Tags Capitalism, Class War, Climate, Working Class
Basic Economics

“Basic Economics”

July 25, 2025 by David Fields

By challenging the assumptions behind market rationality and price mechanisms, we can rethink what “basic economics” really means and who it serves.

Categories Academic, Op Ed Tags Capitalism
What Are You Afraid Of

What Are You Afraid Of?

July 31, 2025July 25, 2025 by Zeta Violet Koloskzi

What do spiders and capitalism have in common? Fear, perception, and media shape our understanding of the world, from arachnophobia to class warfare.

Categories Op Ed Tags Capitalism, Revolution, Socialism
The Barter Lie: How Capitalism Rewrote Economic History

The Barter Lie: How Capitalism Rewrote Economic History 

June 20, 2025June 19, 2025 by Erald Kolasi

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.

Categories Op Ed Tags Barter, Capitalism
Today Is Tomorrow's Yesterday

Today Is Tomorrow’s Yesterday

November 25, 2024June 3, 2024 by Zeta Violet Koloskzi

The world is changing right before our eyes. Not only can we guide that transformation, but our very presence in that change means we control its direction.

Categories Equality with Justice, Health & Wellbeing Tags Capitalism, Marx
Is Capitalism Eternal?

Is Capitalism Eternal?

November 22, 2024February 12, 2024 by Zeta Violet Koloskzi

Change isn’t limited to activists; it happens when people read and show up when needed. Anyone can make a difference in their community, and that small change might be the catalyst for something bigger.

Categories Economic Justice, Equality with Justice Tags Capitalism, Class War
Obamacare and the Science of Prolonged Decay

Obamacare and the Science of Prolonged Decay

June 20, 2025November 10, 2023 by Karen Caligiuri

The failure of a health care “reform” fostered within the blight of the capitalist model reveals how incrementalism cannot solve the most formidable ecological and social crises of our day.

Categories Economic Justice, Health & Wellbeing Tags Capitalism, Federal Job Guarantee, Healthcare, Medicare For All, Unions
The Scam of Pragmatism: An Origin Story of ‘Just the Way It Is’

The Scam of Pragmatism: An Origin Story of ‘Just the Way It Is’

October 16, 2024October 19, 2023 by Jonathan Kadmon

The past never truly stays where it belongs. Even when the truth is carefully scrubbed from our understanding of history, its spores disperse through time to seep into the firmament like a persistent black mold poisoning the air we breathe.

Categories Democracy, Economic Justice Tags Capitalism, Class War, Neoliberalism
Liberal Civility is Counterrevolutionary

Liberal Civility is Counterrevolutionary

October 29, 2024September 25, 2023 by Tom Ramirez

The liberal’s aversion to violence is not moral and universal. They support state-sanctioned violence, propagating war and police brutality.

Categories Democracy, Equality with Justice Tags Capitalism, Class War, Labor
Tax Bads, Not Goods

Tax Bads, Not Goods

October 20, 2024June 28, 2023 by L. Randall Wray

Once we understand what taxes are “for”, we can start to think about what kinds of taxes make sense.

Categories Environmental & Ecological Justice, New Economic Perspectives, Technology & Innovation Tags Capitalism, MMT, Taxation
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