Neoliberalism Kills (Part 2)
Its influence is felt even in liberal or progressive organizations, and among progressive commentators and writers, who all share ideas like fiscal policy discipline and tax reform.
Its influence is felt even in liberal or progressive organizations, and among progressive commentators and writers, who all share ideas like fiscal policy discipline and tax reform.
We have reached the point, now, where it is neoliberalism or American Democracy, or, if you like neoliberalism or us. There is no alternative!
Inadequate access to nutrition is a problem Americans can solve. It’s time to shut down the false narratives about pay-fors that keep solutions out of reach.
Austerity, says Clara Mattei, is made up of three main spheres: fiscal, monetary, and industrial policy. It wasn’t born of the neoliberalism of the late 1970s. As policy, it can be traced back to the period following the Bolshevik revolution and World War One, when socialism was capturing the imagination of the international working class.  Austerity …
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What power actually fears is that their carefully crafted illusions will go up in smoke.
The function of government itself once it’s privatized is to make money for the donor class, which is basically the financial class and the monopoly class that finance creates.
The US seems to have chosen the worst possible strategy, which is to do everything that’s in its power to maintain its dominant position in the world, even though that’s clearly an impossibility.
If we hope to build an America that works in the interests of the working class, then we must transcend the partisan culture war and come together around working class issues.
We forget the burdens of the middle class because they look like they’re doing alright. But many are living one missed payment away from utter ruin, desperate to save their kids from the same.Â