Your Money or Your Life
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 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
The two dominant factions of our politics, conservatives and liberals, often wage wars of rhetoric and culture against one another but actually work together.
Capitalism and the neoliberal culture operating enables an environment in which identity is hyper-individualized and prevents intersectional, working class solidarity.
This interview with a Syrian national shows the reason ultraviolence and corruption exist elsewhere is usually because we fail to stop it here. We bear this responsibility.
Raul Carrillo argues for permanent, non-discretionary funding of income, healthcare, housing, education, employment for all.
These are life and death problems! Waiting for neoliberalism to find a way to solve the problem while still making a return for investors is deadly!