Join us for RP Live with Michael Hudson on Monday, September 19th, at 3pm ET/12 noon PT. Michael will talk about his latest book, The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism. Bring your questions! Michael Hudson is an American economist, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and …
Politicians and media pundits like to use the term democracy, but that is just a veil to hide the actual workings of the capitalist system. Pull back the veil and what we have is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Socialism, communism, and fascism are terms that are often misused. Only by educating ourselves on their true meanings can we begin to understand the important distinctions between them.
There really is only one way to go, and we can only get there by all rowing in the same direction at the same time and forcing the federal government to enact, and fully fund, single-payer healthcare – Medicare For All.
It is impossible to have an ideological discussion in good faith when people have been misled on the actual meanings of the terms in question.
If we are to consider Paine a socialist, he would likely be the most revolutionary of the socialists I will speak of in this series.
We need more with the moral fortitude to join such a movement and help us design this new world together.
King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. King’s solution was unionism.
