Big Brother capitalism strikes back on March 6, 2017In classic capitalist fantasy, the “private” marketplace is a land of liberty and the state is a dungeon of oppression. Modern social democrats have tended to invert the formula, upholding the state as a force for social protection against the tyranny of the capitalist market. The truth is more complex than either narrative allows. As […]
Hillary Clinton and the corporate elite on May 23, 2016 Mainstream, US media is struck by the “strange bedfellows” phenomenon whereby a number of right wing foreign policy neoconservatives and top business elites – including at least one of the notorious hard right-wing Koch brothers – are lining up with Democrat Hillary Clinton against the Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential race. But what’s […]