Life under capitalism: early deaths a silver lining for corporations on August 20, 2017Participating in the August 14 demonstration at the Trump Tower in Manhattan, I couldn’t help thinking of the connections between a Bloomberg article proclaiming that people dying earlier contains a “silver lining” because corporations will save pension costs and the ongoing savagery of the Trump administration. Not simply the naked symbiosis between the Trump administration […]
Austerity never ends: economists say wages are too high on April 16, 2017No, you can’t really make this stuff up: Orthodox economists continue to tell us that the reason for ongoing economic stagnation is that wages and unemployment benefits are too high. Yes, that’s right. You haven’t suffered enough. Given that orthodox economics (or “neoclassical” or Chicago School, if you prefer alternate labels) exists as a propaganda […]
TPP is not dead: its now called the trade in services agreement on February 20, 2017One can hear the cry ringing through the boardrooms of capital: “Free trade is dead! Long live free trade!” Think the ideas behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the so-called “free trade” regime are buried? Sadly, no. Definitely, no. Some of the countries involved in negotiating the TPP seeking to find ways to resurrect it in […]
Conceptualizing cooperatives as a challenge to capitalist thinking on December 19, 2016As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, and a world beyond capitalism becomes a possibility contemplated by increasing numbers of people, finding a path forward becomes an ever more urgent task. That path is likely to contain a multitude of possibilities and experiments, not all of which will prove viable. Psychological barriers will surely be […]