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John Molyneux – How Fast is the Climate Changing?

Link to an article by John Molyneux:

Bonus quote:

“That the capitalist class is most interested in protecting its power, position, wealth and way of life means that the struggle to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of global warming is a class struggle. It is a struggle for power — not a struggle over morality or individual consumer choices. The capitalist class holds out the promise of ‘more of the same’ because that is the way that it can continue to accumulate wealth while working people get the same raw deal of exploitation, racism and oppression that they have for centuries.”

Jodi Dean, “Climate Change Is Class War”

Jason Hirthler – Vote Blue for Better Wage Slavery

Link to an article by Jason Hirthler:

“Vote Blue for Better Wage Slavery”

Rob Urie – How NAFTA Killed the Green New Deal

Link to an article by Rob Urie:

“How NAFTA Killed the Green New Deal”

Bonus links:“Climate Change Is Class War” and “Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy”

Paul Le Blanc – Today’s Struggle for a Green New Deal

Link to an article by Paul Le Blanc:

“Today’s Struggle for a Green New Deal: Lessons from the Freedom Budget of the 1960s”

Bonus link: “What the New Deal Can Teach us About Winning a Green New Deal: Part I” and “What the New Deal Can Teach Us About Winning a Green New Deal: Part III—the First New Deal” and “When the FBI Targeted the Poor People’s Campaign”

Michael Hudson – U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses

Link to an article by Michael Hudson:

“U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses”

Jessica Goldstein – The ‘Feel-Good’ Horror of Late-Stage Capitalism

Link to an article by Jessica Goldstein:

“The ‘Feel-Good’ Horror of Late-Stage Capitalism”

Bonus links: The Trouble With Diversity and “Democracy is the Enemy” and “The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism”

Dick Bryan & Mike Rafferty – How Finance Exploits Us

Link to an interview with Dick Bryan & Mike Rafferty, conducted by Llewellyn Williams-Brooks:

“How Finance Exploits Us”

(Note: the first part of the interview is non-substantive background information about publishing this theory in book form, and the substantive discussion of the theory is toward the end).

Rob Urie – The Blob Fought the Squad, and the Squad Won

Link to an article by Rob Urie:

“The Blob Fought the Squad, and the Squad Won”

Russell Mokhiber – Kip Sullivan and Dr. Matthew Hahn on How Value Based Programs Are Undermining Medicare and Single Payer

Link to an interview (with transcript) conducted by Russell Mokhiber:

“Kip Sullivan and Dr. Matthew Hahn on How Value Based Programs Are Undermining Medicare and Single Payer”

Blair Fix, Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler – Real GDP

Link to an article by Blair Fix, Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler:

“Real GDP: The Flawed Metric at the Heart of Macroeconomics”

Real-World Economics Review, Issue 88, P. 51 (July 10, 2019)

Like everything in the Real-World Economics Review, this article really is an attack on the hegemony of neoclassical (i.e., anti-classical) economics. The main points this article makes therefore tacitly draw from classical economics, such as the distinction between use value and exchange value that was explained by Karl Marx in Das Kapital. Of course, these authors make no mention of Marx. They also suggest energy units as one alternative to GDP, similar to a concept promoted by R. Buckminster Fuller three or four decades ago but no such precedents are acknowledged in the article. They also normatively accept a “growth” model. There is a degree of self-promotion in this article, and it only briefly explains the ideological battle driving their critique. But the narrow technical points it makes are mostly sound.