Link to an interview by Alexandros Orphanides:
“Frances Fox Piven on Syriza and Greece’s Prospects for Fighting Austerity”
Tag: Economics
Robespierre on Property
“The first social law is therefore the one that guarantees all members of society the means to live; all others are subordinate to that one; property was only instituted and guaranteed to cement it. It is in order to live that we have property in the first case. It is not true that property can ever be in opposition with men’s subsistence.
“The aliments necessary to man are as sacred as life itself. Everything essential to conserve life is property common to the whole of society. Only the surplus can be individual property and left subject to the enterprise of merchants. Any mercantile speculation that I make at the cost of the life of my like is not a traffic, but brigandage and fratricide.”
Maximillien Robespierre “The Incorruptible”, December 2, 1792.
Laura Gottesdiener – A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt
Link to an article by Laura Gottesdiener:
“A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt: The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit”
Jeffrey Sommers & Michael Hudson – The Koch Brothers’ Governors
Link to an article by Jeffrey Sommers & Michael Hudson:
Pavlina Tcherneva – When a Rising Tide Sinks Most Boats
Link to an article by Pavlina Tcherneva:
Robert Wood – What We Talk About When We Talk About Capitalism
Link to an article by Robert Wood reviewing the 2014 books Trouble in Paradise: Communism After the End of History, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate and Capitalism: A Ghost Story:
Paul Heideman – Technology and Socialist Strategy
Link to an article by Paul Heideman:
“Technology and Socialist Strategy”
Strange that he doesn’t ever mention Thorstein Veblen, who was perhaps the leading thinker on this topic of the 20th Century.
Nicholas Fitz – Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think
Link to an article by Nicholas Fitz:
Ponzi Scheme Capitalism: An Interview with David Harvey
Link to an interview of David Harvey by Steffen Böhm:
“Ponzi Scheme Capitalism: An Interview with David Harvey”
Choice quote: “there’s nothing more unequal than the equal treatments of unequals.”
Michael Schwalbe – Deskilling and the Terrain of Social Justice
Link to an article by Michael Schwalbe: