Link to an article by Jonah Walters:
“A Guide to Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath”
Bonus links: “How The Free Market Killed New Orleans” and “Gentrification’s Ground Zero” and “Disaster Capitalism in Post Katrina New Orleans”
Tag: Politics
Stathis Kouvelakis – After Syriza
Link to a translation of an interview with Stathis Kouvelakis by Thomas Lemahieu:
Matt Bruenig – Libertarianism’s Battle With History
Link to an article by Matt Bruenig:
“Libertarianism’s Battle With History”
Selected Quote:
“as much as market fanatics tried, they never could succeed in casting the economy as something separate from or above social order. Instead, what we saw (and what we see in developing countries today) is a constant rhythm of a double movement. In the first move, market mechanisms expand into new areas of social life, and in the second move, people fight to check this movement insofar as it is utterly ruinous to the functioning of a human society.”
Polanyi offers a much less robust (and more academic) analysis than Veblen or Bourdieu.
Staughton Lynd – Anarchism, Marxism and Victor Serge
Link to a book review by Staughton Lynd:
David Cromwell – “Bullying”: BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment
Link to an article by David Cromwell:
“‘Bullying’: BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment”
Alex Gourevitch – Our Forgotten Labor Revolution
Link to an article by Alex Gourevitch:
Touré F. Reed – Why Liberals Separate Race from Class
Link to an article by Touré F. Reed:
David Cay Johnston – 21 Questions For Donald Trump
Link to an article by David Cay Johnston:
“21 Questions For Donald Trump”
Johnston is an annoying “grandstander” but no doubt Trump had some shady business dealings.
Bonus links: “Why Donald Trump Is so Scary,” “Republican Machismo vs Hillary Clinton” and “The Spectacle of American Violence and the Cure for Donald Trump” and “The Rich Boy: the Art of Trump L’Oeil Politics” and “Why Donald Trump is (Mostly) Right About the Middle East”
Jonah Birch – The Many Lives of François Mitterrand
Link to an article by Jonah Birch:
“The Many Lives of François Mitterrand”
Quote:
“the political power of the capitalist class flows not just from what capital can do, but from what it can choose not to do — invest. It is its control over the investment function, not its collective organizations, that is the key source of capitalists’ power in the political sphere: since, in a capitalist economy, investment is the prerequisite for growth, employment, and tax revenue, policymakers will always have an incentive to prioritize the demands of business confidence over all other considerations.”
Peter Rugh – Turning Libraries Into Condos
Link to an article by Peter Rugh: