The 2014 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by researchers at the University of Oxford covers 108 countries: 31 Low-Income Countries, 67 Middle-Income Countries and 10 High-Income Countries. These countries have a total population of 5.4…
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Higher concentrations of wealth and growing class divisions represent the decline of world capitalism Note: This paper was presented at the Left Forum held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University…
Fascism dribbles off the tongue too easily, yet it is possible to wrap one’s arms around the concept and practice with, allowing for historical variations, some degree of precision. Hitler’s Germany may be the gold…
You don’t have to be a Marxist to see how the 1% tries to fool us that we too are sharing in their renewed wealth. But it helps From President Obama on down, defenders of…
Fed President: Too Big Banks Are Just Crony Capitalists Reuters notes that the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas – Richard Fisher – said yesterday: The largest U.S. banks are “practitioners of crony…
The Corporation State, Obey: The Routine Of Obedience Video Documentary “We’re an animal of habit, we live, fight and ultimately die for our habits.” This is a film based on the book “Death…
Part 1 of “Judaism and Capitalism: Friends or Enemies?” The Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics, presented at the 2012 Austrian Scholars Conference The subject “Judaism and Capitalism” needs to be…
In Gulliver’s Travels the tiny Lilliputians attacked the much larger Gulliver while he was sleeping and tied him to the ground with thousands of threads. In a similar way the ruling elite have tied the…
Strategies of Deception As part of Obama’s strategies for winning re-election, the liberal press are giving lip service praise to the current protests while trying to steer them in a direction that serves the Democratic…
As the living conditions of ordinary people inevitably worsen under capitalism and as its wars cause increasing devastation, tides of protest rise up from the population. The ruling elite then seek to stem these tides…