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Extractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp
The leading agro-mineral exporting countries, including those engaged with the world’s leading mining and energy multi-national corporations(MNC) are also those characterized as having the most independent and progressive foreign policies. Apparently the primacy of “extractive capitalism” and commodity-export based economies are no longer correlated with ‘neo-colonial’ regimes.
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The Enigma of David Harvey
David Harvey does not look at capitalism as simply an economic system with geographic consequences. Drawing directly from Marx’s dynamic mode of thought, Harvey looks at capitalism as a highly intricate and interconnected social and productive system and offers remarkable insights by looking at it in this dynamic way.
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The Forgotten Space
Directed by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, The Forgotten Space, is a probing examination of modern-day transportation systems like container ships that make global trade possible—their impact on workers, the environment, and more subtly the quality of life for city-dwellers living under its influence. When the Communist Manifesto first appeared in 1848, most on the left would have agreed with its authors that the development described in these words was deeply revolutionary:
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Capitalism is Working Just Fine… That’s the Problem
Jameson makes a compelling case for why “Marx alone sought to combine a politics of revolt with the poetry of the future and applied himself to demonstrate that socialism was more modern than capitalism and more productive.”
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The 1% solution in Europe
Last month a Super Committee (12 Members of Congress) failed to decide—fortunately—our economic destiny: where our tax money would go—or not. Yes, capitalism failed again. And with it went democratic procedures in the political arena.
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Globe and Mail’s RoB shocks by questioning our economic system
The Globe and Mail—the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism—published a news story today that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments that dictate the economic policies of Western society might have it all wrong.
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Ten quick propositions on Climate Change
An ecosocialist response to the climate crisis.
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From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia
Given that the Evo Morales government recently celebrated its 2000th day in power—a feat in its own right for a country that has had around 180 coups since 1825—any serious attempt to explain the underlying dynamics of this decade long political process should be welcomed.
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Feral Capitalism Hits The Streets
“Nihilistic and feral teenagers” the Daily Mail called them: the crazy youths from all walks of life who raced around the streets mindlessly and desperately hurling bricks, stones and bottles at the cops while looting here and setting bonfires there, leading the authorities on a merry chase of catch-as-catch-can as they tweeted their way from one strategic target to another.
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Billionaires Flourish, Inequalities Deepen as Economies “Recover”
The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real purposes: the multi-millionaires became billionaires and the later became multi-billionaires.
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