ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

Never has the phrase “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” been so appropriate…  Paul Krugman points out in his latest OpEd over at The New York Times that the Republican Party has been completely captured by the 0.01%-ers and along with that comes a “base” of voters to keep…

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Diffuse Capitalism -or- Mitt Romney the Wage Slave

Marxist writers are often vitriolic and prone to hyperbole when discussing their favorite subject: Capitalism.  Slavoj Žižek is not one of those guys.  He is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and researcher at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London.  In the latest issue of The London Review of Books he…

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Why “Free Markets” are neither Free nor Markets

In what has to be the best dissection and exposition of Libertarian philosophy I’ve seen in some time, Philip Pilkington exposes the “Free Market” libertarian world view as a political and economic cult very much akin to Bolshevism in it’s structure and function.

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