Posts under ‘The Political Circus’

Awesome. I translated this into portuguese and posted it at the brazillian indymedia website. Hope you don't mind. http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2010/01/462820.shtml?comment=on […]

Thank you for this inspiring essay,Professor.At last a realistic appraisal and ambitious program that doesn't seek to avoid the difficult questions,most crucially,in my opinion,the all-or-nothing aspect of the problem.Although utopian thinking is massively unpopular at present,this could be seen as a manifestation of a Capitalist ideology that wants its […]

Wow! Thank you Marx’s explanations concern Capitalism and how it leads to some people being winners and others being losers seem very relevant today and the current climate.....But are the capitalist winners or the immoral and gluttonous cause of so much suffering. […]

Solid speech, i wonder how much theoretical speculation could be developped from those arguments concerning the role of fixed capital, expecially the property markets. This kind of processes still have to be embedded in marxian theory of economic cycles properly. […]

I posted this on deLong blog but the comment has been repeatedly deleted. "Harvey is trying to understand if historical circumstances are likely to support rather than oppose to that kind of measures, and why. This doesn't mean He neglects a priori any attempt of deficit-spending, something that Robinson attached to Baran as She successfully unders […]

It.s nice to finally hear the President speak and not cringe like a soft tyranny. […]

Class warfare is alive within the USA but due to what I believe is one of the most effective propaganda systems in the world, the average USA citizen has been indoctrinated/brainwashed into believing that the way “things” are within the USA is correct, proper and as it should be. To think otherwise is to be un-American, non-patriotic and leaves one open to d […]

Ori said: "By the same token, what leverage does the proletariat have?" Assuming they learn to use their position, the proles as a class can simply take over work-places, effectively elbowing out the owners. But this also needs political power to back up that take-over legally. "Unfortunately, the western-world proletariat holds the values and […]

Todd, By the same token, what leverage does the proletariat have? Unfortunately, the western-world proletariat holds the values and ideology induced by the capitalists - individualism, consumerism, private property, etc. Our case is much worse than in Marx' time - mass media has a tight grip on the minds of us all, while social structures have totaly di […]

Ori said: "we should look for the “agents of change” in long term unemployed people, 45 + y.o, of the middle and upper middle classes" What leverage do the unemployed of the middle and upper-middle classes have? And if these classes are so close to the owners (and I have no reason to doubt they are: they were so in Marx' time as much as in our […]