Truthout
Capitalism
We Don’t Need Trump or Brexit to Reject the Credo of Neoliberal Market Inevitability
Revolt against the inevitability of globalized capitalism takes diverse and often desperate forms when “there is no alternative.”
The Millennial Generation Is a Perfect Fit for Socialism
Capitalism has only itself to blame, forcing millennials to look for an alternative.
Richard D. Wolff: Poverty Has Always Accompanied Capitalism
Promises that incremental changes would work to the benefit of most Americans have proven to be false.
The Remaking of the Global Working Class
It is likely that we are just at the beginnings of a new worldwide upsurge of labor and class-based mobilization.
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Economic Theorists: The High Priests of Capitalism
As global capitalism generates ever-greater inequalities, instabilities and problems, it and its high priests face rising opposition.
Economic Update: What Brexit Means
This episode discusses street battles in France, and more.
From Local Pants to Local Energy: The Case for Localizing Our Economies
To reject the imperative of re-localizing our economies requires a great deal of denial. Endless growth is unsustainable.
US Politics’ True Bipartisan Consensus: Capitalism Is Untouchable
The idea that capitalism is the problem is something neither Democrats nor Republicans allow into their debates.
Let’s Face It: “Capitalism With a Conscience” Is Still Capitalism
Trying to find investments in the financial industry that are truly “socially responsible” is a losing game.
Economic Update: Small Victories, Big Lessons
This episode discusses victories over the US sugar industry, and more.