Thursday, May 24th 2012
It’s 2pm on a Sunday afternoon and I’m standing in the Croppies’ Acre in Dublin. Down the street the SWP are holding a conference in the Ashling hotel where Wittgenstein stayed in ‘48 after he came off the train at Heuston. It’s been raining all day but there’s a break in the weather and the [...]
Jane Slaughtor | Fun with Capitalism
Michael Moore’s new film “Capitalism: A Love Story” premiered to a rowdy—and wholly appreciative—labor audience at the AFL-CIO convention. The event, following a noisy march from the convention center to a theater down the street, was organized by the California Nurses Association and the Labor Campaign for Single Payer among [...]
Origins of Casino Capitalism[1]
When capitalism first began to emerge as the dominant economic system around the turn of the 19th century in Western Europe and North America, the role of the financial sector in the system was simple and straightforward. When individuals or groups wished to set up a new company, they sold shares in [...]
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at…”
Oscar Wilde.
Post-capitalism
The self-destruction of free market economics in the last 6 months has been dramatic. As a complex of fictional financial devices disintegrated the aggressive greed of both local banking systems and global financial markets has been openly exposed. Obscene [...]
There is much in Michael Taft’s ‘Towards a New Economic Narrative‘ that most socialists can agree with. The state must take measures to protect the majority of its population from the ravages of unemployment and recession.
So, yes, we need a new social housing programme, a school building programme, a conservation maintenance programme for older housing, [...]
