Taxing extreme wealth and multinationals is essential to defeating "21st-century Caesarism" and reclaiming democratic governance from the global elite.
The dominant mode of socialist analysis of contemporary capitalism very often focuses on its corruption or decay through financialization, monopolization, deregulation, or corporate influence over ...
The essay critiques the dominance of corporations, shareholder-first governance and GDP as measures of progress, arguing that they have deepened inequality and weakened democratic institutions ...
With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...
Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Valerie L. Myers, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Ask someone what a calling ...
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps
We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When we look around we see an extraordinary ...
Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit ...
[Adapted from Chapter 10 of Thinking Systematics: Critical-Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age and A Case for Socialism (Fernwood Publishing, 2024) by Murray E.G ...
In 1982, I was appointed welfare commissioner for the State of Connecticut. During a TV news appearance early in my tenure, a reporter asked me whether I had ever been on food stamps. I had not; my ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Ask someone what a calling is, and they’ll probably say something like “doing work you love.” But as a management professor who has spent two decades researching the history and ...
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