Ronald Reagan, the poet laureate of capitalism Steven R. Weisman, author of the book The Great Tax Wars, on WNYC’s On the Media, commenting on how President Reagan could cut taxes and use populist rhetoric about fairer taxes at the same time.
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“I don’t believe in men. I’ve never met a man in my life.”
Today, Guernica Magazine published a great, insightful and inciting interview with South Asian trans performance duo DarkMatter. For instance, this is how they expand upon the above statement that Alok never met a man:Janani Balasubramanian: I think what Alok was saying with the idea of how we’ve never met a man in our lives, is …
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As our society allows the corporate cultures to reduce the priorities of education to the pragmatic requirements of the market, whereby students are trained to become “compliant workers, spectorial consumers, and passive citizens,” it necessarily has to create educational structures that anesthetize students’ critical abilities, in order to domesticate social order for its self-preservation. Noam …
Free speech, like all marketplace activities, benefits those who are currently life’s winners, reinforcing their advantage while enabling them to say to themselves that they won fair and square. Perhaps only the threat of serious social disruption will shake the current complacency, so that in twenty or fifty years we will look upon hate speech …
For private business prison labor is like a pot of gold. No strikes. No union organizing. No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers’ compensation to pay. No language barriers, as in foreign countries. New leviathan prisons are being built on thousands of eerie acres of factories inside the walls. Prisoners do data entry for Chevron, …
And that is where the true frustration lies: I was furious and frustrated with the corporation, but you can’t get a corporation on the phone. I spent hours on the phone with people, humans trying to do their job, in some cases going well above-and-beyond their job to help me. Even though I wanted to …
Love and interpersonal emotions in general are needs which cease to demand at least minimal fulfillment only when human beings have long since ceased to be human. In capitalist society, the woman has the special mission of being both reservoir and receptacle for a whole range of human emotions otherwise banished from society. Angela Davis, …
Of course, that’s not even close to true. In an economy in which real wages have been stagnant or even in decline for years, credit has had to make up the difference. Banks and credit card companies have profited off the rest of the country’s debt. “America is a nation whose growth in recent decades …
but the fact of the matter is that one of these days we have to stop praying for everybody to get mad and destroying things—and instead teach each other how to have the heart to live. destroying things is what capitalism does best, and it’s what we’ve been taught to love and what to do …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 