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  • The Decline of Trumpism and the Crisis of Capitalism

    The chaotic Trump reign over US politics is showing critical signs of weakening on many fronts: Trumponomics is failing: Trumpian immigration policy has stirred a powerful backlash; Teflon Trump has been tarnished by his clumsy, slippery handling of the Epstein scandal; his foreign-policy contradictions and outrages have confused both international friends and foes alike; and […]

  • Mr. Ip and the Wall Street Journal Discover Wealth Inequality

    It was in 2013 that Thomas Piketty rediscovered the problem of wealth inequality with his celebrated book Capital in the Twenty-first Century. Published by Harvard University Press and selling several million copies, the book turned prevailing mainstream economic thinking on its head. Academic economists and capitalist apologists had long assured us that capitalism persistently created wealth […]

  • Tax the Rich Rally in Albany

    Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of the “capital of capitalism” was a tremendous accomplishment and a blow to Zionists, Wall Street and Democratic Party higher-ups. Even the New York Times described his victory as a “surge of anti-establishment discontent.” Just a few of Mamdani’s frequent pre-election critical comments on capitalism include: * Taxation […]

  • An Alliance of Socialists and Conservatives Against Liberal Centrism: Not Such Strange Fellows After All

    An Alliance of Socialists and Conservatives Against Liberal Centrism: Not Such Strange Fellows After All

    Orientation The socialist left trashes attempts to unite the left and right Is it possible to oppose this centrist drift to the middle of the political spectrum by uniting socialists and conservatives? In the United States socialists howl at the prospect of uniting with conservatives. “How stupid” they might say. “Conservatives are pro-capitalists, pro-war and […]

  • Red, Orange, and Reaction: Thailand’s Electoral Crossroads

    Red, Orange, and Reaction: Thailand’s Electoral Crossroads

    As the people of Thailand go to the polls this February, voters are offered three competing visions of progress: one that builds power from the village up, one that critiques from the seminar room, and one that pays to keep the countryside quiet. Amid the ongoing border war with Cambodia, Thailand is a microcosm of […]

  • Liberal Democracy at the End of its Rope: The Participatory Democracy Alternative Part II

    Liberal Democracy at the End of its Rope: The Participatory Democracy Alternative Part II

    Orientation Unfortunately, in the United States the terms “liberal, “democracy” and “capitalism” are all mushed together according to the following logic: All democratic societies are liberal; All liberal societies are capitalist and All democratic societies are capitalist In Part I of my article, I challenged this logic because many capitalist societies have dictatorships and some […]

  • Capitalism’s General Crisis is Back with a Vengeance

    Why are we experiencing a period  of such crisis in international relations in Britain, Europe, the Americas and across the world? So many responses to this question fail to locate it in what the international communist movement has long called the “general crisis of capitalism.” At its base, capitalism cannot resolve the cyclical and structural […]

  • Liberal Democracy at the End of its Rope: The Participatory Democracy Alternative

    Liberal Democracy at the End of its Rope: The Participatory Democracy Alternative

    You’ve always looked for leaders, strong men with no faults. There aren’t any. There are only men like yourselves. Speaking of leaders, they change, they desert, die. There are no leaders but yourselves. A united people is the only lasting strength. — Emiliano Zapata, 1952, to his followers In Yankeedom, the terms “liberal”, “democracy” and […]

  • Michael Parenti, 1933-2026

    With the death of Michael Parenti, we have lost one of the greatest dissident voices in American history. Parenti earned a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962, and taught at a number of colleges and universities, never attaining a tenured position because he was “red-baited out of my college-teaching profession and left […]

  • Michael Parenti: An Appreciation

    … for nearly two decades, every evening in the week, the dean of American newscasters, Walter Cronkite, would end his CBS television news show with the statement: “And that’s the way it is.” On the eve of his retirement in 1980, Cronkite admitted that isn’t the way it is: “My lips have been kind of […]

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