My First Viral Tweet
Twitter is manipulating all of us, including anti-capitalists; stirring up outrage to get us to look at ads.
Neoliberalism Made the Pandemic Worse
Neoliberalism led governments and business leaders to put profits over people, weakened healthcare systems, made it easier for the virus to spread, established supply chains that are more vulnerable to disruption, and is retarding the global manufacture & distribution of vaccines.
Capitalism is not Voluntary
The wage system coerces workers into selling our labor; it is not freedom.
Coke’s International War on Workers
The Coca-Cola Company uses outsourcing to drive wages down, shuts down plants for unionizing, fires (and sometimes murders) workers for joining unions, and pays poverty wages wherever it can get away with it.
Class Struggle and the Jute-Mill Workers of Bengal
Critique of Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Households in Western History
Critique of The Household and the Making of History by Mary Hartman.
Cotton Mill Workers in the Southern U.S.
Review of Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al.
Coal Mining in the Ottoman Empire
Review of Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert.
In Labor’s Cause
Review of David Brody’s book on the main themes in the history of American workers.
Tyranny of the Invisible Hand
Capitalism is exploitative and authoritarian. It cannot be reformed and should be abolished in favor of a classless society based on self-management.
Roots of the Empire
Bush claims to be combating terrorism while sponsoring it, launched an imperialist war of aggression against Iraq, and is waging a class war in favor of the rich. It is not merely Bush's whim that brings these policies about, but the way American society is set up.
Market Capitalism and Elite Rule
A critique of market populism - the idea that markets under capitalism "do what people want" and express the "will of the people." Market capitalism is a system of elite rule, like all other class systems.
Against Property and Work
Property is theft. Work is slavery. They should both be abolished in favor of a free society organized along the lines of "from each according to ability, to each according to need."
Anarchy Against Capitalism
Capitalism, the state and all other forms of hierarchy should be abolished. Instead, we should have a society in which everyone has control over their own life and an equal say in all decisions that involve them.