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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Video: Super Amigos (2007), 1 hr 15 min
Reality begins when we all begin to believe. Enjoy this free movie that could inspire us to bring hope and possibility into our late capitalist cul-de-sac! Housing, health care and education should be public goods, not private privileges. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/super_amigos In … Continue reading
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2 minutes with Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/videos/canadian-prime-ministers-message-to-the-gop-is-two-minutes-of-awesome-video/ Two months ago, our cousins to the north, Canada, ended the disaster known as conservative government, throwing out Prime Minister Stephen Harper along with his party and replacing them with liberals in huge numbers. Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau … Continue reading
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The Crisis of Economists by Ulrike Herrmann
The mainstream economy doesn’t know what an argument is any more. Claims or assertions are made. This neoclassicism is not a science but resembles a religion that proclaims dogmas. Plural economists only want to change the contents, not abolish the … Continue reading
Freedom and the Market
Neoliberalism as a movement and an ideology is a world of ideas where egoism and personal responsibility are celebrated; the social is faded out and no place exists for solidarity and social balance. Neoliberalism is based on an ideology of … Continue reading
Criticism of Market Theory and Market Ideology
to read Franz Garnreiter’s 2013 article, click on http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/12/431169.shtml A STATE IS NECESSARY A real market economy functions so very differently than the harmonic optimal conceptions of market theoreticians. The economic freedom of the competitively strong turns so massively against … Continue reading
Neoliberalism. Submission as Freedom
Neoliberalism. Submission as Freedom Interview with Patrick Schreiner, Nov 20, 2015 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/12/431143.shtml The society in which we live is increasingly unfree in all areas and yet successfully passes off this growing unfreedom as freedom… The neoliberal subject is responsible for … Continue reading