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Category Archives: Essays
Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis: From Obscuristan to Absurdistan and Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy by Franz Segbers
Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis: From Obscuristan to Absurdistan by Marc Batko, 54 pp, $2.99 on Kindle Direct from Amazon. Enjoy the feast! Celebrate your independence! Please order the eBooks! https://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Reflections-Economic-Crisis-Obscuristan-ebook/dp/B0764KFS2P/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538923510&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=philosophical+refelctions+on+the+economic+crisis and Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy by Franz … Continue reading
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NEW EBOOK “ALTERNATIVE ECONOMICS: REVERSING STAGNATION” EDITED BY MARC BATKO, ONLY $3.99, 216 PP Available from Barnes & Noble https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=bn Available from Scribd https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=scribd Available from Apple https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=apple Mainstream market-radical economic theory has led to exploding inequality, cynicism and resignation … Continue reading
The Country without a Future
The Country without a Future By Marc Batko In the country without a future, elite democracy has long supplanted political participation. Life alternates between self-absorption and escapism, infantilism and dementia. There is no interest, passion or curiosity in a country … Continue reading
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The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion by Maria Wolflingseder
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion by Maria Wolflingseder, 2007 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/20/18808617.php The market accepts and rejects like a Calvinist God. The market only promises itself. Its highest good is the economic boom. The Christian God’s reign was not of … Continue reading
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As Trump consolidates his power, the history of 1930s Germany repeats itself
As Trump consolidates his power, the history of 1930s Germany repeats itself by Sascha Abramsky, The Sacramanento Bee March 18, 2018, http://www.sacbee.com/article205750864.html In a 2005 essay, “In Defense of History,” published in the Guardian newspaper, the historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote … Continue reading
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Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy by Franz Segbers, 62 pages
Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy by Franz Segbers https://www.smashwords.com/cart/add/774250 POVERTY IS POLITICALLY INTENDED AND ECONOMICALLY CAUSED AND IS NOT A NATURAL PHENOMENON Poverty in a rich country is the result of political decisions and is not a natural phenomenon. Poverty … Continue reading
The Trump Election by Christoph Hermann
The Trump Election by Christoph Hermann http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2018/01/435439.shtml The democracy crisis, the neoliberalism crisis, and the crisis of the Democratic Party led to the victory of Trump. Capitalism is largely deregulated with a comparatively meager public sector except for the defense … Continue reading
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Changing Consciousness: New Paradigms Needed!
Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people! How exciting to be living in a time crying for alternative economics, reduced working hours, shriveling the financial sector, expanding the public sector, becoming cloud- workers, translators, editors, … Continue reading
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Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change by Naomi Klein
Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change by Naomi Klein to read Naomi Klein’s article published in The Intercept August 28, 2017, click on https://theintercept.com/2017/08/28/harvey-didnt-come-out-of-the-blue-no/ to read George Monbiot’s “The Purse … Continue reading
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Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis by Marc Batko
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