Michael Laxer
Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 198 min read
The Status of Europe’s Autonomous Movements
While the EU plays a dominant role in managing autonomous and separatist movements in member states, non-EU countries have their own...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 78 min read
Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 48 min read
Trump’s Battle for U.S. Sports
Donald Trump’s targeting of established sports leagues and promotion of alternatives have partly reshaped the American sports landscape....
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Michael Laxer
Aug 35 min read
The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...
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Michael Laxer
May 135 min read
Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Capitalism has built systems of inequality in food, health, and wealth and convinced us that the cause is individual failure, not...
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Michael Laxer
May 35 min read
Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 266 min read
India’s Billionaire Wealth Is on Display as Nation Votes
India’s Ambani family has enjoyed flaunting its obscene wealth, a perfect reminder in the midst of an election, of the economic...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 205 min read
US Prison Calls Are Increasingly Free, but Prisoners Still Aren’t
New reforms have made it easier and cheaper to make calls to and from incarcerated people. But corporate profiteering will continue until...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 1210 min read
A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
Amaury Laporte, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard D. Wolff By “class system” we...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 915 min read
The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India. Public domain image of Gandhi leaving a...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 305 min read
Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives. Image via screenshot By...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 235 min read
Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The U.S. is aggressively keeping cheap Chinese-made EVs off the market. We are all paying the price for this protectionism. BYD Seagull...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 227 min read
Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. By Richard Heinberg Those advocating for artificial...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 205 min read
Lessons From Legalization: The Problem Isn’t Cannabis, It’s Capitalism
There has been a sea change in attitudes and laws on marijuana, which ought to have helped ease racial inequities. But without concerted...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 1611 min read
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress. Dillon Wind Power...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 65 min read
Empire Decline and Costly Delusions
President of Russia Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping, March 2023 -- Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 245 min read
Countering Corporate Propaganda
We are steeped in the cultural glorification of capitalist exploitation. What if we rejected economic individualism and instead embraced...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 232 min read
Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
Archaeological Zone of Yaxchilan -- ZoRrO0880, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 176 min read
Why Won’t Biden Wave the Magic Wand in His Hand to Stop Israel?
If stopping genocide is not a good enough reason for Biden to rein in Israel’s blood thirst, is losing the 2024 election a risk he’s...
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