Revolutionary Karl Marx’s Civil War writings wrestle with many of the issues that plague today’s left
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The Donald Trump Administration: Exposing The Shadow
What is new is a president who makes no attempt to hide his immense personal commercial interests in businesses that are known to be hotbeds of corruption.
The Beginning Of The End?
An interesting feature of Western Civilization, is the reluctance to change, or natural transition. From the Greco-Roman Era to the present, we find examples of social decay brought on by prolonged decadence.
Unconditional Basic Income: Around the Survivors a Perimeter Create
Did you know that there is currently one privately-funded program being run in California’s Silicon Valley that gives “unconditional” payments to Oakland residents?
Remembering Kenneth Arrow and His Impossibility Theorem
When the alternative is to continue using the worst voting method—plurality voting—there is little risk experimenting. Clearly, Dr. Arrow wanted us to have better.
Are CEOs Really Better For Our Country?
Throughout the election season, Trump supporters declared that as a successful businessman he would run the country like a business in order to bring back jobs and fix all the things that were wrong with America.
Retirement Law Repeal is Major Win For Wall Street Political Donors
The chief sponsors of this bill have been heavily supported by campaign cash from the finance industry
This Society Has Got to Go and Why Shouldn’t It?
The representative democracy has evolved from human development but is not the goal. In fact, at the moment, it is blocking it. It has been transformed into a representative power, a shackle holding us back.
The Old World Dreamers and the New Activists
The existence of new world culture with its complex power alloy of politicians, capitalism and state security services, tells us that there is a need for our current political and economic systems to be profoundly changed.
Economic Growth Enriches… Well, I Don’t Know About That
Our society needs economic growth in harmony with our environment, with adapted technologies and, most of all, in tune with people and influenced by people.