Category: Economics

If you think the collapse of the Soviet Union was good for the people, think again.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In the 1990s, the Soviet Union fell apart, and Russia began moving towards a market economy. However, this transition brought with it a severe economic collapse, widespread poverty, and a sharp rise in organized crime.

If you think the collapse of the Soviet Union was good for the people, think again.

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Laundering Yeltsin

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Dancing While the Dollar Depreciates

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Feels appropriate to drop some remixes to go along with the Reagan era remix—Stephen Miran’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board is just the latest track in a long playlist of dollar devaluation, austerity for the rest of us, and profits for the usual suspects. Still waiting on a proper critique from economists like Michael Roberts or Michael Hudson, but from what I’ve gathered so far, the “Miran Doctrine” is collapse choreography: pain for the working class, leverage for capital.

Marx saw this coming: the ruling class conjures up the ghosts of past ideologies to mask present-day extraction.

So here’s this DJ set of Madonna remixes—because I need an escape, and maybe you do too.

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