The Bipartisan Neoliberal Regime Is No Alternative to Trumpism and the Far-Right
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Biden’s team will exploit this chaos to manufacture consent for more surveillance, censorship, & war
Big tech, the “Great Reset,” and the illusion that capitalism can sustain itself through innovation
Monopoly Board Game Updated For Our Times
Biden’s Austerity Zealotry Helped Cut The Stimulus Bill In Half
Total Shutdown of Dissent is U.S. Censorship’s Endgame, by Rainer Shea
Whenever I hear about an instance of imperialist online censorship, or a short-term plan by a ruling class technocrat to further the erosion of free speech, I wonder: what’s the endgame of this? How far do these oligarchs plan to take their campaign to control the flow of information and suppress dissent?
Total Shutdown of Dissent is U.S. Censorship’s Endgame, by Rainer Shea
Do Not Hire This Man
Rahm Emanuel’s record of promoting neoliberal policies, attacking progressives and covering up police violence thoroughly disqualifies him.
Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration
The political role of Jacobin and the DSA is to prevent at all costs a political break with bourgeois politics in general and the Democratic Party in particular. Theirs is the politics of the upper middle class, which is determined by the effort, on the one hand, to obtain positions for themselves within the state apparatus and, on the other hand, to prevent an independent mobilization of the working class against capitalism and for socialism.
Social Democrats are Fooling Themselves: We Can’t Vote our way out of Neoliberalism
Social Democrats are Fooling Themselves: We Can’t Vote our way out of Neoliberalism
The social democrats may argue that the people’s interests have been represented under capitalism in the past through the New Deal, but this argument is based in multiple layers of deception. Firstly, the interests of the proletariat and the poor will never truly be represented under a capitalist state; the New Deal (which didn’t even advance the wellbeing of those outside of the favored white settler population) was easily undone the moment the capitalist class decided that neoliberalism was necessary. Scandinavia’s descent into neoliberal austerity in recent decades is another example of how under capitalism the capitalists, not the people, have the final say. Secondly, social democracy within an imperialist country still means a perpetuation of imperialist violence and exploitation against colonialism’s victims; even the Scandanavia model, which is idealized by social democrats, has been built upon the profiting off of Western imperialism. And thirdly, capitalism’s crises have made it so that it’s no longer viable to establish social democracy.
Times Editorial Lets Slip Joe Biden’s Latin America Policy: More Obama-Style Coups
Times Editorial Lets Slip Joe Biden’s Latin America Policy: More Obama-Style Coups
What the authors are referring to is a continent-wide campaign to unseat progressive leaders that ended in the jailing of Brazilian president Lula da Silva, the impeachment of his successor Dilma Rousseff, and the rise of the far-right authoritarian Jair Bolsonaro. The so-called Operation Car Wash (“Lava Jato” in Portuguese) was ostensibly an attempt to root out corruption at all levels of society. Yet leaked documents and recordings have shown that, from the beginning, it was a naked powerplay attempt by Brazil’s rich elite to retake control of society from the progressive Workers’ Party administrations through legal means.
NYT: Biden’s Plans for Latin America: End ‘Bully Dictating Policy’
Mr. Biden’s advisers say they would seek to revive the anti-corruption campaign that set off political earthquakes across the Americas starting in 2014, but largely stalled in recent years.
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