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1 month ago
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In Order To Overturn Obamacare, Republican Pundits Propose Single Payer Healthcare System
The GOP hates Obamacare, that is certain. However, repeated attempts to repeal have failed to make even the slightest dent, in particular because people do not want to suddenly lose their healthcare or be denied for pre-existing conditions. In response, one GOP pundit has decided on taking a radically different tactic to get rid of Obamacare.
Robert W. Patterson, editor of The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy, released a new article last week, titled “Grand Strategy on Health Care” in which he proposes a new policy by which the Republicans can manage to get Obamacare repealed. This is his proposal … a single payer healthcare system …
3 months ago
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Cooperatives and Community Work Are Part of American DNA
… Creating transformational change is not only about protesting what we do not like and resisting and refusing to cooperate with the power structure; it also requires us to simultaneously build the world we want. If big-finance capitalism does not serve the people, what will? The mass of people who struggle through their daily lives need to know there is an alternative available that will meet their needs and improve their lives. People who urgently require employment, housing, food and other immediate needs can work together now to solve their problems in ways that also undermine big-finance capitalism and build democratic and sustainable systems. …
3 months ago
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"Ultimately, the symbiotic relationship between corporate behemoths and the state creates a perverse dynamic of economic growth that necessitates imperialist wars in order to sustain itself. Corporations benefit as providers of military equipment, from the expansion of their system of privilege to foreign markets, and the disposal of over-accumulated capital. The state benefits by appeasing its electorate with the mitigation of chronic unemployment, and by institutionalizing an atmosphere of fear among citizens that allows it to enormously expand its powers – at their expense."
4 months ago
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For every copy of Roderick T. Long’s “Ten Common Objections to Market Anarchy, with 10 Responses“ that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
4 months ago
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"We might say—with apologies to Shulamith Firestone—that the political economy of state capitalism is so deep as to be invisible. Or it may appear to be a superficial set of interventions, a problem that can be solved by a few legal reforms, perhaps the elimination of the occasional bailout or export subsidy, while preserving intact the basic recognizable patterns of the corporate economy. But there is something deeper, and more pervasive, at stake. A fully freed market means liberating essential command posts in the economy from State control, to be reclaimed for market and social entrepreneurship. The market that would emerge would look profoundly different from anything we have now. That so profound a change cannot easily fit into traditional categories of thought—for example “libertarian” or “left-wing,” “laissez-faire” or “socialist,” “entrepreneurial” or “anti-capitalist”—is not because these categories do not apply but because they are not big enough: Radically free markets burst through them. If there were another word more all-embracing than revolutionary, we would use it."
7 months ago
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The true reason US fears Iranian nukes: they can deter US attacks
… That Iran will use its nuclear weapons against the US and Israel is rather obviously the centerpiece of the fear-mongering campaign against Tehran, to build popular support for threats to launch an aggressive attack in order to prevent them from acquiring that weapon. So what, then, is the real reason that so many people in both the US and Israeli governments are so desperate to stop Iranian proliferation?
Every now and then, they reveal the real reason: Iranian nuclear weapons would prevent the US from attacking Iran at will, and that is what is intolerable. …
7 months ago
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Monopoly: A Nice Trick If You Can Do It
… All the envisioned monopoly strategies rely on the assumption that challengers would not adapt and develop workarounds (“the enemy usually has a plan, too — the dirty SOB!”). A primary effect of regulations is to criminalize those workarounds. …
11 months ago
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All the envisioned monopoly strategies rely on the assumption that challengers would not adapt and develop workarounds (“the enemy usually has a plan, too — the dirty SOB!”). A primary effect of regulations is to criminalize those workarounds.
Monopoly is great, if you can just find a way to prevent competitors from entering the market and selling stuff cheaper than you. And when you penetrate behind the “progressive” aura of the regulatory state, you generally find it doing just that.
11 months ago
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The Role of State Monopoly Capitalism in the American Empire
“With interventionism and restrictionism, the best businessman is he who best knows how to influence in his interest the decisions of the organs of the state (in regard to tariffs, government subsidies or orders, advantageous import quotas, etc.) … . What formerly was regarded as a special trait of the munitions industry becomes in interventionist capitalism the general rule. Some have argued that, under such centralized corporate statism, innovation and founding of new enterprises can be so discouraged that, as Jacobs puts it, “there is nowhere to export the embarrassing superfluity of capital except abroad.” The structure of the economy limits domestic investment, thereby promoting aggressive capital export. Simultaneously, monopoly prices foster artificial “surpluses” of specific goods. As the American economy became systematically corporatist, a sense of crisis and stagnation, as well as a desire to further rationalize and perfect the system, strengthened the hand of those who wished to universalize the new political economy through world empire.”
