Editors' Blog
Rose Ann DeMoro -- Bloice's Quote of the Day --11.29.30
Quote of the Day November 29, 2001'We urge the British government to stop its attempt tomake public-sector workers pay more and work longer toreceive a smaller pension when they retire.
The growing tension between capitalism and democracy
Do capitalism and democracy conflict? Does each weaken the other?
Paul Krugman -- Bloice's Quote of the Day -- Nov 27, 2011
Quote of the Day November 26, 2011'Still, don't some of the very rich get that way byproducing innovations that are worth far more to theworld than the income they receive? Sure, but if youlook at who really makes up the 0.1 percent, it's hardto avoid the conclusion that, by and large, the membersof the super-elite are overpaid, not underpaid, forwhat they do.'For who are the 0.1 percent? Very few of them areSteve Jobs-type innovators; most of them are corporatebigwigs and financial wheeler-dealers.
Richard Trumka, American
Via Esquire
The class struggle in 2011.
The class struggle in 2011.
Jared Bernstein -- Bloice's Quote of the Day -- Nov 22, 2011
Quote of the Day November 21, 2011
Capitalism vs. the Climate
reprinted from the Nation
Gary Hicks on A Plea for Captain John Brown
In the occupy movement, just as in every major social upheaval leading to social progress, going at least back to the abolitionist movement, always the question of violence versus nonviolence has been raised.
