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The Elite’s Crusade to Save the World Without Changing A Thing

Anand Giridharadas The Guardian
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Today’s new titans of tech and finance want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten their own wealth and power. These plutocrats believe capitalism’s winners, not its victims, should supervise all social change.

Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019)

Vivek Chibber Jacobin
Erik Olin Wright was radicalized in the 1960s and remained a Marxist because his moral compass simply wouldn't allow him to drift away. With his death, the Left has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.

Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Is Constitutional, and Necessary

Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
The concentration of wealth in America has reached levels that make the gilt of the 19th century Gilded Age look like dross. There’s sound economic and social sense in taxing the hell out of excessive incomes and excessive wealth.

Friday Nite Videos | January 25, 2019

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Ari Melber Interview With Four Key Mueller Witnesses. Redemption (feat Jessie Davis) – Baba Brinkman Music Video. Get Me Roger Stone | Movie Trailer. Bernie Sanders on the End of the Government Shutdown. P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo.

Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man

Peter Cole The Conversation
The day after King's death, longshoremen shut down the ports of San Francisco and Oakland, as they still do when one of their own dies on the job. Nine ILWU members attended King’s funeral in Atlanta, including Harry Bridges and Cleophas Williams.