Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.
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The Trump White House has helped install the ticking time bomb that is cryptocurrency directly into our economy. When it blows up, the damage will be catastrophic.
A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power.
The internet has robbed the world of much of its mystery and replaced it with the jaded cynicism of online grifters. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Cloud explores this bleak world dominated by people who just can’t log off.
He sees Dracula as fiction’s ultimate capitalist victimizer, exploiting the lifeforce of others for his own pleasure, whether financial or physical. But the vampire has been exploited by plenty of capitalists as well, especially those in the movies.
Wins, losses and deep thoughts
Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.
Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
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