Dreamers With Shovels
The American Prospect
How the first New Deal remade America
How the first New Deal remade America
How the first New Deal remade America
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Monopoly and Its Discontents
The American Prospect
It's no Marxist critique of class power--would that it were--but Matt Stoller's Goliath, aimed at moving the Democratic Party off dead center, slams all the right enemies in urging the resuscitating of the anti-monopoly tradition of the 20th century
The New Deal Wasn’t Intrinsically Racist
The New Republic
How today’s focus on “racial disparity” can distort our understanding of structural inequality
The Greening of the New Deal - The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now
TomDispatch
Of the two New Deals -- the one from the 1930s and today’s Green one -- only the first was treated in its time as a response to the economic equivalent of a category five hurricane.
The New Deal in the American Political Imagination
Jacobin
The New Deal solidified capitalist democracy in the United States. The country has swung between hints of social democracy and free market absolutism ever since.
Sanders Calls For 21st Century Bill of Rights - How Democratic Socialism Is the Only Way to Defeat Oligarchy
Bernie Sanders
"I didn't hear Jamie Dimon criticizing socialism when Wall Street begged for the largest federal bailout in American history—some $700 billion from the Treasury and even more from the Fed," Bernie Sanders before speech on Democratic Socialism.
How New Deal Federal Arts Programs Rewrote American History
History News Network
The federal Works Progress Administration's version of “public art” was vastly different the the “public art” sponsored by Confederate apologists
A Green New Deal for Agriculture
Jacobin
Agriculture policy in the original New Deal sprang from a...mix of class struggle and uneasy alliances. The Green New Deal will have...a different coalition...(to) challenge the dominant mode of agriculture and create a more just food system.
Beware the Soft Hand of Capital
Roar Magazine
Capitalism co-opts our best visions — through its soft hand, capital reforms its way out of crisis, putting forward more tolerable forms of exploitation.
Elizabeth Warren Proposes a Second New Deal
The American Prospect
Her new bill would compel corporations to dump “maximizing shareholder value” and put worker representatives on their boards.
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