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How To Create a New World Without Elons

Sam Pizzigati CounterPunch
The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

The Man Madison Warned Us Against

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie

Alexander Clapp The New York Times
We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

How Black Marxists Have Understood Racial Oppression

An interview with Jeff Goodwin by Jonah Birch Convergence
The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among many others — emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and its destructiveness for all workers.
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