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The State and the Future of Socialism

Michael A. Lebowitz Socialist Project
Rather than expansion of the means of production or direction by the state, human beings must be at the centre of the new socialist society.

Private Equity Is Gutting America — And Getting Away With It

Brendan Ballou The New York Times
It’s an incentive system that encourages risky, even reckless behavior but, insulated from liability, they face little consequence if those plans fail. This explains why private equity firms often have such sorry consequences for everyone except themselves.

America’s Workplace Safety Crisis

Terri Gerstein The American Prospect
Today is Worker's Memorial Day. Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.

Roxham Road and the Canadian Unconscious

Rinaldo Walcott Canadian Dimension
The closure of the border crossing is a living embodiment of Canada’s continued white supremacist and Eurocentric foundations

Young Voters Will Transform Even the Reddest States

Ed Kilgore New York Magazine
There’s a new demographic wave — a tsunami, really — forming in the not-so-distant future that could finally break the recent pattern of partisan gridlock. The youth cohorts growing up right now are just dramatically different from their predecessors
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