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Interesting take from Thomas Piketty on present day Russia; and to think that some people on the left think the Putin government is center-left in its politics. http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2018/04/10/capital-in-russia/#xtor=RSS-32280322
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-obama-anger-martin-luther-king-death-assassination-jackson-mississippi-a8289456.html 1. Even if Sanders in his comments above is right — and I think things are more complex than he suggests — he is too often tone deaf when it comes to the African American community and the fight…
I don’t understand the reasoning behind the reply of Richard Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., to a question about Trump’s visit to Ohio where he talked about an infrastructure bill. “He and Congress didn’t blink whenever they shelled out…
Martin Luther King also belongs to the ages. If the left wants to move from the margins to the mainstream of political life, is there anybody that we can learn more from than Martin Luther King? I said more than…
Here are a few thoughts on the social movements that have sprung to the surface on the heels of Trump’s election and retrograde policies. First is their large spontaneous character. Overnight these movements have erupted in spectacular, massive, and novel…