marc1seed https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/05/18881261.php In the neoliberal regime, people are forced to see themselves as entrepreneurs of their labor in order to always be able to meet the imperatives of the market, with the goal of “self-determinedly” submitting to the capitalist exploitation process and its constraints. In Western democracies, such self-enslavement is understood …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/12/18881436.php Israel was called upon by the International Court of Justice to take all measures to prevent genocide. Among other things, it must prohibit and punish incitement to genocide, allow aid and services to reach Palestinians in Gaza, and secure evidence of crimes committed in Gaza. War or genocide: The …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/06/18881274.php We are facing a moment of truth. And Gaza is the wake-up call… The role of Zionism was to normalize atrocities against dark-skinned people — indeed, to give these crimes a moral purpose — while breathing life into colonialism’s favorite narrative: the “clash of civilizations” between Western progress and …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/31/18881099.php Work is condensed and surplus employees are transferred to the state, i.e., the taxpayers, for support. It is the logic of capitalism itself that is responsible for many of the social upheavals of our time. It is not “the poor” who are too expensive for society—it is capitalism. It …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/31/18881098.php NATO is a proven useless institution. Its largest active military operation—12 years in Afghanistan—led to military defeat in 80 percent of the country, the establishment of a regime with extremely limited influence, and a booming heroin export industry that finances the criminal underworld in virtually all NATO countries. Away …
What central problems in today’s monetary system should be solved with this solution? Concentration of power, inequality, systemic instability, boundless greed, competition, pressure to grow, environmental destruction, fear, stress, burnout, alienation, materialism, diseases. The focus on returns & the pursuit of profit would give way to a systemic orientation toward …
Transcript Rob Johnson: Welcome to economics and beyond. I’m Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. I’m here today with two extraordinary scholars, Erik Conway, who’s from Caltech and does history of science and technology, and Naomi Oreskes, who is at Harvard University. They’ve written books in …
As with Trump’s tariffs, political hyperactivity hides the historical impotence of the capitalist narrative… While human toil continues to be exploited at ever-increasing rates, and politics fades into a tragicomic act, capitalist societies enslave themselves to the despotic dictates of debt-soaked financial speculation. Trump’s Tariffs: Everything You Wanted to Know …
The right-wing movements of recent years did not simply fall from the sky, but should rather be seen in the context of neoliberalism and the social distortions it has caused in recent decades. According to Wilhelm Heitmeyer (cf. Heitmeyer 2018), authoritarianism is already contained in neoliberalism, which is always presented …
The guiding principle of democracy in civilization is essentially—on the basis of an egalitarian political principle of recognizing all as free and equal—about civilizing the power of the stronger and about procedures of self-legislation, i.e., a radical socialization of rule. Capitalism, on the other hand, is essentially based on the …