Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))

#Wisdom #Quotes #RobertKuttner #FreeMarket #Politics

#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

“As the pace of #privatization picked up in the 21st century, the idea of “ #neo-feudalism” or “ #techno-feudalism” began to interest scholars and theorists—#JoelKotkin, #JodiDean, #RobertKuttner, and #YanisVaroufakis, among others.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Feudalism Is Our Future
The New Feudal Age

What the next Dark Ages could look like

The Atlantic

Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))

#Wisdom #Quotes #RobertKuttner #FreeMarket #Politics

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/

// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich

The Left’s Fragile Foundations

Could a weaponized Trump IRS wreck the progressive infrastructure by attacking the entire nonprofit ecosystem?

The American Prospect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IGuVQM6SNo

#DemocracyNow

#RobertKuttner on How #JDVance Disguise His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism

“He’s a Fake”: Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism

YouTube

As #RobertKuttner writes for #TheAmericanProspect, this latest rhetorical assault on Social Security is timed to coincide with the ascension of the GOP House's new Speaker, #MikeJohnson, who makes no secret of his intention to destroy Social Security:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/

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Debunking the Latest Attack on Social Security

Warmed-over arguments claim that the old have it too good at the expense of the young. But the real division in America isn’t generation—it’s class.

The American Prospect

#Israel’s Dwindling Moral High Ground

“Prime Minister Bibi #Netanyahu, whose arrogance and blunders left Israel open to the #Hamas massacre, is rapidly squandering a moment of global goodwill and moral high ground. A large majority of Israelis correctly blame Netanyahu for leaving the #Gaza border defenseless by moving most of the Israeli army to defend illegal West Bank settlers who never should have been there in the first place.”

#KuttnerWrites #RobertKuttner #americanprospect
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=43351f7bf9a215be70c2c2caa7555002.2378

Kuttner on TAP: Israel’s Dwindling Moral High Ground

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In his #AmericanProspect editorial, "What Comes After Neoliberalism?", #RobertKuttner declares "we’ve just about won the battle of ideas. Reality has been a helpful ally...Neoliberalism has been a splendid success for the top 1 percent, and an abject failure for everyone else":

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-28-what-comes-after-neoliberalism/

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https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/imagine-a-horse/#perfectly-spherical-cows-of-uniform-density-on-a-frictionless-plane

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What Comes After Neoliberalism?

We are winning the battle of ideas. We have a long way to go before we win the politics.

The American Prospect

Quote of the day “Corporations, though creations of the democratic state, are said by neoliberal theorists to have no reciprocal responsibility to communities or employees, only to shareholders.”

Robert Kuttner, “Fee Markets, Besieged Citizens” NYRB vol 69, no12 (21 July 2022),p12

#democracy #FreeMarkets #RobertKuttner #neoliberalism #community #SocialResponsibility