Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))
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Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IGuVQM6SNo
#RobertKuttner on How #JDVance Disguise His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism
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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#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
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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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
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