Reading Adam Smith’s ”Wealth of Nations” without paying any attention to his ”Theory of Moral Sentiments”, to bring a theory of economics that utterly contradicts Smith’s own moral philosophy, exemplifies the deep-seated failures of our intellectual societies.
Democrat Who Dismantled Obama’s Grassroots Machine Now Gives Advice—Here’s the Problem
Jim Messina offers Democrats advice—but ignores how dismantling Obama’s grassroots machine weakened the party’s ability to persuade and win voters.
#activism #campaignStrategy #DemocraticParty #Democrats #Elections #GrassrootsOrganizing #JimMessina #MediaBias #neoliberalism #ObamaForAmerica #politicalAnalysis #politicalStrategy #populism #ProgressivePolitics #voterPersuasion https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oOX
"At a recent meeting...Matthew Taylor, its incoming chair, listed the five priorities the Department of Business and Trade had laid out for the FWA in its first year. These included “thought leadership” and “reducing regulatory burdens”."
Under the leadership of a notorious Blairite, this awful govt has launched the body overseeing its flagship sop to the Left, the Employment Rights Act, as yet another tool of #neoliberalism
“A narrow #elite, which is overwhelmingly male, white, and self-identifying as Christian, is deliberately promoting division and conflict to concentrate #wealth and #power in our world at the expense of collective well-being.”
#Easter versus the political elite
#Capitalism #Neoliberalism #politics #economics #exclusion #division
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/05/easter-vs-the-political-elite/
This Easter, the message of hope, renewal, and resurrection stands in direct contradiction to the world being built around us. A narrow elite, which is overwhelmingly male, white, and self-identifying as Christian, is deliberately promoting division and conflict to concentrate wealth and power in our wolrd at the expense of...
They're afraid of getting a SIGBUS.
Yanis Varoufakis - Another Conventional Capitalism is possible, Netanyahu and Trump are preventing it ...
#syriza #neoliberalism #neocolonialism #Iran #Lebanon #Kuwait #Qatar #UAE #Saudi #Venezuela #Banking #Dollar
#China #Russia
Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk
60 Minutes reveals how corporations rely on subsidies while avoiding risk—rare earths, shipbuilding, and more expose capitalism’s structural failure.
#capitalism #ChinaEconomy #corporateGreed #CorporateSocialism #CorporateWelfare #EconomicInequality #GovernmentSubsidies #industrialPolicy #infrastructure #MedicareAdvantage #neoliberalism #progressiveEconomics #publicInvestment #rareEarthMinerals #shipbuilding https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oNj
Exposed: How Debt Became the Tool the Wealthy Use to Drain Workers’ Income
The economy isn’t broken—it’s engineered. Learn how debt became the oligarchy’s most powerful tool.
#CapitalismCritique #corporateGreed #debtEconomy #EconomicJustice #neoliberalism #Oligarchy #progressiveEconomics #publicDebt #wageStagnation #wealthInequality #workingClass https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oMK
A religion of the markets
RE: https://loops.video/v/eQTLUIcxum
One of my better 3-minute philosophical wrapups!
We really need to recognise what #neoliberalism has done to us, by calling it what is is: A #religion.
It is no longer an economic theory, but has evolved into a secular, all-encompassing value system that people follow in selecting what is right, true, and justified.
The deification of market transactions as unquestionably rational, explains the cognitive dissonance we experience today: "Don't believe your lying eyes, the market is right"
Toni Aittoniemi
Egberto Willies
Simon Johnson
Alexandra Beekers 🏳️🌈🌍
Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)
Γιανίρης
Toni Aittoniemi