Are you part of the middle class and feel like your job doesn't really make a difference? Don't worry, you're not alone in that feeling. But here comes something that might make you think again. We've heard that some experts believe it's time for the middle class to reassess its role…
Category: Communism
Financial capitalism and feudalism in the West versus industrial capitalism in the East
Financial capitalism in the United States today is reminiscent of the former feudalism or l'ancien régime in Europe at the end of the 1700th century. In the last years of feudal rule, the money within the elite went mostly to passive, interest-bearing and cike-productive incomes. Industrial capitalism out competed the aristocracy during the 1800th century by delivering goods, albeit brutally. There was also over time in industrial capitalism a…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Cooperation is our evolutionary advantage
Collaboration is a must. Humanity's competitive advantage over the other animal species is if we maximize our ability to cooperate with each other, the animals, the earth and the universe. The severely disabled person we care for today may give birth to the next generation's Einstein.
Major victories for popular opposition to TTIP and TPP
The two free trade agreements, which in different parts of the world want common standards for the production of goods and services and the possibility for companies to sue states in private courts in case of threats of reduced profit prospects for foreign investors, have faced serious opposition in the EU and the US. In the EU, the European Parliament voted to postpone a decision on TTIP on…
Why the authorities want a permanent high unemployment rate
Brilliant article by the always so brilliant Dan Josefsson on how the right and S agree on a permanently high level of unemployment to keep inflation down. Also contains information about an economist who considers himself to have support for the claim that an expanded public sector provides such stimulating effects on the economy that taxes can be lowered. http://josefsson.net/artikelarkiv/61-daerfoer-far-arbetsloesheten-aldrig-foersvinna.html My…
Low wage labor market not the best way to reach full employment
The alliance's policy is based on achieving full employment through a larger low-wage sector. For a long time, the American model with its minimum wage jobs was seen as the exemplary model for reaching full employment. Minimum wage jobs made it easier for the job seeker who was not so picky to get a job as soon as he lost his old one. But this…
M and S say yes to total surveillance of Sweden
M and S want total surveillance of Sweden in the name of anti-terrorism. Read what M wants here and what S wants here. Historian Hobsbawm predicted that the fall of the Soviet Union, which left no political alternative to the Western market economies, would lead to the latter becoming more authoritarian and less egalitarian. The Soviet Union was…
Private property not a human right
The development of the distribution of income and wealth has become increasingly unequal. This is due to the controversial idea of private property as a human right. Private ownership should instead be seen as a matter that we can democratically decide on and can redistribute. In Sweden, the richest percentage owns 23% of the national wealth. IN THE U.S…