Venezuelanalysis ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ #Venezuela #socialist communes? Born from Chávez's vision, these territorial units aim to own means of #production & replace the bourgeois #state - Full ep ft Ricardo Vaz of Venezuelanalysis: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep…

This is excellent political messaging. Zack Polanski hits straight to the core of the problem. This system is intolerable and it must be overcome: production should be organized around human well-being and ecology, not around maximizing profits for the rich.

Documenting Saylor I've know David casually for a very long time. He's never understood monetary operations and had no interest in learning it, so he's always looking through the monetary telescope backwards. :(

China🇨🇳, whatever its contradictions and unfinished business, has already shown the world what happens when a country actually focuses on the real economy instead of financial smoke and mirrors. It has caught up with the West not through free-market fairy tales, but by

#WhiteSupremacy is upheld by a huge concentration of wealth among white ppl to function as a shield & perpetuate a system where the #RacialWealthGap keeps expanding. Full ep ft. Bob Williams drops Sat 1/31 @ 8AM ET. Find all our ep @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese

R. Palme Dutt (1896–1974), British Marxist, historian, and publicist : “Many would-be reformers of capitalism (including the Labour Party propagandists and the Independent Labour Party) urge that if only the capitalists would pay higher wages to the workers, enabling them to buy

LATEST EP!! 🎙️ Capitalism doesn’t just produce inequality by accident, it builds durable ladders for some and trapdoors for others. ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ & Bob Williams realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep…

✨ MotL 87 is live! ✨ We speak with Tyler Creighton about the CFPB union's ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from defunding & closure by the Trump Administration. *Link below

My friend max haiven has a great way of describing what’s going on in the world right now The breakdown of the so-called ‘rules based international order’ is not an uprising of ‘the people vs the elite’. Rather, it’s a new age of warlords, in which a previous elite formation -

A successful economy does three things: increases real wages, improves and expands public services, and builds productive and technological capacities. That is precisely what China has done — and precisely what many countries in the West have failed to do.

The #FreeMarket isn’t a #meritocracy per stratification economics. It studies how systems are purposely designed for intergenerational #wealth & power, which is mostly determined at birth. #ClassStruggle Full ep. ft. Bob Williams: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep…

Ricky Gervais You should consider they listened just fine and concluded you were full of 💩. You'll be okay, I promise.

President Xi is on the same page as Michael Hudson here - abstracted financial capitalism is 'killing the host'. We need a morally and socially driven financial system focused on investment in the real economy of production and services. x.com/i/status/20186…

In economics, we cannot say that the marginal utility of providing milk to kids is more than that of a rich person enjoying an extra bid of caviar. Isn't this sociopathic? This lack of morality is designed to prevent redistribution. Sam Bowles, UMass Economics

Gabriel Rockhill "The #CIA is a disinformation agency," said a 25-year CIA veteran. Gabriel Rockhill examines its intellectual #war vs. #socialist alternatives & how controlling minds makes #military intervention easier. Full ep. drops Sat. 2/7 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

He isn't wrong...Most of the world understands this. It's Americans who mostly do not.

China Banking News “maintaining the necessary deficit” Very MMTish. Deficits are investments in productive growth. Essential investments.

Most Americans are not sitting around plotting how to end imperialism. Most of the time, they are angry that the spoils are not reaching them like before. That is true. But that is also exactly why the system is cracking. When people only tolerate an empire because they are

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." -John Kenneth Galbraith