Kshama Sawant, the socialist Seattle city council woman and member of Socialist Alternative, penned a reply to Trump's address to Congress. It's worth a read, but one part stuck out to me, a recommendation:
"The wealth of these 8 richest billionaires should be confiscated and democratically allocated for the needs of the majority."
Hell ya.
CORRUPTION
The fraud, corruption and wasteful mismanagement is so deeply ingrained in the present capitalist system that it can make a person "insane" trying to follow up the politicians of both parties, the large corporate charities, the bankers, transnational corporations and media cronies as their corruption poisons the world.
I can think of seven different timescales in which changes seem to be happening right about now. Of course, you can probably take any point in time and construct such an edifice since everything is changing all the time, but this seems to be a moment in which it is particularly compelling to do so. Anyway, here they are.
There is a good "economics" website that I stumbled upon a few months ago called Evonomics. I think I found it on a link at Naked Capitalism. One article I found on Evonomics that I really like is: We’re Not as Selfish as Economists Think We Are. Here’s the Proof.
I would never suggest that an article has merit solely based upon its author . . .
For leftists, Cuba has always been kind of like the promised land. The country that has stood up to the imperialist giant to the North — the United States For the past 60 plus years, it is Cuba that has led the fight for liberation and socialist struggles both in Latin America and around the world. The country that never gave in, or gave up, no matter how hard the United States came down on the socialist island.
[repost from Dkos a while back... was thinking about writing something tonight, but have too much on my mind. Thought maybe I'd repost this piece that got little attention over there if anyone is interested in discussing.]
I watched the Maher show earlier this morning, and the followup on Youtube. The guests included Barbara Boxer, Katie Packer, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ana Marie Cox and Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine). The latter was basically the lone sane voice, when it came to the brief discussion of capitalism and socialism, both during the show and "overtime." But he was all but shouted down when he tried to school the panelists and Maher on their errors.
Saturday June 2, 1906
From Ada County Jail: A Letter from Big Bill Haywood
A friend sent me this article from the New York Times yesterday, One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence: The superrich have stashed millions of works in tax-free storage. So what does that mean for the art? It inspired me to come out of hiatus and write something for a blog.
