#Poverty

Open Thread - Thurs 17 Aug 2023: Britain Too?

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 5:00am

Britain Too:

Recently I ran across a review written by Henry Heller of a book about the history of poverty in Britain: from feudalism to neoliberal capitalism. The review was also published in Popular Resistance.

The writer of the book is Jim Silver, a professor emeritus from the University of Winnipeg in Canada. The book is Scoundrels and Shirkers: Capitalism and Poverty in Britain. The book was just published (May 2023). I will be getting a copy and reading it ASAP!

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (or workshop) The Payment of the Tithes Bonhams
An image from the Tudor/Elizabethan Age - The Payment of the Tithes by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (or his workshop). I think I know some of these people! (Image is from wikipedia. Click on the image to get the link.)

My loyalties lie with the afflicted, those that suffer all around us.

Submitted by Dragonfli on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 11:53am

From my perspective I joined thirty nine years ago, a party I believed in and so gave my loyalty, It was the party of The New Deal, The Great Society and at the time I joined also the party of civil liberty, equal rights and a war against poverty. I saw clearly in 2016 that what it had devolved into was nothing like the party I joined. The question of my loyalty then became murky. My thoughts and vision since have grown clear, "what was, no longer is", and if such ever exists again it likely will not become manifest or reborn anew in the party I once joined so long ago.

What it means to me when people tell me to vote for Hillary

Submitted by Thaumlord-Exelbirth on Fri, 11/04/2016 - 2:41pm

This is just a compilation of what it means to vote for Hillary Clinton, what it really is that people are telling me that I should support. There is no separating the politician from their policies, because the policies are what that politician represents.

So here we go, just a portion of what I'm being asked to vote for (graphic imagery ahead, but I recommend viewing it anyway, because it represents what the US has become):