Magdoff and Foster’s The Great Financial Crisis is an enlightening history of the current capitalist crisis that is overshadowed by the authors’ political confusion. [...]
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For good and ill, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is a product of the current crisis of capitalism. On the one hand, this crisis forced Moore to try and go beyond liberal critiques of a single issue, the usual fare for his documentaries. Thus, in his latest documentary Moore aimed to critically examine [...] Towards the end of a rather long drive home to my parents’ house, I turned on some of the local radio stations I’ve missed while living in another state. Tiring pretty quickly of the classic rock station I listened to at work hours each day for years, I turned the radio to NPR, where [...] The revolutionary message of “the Internationale” was separated by a huge chasm from the practice and ideology of most of those who lay claim to it. That is, until Billy Bragg transformed it into a song that Social Democrats and reformed Stalinists could really relate to. [...] Howard Zinn is dead. While my own political development has led me down a different road than the one Zinn traveled for so long, he was so clearly such a good and kindly man that I can’t help but feeling a bit morose. His family and friends have my most sincere condolences. That said, [...] As I made my internet rounds yesterday, I had the misfortune of coming across the following text, evidently put out by a Russian group called “Alternatives.” Nothing I’ve seen indicates that this text or Alternatives have anything to do with today’s Financial Fool’s Protest, but as this group and the groups in London are [...] |
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