I find this a very interesting article. I think Kuttner's most serious mistake is that he doesn't see Polanyi as writing in the Marxist tradition --- Polanyi is developing points that are totally cons

Imagine what Louis would do with this presentation .... ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Portside <moderator@...> Date: Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 8:44 PM Subject: Sandinistas Won a Lan

John is right --- there even is psychological data that ONCE someone has become fixated on a "point of view" their psychology starts to compartmentalize information into things that support their poin

Dear comrades --- In a recent post I 'dismissed" armed resistance as a meaningful way to fight back against creeping fascism US style -

FARANS: In reality, the likeliest immediate outcome will be a kind of anarchy that will take some time to develop fully, and the crying need for those who understand this will be for some kind of Swis

Great food for thought -- hopefully, I can try to get my thinking straight so I can make a coherent intervention here --- Thanks to all --- this is (obviously) an extremely important discussion --- WO

I promise a much longer response to Andrew and Farans but right now I want to say --- You guys are already giving up. You are ASSUMING that the Republicans will take Congress and assuming that some TR

Aside from Lucille Ball manipulating HUAC and the press with her "I did it for granddaddy" act, the most significant thing in the article is how BIG CAPITAL (represented both by the television industr

Here is a recent report on the "solubility" of the Medicare Trust Funds -- https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2021/putting-medicare-solvency-projections-perspective Andrew's point about solving the

There probably is some "space" to lobby with Congress and the public to get Medicare to stop overpaying for Medicare Advantage Plans --- If Congress would CUT some of the over-paying it would both sav

Mark it's behind a paywall --

If I remember Oskar Lange's intervention in this debate now over 90 years ago, he stated that the government could force all enterprises to act as if they were perfectly competitive firms (and in the

and the most important thing as both Gar Alperovitz and Rick Wolff (each in their own way) have shown is that TRULY DEMOCRATIC control will avoid many of the pitfalls of both bureaucratic planning and

Comrade John, I had the same experience in the semi-rural suburban town in W. Massachusetts where I lived for a number of decades --- What was amazing to me was the intensity of the desire to save eve

The "failure" of Bolsinaro in Brazil has cost perhaps thousands of Brazilian lives --- and Lula hasn't won yet!! Are our Chilean comrades really willing to "bet" that Kast will fail and pave the way f

I totally agree with Roger that TO THE EXTENT that China is creating a new model of "social democratic capitalism" --- albeit with a very authoritarian political regime --- any and all acts in pursuit

Don't remember what year it was published but former US Senator George McGovern (and Presidential candidate in 1972 -- defeated by vicious class collaboration! as well as [what today would pass for] "

as a decidedly non-expert on the issue of China, Chineses imperialism (?)), China-US relations I am heartened by the discussion -- I thank all the contributors. I am learning a lot --

Dear COmrades -- I have always been a FAN of Bill Domhoff and his WHO RULES AMERICA? series of books --- a newest edition that is a major restatement with a summary of decades of research has just bee

Dayne is right to remember the old saw argument that colonies were a DRAIN on imperialist countries -- and "therefore" -- imperialism had no economic rationality. (!!!) -- The obvious response to this