Rainer Shea The arc of capitalism is one where the system contracts, losing the robustness that it had when it was in the process of replacing feudalism. Its demand for limitless growth inevitably runs into obstacles, and that forces it to eat itself. Because there’s no way for capital to reverse its decline, and the…
Category: PLUTOCRACY
This Odious Global System
Paul Cudenec Throughout my adult life I have tended to describe the thing to which I am primarily opposed as “capitalism”. Over the last couple of years, however, I have started to wonder whether this is quite the right word. Not only does it hinder communication with people used to different political terminologies, but it…
What the US Constitution Specifies about Choosing the New President: How it is Stacked against the People
Stansfield Smith [T]he “democratic” nature of the US election system is wishful thinking, based on – possibly deliberate – misunderstanding. Nowhere does the original Constitution nor any later amendment specify a citizen’s right to vote for president. Regardless of the traditional bluster about the Founding Fathers and the world historic nature of the US Constitution,…