Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: financialization and sandwich shop capitalism

Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of its supply-chain hijacking yet another example of an impending capitalist disaster. Re-regulation must remain … Read More

Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show … Read More

Anti-Capitalist MeetUp Open Thread

I recently came across a typical Twitter argument about the CIA promoting modern art as propaganda. The usual distorting tweet-discourse occurred but what remained are somewhat paranoid discussions of whether the CIA supported Modern … Read More

Capitalist power: bigger federal debt than entire US gross domestic product – first time since 1946

Trump’s constant pimping of the stock market numbers is not the same as a sign that the economy has returned to the level of “winning” even before Trump took office. … Read More

Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an International Green New Deal

“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning markets, authentic democracy and personal … Read More

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”

This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is populated by women), decolonizing the … Read More

Here is why this venture capitalist is right, let the billionaires get wiped out

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has a conscience. and His statements on billionaires who run hedge funds and others will get noticed for some time. Please watch the video for my … Read More

Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: The Big and Small of addressing the Climate Crisis

The year has not ended well, even as there is some hope that 2020 will bring a reversal of the perfect storm of 2016 that elected a buffoon to the WH. … Read More

Anti-Capitalist MeetUp – green political economy: Ecocentrism, Just Transitions, and Ecosocialism

There are some continuing items of discourse that are important to our understanding how the climate crisis is one of a just transition to sustainable production. Naomi Klein reminds us in … Read More

Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: post-Trump environmentalism must move beyond a Green New Deal

< p class=”is-empty-p”> x YouTube Video In less than 400 days the US could be relieved of perhaps the stupidest self-proclaimed “environmentalist” in US history. We will need to refocus the … Read More