AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization
As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on...
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...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie dust and pseudoscience. Trump continues to see his numbers decline...
Anticapitalist MeetUp 13 September – an Introduction to Anticapitalism
Periodically, ACM readers might want an introduction to anticapitalism. This emerges because of the disinformation propagated by kakistocratic clowns like Trump, who enables neoliberal capitalism while pursuing...
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...
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...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: boogaloos have their Horst Wessel. #BreonnaTaylor is different
(Originally, I had done something on a MMT podcast with some of its major luminaries, but I’ll save it for a future AC chat diary, since...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: can Trumpian FUBAR foster radical socioeconomic changes
FUBAR’s definition is - thoroughly confused, disordered, damaged or ruined xAmerica First is the Trump campaign slogan pic.twitter.com/KwGTOnWoDm— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 29, 2020 xAll these...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Getting Trump out the WH – The End of History and splitting Whig-hats
If electoral victory is a mouse to be caught, the color of the cat deployed doesn’t really matter. Matthew 21:12 He knocked over the tables of the money...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: “Rail, mail, water, and energy into public ownership”-The UK Labour Manifesto
The BBC identified 12 key issues for the Labour party’s manifesto in preparation for the December General Election. Not wishing to take anything away from...
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...
