Race and Class, Intertwined
To fully understand the racial wealth gap and wealth inequality in general in the United States, we’ve got to understand how wealth was created.
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Conversations
Articles featuring interviews, online panel discussions, and other exchanges transcribed, translated, or conducted by Antidote and our friends.
Italian Lessons
The demoralization following the collapse in the nineties of the Communist party still shapes all aspects of Italian political life.
The Robots Are Coming and We Are Not Ready
If corporations that have no concern about people or the planet are allowed to take this to its lowest common denominator, nobody will survive on this planet except for the über-wealthy and the robots.
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Politics and Propaganda in Lebanon and Syria
Revolutionary processes are long term, with ups and downs. It’s not the end of this history. We should have hope even in these catastrophic times, and it’s very far from being the end.
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Frauducation and the New Economy
Most people pay for higher education by taking on debt. That means the individual is basically financing—through the publicly-supported federal student aid process—the training that employers will not provide. Workers are feeling that, and they are angry.
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An Economics Against Suffering
If you meet Buddha on a yacht, kill him.
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Liberalism, Fascism, and Emotional Neglect
It’s because liberalism and leftism have systematically neglected a whole range of human experience that we are in this mess right now.
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We Are Not Smarter Than How We Feel
All of us are in a collective coming-of-age of the Social Network Internet Machine, and we’re starting to understand that it affects us emotionally, as a global world, together. And it has mood swings.
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Un-shit Your Head
Advertising is fuel for our capitalist economy based on consumption and exponential growth, which obviously is non-sustainable. That can’t help but cause problems for the environment—and is arguably also responsible for resource wars and widening inequality.
Walls as Weapons, Property as Death
If people can get beyond the fears and policies that perpetuate this world of security, then maybe we could get beyond that dead-end. Or we’ll just all die at the dead-end together.
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