Legal Insurrection readers may recall that the 2018 election results in California resulted in both a highly progressive governor and the retention of a gas tax after the repeal effort failed.

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Is there any societal ill that the far left doesn’t blame on capitalism? Note that this is an economics professor.

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Marxism-promoting prof blames capitalism for rise in US homelessness

An economics...

Isn’t it fascinating how this is the solution for so many of the left’s favorite causes?

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U. Minnesota scholar: Capitalism must be ‘systematically dismantled’ to save planet

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently came out with a report on the “seriously alarming” situation in...

Is this just another academic project designed to steer people towards socialism?

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Researchers ask: ‘Can there be capitalism without racism?’

The University of California-Davis Humanities Institute is running a multi-year research initiative regarding “Racial Capitalism,” but has yet to actually define the term.

The program is one of four ongoing “Mellon Research...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren hates capitalism and has never made an effort to hide it. Now she’s taken that hatred a step further and introduced a bill (pdf.) that would literally nationalize all the things. The government must step in and tell CEOs how to run their companies.

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Pawn Stars is one of the most successful shows on television right now and the creator, Rick Harrison, was the featured guest on Life, Liberty and Levin this weekend.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the hottest commodity in the progressive movement, and arguably in the Democratic Party.

The New York Democratic Socialist stunned the Democrat elite by defeating Joe Crowley, the number 4 Democrat in the House and a likely future Speaker of the House if Democrats regained control, in...

Modern academic feminism sure seems more focused on taking down capitalism than advancing women.

Campus Reform reports:

School offers course on ‘anti-capitalist feminisms’

Middlebury College is offering a course next Spring dedicated to exploring how the tradition...

The academic left is so emboldened that they think nothing of espousing rhetoric like this.

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Prof says individual rights fuel ‘capitalist violence’

A Marquette University professor recently argued that individual liberties, including free speech and property rights, are merely forces “that reproduce capitalist violence.”

Professor Jodi Melamed made the remarks during a...

We covered this story back in January and we’re happy to see free speech defended, thanks to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

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VICTORY: Student detained for passing out political flyers settles lawsuit with Illinois college

Student Ivette Salazar and Joliet Junior College agreed today to settle Salazar’s First...

This is just further proof that feminism is about advancing the left’s agenda, not women.

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Yale Feminists Protest Capitalism And Frat Culture With Anti-Valentine’s Day Event

A group of Yale University students have come together to host an anti-Valentine’s Day event that takes aim at “a tradition rooted in capitalism...

FIRE got involved here proving again that they are for free speech for everyone, regardless of ideology.

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Student Sues After Being Detained For ‘Shut Down Capitalism’ Flyers

A free speech nonprofit sued an Illinois college Thursday after being detained for handing out flyers reading “shut down capitalism.”

The Foundation for Individual...

The left sure knows how to create holiday cheer, don’t they?

Check out this story from Campus Reform:

Prof calls for ‘Black Xmas’ to ‘disrupt’ ‘white capitalism’

A California State University-Los Angeles professor is urging Americans to participate in a “Black Xmas” by divesting from “white corporations” and fighting “White Capitalism.”

In her op-ed for...

These young people should try living in Venezuela for a while. That should solve the problem.

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POLL: Millennials would prefer to live in a socialist country

More than four-in-ten U.S. millennials would prefer to live under socialism than capitalism, according to a new survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

When...

Give progressives long enough and they can find fault in anything.

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Prof bemoans ‘toxic masculine capitalism’ in Disney film

A professor at Florida International University recently argued that the Disney film Beauty and the Beast is rife with “toxic masculinity.”

Bryant Sculos, who teaches politics at Florida International University, argues in an...

The abolition of capitalism is one of the core goals of the left. That’s where this comes from.

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Daylong conference at UCLA to explore how capitalism is ‘persisting racial inequality’

A workshop taking place today at UCLA will explore topics such as “Diasporas of Racial Capitalism,” imperialism and “settler-colonialism” as...

Will the students who take the course be forced to give up their phones, cars, and modern clothing?

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UW-Madison class explores ‘harms and forms of injustice associated with capitalism’

A class at University of Wisconsin-Madison studies how capitalism “generates harms” and “is irrational in ways that hurt nearly everyone,” according...