Capitalism Tag

“Trained Marxist” and BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Says Outrage Over Her Personal Wealth is a “Tactic of Terror”

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 21, 2021 43 Comments

For the second time in as many weeks, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is under fire for what many of her comrades see as betraying her avowedly "Marxist" values.

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Columbia University Prof Says ‘Capitalism Causes Mental Illness’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 12, 2021 10 Comments

"was an organizer with the Occupy Wall Street movement"...

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NY Dem Congressman-Elect: American Capitalism “is Slavery by Another Name”

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 25, 2020 55 Comments

The Squad has a new member. His name is Jamaal Bowman and he is now going to represent New York's 16th congressional district. During a recent interview, Bowman compared capitalism in America to slavery, which means he will fit right in with his new Squad-mates.

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COVID-19 And The Great Reset: Global Effort “to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies”

Posted by New Neo on December 13, 2020 38 Comments

The following quote on liberty has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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Native American Literature Course at U. Pennsylvania to Explore Capitalism’s Role in Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 26, 2020 5 Comments

“challenge(s) capitalist and colonial logics of extraction”...

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“Trained Marxist” and BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Signs Warner Bros. TV Deal

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on October 25, 2020 41 Comments

It's no secret that the Black Lives Matter movement and its co-founder (and self-identified "Marxist") Patrisse Cullors has long accused American capitalism of being fundamentally, systemically racist and "wiping out entire communities"; these assertions are core tenets of multiple official Black Lives Matter organizations. But that hasn't stopped Cullors from signing a big contract with a major purveyor of BLM-reviled corporate consumerism: Warner Bros Television.

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Wright State Economics Professor Says School Restricting Enrollment In Course Critical of Marxism

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 11, 2020 13 Comments

Economics Professor Evan Osborne of Wright State University in Ohio, wants to teach a course that is critical of Marxism, and claims he is being prevented from doing so. He has been allowed to offer the course to honor students, but he wants to offer it as an economics elective, open to all students.

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No HBO Max? Consumers Push Gone With the Wind to the top Spot on Amazon Prime

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 12, 2020 57 Comments

I use my Apple TV when I work out and noticed Gone With the Wind at the top of the home menu. A quick Google search told me what I suspected. HBO Max temporarily pulled Gone With the Wind so consumers went to Amazon and Apple.

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University of Utah Online Town Hall Event Bashes Trump And Capitalism

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 29, 2020 4 Comments

"White supremacists, supported by the GOP and the Trump Administration have interpreted this disease as a foreign attack."...

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Prof Calls for Abolition of Grades Because They’re ‘Capitalism in Action’

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 07, 2019 5 Comments

He said the "practice of grading is one that has served to prop up America’s capitalist economic system and its 'major failures,' including 'socially divisive inequalities'...

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California’s green governor is mystified by state’s high gas prices

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 28, 2019 31 Comments

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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Pro-Marxism Prof Blames Capitalism for Rise in American Homelessness

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 28, 2018 5 Comments

"for-profit systems like capitalism create a disparity between those who can gain access to housing and those who cannot"...

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U. Minnesota Scholar Claims Capitalism Must Be Destroyed to Save the Planet

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 10, 2018 2 Comments

"key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet"...

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Research Initiative at UC Davis Asks ‘Can there be capitalism without racism?’

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 17, 2018 3 Comments

"one of the most enduring and controversial debates”...

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Elizabeth Warren wants to weaponize and federalize corporations for social justice activism

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 16, 2018 46 Comments

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 Creator on Why Capitalism Beats Socialism

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 07, 2018 21 Comments

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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Ocasio-Cortez: Capitalism “will not always exist in the world”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2018 77 Comments

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 a primary.

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Middlebury College Offers Course on ‘Anti-Capitalist Feminisms’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 02, 2018 4 Comments

"it is more epistemologically and politically powerful to state that our feminism is anti-racist and anti-capitalist"...

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