Word: anti-capitalist
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...green jobs could revitalize America's eroding blue-collar class. I can't judge if some of his past statements and actions - his signature on a letter suggesting former President George W. Bush might have allowed the Sept. 11 attacks to occur, his 1990s membership in an avowedly anti-capitalist group - should have disqualified him for government service. But I do know his resignation is a loss for the environmental movement, and I think, for the country as well. Because Van Jones was right about green jobs. (Watch an interview with Van Jones about the green-collar economy...
...voters in Utrecht seem more concerned by the antics of Dutch anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders than they are with, say, the E.U.'s plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 20% by 2020. Wilders wants to abolish the European Parliament altogether. "Every voter who wants to signal that the European Union is good for nothing in its current form can do so by voting for Geert Wilders," he said. His PVV party, like other political outliers, is expected to benefit from mainstream voter apathy. The Trotskyite anti-capitalist movement of Olivier Besancenot could muster 10% of France's vote...
...might get even hotter in the coming days. On the eve of a meeting between leaders of the G-20 in London next week, thousands of protesters are expected to converge on the Bank of England as part of "Financial Fool's Day." G-20 Meltdown, the umbrella of anti-capitalist groups behind the demonstration, promises a "carnival" atmosphere. But here's a spoiler alert: "We are going to be hanging a lot of people like [RBS's Fred Goodwin] from lampposts on April Fool's Day and I can only say let's hope they are just effigies," Chris...
...Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics” veterans, I must already sound truly irrational, even heretical. Because we have been force-fed the message that our world today progresses more rapidly than ever thanks to open markets, free trade, and liberated entrepreneurs, any mention of an anti-capitalist agenda is likely to be dismissed with derision. Yet now, arguably more urgently than ever, it is incumbent upon us to cast off the shackles of that theology of free-market liberation and come to terms with the actual dynamics of the world we live in. For Harvard students...
Here at Harvard, anti-capitalist convictions are frequently misunderstood as angsty and anti-historical—or worse, the product of misguided privilege guilt. I consider that closed-mindedness self-serving negligence. The economic theory preached at our institution seems a textbook “ruling ideology,” frantically cloaking bourgeois agendas in the alluring rhetoric of rising tides and individual liberties. It’s hardly coincidental, after all, that Ec 10 renders heroic the careers most of us are funneled into upon graduation. The longer we let the wool be pulled over our eyes, the harder...