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Horizontal Violence, the Gig Economy and Today’s Dystopia

Posted on November 1, 2020 by greg

The term ‘horizontal violence’ was originally coined by Fanon (1963) to describe intergroup conflict (in colonized Africans) as a result of oppression. This conflict leads to aggressive behavior directed horizontally within the oppressed group, even to the point of murder! … Continue reading →

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We Must Reign in the Plutocracy to Close the Gap

Posted on August 20, 2020 by greg

The job of the politician in a plutocracy is always to find the line that provides the lowest level of pay, security, housing, consumer protection, health care and political access for society so that the economic elite can extract and … Continue reading →

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We Need to Change Our Beliefs in Order to Change Our Actions

Posted on May 20, 2020 by greg

The Declaration of Independence says that government has one primary purpose; that of protecting beliefs of the people that includes the unalienable right to freedom. Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism argues that the purpose of life is the pursuit of happiness, and that the purpose … Continue reading →

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There Is No Alternative to Austerity: Propping Up the Neoliberal State

Posted on November 10, 2017 by greg

Neoliberalism requires a market society achieved through a transformation in social society. Initially this meant welfare states must be slammed down by austerity policies in order to turn over to the market potentially lucrative sectors of the social economy – … Continue reading →

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The Republican Party – the Party of Cognitive Dissonance

Posted on May 1, 2016 by admin

Georg Hegel (1770-1831) who saw a world governed by individual self-interest believed that we are controlled by external forces, and are nothing but pawns in the game. Hegel believed that we do not perceive the world or anything in it … Continue reading →

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