For more on the Doctrine of High Wages and the industrializing economic strategy of the American School, see Michael Hudson’s book ‘America’s Protectionist Takeoff, 1815-1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy.’

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Super late to this, I know, but the second book is, if anything, even more terrifying and prophetic than the first, with its far right president promising to make America great again—written in 1998. Perhaps dystopian fiction really is serving as a how-to guide for fascists!

“The most unpopular incoming government of all time.” Well done to all concerned! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The private finance engine that Labour has installed at the heart of its economics is a machine that lowers not increases growth, and concentrates the returns amongst the wealthiest asset owners, driving inequality and indebtedness. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/07/no-w...

Events in New York City remind me of Jack London’s The Assassination Bureau Ltd., a strange outlier in his work. As the system tanks and we all descend into Hell, it’s surprising there hasn’t been a lot more of this about. Kim Stanley Robinson picks up the thread in The Ministry for the Future.

Thanksgiving reading. The latest Quirke novel from John Banville.

The Wampanoag would have done better if they’d pushed the Pilgrims into the sea. #Thanksgiving

Polish translation of The Case for Community Wealth Building out next year.

Freedom fighters ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿#ScoilChoisClai2024

Radical politics in the most beautiful of settings at Lusty Beg #ScoilChoisClai2024

Niamh Ní Bhriain of TNI on European complicity in Israeli genocide, drawing on the recent report Partners in Crime: www.tni.org/en/publicati... #ScoilChoisClai2024

Yasmin El Sousa adds the context about the imperative of the demand for an arms embargo against Israeli genocide, which can start with a people’s arms embargo targeting the supply chains of the military contractors. #ScoilChoisClai2024

Nihal El Assar speaking about the wider context of the Palestinian youth movement at Lusty Beg #ScoilChoisClai2024

About time, too! www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Bertram Gross warned of the dangers of Friendly Fascism – ‘a slow and powerful drift toward greater concentration of power and wealth in a repressive Big Business-Big Government partnership’. Now here it is, with Trumpist billionaires taking over the state, masquerading as small-govt conservatism!

Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations and extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...