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Minneapolis could be used as an argument for Basic Income or socialism

The Miracle of Minneapolis - The Atlantic: "One reason the American dream has come apart is that too few cities have shared their resources—and real estate—between the rich and the rest. This isn’t a fact of nature, like the mountains and oceans that restrain our coastal metros. It is a policy of our own choosing. The lesson of Minneapolis is that even our richest cities are free to make a

Three points from Adolph Reed's speech, “How the Left Redefined Social Justice: Capitalist Class Power and Inequality from FDR to Obama"

I heard Adolph Reed speak last night about the transformation of the American left since 1945, and afterward, I told Emma, "There's a whole lot of smart on that stage." Like many intelligent thinkers, Reed seems a little uncomfortable when he's reading, but his content makes up for that. But a lot of the fun comes with his asides and afterward, when he's dealing with questions.

Now, I didn't

On black racism, and Adolph Reed Jr.'s comment about Derrick Bell, father of Critical Race Theory

Adolph Reed Jr. is speaking today at Macalester College. Googling for details, I came acrossOn the “New Jim Crow”: An Interview With Adolph Reed. Reed said,

I remember I was at a conference a number of years ago at Harvard Law School when Derrick Bell was still on the faculty there. Bell was on a panel at this conference, and he insisted that nothing really had changed for black Americans since

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Freebie Spotlight: Harlem Renaissance 01 | RedEyeCat. Very useful for 1930s items as well as African and African-American characters.

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Link of the day: Seven Myths about the USSR

Seven Myths about the USSR | what's left

Links: one on Feminist Frequency, one on fandom's furious identitarians

Astrogator's Logs » Blog Archive » How Many Swallows Bring Real Spring?by Athena Andreadis:

RH/BS and her acolytes have set back true progressives in SFF by at least a decade and have turned “social justice” into a term of derision even among supporters of change and an apotropaic invocation for those agog to have SFF revert to the circa-fifties Leaden Era. However, of greater concern are those

How the rich make Jesus's teachings meaningless

FromPope Francis Declares Oscar Romero a Martyr for the Faith—but Whose Faith?:

According to the National Catholic Reporter, there is unease with Romero’s case for sainthood among high-ranking prelates, including Benedict XVI, “because of Romero’s embrace of liberation theology, a type of Christian theology that posits that Christ did not just seek liberation from sin but every type of

capitalism joke of the day

John Locke's defense of Basic Income and taxing the rich to help the poor

"God, the lord and father of all has given no one of his children such a property in his peculiar portion of the things of this world, but that he has given his needy brother a right to the surplusage of his goods, so that it cannot justly be denied him when his pressing wants call for it, and therefore, no man could ever have a just power over the life of another by right of property in land or

Thandeka's critique of privilege theory

Two points from Thandeka's "Why Anti-Racism Will Fail":

1. It is not a privilege to not be oppressed. Thandeka wrote:

Imagine that business and government leaders decreed that all left-handed people must have their left hand amputated. Special police forces and armies are established to find such persons and oversee the procedure. University professors and theologians begin to write tracts to