Ret Col. Professor Larry Wilkerson examines the danger signs from Republicans’ abridging of voting rights to Trump’s racist and violent exhortations, which make our democracy vulnerable
Source: Is US Democracy Dying a Slow and Barely Visible Death?
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‘Fiasco for Democracy’ as Right-Wing Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering
Critics call ruling a “nightmare scenario for voting rights” with negative impacts that are “hard to overstate”
Whose Democracy?: An Introduction to Oligarchy in the United States
Whose Democracy?: An Introduction to Oligarchy in the United States
Democracy Faces a Global Crisis
Source: Democracy Faces a Global Crisis
Capitalism Versus Democracy
What this signals, for those to whom it isn’t yet obvious, is that there are no circumstances short of revolution that will move the Democrats from service to their rich patrons. Given the stakes of environmental crisis, deaths of despair overtaking the hinterlands and military inclinations pushing the U.S. toward wars it can’t win, Democrats are signaling that they would rather go down with the U.S.A. Titanic than offer up the solutions being put forward by young socialists.
Source: Capitalism Versus Democracy
DMNC: communist economies more efficient than capitalist?
Despite its reputation for basket case economics the idea of communism (socialism) as in our ‘democratic market neo-communism’ should be able to create far more efficient economies than pure capitalism. We need at each point to qualify the terms /communism/socialism/ to some key specifics: the issue of democracy and authority, the issue economics in practice, e.g. socialist markets and planning and the creation of a Commons. The prospect of affluence as the climate crisis deepens has little in the way of guarantee…
