The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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The Man from Red Vienna, Part II
The great leftist thinker Karl Polanyi correctly observed that democracy cannot survive an excessively free market – and that containing the market is the task of politics. To ignore that truth, he understood, is to court fascism.
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The Man from Red Vienna, Part I
Market society, Karl Polanyi persuasively demonstrated, could only exist because of deliberate government action defining property rights, terms of labor, trade, and finance. “Laissez faire,” he impishly wrote, “was planned.”
