Ironically we don’t officially celebrate these great Americans workers who struggled and often died to bring us the 8 hour work week. This major chapter in history and the critical role these mostly socialist and anarchist heroes played in “making America great” is willfully suppressed in the education system. Again: without these revolts and strikes in the late 1800s, the US wouldn’t have become the industrial/technological powerhouse that it did. The crisis in which we are today is primarily due to reversing that and turning against the working people of America!
Posts Tagged ‘history’
“Economists afraid of ethics?” (macrobusiness.com.au)
Posted: 2013/04/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: ethics, history, justice, moral philosophy, political-economy
“Economists afraid of ethics?” (macrobusiness.com.au)
you know we (the economics profession) were not always such scum-bags. Back in the 19th century political-economists (that’s how we called ourselves then… in the 18th c. we were “moral-philosophers”) were at the forefront of the struggle for the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women, universal suffrage, etc.
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Show #26 on the Iron Lady (Maggie Thatcher)
Posted: 2013/04/20 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in PodcastsTags: austerity, culture, democracy, history, propaganda, radical, Thatcher, women
With Jay Gordon. No we didn’t break out in song from The Wizard of Oz… but almost haha
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Venezuela Key indicators: before & after Chavez
Posted: 2013/04/15 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: Bolivarian revolution, history, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, propaganda, radical, socialism, socialist, Venezuela
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‘Obey’: Film Based on Chris Hedges’ ‘Death of the Liberal Class’
Posted: 2013/04/14 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: Chris Hedges, history, propaganda
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