People Voted Communist Because…
Italy had the largest communist party in Western Europe. Why did ordinary people vote communist? What did they believe in?
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The Minefield of Historical Communism
What does the experience of historical communism imply about modern politics and about possibilities in the future?
Read more...Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?
How Do Countries ’Get to Denmark‘?
Read more...A 21st-Century Form of Indentured Servitude Has Already Penetrated Deep into the American Heartland
Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them.
Read more...Rising from the Ashes, a Buffalo Suburb Ends its Dependence on Coal
Environmental, labour, and community efforts meshed in working-class Tonawanda to create plan for future after its coal-fired plant closed.
Read more...Poverty, Crime and Causality
A Swedish study has some novel findings on the relationship between crime and poverty.
Read more...Bill Black: Those to Blame for the Grenfell Fire Victims Include Tony Blair
The victims of Grenfell were condemned to death by an ideology and a rejection of science and the value of human life that captured the Tories, Lib-Dems, and “New Labor.”
Read more...Lee Camp: Here’s Why There Is No Legitimate Healthcare Debate In This Country
A righteous rant about why the way Americans have been propagandized to think about healthcare is a travesty.
Read more...Photographs from Grenfell Tower
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I said I had some things to do before I left London; one of them was to go see if I could take some photographs of Grenfell Tower. We don’t normally do photo essays at Naked Capitalism, but since I was on the spot, I thought it made sense. The […]
Read more...George Washington: Special Prosecutor Mueller Is a Political Hack
Robert Mueller epitomizes what is wrong with the Washington establishment.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Collapsing Social Contract
Tracing the trajectory of social breakdown in the US.
Read more...The Universal Basic Income Discussion
Kicking the tires on various Universal Basic Income proposals.
Read more...Nina Turner: Wall St. Democrats vs. Working Class Democrats
A wide-ranging discussion with Nina Turner from the People’s Summit in Chicago.
Read more...EU Competition Commissioner Vestager Targets Unaccountable Facebook Algos as Threat at Launch of New “Pro-Democracy” Movement
Facebook is finally getting some long overdue, serious pushback.
Read more...Unsafe at Any Speed Redux: Pinto and Takata Recalls Compared
Pathetic pace of recall of vehicles with defective airbags shows the scant progress made since the first response to Unsafe at Any Speed.
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