Crows Outside
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'... a spaciousness in which things appear to happen, things which have no significance or meaning of any kind...'
🤦♂️ Ostensibly serious people believe the US/NATO are going to use Azerbaijan and/or Armenia as "the next Ukraine" to administer a strategic defeat to Russia and/or Iran. This is over-the-top silly talk. At the start of 2022, Ukraine possessed the most powerful military in…
Capitalist nations enrich and protect capital. Governments are captured. Always have been. This is bow it works. It's not an immutable law. It is an oligarch, capitalist hand out to the wealthy. Now think about it.
… Denis Healey co-founded the Bilderberg Group, sat on the steering committee and attended more meetings than any other British politician, including the ’73 meeting where oil price rises were agreed… creating the inflation leading to the unnecessary IMF loan in 1976…
Well it can be a difficult task and I can only claim limited success really. What I try to do is describe MMT in Marxist terms. So for example MMT explains that taxation legitimizes the currency and makes it widely accepted as a means of payment in society. 1/
🇫🇷 French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd: "Our Russophobia has nothing to do with Russia itself. It's a fantasy, a pathology of Western societies, an internal need to imagine a Russian monster. When speaking about Russia, the leaders of France, Great Britain,…
Slavery wasn’t a glitch, it was startup capital. The foundations of capitalism were fertilized with forced labor, colonized land, and racial violence. Markets didn’t abolish slavery. They industrialized it. Then called it freedom.
Reform target this ‘waste’ argument at public services, which are severely underfunded in the first place! Austerity is the issue. Decades of austerity. They never say that the central govt could stop ‘wasting’ £s on gilt interest, defence, privatisation. @reformparty_uk
Firing two shots into your head, that's a first ! However, one has to wonder; did he do this before or after he hanged himself ? Get the impression yet that Trump is desperate ?
Utter bollocks. Govt could nationalise for pennies. It doesn’t need to take money from any other budget, it issues the £, it’s own free-floating fiat currency, it has an infinite supply of £, it can never run out or go bust. Ever. What HMgov is short of is sense and morals.
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
I'm all for a resurgence of public ownership, but this is absolute fekkin bollocks. x.com/garyseconomics…
If the government keeps losing its wealth the welfare state is over. On @LBC just now.
No, sorry. You’ll have to fuck off. Sorry about that.
House hunting in Ireland.
Join the comrades of the Class Consciousness Project next Wednesday at 7PM for an exploration of the con games of Jeremy Corbyn and his band of fraudsters. youtube.com/watch?v=USRI55…
I think Marxists can learn a lot from Mmt but the reverse is also true & to a larger degree. Crucially the capitalist state understands perfectly its monetary capacity but it fundamentally represents the class who benefit from the deception that money is a scare resource.
From Jonathan Trigg’s ‘Death in Derry.’ Jonathan was a serving British soldier in the North.
Yes, that’s my point. We are ruled by a plutocratic oligarchy. Gary is allowed on TV because his views will do nothing to upset that. If he talked sense he wouldn’t be allowed in front of a camera for long.
"Borrowing - the difference between public spending and tax income.... ". This is from @BBCNews, our national broadcaster, to which we pay a license fee. It's complete crap. The government spends money into existence first by issuing currency from its central bank, either by…