Obama Deplores World Poverty: Welcome to the Theatre of Absurd by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad finian.cunningham@yahoo.com 23 September, 2010 US President Barack Obama is the latest voice from the “great and good” to bemoan the lack of achievement in the United Nation’s Millennium goals, first declared 10 years ago, to drastically reduce world poverty and generate sustainable development. Earlier in the week, former British [...]

Law of Value 3: Das MudPie by Brendan M. Cooney

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ brendanmcooney | May 13, 2010 If you spend any time reading about Marx’s theory of value on the internet you probably will come across some version of this asinine excuse for a critique called “the mudpie argument.” The basic style of the mudpie argument is similar to many advanced by those who know nothing [...]

Law of Value 2: The Fetishism of Commodities by Brendan M. Cooney

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ brendanmcooney | May 05, 2010 This phenomenon where objects have social power, in which things act as if they have a will of their own, is what Marx sought to unravel with his notion of “the fetishism of commodities.” When Marx talked about fetishism he wasn’t talking about whips and chains and leather outfits. [...]

Law of Value 1: Introduction by Brendan M. Cooney

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ brendanmcooney | April 27, 2010 This is a brief Addendum to the Introduction to my Law of Value video series. It gives some advice on how to watch these videos, cautioning to think critically about the way we contextualize information online. Full text at: http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/20..

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson: Winner-Take-All Politics

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ NewAmericaFoundation | September 20, 2010 In Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Jacob S. Hacker of Yale and Paul Pierson of Berkeley argue that America’s money-addicted and change-resistant political system is at the heart of the enormous and rapidly growing income inequality that they [...]