Quote of the day - 03-19-2022

Emanuel Pastreich

... a fundamental shift, in ideology and the economy, as opposed to incremental or progressive change, is precisely what we need today.

We can, and we must, consider what the leftist traditions of economics, politics and social policy were. We must think deeply about what worked, and what did not work, among the experiments undertaken in those revolutions. Remember that many of the experiments from the Soviet Union inspired the regulated economy implemented in the United States during the New Deal of the 1930s.

The trillions of dollars stolen by the billionaires over the last two years, and the even greater sum stolen through inflation, through the destruction of work by multinational corporations over the last twenty years, this theft has fundamentally altered the structure of our society.

We cannot return to a healthy society unless we radically redistribute the wealth from the super-rich to ordinary citizens.