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My spouse was looking at the label of a very old stuffed toy from her childhood. There it was, the ILGWU label. The song in the TV commercial from our childhood immediately sprang to our minds. “Look for the union label …” Here is that commercial from 1978. “. . . when you […]
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Excerpts from How We Are and How We Got Here: A Practical History of Western Philosophy. British Reform Movement Significant developments in social philosophy and social reform took place in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a progressive series of laws beginning in […]
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Capitalism is an economic system that has both passionate defenders and fierce critics. But both sides in the debates over capitalism’s beneficial and harmful affects tend to conflate capitalism with free enterprise. Much of the defense of capitalism takes the positives of free enterprise and incorrectly attributes them to capitalism […]
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Sam Pizzigati is an author who writes extensively about wealth, taxation, and the struggles of working people. Recently he penned an interesting article for CommonDreams.com, How Progressives Can Fix the Progressive Income Tax. In his latest article, Pizzigati discusses the growing call, sparked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for a sharp […]
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Paulo Freire on Social Conflict Paulo Freire is a Brazilian philosopher of education. Those on the Right would call him a “radical” because he believes that poor people shouldn’t be exploited and children should be taught to think creatively and critically. For Freire, oppression and education are linked–the more you […]
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Ad Blockers You wouldn’t take a book from a book store without paying for it or sneak in and out of a movie theater to watch a film without paying. Well, maybe you would, but if you ever did those things that would make you a thief. One of the […]
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One thing that most Leavers and Remainers can agree on is that the Brexit process has been a mess. Who is to blame for that mess is as contentious an argument as Brexit itself. To understand why Brexit happened and also why the Brexit process has been in disarray, I […]
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Dr. Cornel West on Justice Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. – Dr. Cornel West African-Americans have been fighting for justice for a long, long time. Dr. West is one of the champions. I have long admired Dr. West, using some of his writings in […]
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“Thinking the Contemporary”, with Mogobe Ramose Mogobe Ramose Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Africa (UNISA), in Pretoria. He is a Philosopher and a leading figure introducing and debating African philosophy and the Ethics of Ubuntu. African philosophy is largely underexplored and widely unappreciated by the rest of […]
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