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Joe Guinan
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Blackburn-Irish exile in the imperial metropolis · President of @democracycollab.bsky.social · There are real alternatives · Views strictly personal
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Nov 9
Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations and extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 24d
The belly flop is the signature move of this government. “Phase two of my government starts today,” Keir Starmer intoned on 1 September, signalling little more, it turned out, than his own hubris.

A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...
Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face | Novara Media
Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan...
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University of Wisconsin Press @uwiscpress.bsky.social · Jul 14
The first event of @pelledragsted.bsky.social's U.S. tour for his book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, is coming up August 1: @politicsprose.bsky.social will host Dragsted and @joecguinan.bsky.social @democracycollab.bsky.social. Details: politics-prose.com/pelle-dragsted
At the top, a banner with repeating thumbnail images of the cover of NORDIC SOCIALISM, set at an angle. Then, photos of Pelle Dragsted and Joe Guinan. Then text that reads "Pelle Dragsted & Joe Guinan in conversation, August 1, 2025, 7 PM. Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, DC.
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · May 28
Everywhere we look there are new tripwires being laid, actions by the Trump Administration that could easily serve as the proximate cause or trigger of a financial crisis that could cause a chain reaction ending in a great crash. www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/a-grea...
A Great Trump Crash? — The Democracy Collaborative
Everywhere we look there are new tripwires being laid, actions by the Trump Administration that could easily serve as the proximate cause or trigger of a financial crisis that could cause a chain reac...
www.democracycollaborative.org
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · Apr 17
Check out this recent episode of @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social with @joecguinan.bsky.social of @democracycollab.bsky.social
#democracyatwork #educate #agitate #organize #redneckgonegreen @democracyatwork.bsky.social
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David K/ Cobb @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social · Mar 24
Join us Live!
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Redneck Gone Green with Joe Guinan
YouTube video by Democracy At Work
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Apr 14
For more on the Doctrine of High Wages and the industrializing economic strategy of the American School, see Michael Hudson’s book ‘America’s Protectionist Takeoff, 1815-1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy.’
book cover of ‘America’s Protectionist Takeoff, 1815-1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy.’ Back cover of Michael Hudson’s book ‘America’s Protectionist Takeoff, 1815-1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy.’
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Apr 14
Trump’s “cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place.” —Michael Hudson www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...
Return of the Robber Barons — The Democracy Collaborative
Donald Trump is promoting a false narrative of what made America’s nineteenth century industrialization so successful. Instead of supporting a regrowth of U.S. industry, the effect of Trump’s tariffs ...
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Democracy Collaborative @democracycollab.bsky.social · Apr 14
Return of the Robber Barons: read Michael Hudson’s @democracycollab.bsky.social paper on Trump’s tariffs and his inverted understanding of what drove the success of America’s nineteenth-century industrial takeoff. www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...
Return of the Robber Barons — The Democracy Collaborative
Donald Trump is promoting a false narrative of what made America’s nineteenth century industrialization so successful. Instead of supporting a regrowth of U.S. industry, the effect of Trump’s tariffs ...
www.democracycollaborative.org
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · Apr 3
“With all this activity the principles of another, very different economy begins to come into view. Finance in this economy would be put back in the service of people, communities, & the planet.”

Community Wealth Building - @joecguinan.bsky.social
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Creating a just economy through shared ownership — The Democracy Collaborative
Twenty-five years ago, when The Democracy Collaborative was formed, we set about the work of political-economic system change.
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · Mar 24
Don't Miss today's New @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social with @joecguinan.bsky.social of @democracycollab.bsky.social at 6PM ET LIVE on the @democracyatwork.bsky.social #youtube channel here: youtube.com/@democracyat...
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Mar 8
Subscribe here: www.democracycollaborative.org/tracking-the...
Tracking the Crisis - We read the news so you don’t have to.
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Mar 8
If it simply serves us and our close allies in our need for manageable information about the new Trumpian moment, it will have met its purpose, although we are curious to see whether it might reach a wider audience – our tag-line is “We Read The News So You Don’t Have To!”
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Mar 8
With “Tracking the Crisis” we aim to release ourselves and our allies from the debilitating cycle of reactivity to the constant outrage-manufacturing machine, ensuring we keep abreast of developments but aren’t paralyzed or overwhelmed.
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Mar 8
Steve Bannon has been open about this as a strategy: “All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day, we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never be able to recover, but we got to start with muzzle velocities.”
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Mar 8
“Tracking the Crisis” was born of a recognition that part of what we are witnessing is a deliberate strategy to disorient and overwhelm people with the scale of the current political onslaught.
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Mar 8
We are pleased to launch “Tracking the Crisis,” our news aggregator and once-weekly round-up, which tracks the Trump Administration’s administrative, legislative and other actions, as well as an array of movement responses. The link for subscribing is www.democracycollaborative.org/tracking-the...
Tracking the Crisis — The Democracy Collaborative
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Democracy Collaborative @democracycollab.bsky.social · Feb 26
📝 NEW TRAINING: Introduction to Community Wealth Building

Join us to learn about Community Wealth Building as an approach to local economic system change starting in your place and/or community.

Register here ⤵️

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Intro to Community Wealth Building Training — The Democracy Collaborative
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Democracy Collaborative @democracycollab.bsky.social · Feb 26
Last week Minister Tom Arthur told the Scottish Parliament about the irrefutable advantages of Community Wealth Building

TDC’s CWB Global Lead @neilmcinroy.bsky.social continues to promote, develop and advise on the model across Scotland

Scottish CWB legislation is due later this year
Scottish street scene
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Eleanor Finley @eleanorfinley.bsky.social · Feb 26
Join Northern Virginians for the Democratizing NOVA Summit 2025 at George Mason University!
#NorthernVirginia #nextsystem #systemchange @democracycollab.bsky.social #NoVA @georgemasonu.bsky.social
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 23
The ‘centre left’—increasingly aggro-centrist and anti-left—faces a series of deserved extinction-level events in the deepening crises ahead, and it’s imperative that we sever our ties with these liabilities and establish a separate left-populist pole of political attraction offering an alternative.
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 23
The Third Way formulation—neoliberal economics plus status quo establishmentarianism, with tokenistic faux social liberalism ineffectually triangulated away to right-wing authoritarianism—is among the least popular politics there is in this Age of Anger. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
German election live: Conservatives projected to win and far-right AfD in second
Friedrich Merz claims victory for CDU/CSU alliance as incumbent chancellor Scholz concedes defeat; Alternative für Deutschland almost doubles vote share to 20%
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 22
Teddy Roosevelt established the U.S. Forest Service. Trump and Musk are taking their buzzsaw not just to the New Deal and Great Society but to the gains of the Progressive Era when the modern state was established. The Gilded Age Robber Barons are back! www.sfgate.com/california/a...
Federal funding cuts are crushing California's small mountain towns
Calif. mountain towns are surrounded by public lands. They're already dealing with the fallout of cuts to the U.S. Forest Service and land management agencies.
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 22
Super late to this, I know, but the second book is, if anything, even more terrifying and prophetic than the first, with its far right president promising to make America great again—written in 1998. Perhaps dystopian fiction really is serving as a how-to guide for fascists!
Parable of the Talents front cover Parable of the Talents back cover: Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to "make America great again."
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 22
This kleptocratic looting and smashing of America’s federal government will turn out to be as significant as Pinochet-era Chile or post-Soviet firesale privatisation, which gave rise to Russia’s oligarchy. Given that we’re unlikely to go back, where’s the left’s post-Trump theory of the state?
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 22
Teddy Roosevelt established the U.S. Forest Service. Trump and Musk are taking their buzzsaw not just to the New Deal and Great Society but to the gains of the Progressive Era when the modern state was established. The Gilded Age Robber Barons are back! www.sfgate.com/california/a...
Federal funding cuts are crushing California's small mountain towns
Calif. mountain towns are surrounded by public lands. They're already dealing with the fallout of cuts to the U.S. Forest Service and land management agencies.
www.sfgate.com
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · Feb 19
Nice piece for @democracycollab.bsky.social by Joana Ramiro.
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Democracy Collaborative @democracycollab.bsky.social · Feb 19
If Community Wealth Building approaches are to continue to grow and become the foundations of a more sustainable economy, they’ll inevitably come into conflict with existing models of financialization and extraction. A look at offshore wind in Shetland: www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...
The energy sector’s ‘Wind Rush’ risks replicating existing patterns of financialized extraction — The Democracy Collaborative
The Democracy Collaborative’s Neil McInroy has recently chaired a taskforce on incorporating Community Wealth Building approaches into the devel opment of the renewable energy economy in ...
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