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Episode 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields

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Grumpy Jules @grumpyjules.bsky.social · 12h

#Capitalism suffers from psychosocial pathologies, and by blaming the marginalized, it inevitably paves the way for #fascism in our society. @austerityismurder.bsky.social & @profdavidfields.bsky.social

David Fields talks about 3 cultural syndromes of capitalism: gain primacy syndrome, zero-sum rivalry syndrome, and ownership syndrome.

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 22h

The confluence of profit redirection from the real economy towards financialization and the simultaneous erosion of social protections fundamentally engenders human deprivation.

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Securing Profit: Neoliberalism as a Structural Mechanism for Human Insecurity

By Adem Yavuz Elveren and David Fields

From Managerialism to Crisis: The Shock Doctrine of US Municipal Finance

David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to deserving persons, like the journalists of Gaza or Sumud Flotilla Activists, in particular Greta Thunberg, it is given to a right wing, US funded, Venezuelan Zionist who has tirelessly worked to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · May 21

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 1d

Recurring fiscal crises afflicting U.S. municipalities are neither isolated nor accidental occurrences; rather, they constitute a deliberate political strategy engineered to achieve specific, capitalist class-based outcomes.

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 4d

Inequality is the modus operandi of the economy.
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On Economic Inequality

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Northwestern University expressing concern about its flawed compulsory anti-bias training and its threats against students who refuse to complete it Henry S. Bienen Interim President, Northwestern University [email protected] Dear President Bienen and Colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle […]

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 5d

My latest post…...https://annpettifor.substack.com/

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 7d

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 7d

Fair Trade ostensibly presents itself as an oppositional force, aiming to forge direct, more equitable international trading partnerships. Alas, it constitutes an illusory promise, which ultimately reinforces unequal exchange.
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The Fair Trade Movement: An Illusory Promise

A Short Note on Business Competition

David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 8d

The conventional conception of business competition postulates a static, zero long-run rate of profit. This is fallacious.

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A Short Note on the Fed Rate Cut

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 10d

A graphical summary of Nicos Poulantzas argument about the rise of totalitarianism in Italy and Germany in his book Fascism & Dictatorship. The graphic is from Dylan Riley's brilliant forward to the book. It is hauntingly familiar, and almost echoes in our own time.

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 23d

I have an essay in the latest issue of New Labor Forum.

The whole issue looks great… especially the @cgmaisano.bsky.social article on the future(lessness) of conservative leftism.

Thanks to @micahuetricht.bsky.social for the editing help!

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 23d

This recent Fed rate cut credit will primarily facilitate short-term investments and benefit capital positions, as opposed to stimulating the real economy, owing to insufficient effective demand.

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By David Fields,

The Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism

David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 24d

The prevailing atmosphere of widespread frustration, cynicism, and despair is not a series of disconnected or random events. Rather, it represents a direct and causal consequence of the anomie inherent in capitalism.

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Weakening U.S. Labor Market: A Long-Run Confluence of Monetary and Fiscal Austerity

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 25d

The housing crisis in America won’t be solved by more markets or endlessly tinkering with the fine print in the zoning laws. If we want our cities filled with working people rather than empty second homes, consider what the socialists of Paris are doing. From The Big Read at the @financialtimes.com:

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Tansel Güçlü @tanselguclu.bsky.social · Sep 7

Güne Fields'tan bir okuma önerisi hediye etmiş olalım. Kendisi bizde de epey meşhur ve dillere pelesenk "maliye politikası para politikasına eşlik etmiyor" şarlatanlığına dair de iyi bir tablo hazırlamış.

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward to this discussion with comrades that are familiar with the German socialization debates ca 1919 and the calculation debates a decade or so later. Excited to learn something new.

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · Sep 5

The current weakness of the US labor market, as manifested by a four year high in the official unemployment rate, which excludes discouraged workers, constitutes a long-run expected outcome of monetary & fiscal austerity.

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Summary

Praxis Reimagined: Theory and Action for the 21st Century

David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · Sep 4

The world is characterized by a multifaceted crisis of systemic exploitation. It’s not isolated but resonates across all societal strata, Amidst this widespread distress, an undercurrent of revolutionary impetus endures.

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Economic Growth and Instability

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Matías Vernengo @nakedkeynes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Old @nytimes.com headline of a fight between the President and the Fed. This was before the Treasury-Fed Accord of 1951. Eccles was for supporting of fiscal expansion in the '30s, providing a guarantee for the 2.5 interest on long-term bonds, and then for independence, after he was demoted by Truman

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · Aug 22

Positing the economy as a demand-led, inherently unstable system constrained not by a static productive capacity but by its own structural contradictions, offers a far more accurate understanding of macroeconomic dynamics.

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By David Fields,

The US Constitution: A Reactionary Foundation for Fascism

David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · Aug 20

The US Constitution is revered like the Bible. Far from an emblematic celebration of democracy, it is a foundational social and ideological document whose reactionary origins have enabled a uniquely US trajectory of fascism.
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