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on Keynesianism

[...] The democratic state should regulate the market and harness its powers towards desired social ends, securing economic stability and improving living standards. The market should be made to serve society, not the other way round. This new system relied on a class compromise between capital and…

—p.108 The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Four (104) by Jason Hickel
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more than just a list of crimes

It is tempting to see this as just a list of crimes, but it is much more than that. These snippets of history hint at the contours of a world economic system that was designed over hundreds of years to enrich a small portion of humanity at the expense of the vast majority. By the early part of the …

—p.101 Three (65) by Jason Hickel
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they died in the golden age of Liberal Capitalism inspo/anti-capitalism

The Indian famines of the late 19th century were not a natural disaster, as the British insisted at the time. They were the predictable consequence of imposing a foreign market logic that saw fit to eliminate basic human food security and sacrifice tens of millions of people in the service of profi…

—p.88 Three (65) by Jason Hickel
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the evitability of the Irish potato famine

[...] What made this famine so appalling was that it was completely avoidable; it would never have happened if peasants had retained full rights to their ancestral land, where they would have had plenty of space to produce a diversity of crops. In other words, the scarcity that led to the famine wa…

—p.83 Three (65) by Jason Hickel