[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Nationalism

Tea Party Nationalism By Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP http://www.teapartynationalism.com/ We know the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will. That is why the NAACP-an organization that has worked to expose and combat racism in all its

[Marxism-Thaxis] French Protesters Have It Right: No Need to Increase Retirement Age

French Protesters Have It Right: No Need to Increase Retirement Age By Mark Weisbrot 10/21/2010 12:55 PM Center for Economic and Policy Research Originally published by The Guardian Unlimited (UK) October 20, 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/20/france-protest

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Wall Comes Tumbling Down

The Wall Comes Tumbling Down http://www.thenation.com/blog/155437/wall-comes-tumbling-down Greg Kaufmann October 18, 2010 At a news conference on a farm outside of Immokalee in southwest Florida, Jon Esformes, operating partner of the fourth-generation, family-owned Pacific Tomato Growers—one o

[Marxism-Thaxis] Argument for historical existence of barter

One way to infer, perhaps, that much of historical commodity exchange is barter or without money is to consider that general use of paper as money is historically recent . So, the money of most of the time of history is gold or valuable metal. Only a limited amount of coins would have been minted