Socialist writer. Read me at The People's Line at http://www.peoplesline.org. Other links at https://linktr.ee/carlbeijer
Carl Beijer
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NEW: Amartya Sen doesn't just blame the market for the Bengal famine - he blames *faith* in the market. www.peoplesline.org/p/responsibi...
Nice to hear this belatedly from the parapolitics guys, but I distinctly remember these people dogpiling me six years ago when I started warning people that this was an offramp from socialism onto "we need to get rid of the bad apples" liberalism
Not much of evidence of a class-inflected vote for Platner
Growing more and more sus of those pretending “Epstein class” is a class while never uttering “capitalist class”
Just constantly baffled by this. How do so many people come to hate my politics without knowing anything about them?
Matt Yglesias now posting doctored polls. This poll has Bernie Sanders in the lead with +15; Matt just left him off.
static.politico.com/2f/d7/fca11c...
Carl Beijer
Carl Beijer
Anyone who has really grappled with the sheer scale of inequality understands that this is not going to be reined in on a national level. There has to be an international authority for redistribution, and that is exactly what they propose.
Carl Beijer
Still, this is a good start, and I hope that socialists in particular will take this as a challenge and expand on their work.
Socialists will notice some real shortcomings here - most notably, they do not really grapple with the basic point that an international authority is going to have to supercede the property regimes of nation-states. I write about how to wrestle with that here. www.peoplesline.org/p/the-global...
Longtime readers will know that, particularly over the last decade, my writing has been increasingly fixated on the need for socialists to reclaim their old ambitions for a global socialist state.
This, from the World Inequality Lab, is a big step forward.
globaljusticeproject.wid.world
