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		<title>Debt jubilee: Revolutionary change or reform to stabilize capitalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debt has been a crucial lever in implementing austerity, both as an instrument and a moral cudgel. Eliminating debt, private and public, would have transformative effects — but would doing so be revolutionary or merely a reform to stabilize world capitalism? Those are not the only two choices, of course, and the mere thought of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=335&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greece’s depression is IMF’s idea of ‘progress’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund congratulated itself last week for the splendid job it is doing in Greece, declaring the country “is making progress in overcoming deep-seated problems.” With an unemployment rate of 27.2 percent, an economy that has shrunk by at least 20 percent and children going hungry, one has to shudder at the thought [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=332&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austerity or Keynesianism: Can’t we do better than this?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austerity. Keynesianism. Voting for the Center-Right. Voting for the Center-Left. Let’s call the whole thing off. Five years of the economic crisis has yet to shake the stubborn idea that, if only the right policy were implemented, prosperity would be here again. And so this week’s two turns of the electoral wheel — agreement on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=328&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ding Dong! Thatcherism and sexism are alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a deep ambivalence over the playing of the song “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” to commemorate the death of Margaret Thatcher. I can well understand the desire to rebel against orders by the British right-wing establishment that everyone must celebrate the prime minister’s “accomplishments,” but the exercise in this form is nonetheless [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=321&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror images and ideological straitjackets on the path from Solidarity to sellout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of the 20th century, there was a curious mirror effect between orthodox Soviet and Chicago School ideologies — both saw the other as the only other possible economic system. Although both time and the ongoing global crisis of capitalism has begun to chip away at such a ridiculous binary, to a maddening degree [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=315&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social security cuts: Work until you drop</title>
		<link>http://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/social-security-cuts-work-until-you-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A social movement to preserve Social Security has never been as urgent as it is today. Tempting as it might be to send a dictionary to the White House explaining the difference between “compromise” and “capitulation,” we should not be overly generous — Barack Obama’s intention to gut Social Security is not so much a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=309&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those who do the work in the workplace should get the rewards</title>
		<link>http://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/those-who-do-the-work-in-the-workplace-should-get-the-rewards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Envisioning a better world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooperatives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cooperative enterprise rests on a basic concept — the people who do the work earn the money. Strange, isn’t it, that this straightforward idea is considered radical. It shouldn’t. Yet it is. The modern capitalist system is advertised as a “meritocracy” — those who work the hardest earn the most. In reality, this is a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=systemicdisorder.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32511924&#038;post=306&#038;subd=systemicdisorder&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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