![]() ![]() “A more democratic government is the only way I can imagine doing the big, coordinated things needed to fight the virus, save the planet, solve the housing crisis, make us all feel safe, and more,” says Jeremy Mohler. A debate between author Donald Cohen and Charlie Sykes. “Should the government really be run like a business, or just be run really well?” asks William Kristol’s The Bulwark podcast. ![]() The New Deal reforms … were never truly consolidated as an integral part of a new economic order or ideology.’” Writing in the 1980s, as Reagan was reversing the New Deal, Hirschman observed, ‘Today, of course, we can appreciate the high cost of Roosevelt’s maneuver. As Albert Hirschman pointed out, FDR sold his reforms as merely pragmatic. ![]() ![]() (…) A weakness of the American liberal tradition, even at its apex under FDR, was that it was disconnected from a comprehensive critique of capitalism as a system. What’s at work here is yet another realm of the relentless encroachment of capitalism as a system. “Here again, it’s important to appreciate that this tendency is not just ‘privatization,’ a neutral-sounding term that suggests well-intentioned policy strategies that sometimes went awry. The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner calls The Privatization of Everything a comprehensive and depressing guide. ĭonald also joined public banking advocates Ellen Brown and Walt McCree for an in-depth discussion of the new book on privatization and on “how they have done it and how that process can be reversed.” Last Wednesday, Donald joined labor historian Joe McCartin for a discussion of the book’s case for reclaiming real freedom, redefining our public values, and putting them to work for our common good.
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