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Driving around Manhattan in your personal car unless circumstances totally compel it is completely crazy*; there are people who do it, but I think they’re weird. However, the Journal isn’t reflecting the attitudes of people who drive around Manhattan; it’s reflecting the attitudes of people who are driven around Manhattan.
The Empire largely disintegrated in the early 20th century, but—surprisingly—the Sun hasn’t technically set on it yet.
The Bangladeshis are capable of doing their own labour organising; what they need is political backing to do so. What is also needed, then, is clear-cut opposition not to this or that retailer, but to the system that produces pockets of low-wage economies in the south in order to feed a system of debt-fuelled consumption in the north. None among us is against global connections, but it is high time we put our minds to work to reject neoliberal globalisation.
— Vijay Prashad - Bangladeshi workers need more than boycotts
We will run next year because the alternative is too awful to contemplate.
No, you will not get a job—not because, like Kafka’s mouse, you went in the “wrong” direction, but because today’s academic job market is a “market” in the sense that one stall selling fiddlehead ferns in the middle of a strip mall is a “farmer’s market.” In the place of actual jobs are adjunct positions: benefit-free, office-free academic servitude in which you will earn $18,000 a year for the rest of your life.
10 key tips that I’ve found work 100% of the time to increase your odds of startup success. Try to execute on as many of these as you can!
— Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success - Anil Dash
Back To The Land (by MenageATwang)
In its 14 years in power, Chavez’s administration was at once authoritarian and democratic, crudely demagogic and genuinely participatory. History is messy like that.
El Presidente was part of a long line of Latin American populists, the left-wing variety of which has always attracted cheering fanboys. And for good reason: it’s the fiery rhetoric of Italian fascism tempered by the warm and fuzzy egalitarian core of Scandinavian socialism. And Chavez lived up to some of those socialist ambitions: He was more committed to redistributing wealth and power than just about any Latin American leader who came before him. His government reduced extreme poverty by 70 percent. Millions got reliable healthcare and a decent education for the first time, and attempts were made to construct community councils and other organs of direct democracy.
Heems - “Soup Boys” (Official Music Video) (by pitchforktv)
In this study, Ethan Earle, project manager at the New York office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, provides what might be the first detailed account of the history of Occupy Wall Street, from its beginnings to its current state. This work is an important contribution to a complex and fast-developing conversation over how and why Occupy happened and what will become of it. Earle gives the reader a strong framework through which to understand the movement and develop his or her own ideas about its legacy and its future. By drawing attention to Rosa Luxemburg’s own dialectic of spontaneity and organization, he also comes up with timely suggestions regarding the direction the movement should take.
— A BRIEF HISTORY OF OCCUPY WALL STREET | ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG
