A Lack of Working-Class Conciousness Among Workers and Some Proposed Solutions, Part One

Introduction My experience with workers has been that workers rarely if ever think about why they and other workers have to work for an employer--they experience a lack of class consciousness. In this series of posts, I am simply going to assemble a series of quotes from various authors about this situation, with my own … Continue reading A Lack of Working-Class Conciousness Among Workers and Some Proposed Solutions, Part One →

Critical Education Articles Placed in the Teacher Staff Lounge While I Was a Teacher, Part Thirty: Financial Literacy in the Context of a Society Dominated by a Class of Employers

This is a continuation of a series of posts on summaries of articles, mainly on education. When I was a French teacher at Ashern Central School, in Ashern, Manitoba, Canada, I started to place critiques, mainly (although not entirely) of the current school system. At first, I merely printed off the articles, but then I … Continue reading Critical Education Articles Placed in the Teacher Staff Lounge While I Was a Teacher, Part Thirty: Financial Literacy in the Context of a Society Dominated by a Class of Employers →

Economics for Social Democrats–but Not for the Working Class, Part One: Critique of Jim Stanford’s One-Sided View of Job Creation in a Capitalist Society

Introduction The title of this post--and the series of posts that will follow--comes from the title of Jim Stanford's book (2008) Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism.  If I remember correctly, perhaps less than a year after I had came to Toronto (in 2013), I heard Mr. Stanford present at … Continue reading Economics for Social Democrats–but Not for the Working Class, Part One: Critique of Jim Stanford’s One-Sided View of Job Creation in a Capitalist Society →

Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Seven

Leer este post en español The following is a continuation of previous posts on the possible nature of socialism that excludes the power of employers as a class. In the following, Tony Smith elaborates on the criteria to be used in the distribution of the flat-rate capital-assets tax, which is the basis for the generation … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Seven →