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Wolff Responds: "No Level Playing Field for the U.S. Taxpayer" Dated February 25, 2026. Today’s Wolff Responds: Professor Wolff discusses the inherent unfairness of the United States' tax system.

Wolff Responds: "No Level Playing Field for the U.S. Taxpayer" Dated February 25, 2026.
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"Negro Liberation is a guidebook for how Black, oppressed, and degraded peoples can—and must-understand our historical and material conditions and formulate a revolutionary, internationalist, anti-imperialist program against oppression and superexploitation. Alongside radical demands like abolition, land back, US Out of Everywhere, and free Palestine, we must, like Haywood, insist upon the revolutionary imperatives of Black liberation and socialism." -Charisse Burden-Stelly

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

Eunsong Kim on the relationship between art and capitalism (and the reading crisis as class warfare).

Reverend Jesse Jackson's campaigns didn't just make history—they made Barack Obama's presidency imaginable.

CEPR Co-Founder @deanbaker13.bsky.social  shares a heartfelt tribute to Jackson's transformative impact on American politics and economic justice. https://bit.ly/4rrNsCb

"first they came for my property value"

Check out my radio story on this issue of congress stealing our DC taxes as it stood last Friday on our show On the Ground that’s on WPFW! My report’s close to the top of the hour.

Tracing currents from big-bang price liberalization to gradual reform, this account of China’s 1978 opening explores its revolutionary, cultural, and scientific intellectual frameworks. Weber’s analysis reveals the building blocks of a new society, critiquing US military Keynesianism. 危机

Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way.

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

A White Historian Claimed That Black People 'Had No History.' This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a "li...

A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise

Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as #BlackHistoryMonth in 1926.
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This was really fun. What would finishing Reconstruction in ethical relationship with Indigenous folks on Turtle Island look like?
Black Wall Street won’t save us. Wall Street was built by enslaved people to keep Indigenous people out. It is why it is still called Wall Street.

[Column] American democracy is dying, and masked agents are killing it Anonymity is a tool for skirting accountability from the public

Korea's Hankyoreh rightly compares Yoon's attempted coup to ICE ops. "Why did Korean troops try to stay anonymous during martial law? We find our answer in an unexpected place: the way America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol operate." english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

More here: www.nationalacademies.org/read/18613/c...

Top Democratic groups urge party to shed soft-on-crime image, hire police The Center for American Progress wants Democrats ‘on their front foot’ talking about crime, an issue where Republicans have long held the advantage.

The National Academy Sciences documented in its 2014 report, “The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences
2014” that increased police contact in the 1980s was a driver of mass incarceration 1/2

Globalization produced a global hierarchy in economic complexity under both 19th century style imperialism & neoliberalism. What countries exported at the turn of the 20th ct still matters for what they exported at peak globalization. The vast majority chase behind rather than catching up.

Put the exhibit up somewhere else in the city.

You can read the entire exhibit in this zine created by @literaturegeek.bsky.social - zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...

The city of Philly should make tons of copies & distribute everywhere esp local schools, libraries etc...

Rebecca Hall Reflects on Her Father’s Groundbreaking Book, Negro Liberation My dad, Harry Haywood, wrote Negro Liberation in 1948, fifteen years before I was born. I was with him when he died at eighty-seven, on my twenty-second birthday. That was forty years ago. I am wri…

Rebecca Hall Reflects on Her Father’s Groundbreaking Book, Negro Liberation

“Being a child of a famous Communist father, who had me when he was older than I am now, is a strange thing.”
lithub.com/rebecca-hall...

Don’t look to Germany for an analogy. The Minneapolis nightmare is uniquely American. - The Boston Globe In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is.

Don’t look to Germany for an analogy. The Minneapolis nightmare is uniquely American | @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social

In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...

All in On California’s Big Tax on Billionaires California activists are pushing a retroactive wealth tax on billionaires, raising revenue hopes—and fears of evasion and legal challenges.

California's wealth tax on billionaires is the right idea, but we should be focused on structuring the market differently so that it doesn't give is billionaires cepr.net/publications...

Warren Mosler to Robin Brooks on Japan's Fiscal Situation Early this morning, I took a break from working on my book to trade text messages with Warren Mosler, the canonical “father” of MMT.

My latest, with a big lift from @wbmosler.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Wake Productions Harry Haywood’s Negro Liberation is Back!

My Dad’s book, Negro Liberation, is back! It comes out tomorrow.
I read the Forward, that I wrote for it. I want to dedicate this reading to the people of Minneapolis, and Chicago, and Philadelphia, and

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MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 43 Cities Across U.S. At least 43 cities plan to hold actions in solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike

Looks like momentum for Friday's general strike against ICE is growing paydayreport.com/minneap/?ref...

Die gleichen Preise treiben die Inflation und die Ungleichheit: Grundbedürfnisse wie Energie, Lebensmittel und Wohnen sind entscheidend.

Daraus folgt: Wenn Regierungen diese Preise stabilisieren, schlagen sie zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe: Inflation & Ungleichheit.

The brilliance of the film lies in how it juxtaposes the mundane, everyday forms of violence in the first half with the spectacular violence of the second—contrasting the disavowed horror of systemic racism with the avowed horror of visceral affect.

Socialism in Cedric Robinson’s work, well preceded Marxism, is the rebellion against abuses of power for which capitalism emerges in response

In Wolff’s frame, socialism emerges from Marxism aiming for worker appropriation of surplus & to end the employer-employee relation, the crux of exploitation

NO ONE WAY WORKS, it will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down. Diane di Prima

Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:

‘People saw dollar signs’: a year after devastating wildfires, an LA community is fighting displacement As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we’re witnessing ‘climate gentrification’

‘People saw dollar signs’: a year after devastating wildfires, an LA community is fighting displacement

As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we’re witnessing ‘climate gentrification’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren... | @bostonreview.bsky.social

Indeed, for the revolutionaries, the war of maneuver is not about the revolt itself but the consciousness behind it, particularly their vision of a new society.

We’re Paying the Tariffs #53,464 New import price data show Trump’s tariffs are raising US prices, with consumers and businesses paying—not China or other exporters.

The money on Trump's tariff shelf came from our pockets
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