barack obama: politics of change or politics as usual?

Of the thirteen leading industrial sectors whose political contributions the Center for Responsive Politics tracks, the Republicans led the Democrats in only three (agribusiness, energy, and construction). 12 Even the corporate doyen of neoliberal economics, Wal-Mart, has shifted its contributions from almost..

what is socialism?

Cited in Donald Boudreaux, “Is Barack Obama really a socialist?” Christian Science Monitor, October 30, 2008. . A note on terminology is useful here, given the evolution of the term “social democracy” in the socialist tradition. ..

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Nineteenth century colonialism, as practiced by England, France, and the other nations in Europe, conjoined military conquest with civilian “boots on the ground” designed to administer and transform the social and economic lives of the subjugated people, and then develop a client regime that..

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