Worker wages come from money they generate You’ve probably heard that business owners provide their workers with a job and a salary. Here’s why that framing of our current economic system is misleading.

Worker wages come from money they generate
You’ve probably heard that business owners provide their workers with a job and a salary. Here’s why that framing of our current economic system is misleading

Worker wages come from money they generate

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NO, DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A FASCIST and we are in no danger of democracy ending

NO, DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A FASCIST and we are in no danger of democracy ending What is this “fascism” we hear so much about lately? Wikipedia tells us Fascism is a far right, authoritarian and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism and Marxism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left-right spectrum. If we ask Bulgarian Communist Party chairman and general secretary of the Communist International Georgi Dimitrov, fascism is the open terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital....

DISORGANIZED LABOR – or, why America’s unions can’t – or won’t – organize this country’s workers

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