Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with economics
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Tim Barrus: Kansas
I am a communist. All the old bedfellows are the new bedfellows. The one thing we can expect from a deviant is deviance. Tear it up to tear it down. It doesn’t come anymore American than that. Down here in the deep South, the managerial class is the caste that…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am a communist. I’m not sure if this piece of work on the economy, and the rich are selling pencils and apples on Wall Street. Paypal. This piece is not too hopeful. The unhopeful are wetting their panties over an empending recession. I am not that hopeful. No one…
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NYT Readers Respond
TomPennsylvania3h ago @Tim Barrus I assume you substituted “Religion” for “Capitalism” in your ‘opium of the people’s paraphrasing of Marx. Marx’s quote is “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
In order for greed to thrive, there has to be some kind of a culture, or the approximation of one, for greed to thrive in. To pretend capitalism is the breeding ground of morality, is to pretend that a television personality is Santa Claus who goes from house to house,…
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Open Letter to Patricia Cohen, Economist, New York Times
Your analysis of economic survival is just plain wrong. I am writing this from a hospital bed. This bed is a black hole of ruin. American economics is not unlike genocide. It kills with a particular focus. The inevitable confrontation found in the structures of self-created inequality invented by the…