Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with tim-barrus-on-capitalism
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Community Works
I am a communist. I am a communist because I am intimate with poverty. How bad was it. The question isn’t how bad was it. The question is how bad is it now. We are still living in voodoo economics. I am not indolent. I am not a grifter. I…
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Capitalism Has Failed
I am a communist. Marx got it right: “There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.” How do you measure misery. When I am writing in foreign countries, I like to go visit grocery stores. I go…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Capitalism is ruthless. It will take your greed and stuff it down your own stupid throat. Its roots are in patriarchal hierarchy. Capitalism benefits mainly men. It is their hiding place.