5LL #10 - Student Loan Forgiveness, Radical Black Socialists, Anarchism, Childcare, Anti-Capitalist Strategies
We Must Cancel Everyone's Student Debt, for the Economy's Sake
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine
If the government were to forgive all the student debt it owns (which makes up more than 90 percent of all outstanding student debt), and bought out all private holders of such debt, a surge in consumer demand — and thus, employment and economic growth — would ensue.
How Radical Black Socialists Paved the Way for Andrew Gillum and Other Left Insurgents
Eli Day, In These Times
What black leftists past and present have found is that Milton Friedman was dead serious when he wrote that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” From slavery to slavery by another name in the form of sharecropping and convict-leasing, to the official apartheid of the South and the cloaked apartheid of the North, to the marriage of profit and punishment in the criminal justice system, industry will squeeze profit from wherever it’s easiest to do so. In a country where black people sit on the bottom of pretty much everything, capitalism operates as a system of savage racism.
Anarchy: What It Is and Why Pop Culture Loves It
Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue
In a pop-cultural sense, at least, the idea of anarchy has been characterized by either a middle-fingers-up, no-parents-no-rules punk attitude, or a panicky, more conservative outlook used by national and state sources to represent violent chaos and disorder. Today, we can see an extremely serious, radical leftist political philosophy on T-shirts at Hot Topic.
Every Parent Deserves A Nanny State
Vanessa A. Bee, Current Affairs
Even though our economy benefits from population growth, the state continues to confine the costs of care to nuclear families and the private sector. This toxic dynamic is straining our society’s ability to rear its children. To borrow the words of Nancy Fraser, the democratic-socialist and feminist philosopher, our society is facing a crisis of care. And it is making American parents absolutely miserable.
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today
Erik Olin Wright, Jacobin
Anticapitalism is possible, not simply as a moral stance toward the harms and injustices of global capitalism, but as a practical stance towards building an alternative for greater human flourishing.
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