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Global Justice and Participatory Socialism

We live in a world of obscene economic inequality within and between nations. In this essay, I will address what a participatory socialist society[1] would mean for global justice and equity.

A guiding principle is that the quality of life would be the same within and between societies[2].

A goal is global equity, the same quality of life within and between nations (societies), with diversity of cultures, diversity of what is produced, in the kinship sphere, etc.

There is no moral justification for the quality of life being better because one lives in one society rather than another, it is an accident of birth.  Global equity should be a principle of groups and individuals advocating in favor of participatory socialism.,,I am including both the text and the video of my talk. https://znetwork.org/zvideo/global-justice-and-participatory-socialism/


[1] I am using the term, participatory socialist. Many of the authors in this text use the term participatory society. The difference is over terminology, not over the vision.

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Trump’s Tax Scam, the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act.

Here is the edited and written-up version of the presentation I gave at Traditions Cafe at the Economics for Everyone Event in Olympia Washington on January 31st, 2018. It appears in the March 2018 issue of Works in Progress. Thanks to Keely Miller for her editing of my talk.Analysis of Trump’s 2017 Tax Bill and 2018 Budget Proposal

Recent Writings on the Economy

Here are three articles that Robin Hahnel and I wrote in Summer, 2010 on the continuing high unemployment problems faced by working people in most countries, and the the negative effects of their restrictive fiscal  policies. We explain why these harmful programs are usually promoted by these governments chief economics and political advisers. Read our commentaries in the 2010 section of this website at My Writings page.