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Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Anyone who denies this statement is just willfully blind. But, it turns out, when you are focused on your ideology and not on real life, it’s pretty easy to end up being willfully blind. I’m really not casting aspersions on the ethics or motivations of people who believe in socialist solutions — I believe in some of those myself — but it’s crucial to face reality head-on. So, let me just justify statistically my statement about the SA’s tax rate and the level of its services, because it’s relevant later on.  I suspect the best international...

Top 0.5% are getting rich from Covid-19 crisis. Tax them! - economist 4 February 2021 3:21 PM Share This: "You can’t have a small minority living as if they are tourists here,” says economist Dick Forslund. RELATED: Calls for a special tax on the superrich are incessant and growing louder, not only in South Africa but around the world. In the United States this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren joined a US Senate committee on tax, giving her much power to influence decisions in this regard. Warren - who ran against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary - campaigned on the idea...

January 7, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Verso — The sudden death our friend and comrade Leo Panitch has led to an extraordinary outpouring of sadness and appreciation across the world. Very few intellectuals on the left have had the intellectual impact on progressive thinkers and activists that Leo has had, as the flood of testimonials shows; and fewer still have in addition personally trained a comparable network of scholars of the highest calibre who are now carrying forward his distinctive project of critical – and self-critical – r...

In Appreciation of Leo Panitch The sudden death our friend and comrade Leo Panitch has led to an extraordinary outpouring of sadness and appreciation across the world. Very few intellectuals on the left have had the intellectual impact on progressive thinkers and activists that Leo has had, as the flood of testimonials shows; and fewer still have in addition personally trained a comparable network of scholars of the highest calibre who are now carrying forward his distinctive project of critical – and self-critical – research and teaching in dozens of countries. Leo also combined researc...

The democrats are not substance the engaged in problem solving on the issue at the border. but still the media continues to carry the water for them. but when reporters begin acting like pundits, kellyanne conway showed us yesterday exactly how they should be treated. >> can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? will he tell the truth? >> yes, can you promise that you will? the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god. make sure that goes viral. this is why i'm one of the only people around here who even gives you the time of day. let me get back in your fac...