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Richard White John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1915. American liberals of the Gilded Age were suspicious of vast corporate wealth, which they saw as a major cause of poverty. / Library of Congress Speaking in New Haven in 1860, Abraham Lincoln told an audience, “I am not ashamed to confess that 25 years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat—just what might happen to any poor man’s son.” After his death, Lincoln’s personal trajectory from log cabin to White House emerged as the ideal American symbol. Anything was possible for those who str...

Summary Over the past three decades, Lebanon’s ruling class—which comprises intertwined political and business elites—has run the country into the ground. To survive its ongoing accumulation of challenges, including the financial crisis that erupted in October 2019, Lebanon requires a revamped state backed by a new economic model with social justice at its core. Tax reform is central to such an endeavor—and to ensuring that the state has the means both to deliver basic services and to tackle poverty and inequality. Key Themes Since 2005, Lebanon has been characterized by extreme inequ...

December 11, 2020 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Voice — More than a century ago, Eduard Bernstein claimed that it was time for socialists to abandon their revolutionary goal of overthrowing capitalism. He argued that the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) should adopt a reformist approach that strictly relied on legal channels, such as elections in which socialism could slowly be voted into power. To support his position, Bernstein cited the authority of Friedrich Engels, who had allegedly reached similar conclusions in one of his last wo...

It's devastating I would hope that when we've completed the age works. You would not get a repeat of the bridge that we saw last year I can guarantee that there wouldn't be any overtopping but you've got to understand is that this event was double what we saw course that devastating floods in 2007 a sick person has died after contracting the corona virus in Italy some northern parts of the country are in lockdown in an effort to contain the virus which has infected more than 200 people many public gatherings and events including the last 2 days of the Venice carnival have been cancelled our R...

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