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Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known.
Awareness
Anthony de Mello
The transformation of economics into a discipline fixated on the development of formalised mathematical models has allowed it to present itself as what Chernomas and Hudson call ‘a non-ideological discipline, aimed at providing positive, scientific answers to the policy questions’.
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
Most fundamental to each GND in the Euro-American sphere, is its relationship to capitalism and imperialism: Are these agendas for governing capitalism, or for destroying it? If the answer is the former, pragmatism and realism can become firehoses dousing in despair the flames of revolutionary hope. If the answer is the latter, as it should be, then questions of “realism” should be dismissed as ideological counterinsurgency against those who not merely hope for, but need, a better world.
A People’s Green New Deal
Max Ajl
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