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Given the role of Britain, the United States and various European countries in facilitating illicit flows by building and maintaining the global tax haven system, and in light of the role that the WTO plays in making it difficult for customs officials to clamp down on mispricing, it seems a bit strange that rich countries appear in corruption-free yellow on the Transparency International map.
As Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby point out on their podcast Code Switch, __while migrants and people of colour are regularly expected to ‘get’ white cultural references without explanation, any reference to the cultures of racialised groups is expected to come with an explanation, thereby reminding listeners or readers of who is centred and who is marginal.__
Arguing for a Better World
Arianne Shahvisi
Redistributive reforms can certainly be a helpful means for political change under capitalism. But even in order to understand the substantial challenges that our redistributive reforms will encounter—and to conceive our political strategies in relation to those challenges—we need to grasp the contradictions that are inherent in the capitalist production of wealth.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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