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"Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation"
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Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation
Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the “wealth of nations” to “destroyers of the planet.” In financial market terms, they have become environmental liabilities. It cannot be said, however, that they have also become economic liabilities. The global carbon credit market is heating up — quite like […]

"It has long been understood that the capitalist class has numerous means of functioning as a ruling class via the state, even in the case of a liberal democratic order. On the one hand, this takes the form of fairly direct investiture in the political apparatus through various mechanisms, such as economic and political control of political party machines and the direct occupation by capitalists and their representatives of key posts in the political command structure."

Monthly Review | The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime
John Bellamy Foster revisits and critiques the contention that the U.S. capitalist class is not a “governing” class, or indeed a class-conscious bloc in any sense. However, he writes…

Revolutionary syndicalism is a radical political and economic ideology that developed in the late 19th century and continued to influence the 20th century. Its central aim was to place political and economic power directly in the hands of the working class through the organized strength of trade unions, rather than through traditional parliamentary or state-centered politics.
Emerging from the intersection of Marxist critiques of capitalism and anarchist suspicions of centralized autho…

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