Food prices have risen rapidly as a result of disturbances to supply and demand due to the virus and lockdown. Over the past year, I have argued that the economy has headed off towards a hyper-deflation cliff. Despite the recent rise in prices, I stand by that analysis. We saw grocery prices rise nearly 3

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Every year that the government overspends, the tax revenue drawn from the top 1 percent (or whatever percentage of top earners pulls in more than 50% of national income) should increase by twice the deficit. That would protect the economy from budget deficits and irresponsible borrowing while increasing taxes on the rich to sustainable levels.

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Hydroxychloroquine- Used to treat Malaria, making Malaria a preventable illness that kills 1 million people a year, 90% in Sub-Saharan Africa. Production and free-distribution of Hydroxychloroquine would save a million lives a year, but at the expense of replacing Capitalism with Socialism.  The beneficiaries would be the poor, and the rich would lose 10s or

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https://news.yahoo.com/researcher-verge-making-very-significant-030320409.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fb It seems this scientist made real progress towards curing the Coronavirus, and this may have led to his murder.

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China: We discovered a new virus.America: So what? China: It's DangerousAmerica: It's only a Flu China: Wear a MaskAmerica: Don't wear a Mask… pic.twitter.com/Qxugv8z73J — China Xinhua News (@XHNews) April 30, 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html

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In Chapter 4 of “Left-Wing” Communism, Lenin argues about the direct link between the fight against opportunism and the fight against Social Chauvinism: “First and foremost, the struggle against opportunism which in 1914 definitely developed into social-chauvinism and definitely sided with the bourgeoisie, against the proletariat. Naturally, this was Bolshevism’s principal enemy within the working-class

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Marx spoke about Fictitious Capital in Volume 3 Chapter 25 of Capital which he had never published in his lifetime. He never had a chance to review this work or submit it for review with other economists or sociologists. Marx’s alliance with anarchism may have influenced his theory on finance capital, namely stocks.  This alliance

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North China scapegoated?  Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky all argued that Germany should be seen as an imperialist government, even though it lagged behind France and England in its Capitalist Development. Trillions of dollars destroyed.  Fictitious or real?  Fictitious capital?  Does Marx argue that capital is fictitious in his book on economics, Capital or any

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https://theweek.com/speedreads/910699/alarming-number-americans-believe-coronavirus-vaccine-exists-being-withheld The socialist movement must demand an investigation of every imperialist power’s biological weapons programs to prevent the use of the virus as a weapon or the use of weapons to withhold critical medical care, including the distribution of a vaccine.

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Without doubt, the use-value of a barrel of oil has not fallen from over $100 to negative value. What in fact happened? The use-value met artificial limits in the form of price-fixing in the automobile industry. The auto-giants can afford to make $1000 or $2000 safe gas-powered vehicles for the entire world, perhaps based on

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