The Capitalist City or the Self-managed City

Posted on July 19, 2004, filed Under Housing & Urban Issues. Leave a Comment

by Tom Wetzel

from Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, edited by David Solnit (City Lights Press, 2004).

Patterns of capital flows have a visible effect on working class communities in the United States. Some communities see closed plants, abandoned stores, boarded-up dwellings, scarce jobs. Such are signs of disinvestment. Capital has moved to some other site in the global production line.

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Not Free and Equal

Posted on September 27, 2003, filed Under Ideas & Action Archive. Leave a Comment

Review of Women and Revolution, edited by Lydia Sargent, South End Press.

Why is it that women have been discriminated against, not treated equally, oppressed? Is this due to the workings of the capitalist system? Is there, apart from the workings of the capitalist system, a separate system of male power, a “patriarchy”? And what is the role of patriarchy under capitalism?

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