Tim Libretti

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Libretti

• Opinion

  

  Can an economy that promotes sexual violence be ‘amazing’?

  July 16, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  How we value the work people do in economic terms bears direct correlation to how we value people in social and political terms.

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• Opinion

  

  Is socialism a more emotionally intelligent economy than capitalism?

  June 13, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Have you ever noticed that we often talk about and even measure the effectiveness of our economy in emotional terms?

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• Opinion

  

  Right wing assaults First Amendment, latest target in class struggle

  June 11, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  For the GOP across the nation these days, the prevailing attitude is more to the effect of, “If you don’t like what’s being said, repress the conversation.”

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• Opinion

  

  Wealth and class are not determinants of intellect or governing ability

  May 31, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Ocasio-Cortez here addresses a much larger tendency in U.S. culture which we talk about much less than we do racism or sexism – the practice of devaluing people on the basis of their occupation.

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• Opinion

  

  Voting rights for prisoners and the gasp heard ’round the world

  May 7, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Voter suppression targeting African Americans and people of color is exclusively a Republican agenda, right? Not so fast.

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• Books

  

  ‘The Man Who Fell from the Sky’, Bill Fletcher Jr.’s new crime novel

  May 3, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  With The Man Who Fell From the Sky, I can promise you’ll get the political punch and a riveting story.

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• Opinion

  

  For Ocasio-Cortez, creating democracy is the road to socialism

  April 17, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Americans have no expectation (and don’t even ponder) experiencing democracy in the workplace. AOC challenges us to think again.

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• Opinion

  

  Media response to college admissions scandal reveals challenge of class struggle

  March 21, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  It's U.S. capitalism’s animating principle of meritocracy that creates, exacerbates, and apologizes for the class inequality that enables the privileged in their pursuit of more.

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