The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.