America’s Youth Are Rejecting Capitalism, What Do They Want Instead?

There’s growing evidence that today’s young adults are strongly dissatisfied with fundamental aspects of our political and economic system. Specifically, growing numbers are rejecting capitalism.

Joseph Blasi
Douglas L. Kruse
By Joseph Blasi
And Douglas L. Kruse
Protester holding Adbuster's Corporate American Flag at Bush's 2nd inauguration, Washington DC.

Today’s youth are increasingly unhappy with the way their elders are running the world. Their ire was most recently expressed when thousands of teenagers and others across the country marched on March 24 demanding more gun control, a little over a month after more than a dozen of their peers were shot and killed at a high school in Parkland,

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March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause

The dynamism and interracial character of last week’s March For Our Lives rallies provides further evidence that American workers have a chance of challenging the wealthy for a bigger piece of the pie only when they put their tribal differences aside to fight together.

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter
Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, along with students and speakers at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington on March 24, 2018. (EPA/Shawn Thew)

WASHINGTON -- Google the name “Tallulah Bankhead” and you will be regaled (or mortified if your mores tend to the Victorian) with tales of the actor’s libertine appetites, her breakout performance in the Hitchcock classic Lifeboat, or her half-camp, half-vamp villainess in the 1960s Batman television series. Wikipedia references her patrician mien

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School Administrators Crackdown on Anti-Violence Student Protests

“They tell us in announcement everyday to be the change you want to see in the world. And then when we tried to do it, they told us we couldn’t.”

Linn Washington Jr.
By Linn Washington Jr.
High school senior D'Angelo McDade, front right, leads a march in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood during a walkout to protest gun violence, March 14, 2018. About 200 students joined the march as a sign of solidarity with students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the scene of a recent school shooting in Florida in which 17 students and educators died. (AP/Martha Irvine)

Ten days before American student outrage over gun violence triggered multitudes across the U.S and around the world to join in “March For Our Lives” protests; many US high school educators and other adults provided students with strident lessons in assholelisity. During the March 14, 2018 National School Walkout Day staged by students to show

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Millions March Across the US Demanding Gun Control

Students and supporters took to the streets in up to 800 separate ‘March For Our Lives’ rallies across the US, demanding stricter gun control.

Mark Gruenberg
By Mark Gruenberg
Crowds of people hold signs on Pennsylvania Avenue at the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control, Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON — Led by the survivors of the massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a record-breaking number of students and adults filled Washington’s historic Pennsylvania Avenue in a massive show of support for strong national gun control. Aided by survivors of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., and by Dr.

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