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Selecting Stones Presents: Karl Marx on so-called “Gentrification”
‘Improvements’ of towns which accompany the increase of wealth, such as the demolition of badly built districts, the erection of palaces to house banks, warehouses, etc., the widening of streets for business traffic, for luxury carriages, for the introduction of tramways, obviously drive the poor away into even worse and more crowded corners. — Karl […]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Jobs, brought to you by American free enterprise
December 23, 2011
This fall, there has been a big sign display on the front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in downtown Washington, DC. It reads: “JOBS: Brought to you by American Free Enterprise”. Why is this significant? First off all, CNN reported back in October on a demonstration which took place in front of the […]
Rage Against the Machine is just some stupid rock band
December 18, 2011
Walking down the street, shortly after midnight on a Saturday, in one of the wealthier neighborhoods of Washington, DC, and what does one hear? A yuppie house party, a festive gathering of privileged upper-middle-class bureaucrats in their late twenties, all singing in unison to Rage Against the Machine. “Rally ‘round the family…” “With a pocket […]
Recent Events at Occupy DC, and the Institution of Private Property
December 8, 2011
by Bruno Fournier and Lawrence McMahon Occupy DC has made its way into the news this week. For most of its two-month period of existence, Occupy DC has been among the most peaceful and least disruptive of all the various Occupy encampments across the U.S. This started to change on Sunday, with 31 arrests after […]
Protest Movement Expands to DC, in spite of Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon October 6, 2011: an interesting day. Today’s events found the American upper-middle-class divided along yet another line: between those who spent the day weeping over the death of Steve Jobs, and those who spent the day extending the Occupy Wall Street movement and its offshoots. Of course, as Selecting Stones has repeatedly […]
Washington, DC: The Recession-Proof Fantasy
September 20, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Take a trip to Washington, DC. Ask your average upper-middle-class government or non-profit employee, and you will be certain to hear the common mantra that DC has weathered the recession much better than the rest of the U.S. You will be informed that DC is a place with countless job opportunities and […]
February 7, 2012
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