Why an entire generation is rejecting capitalism, and what Labor already built to answer them I actually did learn what capitalism was from a textbook. I also learned it living inside an America where the earmarks of prosperity, civil service, community, and social capital were not slogans. They were simply how life worked. I amContinue reading “The Version They Never Saw”
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Stockholm Syndrome and the Labor Movement
Stockholm Syndrome describes how hostages sometimes identify with their captors, believing cooperation or small concessions might spare them greater harm. In today’s labor movement, we see echoes of that same instinct. Too often we find ourselves nuzzling up to the very forces that are cutting us down, hoping to soften the blow. But it willContinue reading “Stockholm Syndrome and the Labor Movement”
The Tools That Made Us: A Tribute to Labor, Craft, and the Sacred Right to Build
Long before steel beams or silicon chips, before cities rose or engines turned, we learned to shape the world with six simple tools. The lever lets us lift the impossible. The wedge gave us the power to split wood, stone, and history. The wheel and axle carried us forward, first across fields, then across empires.Continue reading “The Tools That Made Us: A Tribute to Labor, Craft, and the Sacred Right to Build”
Why Eye Write 