The Fast-Track Approvals Bill currently before Parliament is up there with the most controversial decisions of the National-ACT-New Zealand First coalition government. This coalition, elected a year ago, is one of the most right-wing governments Aotearoa New Zealand has ever had. One has to go back to the National government elected in 1990 to findContinue reading “Fast-tracking wealth accumulation and the ‘war on nature’”
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Towards an economy based on provision of human needs
A critical feature in Karl Marx’s theoretical construct of political economy provides a valuable insight on how economies in countries such as Aotearoa New Zealand, function and how they might function better in order to achieve the well-being of their peoples. This construct begins with the statement that any product begins first with both aContinue reading “Towards an economy based on provision of human needs”
What’s behind cruelty to animals
When the political left uses a class analysis to consider the nature of capitalism in its various forms, it usually sees it as being based on the relationship between labour and capital with the latter controlling and benefiting from the surplus value of the former. At its core this class analysis characterises capitalism as beingContinue reading “What’s behind cruelty to animals”
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