An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice
by Les Leopold, 2015
Most persons who visit this web page have read one or more books on income inequality. Runaway Inequality, by reporter and educator Les Leopold demonstrates the ideas that most such books do (e.g., that income inequality harms most Americans). It’s remarkable for making two additional points:
- That domination of our economy by the financial sector consists “strip mining” that destroys important resources. An interesting detail of this argument is that this financialization constitutes a huge tax (36.8% of private profit in 2012) on everything that happens in our society.
- That progressives have no little or chance of winning on any issue if we don’t unify to break the power of the very rich. This unity requires establishment of a national education program. Mr. Leopold is working with the Work Environment Council on that program right now.
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