Issue: Economic Justice

• Exercise

  White Benefits Exercise—Going Deeper

  By Paul Kivel Adapted from Uprooting Racism (1995, updated 2017) Introduction to Exercise–Going Deeper [1] White privilege can be a misleading phrase that many people have difficulty relating to. Many poor and working class white people lack adequate food, safe Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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• Audio

  Love Extremist Podcast: White Men Standing Up for Collective Liberation

  Paul Kivel talks about love, privilege, interdependence being Jewish, and how white men can play a role in our collective liberation.   Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice, Gender Justice, Racial Justice, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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• Article

  How Do They Rule? The Constitution, Corporations and the Courts

  Adapted and updated from You Call This a Democracy (2004) by Paul Kivel Members of the power elite are able to make many decisions themselves through their direct control over land and corporations, foundations, trusts, and other institutions. But their Read more...

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• Article

  Distractions

  Adapted and Updated from Paul Kivel, You Call This a Democracy? Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, Albert Einstein, Daniel Webster, Andrew Carnegie, Louis Brandeis, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Mark Twain, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Emma Read more...

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• Exercise

  Where Are You In the Class System?

  By Paul Kivel Adapted from You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Decides (2004, updated 2019) I think it is useful to consider where each of us falls in the economic system. Our class position influences Read more...

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• Article

  Beyond Survival–Getting Together

  Given the present economic system, we each must find strategies for surviving in the system. But not all strategies lead to the same results. Some strategies may help us survive in the short-term but may be destructive to us or Read more...

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• Tools

  New Economic Pyramid

  To download this link as a pdf, please click here. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only for noncommercial purposes and Read more...

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• Exercise

  Cost of Having a Ruling Class – Checklist

  Adapted from Paul Kivel’s You Call This a Democracy? (2004) The following checklist can also be used as a group exercise. Do you know of anyone, including yourself…? • who currently has, or who has died from cancer? • who Read more...

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• Article

  The Impact on the Rest of Us of Having a Ruling Class

  By Paul Kivel Adapted from You Call This a Democracy? (2004) When I began to think about writing about the economy, it was from an abstract understanding of the economic system, and a general awareness of the tremendous inequalities in Read more...

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• Article

  The Economic System and Class

  By Paul Kivel Adapted from You Call This a Democracy? (2004) A class is a segment of society that, through its shared economic position and cultural values, participates in common social, political, and economic interests and specific forms of access Read more...

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