{"id":219788,"date":"2017-06-16T02:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T06:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/the-root-of-appalachias-problems-jacobin-jacobin-magazine.php"},"modified":"2017-06-16T02:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T06:43:57","slug":"the-root-of-appalachias-problems-jacobin-jacobin-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/eugenics\/the-root-of-appalachias-problems-jacobin-jacobin-magazine.php","title":{"rendered":"The Root of Appalachia&#8217;s Problems &#8211; Jacobin &#8211; Jacobin magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Catalyst, a new journal published by Jacobin is out now.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the US and around the world today, political violence is the    hallmark of the Right, not the Left.  <\/p>\n<p>    Two years ago today Jeremy Corbyn made it onto the Labour    leadership ballot  with seconds to spare.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the    Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.  <\/p>\n<p>    The main problem for Appalachia and the white working class is    capitalism. It always has been.  <\/p>\n<p>    Jeremy Corbyn showed the way for mass radical politics. He only    had to fend off attacks from the Right, the press, and his own    party to do it.  <\/p>\n<p>    Todays horrific fire in London's Grenfell Tower is a symbol of    a deeply unequal United Kingdom.  <\/p>\n<p>    US policy in Central America under Trump appears to be shifting    from bad to worse.  <\/p>\n<p>    Two years ago a left-wing coalition was elected to govern    Spains capital. Now it's locked in a battle with the national    government.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the face of the monstrosity that is Trumpcare, we must    demand Medicare for All.  <\/p>\n<p>    Campaigns against fast fashion scapegoat working-class    consumers while doing little to improve the conditions of    garment workers.  <\/p>\n<p>    Theresa May is clinging to power thanks to the support of one    of the worst elements in UK politics: the far-right Democratic    Unionist Party.  <\/p>\n<p>    Georgia's elites are changing the country's constitution to    forever foreclose the possibility of taxing the rich.  <\/p>\n<p>    Chris Kennedy has thrown his hat  and his family's enormous    wealth  into the Illinois governor's race. But does he really    represent a progressive option?  <\/p>\n<p>    Today's French parliamentary election marks a new phase in    plans for a grand coalition of anti-labor forces.  <\/p>\n<p>    The general election marked a setback for the Scottish National    Party. Is the independence dream dead?  <\/p>\n<p>    Eight reasons why universities cant be the primary site of    left organizing.  <\/p>\n<p>    The results of the UK election are a disaster for the British    ruling class.  <\/p>\n<p>    J.K. Rowling, Barack Obama, the list goes on. Prominent    liberals all opposed Jeremy Corbyn  and it didnt matter.  <\/p>\n<p>    The historian Eric Hobsbawm would have turned 100 today. During    his life, he never lost faith that the future belonged to    socialism.  <\/p>\n<p>    I don't care if he didn't actually win he won. Jeremy    Corbyn has given us a blueprint to follow for years to come.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2017\/06\/white-working-class-trump-appalachia-mining\" title=\"The Root of Appalachia's Problems - Jacobin - Jacobin magazine\">The Root of Appalachia's Problems - Jacobin - Jacobin magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Catalyst, a new journal published by Jacobin is out now. In the US and around the world today, political violence is the hallmark of the Right, not the Left. Two years ago today Jeremy Corbyn made it onto the Labour leadership ballot with seconds to spare.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/eugenics\/the-root-of-appalachias-problems-jacobin-jacobin-magazine.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eugenics"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}