A Freedom Budget for All Americans reviewed by Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

‘A Freedom Budget for All Americans’ by Michael D. Yates and Paul Le Blanc

Reviewed by Hans G. Despain

… Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates have recently identified a political point of entry that has the potential to galvanize wide public support and focus political discussion and debate on the most glaring (historical) weaknesses of capitalism as a mode of production and to begin to nudge public awareness toward the deep contradictory ontology that is capitalism.

The point of entry is the notion of “A Freedom Budget.” Instead of a federal budget geared toward neo-serfdom, Le Blanc and Yates offer a federal budget proposal that lays the structural conditions for “freedom.” Indeed, they do not invent the idea afresh. Civil rights activists proposed “A freedom budget for all Americans” in the 1960s (89-126)….

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