Slavoj Zizek: "As communists once did, today's capitalists blame any failures on their system being 'impurely' applied"  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/17/free-market-fundamentalists-think-2013-best …

this is a really great piece on what the Voting Rights Act does and who's behind the lawsuit against it  http://www.thenation.com/article/172685/why-are-conservatives-trying-destroy-voting-rights-act?page=full … cc @demos_org

longtime GOP staffer: "super-rich have seceded from America even as their grip on its control mechanisms has tightened" http://t.co/5etkgHVG

Richard Posner: "There's been a real deterioration in conservative thinking." http://t.co/tIOiz4Qy

"I guess they were all out of scarlet letters in Richmond." http://t.co/MHyGSqoT

.@citmedialaw has prepared a guide for #OWS reporters with great summary of people's 1st and 4th Amendment rights (pdf) http://t.co/AmLJbF1H

"an electoral system unworthy of Soviet-era sham democracies is flourishing today in corporate America"  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/business/sham-shareholder-democracy.html?pagewanted=all …

how the corporate form is being remade to put the rights of bosses before everyone else  http://www.policyshop.net/home/2013/2/5/the-corporate-form-and-freedom-for-the-few.html … cc @umairh @josheidelson

the German Kurzarbeit system: "In short, the Germans cut hours while the Americans cut people." http://t.co/h9DtYMpz via @frankpasquale

my review of @davidgraeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years is up over @guernicamag: http://t.co/vXUxuRiV

"We have become squatters in the ruins of the great democratic societies of the past"  http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/henry-farrell-post-democracy/ … @henryfarrell on Post-Democracy

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free"  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2013/04/11/citizens-disunited/ …

"savvy propagandists promote their agenda by making sharing feel like a powerful act of self-expression"  http://www.maisonneuve.org/article/2013/03/22/social-disease/ …

this is great. why economists and wonks need a theory of politics  http://crookedtimber.org/2013/03/19/economists-and-the-theory-of-politics/ …

this is a joke right?  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/how-to-fix-americas-wealth-inequality-teach-americans-to-be-cheap/273940/ …

This is devastating. "nothing more than a herd hoping that today it is somebody else who will be slaughtered"  http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4013.html  v @guan

really valuable post on neo-liberalism and "post-democratic" politics  http://crookedtimber.org/2013/02/11/post-democracy/ …

Charles Taylor on negative liberty "incapable of defending liberalism in the form we in fact value"  http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2012/01/positive-rights.html … via @frankpasquale

@josheidelson thanks. some states do prohibit voter intimidation by employers btw  http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/sum/2012SUM00193-R02HB-05022-SUM.htm … (§4)  http://delcode.delaware.gov/title15/c051/sc03/index.shtml#TopOfPage … (§5162)

@bigmeaninternet Andrew Breitbart: Media manipulation as an art form http://t.co/RIVbiN1W