Ruthles Criticism (April, 2014)
Von webmaster • Apr. 6th, 2014 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthles Criticism (April, 2014):
Housing shortages and rent explosions
Landed property and the housing question in capitalism [Translated from a lecture by an editor of GegenStandpunkt, the German Marxist quarterly]
Reports say that a new housing shortage has broken out in the cities.
Rents are going up constantly. Today an average wage earner pays more than a third of their income for a roof over their head. For many, housing is an unaffordable luxury after 150 years of capitalist growth. Why is this? Newspapers report that the elderly are the problem because they live longer and don’t free up their apartments to new tenants. However, young people are also targeted because many of them now occupy apartments as single people when they were once used by two or more people. The catalog of complaints is complete with fewer new buildings and the lack of government subsidies for building.
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– Landed property
– Leases and rents: the qualities and location of the soil as the landowner’s income levers
– The price of land: from the relinquishment to the transfer of landed property
– The state: protecting land ownership and controlling the collisions that it creates through land use planning
– The real estate industry and the business with housing
– The attractions of real estate speculation and the thing with “gentrification”
– The state management of the housing market and its hardships
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/housing.htm
Letter to the editors of Gegenstandpunkt [Marxist quarterly from Munich] 3-01
On our favorite topic of “sexuality and rule” today: The misery of homos and the trouble with them
1. Aversion to homosexuals
2. The embarrassing behavior
3. The questions which affect your daily life
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/homo.htm
cf:
Leserbrief
Zu unserem Lieblingsthema „Sexualität und Herrschaft“ heute: Vom Elend der und mit den Homos
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/gs/2001/3/gs20013044h2.html
Has Pope Francis Hoodwinked the Left?
New Pope, Old Doctrine
by GEOFFREY MacDONALD (edits Ruthless Criticism)
After approximately 1600 years of the Catholic Church, the Pope is suddenly a hot topic again. The high priest has infatuated the public and won a lot of praise in the secular media for bringing new popularity to an institution long plagued by scandals and out-of-date dogmas. Evidently, God’s representative on earth still has an important role to play in the enlightened modern world – not so much as a legislator over condoms and abortions, but as a moral authority who issues warnings about the “idolatry of money” and the sins of the capitalist business world. This confuses a few pundits, but not the earthly powers. They know what a good thing it is to have those without power believing in a Lord in Heaven who gives them orders and leadership.
– Holy the poor!
– The need for God
– Why oh why?
– The search for meaning
Quelle: counterpunch (December 25, 2013)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/25/new-pope-old-doctrine/print
