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A second arts and crafts movement?

It occurs to me that William Morris started the arts and crafts movement as a response to the invention of the assembly line. Are we possibly witnessing a second arts and crafts movement as we move towards some sort of collapse or massive restructuring of production and supply chains?

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Daily Mirror, September 14, 1938

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“The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.”

— Unknown

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Posted outside hotel restaurant

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Women are constantly blamed for men’s mistakes, here is no exception

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capybaras have been on argentine news lately because they’ve “invaded” a rich private neighborhood (built on the capybara’s natural habitat) and the memes are good

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Suffolk, Banksy, spray-paint, 2021

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Global advocates call for one-time 99 percent emergency tax on billionaires’ pandemic windfalls to fund COVID-19 jabs for entire world.

The world’s billionaires have seen their wealth surge by over $5.5 trillion since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, a gain of over 68 percent. The world’s 2,690 global billionaires saw their combined wealth rise from $8 trillion on March 18, 2020 to $13.5 trillion as of July 31, 2021, drawing on data from Forbes.

Global billionaire total wealth has increased more over the past 17 months of the pandemic than it did in the 15 years prior to the pandemic. Between 2006 and 2020, global billionaire wealth increased from $2.65 trillion to $8 trillion, a gain of $5.35 trillion.

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1975 Saigon and 2021 Kabul.

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“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)

In Section VIII of Capital Volume 1, titled “The So-Called Primitive Accumulation of Capital,” he expanded that paragraph into a powerful and moving account of the historical process by which the dispossession of peasants created the working class, while the land they had worked for millennia became the capitalist wealth that exploited them. It is the most explicitly historical part of Capital, and by far the most readable. No one before Marx had researched the subject so thoroughly–Harry Magdoff once commented that on re-reading it, he was immediately impressed by the depth of Marx’s scholarship, by “the amount of sheer digging, hard work, and enormous energy in the accumulated facts that show up in his sentences.”24

Since Marx wrote Capital, historians have published a vast amount of research on the history of English agriculture and land tenure–so much that a few decades ago, it was fashionable for academic historians to claim that Marx got it all wrong, that the privatization of common land was a beneficial process for all concerned. That view has little support today. Of course it would be very surprising if subsequent research didn’t contradict Marx in some ways, but while his account requires some modification, especially in regard to regional differences and the tempo of change, Marx’s history and analysis of the commons remains essential reading.25