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On Toronto Tolls, Marxists Align with Auto Industrial Complex

Engler, Yves
http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/12/on-toronto-tolls-marxists-align-with-auto-industrial-complex/

Publisher:  Dissident Voice
Date Written:  16/12/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

To be "progressive" in 2016 must include a political commitment to upending a transport/urban planning system structured around the private automobile.

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What’s left and what's right? Usually it is obvious, but sometimes you have to take a step back and consider the bigger picture.

For example, the Toronto toll debate has exposed a lack of scrutiny of the leading source of corporate profit over the past century by many supposed leftists. Absent a political economy of the auto industrial complex, many Marxists have objectively allied themselves with the private car's awesome political, cultural and ideological power.

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