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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