Just who the hell are you anyway?
I’m Carl Gibson, a journalist and columnist with over a decade of professional experience published in CNN, USA TODAY, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, the Louisville Courier-Journal, Al Jazeera, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Business Insider, the Independent, and NPR, among others. I’m also currently a full-time staff editor at AlterNet and a regular contributor to Occupy.com.
But war is bad! What’s the deal with advocating class war?
There’s a century worth of labor history in which class war was fought by trade unionists with strikes, fists, bullets, and bombs in order to institute things we take for granted like the eight-hour workday, weekends, and child labor laws. But the forces of capital regrouped, and has since organized the conquest of our government, the media, academia, and the courts that was first outlined in The Powell Memo of 1971.
I wish there wasn’t a class war! But like Warren Buffett has already said, there’s been a class war going on, and his class is winning. There is a relentless campaign by corporations and the elected officials they purchase to strip the working class of dignity and quality of life, and it’s up to the working class to stick together.
Is this a free publication, or are you paywalled?
Every post here is free! I have a full-time job that I love, so please don’t donate to me as I don’t need it (though I appreciate the thought). As of January 2025, I’d like you to donate to ProPublica to support their excellent investigative reporting.
