Wealth inequality in the USA

2013-03-04 · first published in marxsite · 53 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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There are some liberal assumptions, diving the US into 'the rich', 'the middle class' and the poor - no mention of the working class. This is a mindset that even US unions are adopting. Also the notion that we actually do need some inequality. Nonetheless the facts and figures shown here are startling.

The capture this was recovered from