The next day, the Facebook account Marxist Memes shared the post, and as of June 2017, the picture (shown below) has received more than 3,000 reactions and 480 shares. [10] About a month later, Redditor jncdriver posted the image in /r/FULLCOMMUNISM, [9] garnering more than 1,400 points (99% upvoted).

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He is a frequent commentator in the financial press, and has written for: The Wall Street Journal Europe, Wired, Trader Monthly, Maxim, and Smartmoney.com. [3] He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was recently [ when?] named one of The Chicago Sun-Times Thirty Under Thirty and Crain's Forty Under Forty. Although Anderson’s writing style is clear, his main arguments are not. It seems as though Anderson could not quite decide whether to write Capitalist Pigs as a more technical agricultural history, or as a social history, and decided to split the difference. Anderson notes the influence of pigs in the institution of slavery, subsistence farms, and as a “mortgage lifter.” But the primary argument outlined in the introduction is focused instead on how Americans changed the pig. An interesting, if somewhat divergent take from the usual social history bent of most food histories, the argument is ultimately a weak one.This joke’s-on-you position could be private. “You know, you’re a male chauvinist pig,” President Richard Nixon joked to his attorney general, John Mitchell, in 1971, in a secret tape, as discussions of how to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court drifted into casual sexism. Or it could be public. Like the buffoonery of tennis champ Bobby Riggs, whose iconic battle of the sexes with Billie Jean King pitted a fun-loving playboy against the all-too-serious feminist: “I don’t mind being called a male chauvinist pig,” Riggs said, “as long as I’m the No. 1 male chauvinist pig.” This embrace of what was meant to be derogatory rendered the real complaints of women unserious. By the 1990s, Rush Limbaugh proudly called himself a pig. He could take a joke; why couldn’t the women he called “feminazis”? And it is only because Mother Jones is funded primarily by donations from readers that we can mount ambitious, yearlong— or more—investigations like these two stories that are making waves. In the vein of William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis,this is a meaty, accessible, and clear-eyed agricultural history." In the industry, fetal pigs are considered “by-products” of pork production, but that terminology obfuscates the truth that they are neither inevitable by-products nor chance accidents. Fetal pigs are not allowed a birth in the first place, because a system premised on maximizing meat cannot afford the delay. And while they initially seemed like little more than a useful piece of good fortune for educational institutions, the little swine could not escape further capitalization. “Capital sees waste as the final frontier for commodification,” writes scholar Todd McGowan, and the nascent laboratory supply industry cornered the market as mass suppliers of high-quality classroom “specimens” by the mid-twentieth century.

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This tripling of the wealth of the world’s billionaires and 30 percent increase in their number came during a year when America and the West endured the worst pandemic in a century and worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. For good reason, many question not only the technical feasibility of this quest, but also its ramifications. Xenotransplantation researchers have carried out numerous studies on whether pig organ recipients would feel “human” if they knew their heart was not, and/or whether their families would treat them any differently. This fear finds its reflection in fiction: In Yann Martel’s short story, “We Ate the Children Last,” pig heart xenografts transform their human recipients into violent, insatiably hungry monsters. Psychological consequences aside, engineering animals with genetically identical, “humanized” organs only to slaughter them later seems, at best, morally complex. Set up a tax-exempt foundation, fund it with billions of dollars, invite in liberals to sit on the board, and, at munificent salaries, to run it and distribute its income to liberal causes. The way to diminish leftist resentment at huge piles of private wealth is to give them a cut.

Anderson’s investigation is thorough, focusing on economic and social impacts, and, when appropriate, unflinching." Capitalist Pigs is well-researched and the broad chronology of the book provides a sweeping view of the influence of the hog on American culture and development throughout the centuries, giving needed context to historians of all stripes. Anderson is at his most compelling when he includes the voices of marginalized people and his sections on indigenous populations, enslaved people, and the Civil Rights movement are among his best. For urban and environmental historians, the discussion of the role of hogs in reshaping the landscape and the transition of urban spaces to exclude them, even as they continued to operate as waste disposal systems, will be of particular interest. Twentieth century historians, particularly agriculture historians, will be impressed by his discussion of the industrialization of hog production and marketing from the 1940s on.

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Hoenig was raised in Glencoe, Illinois, United States. He is a former floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, whose first book was published when he was 22. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and a vocal supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. [1] His brother Stephen died at the age of 19. [2] Career [ edit ] Is China running a capitalist economy to generate the wealth to consolidate Communist party control of the nation and grow China’s economic, military and geostrategic power until China displaces America as the first power on earth? So it would appear. Between 2014 and 2015, members of the 8chan messageboard /leftypol/ began using Porky as a symbol for capitalist actors, i.e. bosses, CEOs, politicians, etc. While these threads are no longer available, anecdotal evidence (the formation of /leftypol/ and mentions on 4chan) put Porky's usage as beginning at this time. If you can, please support the reporting you get from Mother Jones—that exists to make a difference, not a profit—with a donation of any amount today. We need more donations than normal to come in from this specific blurb to help close our funding gap before it gets any bigger. Donate WHO DOESN’T LOVE A POSITIVE STORY—OR TWO?

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If you can, please support the reporting you get from Mother Jones—that exists to make a difference, not a profit—with a donation of any amount today. We need more donations than normal to come in from this specific blurb to help close our funding gap before it gets any bigger. Donate In 2013 he produced Pit Trading 101, a documentary film about new traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, recognized at the Sunset International Film Festival, the Chagrin Film Festival and the International Film Awards Berlin. [7] [8] [9]