Income Revolution Research Articles

Autistic, Surviving, and Thriving Under COVID-19

This article takes up Mia Mingus' call to 'leave evidence' of how we have lived, loved, cared, and resisted under ableist neoliberalism and necropolitics during COVID-19. We include images of artistic work from activist zines created online during the COVID-19 pandemic and led by the Re•Storying Autism Collective. The zines evidence lived experiences of crisis and heightening systemic and intersectional injustices, as well as resistance through activist art, crip community, crip knowledges, digital research creation, and the forging of collective hope for radically inclusive autistic futures—what zine maker Emily Gillespie calls 'The neurodivergent, Mad, accessible, Basic Income Revolution.' We frame the images of artistic work with a coauthored description of the Collective's dream to create neurodivergent art, do creative research, and work for disability justice under COVID-19. The zine project was a gesture of radical hope during crisis and a dream for future possibilities infused with crip knowledges that have always been here. We contend that activist digital artmaking is a powerful way to archive, theorize, feel, resist, co-produce, and crip knowledge, and a way to dream collectively that emerged through the crisis of COVID-19. This is a new, collective, affective, and aesthetic form of evidence and call for 'forgetting' ableist capitalist colonialism and Enlightenment modes of subjectivity and knowledge production that target different bodies to exploit, debilitate, and/or eliminate, and to objectify and flatten what it means to be and become human and to thrive together.

Torts and intellectual property in Industry 4.0: a comparative study of Chinese and American jurisprudence

ABSTRACT At the advent of a new millennium, nations around the world have been challenged by a surge of financial, geopolitical, and environmental crises that informs global societies of an incoming revolution that will reform the socioeconomic order of the modern world. As this new age descends upon us, it is profoundly evident that the future will be defined by our grasp on digital information technologies, the multilateral legal systems that govern them, and the numerous advantages that these systems will afford our societies. The controversial discourse of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, otherwise known as Industry 4.0, imparts an objective truth that the Information Age will present us with substantial systems of technological growth, which accordingly translates to systems of economic expansion. The last several decades of technological development have afforded us with transformative tools in the form of supercomputers, artificial intelligence, information technologies, and a variety of smart devices. Regulating the legal mechanisms that govern the utility and development of these technologies is instrumental to benefitting from the economic prosperity, political strength, and developmental capacities that will follow. This article aims to conduct a comparative legal study of the mechanisms of intellectual property rights protections in their intersection with tort liability structures in the PRC and the USA – two global superpowers at the forefront of both technology and jurisprudence. Analyzing the mechanisms of both countries – particularly with the focus of indirect contributory infringements, intellectual property rights abuse, and structural legal reforms – will provide us with a better understanding of the current state of legal standards in domestic and international governance systems. The study will begin with a bilateral deconstruction of each nation’s intellectual property classifications and protections before engaging in the significant processes of historical legal reform. Subsequently, the article will analyze modern legal interactions between tort liability structures and intellectual property protections while subjecting their current forms against the impeding challenges of technological development as afforded through Industry 4.0. Finally, the article will conclude with an objective view of the future of both nations in the reform of intellectual property law.

The Incoming Revolution in the World Banking and Financial System

Manifold and ongoing developments seem to hint that humanity is just ahead of historic shifts in global banking as well as the financial system. The landmark changes at this moment are unavoidable. The ultra-loose monetary policies practiced by the leading central banks in recent years for a record-breaking period have not resulted in a permanent enhancement of the global economic situation but barely extended the inevitable agony of the current global financial system for additional several years. The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant global economic crisis only made things worse. These simple facts beg the following questions: what future global financial system would probably look like? What currency is going to substitute the role hitherto fulfilled by the crumbling U.S. dollar? How painful the upcoming giant changes will be for societies? What the incoming revolution in geo-economics will mean for geopolitics? Unfortunately, financial boom and bust cycles are not the thing of the past but rather seem to be inextricably linked to the way the modern financial system works. This decisively needs to be reformed. The harbingers of epochal changes are on the horizon. The author will describe them in the paper.

May Punjab lead India's income revolution for the farmers

May Punjab lead India's income revolution for the farmers

The Revolution that Faltered: Two Decades of Reform of Australia's Retirement Income System

In the 1980s, Australia's retirement income system became the subject of ongoing reform. A number of the reform objectives were quite revolutionary but some remain much further from realization than was expected, with major consequences for future retirees. In this sense, Australia's retirement income revolution has faltered. This paper (1) outlines the main features of Australia's retirement income system prior to the 1980s, (2) presents the reform objectives and explains the sense in which they were “revolutionary”, (3) describes some of the major changes, their achievements, and how and why a number remain further from realization than expected, (4) considers two more recent objectives and (5) outlines the challenges that remain.

Australia's retirement income revolution: a Finnish system “down‐under”

Most advanced industrial societies are confronting serious economic recession, and governments are seeking ways to stimulate economic growth and reduce government expenditure. For many countries these problems are compounded by aging populations and demographic changes. There are fewer people in the workforce, and more people in older age groups live longer and have increased expectations for retirement lifestyles. The result has been that many governments are radically transforming their systems of retirement income provision, often causing political, economic and social upheaval and widespread public anxiety. Australia is one country in which there have been huge changes in the retirement income system in the past 5 years. The system has been substantially privatized, and future retirement income will come from statutorily enforced earnings‐related individual savings accumulated in decentralized private funds. Australia's new retirement income regime bears extraordinary similarities to the Finnish system of employment‐related pensions, yet there was no reference to the Finnish system in the evolution of the new Australian system. There are lessons for Australia and for other countries in the long and successful operation of the Finnish pension system. This article first examines Australia's retirement income system, recent government policy changes and likely implications of these retirement policy changes for the future of Australia's traditional welfare state. Cross‐national comparisons of the retirement income regimes in Finland and Australia, identifying international best practice in each country, comprise the second half of the article. Such comparisons will be of interest to policy‐makers seeking new policy directions.

Australia's Retirement Income Revolution: A New Model for Retirement Savings and Investment Politics

Australia's Retirement Income Revolution: A New Model for Retirement Savings and Investment Politics

The Wealth of races: the present value of benefits from past injustices

Introduction Overview and Summary Forty Acres and a Mule: Placing a Price Tag on Oppression Economic History and the Current Benefits and Costs of Slavery Past History and Current Policy: The Legacy of Slavery Who Pays for Slavery? An Appraisal of the Estimated Rates of Slave Exploitation Slavery and the Economics of Discrimination Black Labor in the American Economy since Emancipation: What Are the Legacies of History? A Calculation and Comparison of the Current Benefits of Slavery and an Analysis of Who Benefits Estimated Present Value of Income Diverted during Slavery Black Exploitation and White Benefits: The Civil War Income Revolution Slave Exploitation in Neoclassical Economics: Criticism and an Alternative Direction Achieving Racial Equality through Restitution Racial Inequality and Reparations An Illustrative Estimate: The Present Value of the Benefits from Racial Discrimination, 1929-1969 Income Transfers: Are They Compensation for Past Discrimination? The Social Debt to Blacks: A Case for Affirmative Action What Was Lost: The Cost of Slavery and Discrimination for Blacks Achieving Parity through Reparations Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index

The Soviet Income Revolution

A number of studies of income distribution have suggested that income inequality in the United States showed some tendency to decline during the 1930's and the war years. Although the extent and timing of the decline may be in dispute among specialists in this area, and some recent studies suggest that no significant changes in income shares have occurred since 1944, the American Income Revolution has nonetheless been widely accepted and acclaimed. All the more reason, it would seem, that studies of changes in income inequality in Soviet Russia should prove of great interest. If income inequality has been reduced in the world's major capitalist economy, what has been happening to income distribution in the Soviet Union?

The Theory of the "Income Revolution" in the US and Contemporary Revisionism

The basic content of our epoch is the transition from to socialism. The great successes of socialism, the intensification of the class struggle of the proletariat in capitalist countries force bourgeois ideologists to seek out new forms of apologetics for the capitalist order. Along with attempts to discredit socialist construction in the countries of the socialist camp, bourgeois propaganda tries to convince the masses that there have been changes in the nature of modern capable of ensuring general well-being. The fabrications of bourgeois propaganda are taken up by the right wing socialist leaders and the theoreticians of the new revisionism in the Communist Parties of some countries. The source of inspiration for current rightist reformism and revisionism is bourgeois ideology and in particular the theory of people's capitalism worked out by bourgeois scholars in the USA and other capitalist countries.

The Condition of the Working Class

Much has been written in recent years about the "American standard of living," the "income revolution," the "conquest of poverty," and the like. In this literature, American capitalism has become the workers' paradise which socialists were once scornfully derided for holding up as a vain and utopian hope to the toiling masses. How much of all this is fact and how much more or less deliberately fabricated ideology is a most complicated and difficult question which obviously cannot be answered in a few pages. And yet I think it is possible, even in very brief compass, to present enough of the answer so that the problem can be seen in its true proportions. And if I am right that clarity on this whole range of topics is a matter of the greatest importance for the American Left (in which I include the labor movement), then at any rate no apologies need be offered for making the attempt.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.