Opinion | How to Be an Anticapitalist

Jul 19, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    62% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

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"Speaking of anticapitalists, in The State and Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin wrote that the economic aim of socialism was to organize the whole economy on the lines of the postal service."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Mr. Biden wants an FDR legacy, and he might get it, as his policies mirror the price fixing and government largesse that extended the Great Depression."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Mr. Biden also wants to waive Covid vaccine patents -- making pharma companies think twice before investing in new drugs -- and is even pushing a series of antitrust bills that could reverse mergers, like Facebook's 2012 purchase of Instagram, as if that would do anything good for the economy or consumers."
Positive
8% Conservative
"An anticapitalist would next restrict capital formation, so President Biden has proposed raising the top capital-gains rate from 23.8"
Negative
-2% Liberal
"On June 30, months after New York state closed the Indian Point nuclear power plant, Mayor Bill de Blasio asked New Yorkers to cut back on energy usage during a heat wave."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"What's saddest is that Mr. Biden's policies will likely hurt low-income folks the most by squishing capital formation and job creation, squelching opportunity."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"On top of all that, the Biden administration released its anticapitalist executive order with 72 initiatives promoting competition in early July."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"More than a century later, the Biden administration is on it, expanding his postal-like government with massive deficits, old technology, long lines, unaccountable executive orders, and unproductive union jobs for all takers."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Every new Biden program is a burden on the economy, reducing its natural market-driven ability to create high-paying jobs while entrenching state-run, impossible-to-kill zombie entitlements."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"If you or a loved one is diagnosed with late-stage cancer in five years, the Biden administration could be to blame."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Speaking of anticapitalists, in "The State and Revolution in 1917," Vladimir Lenin wrote that the economic aim of socialism was "to organize the whole economy on the lines of the postal service.

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