Dennis Raphael
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Dennis Raphael
@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, critic of capitalism. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about

Dennis Raphael is a Canadian social scientist who has written extensively on the social inequalities in health in Canada and elsewhere.

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Public Health 31%
Political science 22%
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What Is Behind the Fluctuations in Seniors’ Poverty
Rates in Canada from 1976-2019?
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Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
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Carney returns to Parliament with a massive bill blunting the right to strike and ‘bulldozing nature’
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Carney returns to Parliament with a massive bill blunting the right to strike and ‘bulldozing nature’
Listen now | The first order of business? An omnibus bill that labour leaders warn will weaken Canadian workers’ right to strike, and that environmental groups warn will bulldoze nature.
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The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants.
That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion.

Sampling theory and method is very powerful! It works!

As conditions deteriorate and right-wing populist sentiment grows, what Marxist scholar Karl Kautsky stated in 1892 appears to be increasingly relevant today: “We must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.”
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