Jim Clingman on Economic Empowerment

Cincinnati-based economics expert and Black progressive, Jim Clingman, explains what he feels is a major hindrance to development within black communities as well as offering possible solutions. Clingman's writings usually deal with political and economic issues that effect Black Americans. He is also an ardent critic of corporate plutocracy in Cincinnati, and his views will be a segment of my upcoming mini-documentary on the controversy surrounding the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation. (3CDC)

Jim Clingman is the writer of many nationally-published articles and books which can be found on his website, blackonomics.com He also appears on the Blackonomics show produced by Jim Alexander. Shot at Xavier University.

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[mjoyner]

@Statekilla1 I'm an Anarchist as well. A serious Anarchist agenda in this country will incorporate a wide variety of beliefs, practices, economics, and politics. I think syndicalist enterprises/worker cooperatives will certainly be more economically viable without government co-opting organized labor and creating artificial scarcity through subsidizing land monopolies. However, I'm certainly not opposed to traditional entrepreneurship.

[Statekilla1]

@mjoyner 100 no doubt. In theory I am an Afrikanized anarcho-syndicalist . But for all practical purposes I believe in territorial-imperative that will need to be militearized for our own safety and security. I believe that we should say never again and mean it just as well as 'they' do.

[mjoyner]

@Statekilla1 Preach it, brother. It's not just absent in northern cities...it's absent all over. However, I'd rather look to Basque Country out in Spain or the Emilia Romagna region of Italy as better examples for economic empowerment. I think we can accomplish a better standard of living through cooperative manufacturing/farming, local artisan/craftspeople, and other aspects of the truly free market, not the traditional form of corporate/state capitalism.

[Statekilla1]

Black Power. Group economics is key to our survival. What you had so eloquently demonstrated here is the importance of self-sustainability which is virtually absent in concentrated northern black cities. I HUNGER for a race first dynamic as far as economic integrity in OUR community. The jews do it. Why can't we?