“No, Apollo House is not enough. It is like putting a plaster on the wound, dealing with the symptom but not with the cause”
Moving into Apollo House was not an appropriate response to the housing crisis, said Owen Keegan, …
capitalism
Feeble reality of Irish capitalism
Ireland’s weak economic base and reliance on foreign direct investment has defined our general self-perception just as Marx said it would.
Karl Marx famously said that the economic “base” of society determines its “superstructure” – the culture, politics, social institutions and so on. This has proved to be a compelling and often fruitful theory, even if its empirical justification is still …