The Pandemic's Lesson about Capitalism
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff argues that preparing and coping with the Corona pandemic was inadequate: medical supplies were seriously deficient. It simply was not profitable for firms to produce ...
25 Kesä 202028min
Working Class Radicalism
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on why US record on Covid-19 so much worse than most others'; corp buys Trump; US billionaires got much richer during pandemic and 42 million lost job...
18 Kesä 202028min
Dark Times, Hard Truths
Updates on mismanaging Covid-19 and US system's crash; reactions to econ decline; sharing gains of firms profiting from the virus; the mistake of "dominating;" mass joblessness = class war. Interview ...
11 Kesä 202028min
Socialism vs Covid-19: A Very Different Story
US has 5% of world's population but 30% of world's Covid-19 deaths. US capitalism did poorly against the virus. Today's program explores how socialism could and would prepare for and respond to Covid-...
4 Kesä 202028min
Cornel West on Pandemic Capitalism
Updates on how pandemic and capitalism are combining to worsen social divides in the US. Interview with Cornel West on (1) how pandemic + economic crash are affecting US society and (2) the prospects ...
28 Touko 202028min
2020 May Day Protests and Demands
A special program: interview with Kali Akuno, leader of Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi. As a leader of national May Day actions, he discusses their size, diversity, motivations and goals (includin...
14 Touko 202028min
Unemployment: Cruel, Wasteful, Unnecessary
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff criticizes unemployment - as a specifically capitalist irrationality - and advocates "re-employment" as a far better policy. Gov't jobs and worker-coop development are...
7 Touko 202028min
Honoring May Day, 1886 and 2020
From May Day 1886 to 2020, workers wage long, hard struggles to reform capitalismFrom the fight for an 8-hour workday to the fight for a safe, Corona-free workplace now. Employers block and delay refo...
30 Huhti 202028min
