Capitalism in Crisis: The Main Threat to U.S. Capitalism is U.S. Capitalism

Capitalism in Crisis: The Main Threat to U.S. Capitalism is U.S. Capitalism

Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss the Biden administration's new major economic proposal, promising to spend trillions to create huge numbers of jobs and enact policies beneficial to working people. But what is this plan really?

Richard Wolff is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, the latest being “The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself”. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com

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A Socialist Mayor in New York State's Second Largest City?

A Socialist Mayor in New York State's Second Largest City?

On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the election of a socialist in the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo, New York, a se...

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How a COVID Conspiracy Theory Fuels U.S. War Drive Against China

How a COVID Conspiracy Theory Fuels U.S. War Drive Against China

Over the past month, the U.S. media and the Biden administration have sought to give credence to the conspiracy theory first advanced by Trump that the COVID-19 virus emerged from the Wuhan Institute ...

24 Juni 202155min

Stock Markets: Making the Rich Richer for 400 Years

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Today we continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. We discuss the Ma...

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Billionaire Capitalism Makes a Killing During COVID-19

Billionaire Capitalism Makes a Killing During COVID-19

On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss growing inequality, the Juneteenth holiday, the New York City mayoral race, Joe Manchin's ...

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The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later: America's Most Famous Whistleblower Still Fighting Militarism

The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later: America's Most Famous Whistleblower Still Fighting Militarism

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the publication by The New York Times of excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents. These documents proved that the government of th...

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The State as a Tool of Class Oppression

The State as a Tool of Class Oppression

Brian and Prof. Wolff continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. T...

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Biden Appeals for Imperialist United Front at G7

Biden Appeals for Imperialist United Front at G7

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Brian Becker Seminar #5: Palestine, China, Nuclear winter, and more (Preview)

Brian Becker Seminar #5: Palestine, China, Nuclear winter, and more (Preview)

In this May 2021 patrons-only seminar, Brian and the crew discuss the new era in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and what it means for the region, U.S. imperialist plots to dismember Chin...

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