[S10 E12] Comedy and Tragedy of Capitalism
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THIS WEEK’S TOPICS (w/timestamps):
00:45 – Updates on capitalism’s failures exposed by the Coronavirus;
07:14 – Sanders and the re-entry of socialism into US politics;
09:56 – US social mobility goes down;
12:08 – Macron evades democracy to try to force pension cuts (alias “reform”) onto French people;
14:08 – announcements;
15:03 – SPECIAL GUEST: Prof. Wolff interviews author and host Lee Camp on his comedy and his critique of capitalism.
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Learn more about Prof Wolff’s new book, “The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself” released in September 2020. Available as a paperback now!
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“Richard Wolff in his new book examines frightening and anti-democratic configurations of corporate power, offering not only a blueprint for how we got here, but a plan for how we will rescue ourselves and create new models of economic and political justice.” – Chris Hedges
Check out Prof. Wolff’s other books “Understanding Socialism” and “Understanding Marxism”
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