Episodes
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Economic Update - The Capitalist Corporation
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Economic Update - Making Critical Arguments
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Updates on US housing crisis as systemic failure (the homeless LA opera singer), Greta Thunberg's critics exposed, Europeans gain from US-China trade war, Sackler family "donations" to museums, universities, capitalists take over Sports Illustrated. Interview on Left's critical arguments with Prof. Ben Burgis of Georgia State University.
Friday Oct 11, 2019
Economic Update - Worker Co-ops, Socialism's Future
Friday Oct 11, 2019
Friday Oct 11, 2019
"First half focuses on how, why socialism has changed from what it meant in the 19th and 20th centuries (public enterprises + state planning vs capitalism's private enterprises + markets). Second half explores why 21st century socialism aims to democratize capitalist workplaces, replacing their top-down undemocratic organization with worker cooperatives
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Economic Update - A Growing US Left
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Updates on California events (LA Times labor union, 80,000 Kaiser workers to strike, new state public banking law), gross inefficiency of private car industry, anti-left politics in US labor history, wide global use of wealth taxes vs "conservative" claims. Interview: Michael Brooks, host of Michael Brooks Show podcast.