Episodes
Friday May 29, 2020
Economic Update - Cornel West on Pandemic Capitalism
Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
"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 for social change."
Saturday May 23, 2020
Economic Update - An Analysis for Today
Saturday May 23, 2020
Saturday May 23, 2020
An in-depth analysis of fascism as massive government intervention to protect and save a crashing capitalism. We focus on today's examples, historical parallels (in Germany and Italy), and how "strong men" leaders push fascist agendas. We discuss how fascism and socialism differ and how nationalism serves as fascism's social "disguise
Friday May 15, 2020
Economic Update - 2020 May Day Protests and Demands
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
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 (including planned monthly national actions). He analyzes organizational challenges and prospects. Finally, he explains why he believes this May Day was a major strengthening of the US left.
Saturday May 09, 2020
Economic Update - Unemployment: Cruel, Wasteful, Unnecessary
Saturday May 09, 2020
Saturday May 09, 2020
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 key means for re-employment. Very socially necessary jobs are detailed that further encourage re-employment, instead of unemployment.
Saturday May 02, 2020
Economic Update - Honoring May Day, 1886 and 2020
Saturday May 02, 2020
Saturday May 02, 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 reforms, and try to undo them once won. They use what capitalism gives them: dominant power, incentive (profit), and means (profits). If we change the system from capitalist to worker-coop, workers alone democratically make and secure reforms. Employers, the constant enemy of reform, vanish as a separate group dominati