Episodes
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Economic Update - The Pandemic's Lesson about Capitalism
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Preparing and coping with the Corona pandemic was inadequate: medical supplies were seriously deficient. That was because it was not profitable for firms to produce or stockpile the supplies. Neo-liberal governments were complicit with private profit capitalists rather than compensating for their inadequacies. The lesson: many basic social needs are like public health. We cannot, need not, and should not rely on capitalists to meet them. Alternatives are available.
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Economic Update - Working Class Radicalism
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
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 jobs; sharp rise to 66,433 homeless in LA. The second part of the show features an interview with creative activist and journalist. Eleanor Goldfield on her new film Hard Road of Hope on working class radicalism.
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Economic Update - Dark Times, Hard Truths
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
"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 Jimmy Dore on today's crises and roles of GOP and Dems.
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Economic Update - Socialism vs Covid-19: A Very Different Story
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
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-19 differently. We include both the logic of socialism's different policies and examples of socialist-influenced policies in other countries.