Episodes

Monday Dec 04, 2023
Economic Update: AMERICAN’S SELF-IMAGE VS REALITY
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Updates on closing Florida plant that should be converted to worker coop, oil company profits versus social damage they do, megacorps (Walmart, Amazon) take over grocery business, social purpose of what "middle class" means. Interview Jared Yates Sexton on his book and other writings on how the US practices social control by spinning stories."

Monday Nov 27, 2023
Economic Update- WHEN LABOR MOVEMENTS RISE
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Updates on the U.K.'s King Charles in Africa, the unionization struggles at Starbucks, a growing strike against Musk’s Tesla and the Bangladeshi women’s labor strike. An analysis of the economic concept of "surplus" and how capitalism makes it possible.

Monday Nov 20, 2023
Economic Update- Inequality Undermines Health & Healthcare in the U.S.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Updates on risks to UAW strike victories, realtors fined for collusion on real estate commissions, Bangladeshi strikes for higher minimum wages for clothing workers, China outmaneuvers Malaysia and US in rubber glove business, UN vote isolates US, Israel, Ukraine over Cuba embargo. Interview with Dr. Stephen Bezruchka on how economic inequality connects to stress, health problems, and inadequate healthcare.

Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Economic Update- Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023

Monday Nov 06, 2023
Economic Update- Capitalism Versus Democracy
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Economic Update- How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023

Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Updates on how Social Security makes African-Americans subsidize whites, lessons from a new survey of young Americans' politics, the injustice of Europe's central bank raising its interest rates, Taylor Swift publicly supports Hollywood strikers, and Coco Gauff publicly supports climate change activists. Interview Mike Elk, Editor of The Payday Report, tracking the strike wave across America and especially the huge autoworker's strike.

Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Economic Update- Corporate Greed VS Labor: The Struggle Intensifies
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Updates on writers (WGA) strike, auto-workers (UAW) strike, failure of US Federal Reserve, US govt subsidizes private capitalists. Interview Pete Dolack on his new book "What Do We Need Bosses For? Toward Economic Democracy"

Monday Oct 09, 2023
Economic Update- What Socialism Needs
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023

Monday Oct 02, 2023
Economic Update- Marxism’s Ongoing Relevance
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
After clearing away the Cold War debris that blocked discussion of Marxism's insights since 1945, we focus on Marxism's core contribution to (1) thinking about and (2) changing modern capitalist society. That contribution is class structure and class struggle. Marxism explores how class struggle exists in capitalism, how it influences all of social life, and how it changes over time. Marxism also envisions the end of class struggles as its social change goal now.