Podcast Episodes

If Children Are Our Future, Americans Are out of Luck

Season 8 Episode 18

The UN’s latest assessment of children in the developed world puts children in the U.S. at the bottom in intellectual achievement, physical health, mental health, and basic well-being. America’s chil…

Published on 8 hours ago

Labors of Love

Season 8 Episode 17

Women labor intensively and extensively to create and maintain human life. Women's labor in Creating and raising children, establishing order and cleanliness, providing emotional care for our familie…

Published on 4 weeks ago

A Different Kind of Power

Season 8 Episode 16

Jacinda Ardern was the Socialist Labor Party Prime Minister of New Zealand for 8 years. She led with a politics of empathy, delivering her nation from COVID with just 25 deaths. In a horrific white n…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Epstein — A Marriage of Capitalist Corruption and Misogyny

Season 8 Episode 15

Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in New York in 2019, was also accused of sexually assaulting underage g…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Social Reproduction Theory Illuminates the Issues of Our Time

Season 8 Episode 14

There has been an extensive study of workers and the commodities they produce. When it comes to who produces those workers, or who produces people, gives birth to them, raises them, and socializes t…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Out With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani’s Win is for All

Season 8 Episode 13

Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in the Democratic primary for New York City’s mayor has shaken up the old establishment and is becoming a symbol of progress and real, meaningful change for younger ge…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Social Reproduction Theory: A Tool for Changing U.S. Society

Season 8 Episode 12

It examines the types of labor that shape human beings outside of waged work, both before and after they enter the waged workforce. Social Reproduction Theory complements Marxist theories of labor at…

Published on 3 months ago

How Economic Transformations Impact America's Mental Health

Season 8 Episode 11

In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad examines the impact of recent global economic losses on the personal lives of Americans, from marriage and family to mental health.

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Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Can The Left Deal With America's Mental Health Crisis?

Season 8 Episode 10

In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad examines loneliness as a major driver of America’s mental health crisis. We explore how socialist and leftist organizing in the past has tackled thi…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Some Americans Still Support Trump

Season 8 Episode 9

In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad explores how the Frankfurt School of Marxian Theory and the Marxist Philosopher Louis Althusser can help us understand Americans’ adherence to Trump…

Published on 5 months ago