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Back to SearchThe Violent Crimes of Lost, Angry Men
Season 8 Episode 21
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores how rape and mass murder become some men's reactions to their reduced status as providers for dependent women and children. Men who…
Published on 2 hours ago
Today's Family Structure Extolled and Endangered
Season 8 Episode 20
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores the repressed history of the family structure we know today. It explores the forces that laud the family unit, and those that endan…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
The State of Women in the U.S. in 2025
Season 8 Episode 19
Women in the U.S. are under political, economic, social, and reproductive siege. The rights we fought for, like abortion rights, are now fully available in only nine states. The Trump regime has atta…
Published on 1 month ago
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 1 month, 2 weeks 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 3 weeks ago