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Back to SearchThe Great American Purge (REPEAT)
The program begins by explaining the economics behind the great US anti-leftist purge (McCarthyism) after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of…
5 years ago
Labor and Capitalism's Rise and Fall
Season 11 Episode 20
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Congress Bills H.R.51 giving statehood to Washington, DC, and H.R.1 countering GOP efforts to restrict vot…
5 years ago
Valuing Work by Women of Color
Season 11 Episode 19
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Bernie Madoff's $ 82 billion swindles and capitalism's incentives for swindling, the economics of wars in …
5 years ago
Capitalism versus Democracy
Season 11 Episode 18
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents an analysis of how and why capitalism is an undemocratic economic system. The first half is devoted to the …
5 years ago
How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
Season 11 Episode 17
From 1945 to 1990 we were told a great struggle pitted capitalism against socialism/communism (chiefly the USSR and China). Yet still today, US leade…
5 years, 1 month ago
A Green 3rd Party for the US
Season 11 Episode 16
On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about Rolls Royce's $400,000 cars, unionization defeat at Amazon, why Biden boom is just hype, and progress…
5 years, 1 month ago
Workers Successfully Take Over their Workplaces
Season 11 Episode 15
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how the US home rental market is failing over 20% of all renters, and the basic flaws in Biden's $2 trill…
5 years, 1 month ago
Marxism's Ongoing Relevance
Season 11 Episode 14
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) thin…
5 years, 1 month ago
When Economic Systems Fail
Season 11 Episode 13
On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the structural failure of Biden's American Rescue Plan, Nigerian mass workers' movement, private elec…
5 years, 1 month ago
Dems' Self-promotion versus Hard Economic Realities
Season 11 Episode 12
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the US coal industry decline, Brazil's Covid disaster, economic surge after Covid, and Elizabeth Warren's …
5 years, 2 months ago