Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCornel West on Pandemic Capitalism
Season 10 Episode 21
Updates on how pandemic and capitalism are combining to worsen social divides in the US. Interview with Cornel West on (1) how pandemic + economic cr…
6 years ago
2020 May Day Protests and Demands
Season 10 Episode 20
A special program: interview with Kali Akuno, leader of Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi. As a leader of national May Day actions, he discusses the…
6 years ago
Unemployment: Cruel, Wasteful, Unnecessary
Season 10 Episode 19
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff criticizes unemployment - as a specifically capitalist irrationality - and advocates "re-employment" as a far better…
6 years ago
Honoring May Day, 1886 and 2020
Season 10 Episode 18
From May Day 1886 to 2020, workers wage long, hard struggles to reform capitalismFrom the fight for an 8-hour workday to the fight for a safe, Corona…
6 years ago
Capitalism's Unemployment Problem
Season 10 Episode 17
Capitalism's recurring unemployment problem was never solved and makes the system fundamentally unstable. Today's high levels of unemployment are hug…
6 years, 1 month ago
Virus Triggers Capitalist Crash
Season 10 Episode 16
Analysis (part 1): how, why capitalism - especially in US - failed to prepare for or cope with a virus thereby enabling it to trigger another crash o…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Psychological Aspects of Today's Crises
Season 10 Episode 15
Social divisions undermine the solidarity needed to fight both virus and economic crash: an analysis. A sense of out-of-touch, non-caring, inconsiste…
6 years, 1 month ago
Corona and Our Mental Health
Season 10 Episode 14
The Corona virus's threat to physical health is clear. Far less well known are the virus's serious impacts on mental health (loneliness, depression, …
6 years, 1 month ago
#MeToo and Corona: System is Key
Season 10 Episode 13
This week's program focuses on how the capitalist economic system plays crucial roles in the #MeToo examples of Weinstein and Cosby and also in the f…
6 years, 2 months ago
Comedy and Tragedy of Capitalism
Season 10 Episode 12
Updates on capitalism's failures exposed by the Coronavirus; Sanders and the re-entry of socialism into US politics; US social mobility goes down; an…
6 years, 2 months ago