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#1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers
Manage episode 489453721 series 8456
Air Date 6/18/2025
Critics of capitalism like us often advocate for the system to come to an end and be replaced with another that aligns better with human needs and continued existence. Well, it's possible that the system is close to having run its course and will be making way for something different. Unfortunately, the natural course of capitalism is to concentrate wealth and, by extension, power so that's what's happened and we're now getting close to basically reinventing feudalism. So, wrong direction.
Check out our new show, SOLVED! on YouTube!
KEY POINTS
KP 1: The End of Capitalism: What comes next is worse. Part 1 - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 4-18-25
KP 3: Musk vs. Trump Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-6-25
KP 5: Capitalism's Critics w/ John Cassidy - Behind the News - Air Date 6-5-25
KP 8: Shawn Fain's Radical Plan For 2028 - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-20-25
(01:00:31) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
DEEPER DIVES
(01:10:12) SECTION A: NEO-LIBERALISM
(02:06:40) SECTION B: CORPORATE DEMOCRATS
(02:57:58) SECTION C: LABOR AND RESISTANCE
SHOW IMAGE CREDITS
Description: Photo of a handmade protest sign held in the air that says “CAPITALISM IS KILLING US”
Credit: “ClimateStrike-210924-4-1140371” by Mark Dixon, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com
Contact me directly at [email protected]
1900 episodes
Manage episode 489453721 series 8456
Air Date 6/18/2025
Critics of capitalism like us often advocate for the system to come to an end and be replaced with another that aligns better with human needs and continued existence. Well, it's possible that the system is close to having run its course and will be making way for something different. Unfortunately, the natural course of capitalism is to concentrate wealth and, by extension, power so that's what's happened and we're now getting close to basically reinventing feudalism. So, wrong direction.
Check out our new show, SOLVED! on YouTube!
KEY POINTS
KP 1: The End of Capitalism: What comes next is worse. Part 1 - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 4-18-25
KP 3: Musk vs. Trump Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-6-25
KP 5: Capitalism's Critics w/ John Cassidy - Behind the News - Air Date 6-5-25
KP 8: Shawn Fain's Radical Plan For 2028 - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-20-25
(01:00:31) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
DEEPER DIVES
(01:10:12) SECTION A: NEO-LIBERALISM
(02:06:40) SECTION B: CORPORATE DEMOCRATS
(02:57:58) SECTION C: LABOR AND RESISTANCE
SHOW IMAGE CREDITS
Description: Photo of a handmade protest sign held in the air that says “CAPITALISM IS KILLING US”
Credit: “ClimateStrike-210924-4-1140371” by Mark Dixon, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com
Contact me directly at [email protected]
1900 episodes
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