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2020
Global Capitalism: Post-Election Special
November 2020
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This is a special post-election Global Capitalism featuring comments from guests Lee Camp, Lee Carter, Laura Flanders, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Nomi Prins, and Yanis Varoufakis.
Global Capitalism: Capitalism’s Decline Accelerates
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Topics for the evening:
The failures mount:
-Failed preparation for COVID-19
-Failed containment of COVID-19
-Failed preparation for 2020 capitalist crash
-Failed containment of crash’s social effects
-Failed scapegoating
The social problems explode:
-Systemic racism
-State and local budget collapse
-Unaffordable housing and eviction
The US election and the way forward:
-historic action of US professional athletes
-fading power of GOP, Dems, and organized labor
-emerging fascism
Prof. Wolff also discusses the following: US election and the way forward: historic action of US professional athletes; fading power of GOP, Dems, and organized labor; emerging fascism.
Global Capitalism: As US Capitalism Shakes, US Socialism Renews
July 2020
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Topics for the evening:
- Mass unemployment undercuts US capitalism: tenants can’t pay rents, landlords can’t repay banks, employers close permanently
- Trump vs Biden: neither are solutions, the choice is a symptom of system decline
- What old socialist responses to today’s crisis would be
- What new socialist solutions to today’s crisis could be.
In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he also covers the following issues:
- Why US capitalism has needed racism, and and how it has used it
- Why US current protests against racism and police violence are so strong.
Global Capitalism: Corona and Capitalism: Overlapping Sicknesses
May 2020
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Topics for the evening:
- Why capitalist enterprises & governments failed to prepare for the coronavirus
- Private unemployment vs government re-employment
- Pandemic policies worsen inequality, instability of capitalism
- How to do better than capitalism during the coronavirus
In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he also covers the following issues:
- History lesson: Bubonic plague/feudalism dies – coronavirus/capitalism dies
- The pandemic and worker cooperative enterprises
Global Capitalism: Changing Strained Alliances of World Capitalism
March 2020
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In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic ,"Changing Strained Alliances of World Capitalism," he also covers the following issues:
- US in decline turns nationalist, drops old allies, targets China
- Europe in decline turns toward China, away from US
- UK and Japan: isolated, in greater decline
- Other nations desperate to survive amid changing alliances
- Bloomberg: another billion dollar disaster uses the system
- Why some mega-corporations are OK with Green New Deal movement
Global Capitalism: The Three Key Economic Issues of 2020
January 2020
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In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he also covers the following issues:
- How, why US economy is not in “great” shape
- How, why US capitalism now struggles between tariffs, trade wars (protectionism) and free trade (globalization)
- Tensions, conflicts with China
- Class War in France: Macron vs united unions and yellow vests
- Class War in the UK: Labor Party defeat, Brexit, and what comes next
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