Corona and Capitalism: Overlapping Sicknesses [May 2020]

05/14/20 • 68 min

Topics: why capitalist enterprises & governments failed to prepare for Corona; private unemployment vs gov’t re-employment; pandemic policies worsen inequality, instability of capitalism; how to do better than capitalism during Corona. In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he covers the following issues: Bubonic plague/feudalism dies; Corona virus/capitalism dies; the pandemic and worker cooperative enterprises.

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Changing Strained Alliances of World Capitalism [March 2020]

In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he will also cover 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

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Wolff Responds: Protests and Class War

Prof. Wolff talks about the protests sweeping across the US incited by yet another brutal killing of a Black American, George Floyd. He argues that the capitalist system, with its endless drive for profits over people, is the true culprit and failing Americans. The levels of inequality, massive unemployments, and injustices are symptomatic of a system that is in deep trouble. Divide and conquer, or class war is the tactic capitalists are using to distract Americans from uniting against the common enemy: capitalism.