It Could Happen Here - Class and the Culture War Part 1: The Labor Theory of Value And its Discontents

Class and the Culture War Part 1: The Labor Theory of Value And its Discontents

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09/19/23 • 28 min

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It Could Happen Here

In part one of Mia's investigation into why Americans are so weird about class we go back to the ideology of the 19th and 20th century workers movement and how its weaknesses allowed capitalists to make a counter-attack

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It Could Happen Here - Class and the Culture War Part 1: The Labor Theory of Value And its Discontents

Transcript

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Hi, everyone, It's me James, and I'm coming at you today, sweaty, smelly and exhausted from my pickup truck out in the desert where I have been spending the weekend trying my best to help, along with lots of other dedicated mutual aid workers, to mitigate the damage done by an entirely preventable humanitarian crisis at the United States Southern border. And people are being held in the open desert in Kumba, where it gets hot in the day, it gets