"American Midnight" Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
In this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the French School of Economic Warfare and sanctions against Russia; how asset price declines threaten US pensions, electric replace fossil fuel private cars because of profit motive, instead of for a rational transportation policy; US police in elementary schools: bad for students, parents, teachers and even police; honoring Staughton Lynd, US radical academic and labor organizer who died on 11/18/22. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Adam Hochschild , author of "American Midnight" how 1917-1921 was a US rehearsal for a parallel right-wing surge of recent years.
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- در حال پخش: "American Midnight" Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
- بعدی: A Critique of Profit
- بعدی: U.S. Housing Crisis Deepens
- بعدی: Markets: Institutions Deeply In Need of Criticism
- بعدی: U.S. Capitalism as a Crisis for Men
- بعدی: Marx's Key Insight: Capitalism's Surplus
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