8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

The goal is to avoid the pitfalls of Trump’s first years in office, when the Republican president’s team was ill-prepared, his Cabinet nominees had trouble winning Senate confirmation and policies were met with resistance.

Rightwing groups penned a conservative wish list of proposals for the next conservative president to gut environmental protections

Trump's extreme rhetoric is being compared to Hitler and Mussolini after he vowed to "root out" his political opponents, who he said "live like vermin"

A critical video about the deceptive strategies used by the Alt-Right to appeal to centrists. Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/contrapointsLife ...

In his thought-provoking exploration, renowned thinker George Monbiot delves into the concealed ideology that shapes our daily lives. He reveals how a fringe...

r/LateStageCapitalism: A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological Rot.

The Capitalist System - Melting glaciers, gullied seas, the financial markets are about to collapse. Spectacular images of how growth continues to be blindin...

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For the last couple of decades, topics like climate change, sweatshop labour and animal abuse have become hot-button issues in North America. In the 1990’s, stories emerged of billion dollar corporations like Nike, Apple, Nestle and Wal-Mart forcing workers to manufacture their products in sweatshops, terrifying consumers who hitherto had no knowledge of working conditions […]

Why are so many people turning to right-wing leaders? Why is the planet burning while jobs disappear and families struggle? In this explosive UpFront intervi...

*This video was recorded about a week ago (more actually), currently on holiday so was a little late with this one because I have to pre make videos before t...

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

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The antidote is economic democracy.

Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. They are dissatisfied and impatient with how school courses, politicians’ statements, and mainstream media treat the subject. Basic economics literacy is notoriously low in the United States even as its citizens show great interest in the financial aspects of their lives. So this short article aims to present the system’s essentials.

John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Capitalism and Its Critics, joins Nathan J. Robinson to explore the history of capitalism. Cassidy...

These are people and projects that have been essential for my own journey of unlearning capitalism.

A emFinancial Times/em best book of the year and one of emThe New Yorker’/ems “Political Books to Help Us Make Sense of 2024” br / br / An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment., Offshore, Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Brooke Harrington, 9781324064947

Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim A very basic general overview of the contradictions of Capitalism, and the intrinsic faults that make the system untenable. Sources and books mentioned are in pinned comment. 00:00 Intro 00:22 Capitalism's Boom and Bust Cycles 02:10 The Falling Rate of Profit 03:54 Infinite Growth in a Finite World 05:04 Profit Over All Else 08:06 Capitalism and Meritocracy 09:32 The Reserve Army of Labour 10:32 The Centralization of Capital 11:57 Class Antagonism 13:26 The Lack of Real Solutions Within The System 15:20 Conclusion

Grace Blakeley, economist, journalist, and author talks corporate power, late-stage capitalism, and how we fight back.Free markets aren’t really free. Corpor...

She talked to The Nation about capitalism's evolutions and what the left can do to better prepare for the next political crisis.

Nancy Fraser talks about work, debt, and a breakdown of shared meaning.

Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee

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