#1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers

Air Date 6/18/2025

Critics of capitalism like us often advocate for the system to come to an end and be replaced with another that aligns better with human needs and continued existence. Well, it's possible that the system is close to having run its course and will be making way for something different. Unfortunately, the natural course of capitalism is to concentrate wealth and, by extension, power so that's what's happened and we're now getting close to basically reinventing feudalism. So, wrong direction.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: The End of Capitalism: What comes next is worse. Part 1 - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 4-18-25

KP 2: People vs. Neoliberalism: Race, Gold, IQ, & the Capitalism of the Far Right (w Quinn Slobodian) - Bad Faith - Air Date 5-15-25

KP 3: Musk vs. Trump Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-6-25

KP 4: Why Do Workers Need Welfare: How Billionaires TRICKED Us into Keeping Wages Low & the Poor Desperate - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 6-3-25

KP 5: Capitalism's Critics w/ John Cassidy - Behind the News - Air Date 6-5-25

KP 6: Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back. - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 6-6-25

KP 7: Labor Movement v. Fascism Worker Organizers & Labor Educators Are Under Attack - Laura Flanders and Friends - Air Date 5-4-25

KP 8: Shawn Fain's Radical Plan For 2028 - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-20-25

(01:00:31) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

DEEPER DIVES

(01:10:12) SECTION A: NEO-LIBERALISM

(02:06:40) SECTION B: CORPORATE DEMOCRATS

(02:57:58) SECTION C: LABOR AND RESISTANCE

SHOW IMAGE CREDITS

Description: Photo of a handmade protest sign held in the air that says “CAPITALISM IS KILLING US”

Credit: “ClimateStrike-210924-4-1140371” by Mark Dixon, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped

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