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157 | Adam Tooze: How Covid Reshaped Capitalism, the Cold War, and Politics

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The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Adam Tooze, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy and Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, joins The Realignment to discuss how Covid reshaped capitalism, geopolitics, the U.S. vs. China, and more...

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0:00.0

Marsha and Saga here, welcome back to the Realignment.

0:03.8

I don't think the Cold War ever ended.

0:13.2

The mistake was simply that we imagined that because we'd won the one in Europe, we'd

0:17.0

won the whole thing.

0:18.4

And we never won the Cold War in Asia, ever, ever, ever, anywhere, in any of the arenas

0:22.7

in which we fought it, the possible conception of the Indian easier.

0:26.6

And all that's happening is in a sense that we're waking up to the fact that we've never

0:29.6

had.

0:30.6

And so this is not as it were a regime that's just an authoritarianism, but it's like a fascism.

0:35.6

It's a bonafide communist regime.

0:37.4

That's what it is, right?

0:38.4

More to all.

0:39.4

That's what it, that's what it's hereticism.

0:41.6

And so its capacity to do the things that it's doing with technolog arts aren't just

0:46.9

that, you know, they can throw their weight around it and bit and scare people.

0:49.5

That will be putin', that's what putin' dust on the guys, right?

0:52.7

This is the, this is not even the, this is literally the party that came out of, marism

0:59.0

and the civil war, you know, and the great leap forward and the cultural revolution that

1:04.7

everything that's followed, like it's not like anything else.

1:07.6

That's what it is.

1:08.6

It's simply the most impressive, by most metrics, political projects ever.

1:13.0

Plus, stop ever in human history.

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