#1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 206 minutes
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Summary
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 3: Musk vs. Trump Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-6-25
KP 5: Capitalism's Critics w/ John Cassidy - Behind the News - Air Date 6-5-25
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
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. Critics of capitalism like us |
| 0:08.6 | often advocate for the system to come to an end and be replaced with another that aligns better |
| 0:13.6 | with human needs and our continued existence. Well, it's possible that the system is close to |
| 0:19.6 | having run its course and will be making |
| 0:21.7 | way for something different. |
| 0:23.5 | Unfortunately, the natural course of capitalism is to concentrate wealth and by extension |
| 0:28.1 | power, so that's what's happened, and now we're getting close to basically reinventing |
| 0:33.4 | feudalism. |
| 0:34.4 | So wrong direction. |
| 0:36.5 | For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing |
| 0:39.4 | our top takes in about 50 minutes today include uneffing the Republic, Bad Faith, Democracy Now, |
| 0:46.1 | the Tom Hartman program, Behind the News, The Intercept Briefing, Laura Flanders and Friends, |
| 0:52.5 | and the Majority Report. Then in the additional deeper |
| 0:55.3 | dives half of the show, there will be more in three sections. Section A, neoliberalism, |
| 1:00.3 | followed by Section B, Corporate Democrats, and Section C, Labor and Resistance. But first, |
| 1:06.6 | a reminder to check out our new show, Solvedved on the Best of Left YouTube channel. |
| 1:11.1 | We are very proud of the show that we're making over there and think it's |
| 1:14.6 | actually pretty unique for a political talk show. |
| 1:17.2 | We're all about quality over quantity, and we focus on developing |
| 1:20.7 | unifying themes for our discussions. |
| 1:23.3 | Plus, we animate ourselves and produce songs about our conversations each week to |
| 1:27.4 | help our ideas get stuck in your head. |
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