Against Capitalism

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🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Radical politics and radical movements are on the rise everywhere. Against racial violence, and climate change; against gender inequality, corporate greed, low wages, oil pipelines, opioids. Maybe at heart they all have a common cause. Maybe they're all — in one way or another — a rebellion against capitalism.

Original Air Date: February 11, 2023

Interviews In This Hour:
The Communist Manifesto still inspires — The radical philosopher mapping the crises of capitalism — Are we living through a 'hinge point' moment?

Guests:
China Miéville, Nancy Fraser

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0:00.0	There's social and political upheaval all over the world.
0:07.0	War, violence, economic and environmental crisis.
0:11.0	But when an old order collapses, something new can be born.
0:16.0	I'm Anne Strange Champs, and today on to the best of our knowledge, could this finally be the beginning of the end of capitalism, the system that has dominated the planet for 500 years?
0:27.6	Look, I do believe that moments of deep and acute crisis, terrible impasses, something's got to give. We can't go on like this.
0:40.5	When things get interesting are in these crisis situations,
0:41.8	that's when we got the new deal.
0:44.8	Marxist feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser has been predicting this moment for a long time.
0:48.3	We'll find out what she thinks is ahead after this.
0:57.0	From WPR.
1:01.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs.
1:09.0	What if the anger and division we see all around us actually made sense?
1:18.7	People all over the globe are reacting to bad shit.
1:29.7	This is Nancy Fraser,
1:32.2	a leading Marxist feminist philosopher with a deep theory about the sources of today's social unrest.
1:38.7	They're trying to act
1:40.2	to improve their situation to protect themselves,
1:47.0	to have a better life. Some people think that people just need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, right,
1:53.0	and start working a little bit harder.
1:55.0	People are dying. Is that okay? No! Is that okay? No!
2:01.6	Some of them are joining political groups to do that or movements.
2:05.6	It's fragmented.
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