American Style Fascism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the flight attendants' union strike in Canada, polls show that U.S. Democrats are shifting leftward, with majorities favoring socialism, Nigel Farage discusses Epstein and prominent Americans, and the French people move against Macron's austerity through mass national street actions. In the second half of today's show, Professor Wolff interviews attorney Michael S. Smith, co-author of the new book, "From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the |
| 0:26.6 | economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard |
| 0:32.6 | Wolf. I have a couple of announcements. They're important, and I think they're worth your attention. |
| 0:40.5 | It's a plenary session and workshop on how we can make the solidarity economy real. |
| 0:48.4 | It's presented by the Left Forum, the People's Network for Land and Liberation, the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City, |
| 0:58.0 | scenic, and of course, democracy at work. It will take place at Women Building Up |
| 1:07.0 | in Brooklyn, New York on October 11th, To register, again, go to our website, Democracy |
| 1:14.9 | at Work.info and click on the banner at the top of the home page, and you will find out |
| 1:21.5 | all you need to know about it, to register for it, and so on. |
| 1:28.0 | Finally, before jumping into today's session, I need, sadly, to let you know that we are |
| 1:34.2 | having a problem where you can help us. |
| 1:38.1 | The proliferation of fake videos of me presenting some of my ideas is now becoming a major problem. A good number |
| 1:48.7 | of you have written to us about it. And to those of you, I want to say first of all, |
| 1:54.0 | thank you. You're helping us. And no, it's not a project of ours whatsoever. |
| 2:00.9 | That's why the physical likeness of me is sometimes bizarre. |
| 2:06.5 | The most recent example, the upper part of my face is actually me, but the lower part has |
| 2:12.5 | been changed. |
| 2:13.7 | It is somebody else's mouth, not mine, saying words I don't say, producing a video I never |
| 2:20.2 | produced nor authorized. |
| 2:23.7 | It is now happening so often that I need to ask you if you see such a thing or if you're |
| 2:29.7 | concerned to find out whether it's genuine or not, get in touch with us, we will tell you. |
| 2:36.6 | We report all of this to Google, we try to get them taken down from YouTube, but as you |
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