Behind the News: How Sick Is Capitalism?

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Benanav, sociologist and frequent contributor to New Left Review, and Seth Ackerman, an editor at Jacobin, discuss the long-term health of capitalism: Is stagnation really the problem?

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online.

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Hinwood.
0:36.0	In a departure from all its sacred,
0:38.0	the usual two guests,
0:39.0	but today slotted into a single interview
0:41.0	about the long-term health of the capitalist system,
0:44.0	we'll be hearing from Aaron Beninoff,
0:46.0	a partisan of the deep structural illness point of view,
0:48.0	and Seth Ackerman, who doesn't share Aaron's diagnosis.
0:51.0	By the way, apologies for any background noise you may hear.
0:54.0	I'm visiting my in-laws' semi-rural house in Massachusetts,
0:58.0	and it often seems that the country is no easier than the city.
1:01.0	Somebody's always mowing a lawn or cutting wood or something.
1:04.0	For the last couple of decades,
1:05.0	Newlett Review has been publishing articles
1:07.0	diagnosing the capitalist system,
1:09.0	a suffering from chronic overcapacity,
1:11.0	declining profitability, sluggish growth,
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