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Brutality, capitalism, revenge / Max Haiven

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🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Writer Max Haiven on his book "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts" from Pluto Press. http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/

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man look at them to me at them

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at them he.

0:05.0

Yes I know if Harper was here right now.

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Bigger, it should be pleased. We'll be in place. This is hell.

0:30.0

live.

0:29.0

live. This is hell. Live from late capitalism where we know the price of everything, but the value of nothing,

0:40.0

this is hell.

0:43.0

Capitalism is vengeful.

0:46.0

It is cruel.

0:47.0

It supports a system where the rich and powerful

0:50.0

are always applying the wrath of vengeance

0:53.1

against the poor.

0:54.6

The very same poor, the wealthy insist,

0:56.8

are the real threat to social stability.

1:00.3

Meanwhile, capitalism imposes brutal racism and gender-based violence, which is somehow

1:05.2

tolerated and normalized. Nearly 10% of the world, almost 700 million people, live in extreme poverty.

1:14.4

Yet for some reason, we've accepted that there is no alternative.

1:19.6

Capitalism is failing to provide for almost 700 million people and the conventional

1:25.2

wisdom is this is the best system we can come up with ever period end of story

1:30.8

but what if that force of revenge was confronted with an avenging counterforce, one that seeks justice for those who the planet, seeking justice for those whose planet has been damaged to the point that it is experiencing climate change and globalization that is driving a driving force behind the pandemic.

1:51.0

And how is the pandemic currently revealing the ways in which capitalism seeks

1:54.7

revenge against the non- wealthy and non-powerful amongst us? We'll find out in a few when we have

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