A product you can't help but buy, a business model based on addiction.

It might be a public health nightmare, but it was a dream come true for at least one part of

the capitalist class.

And the tobacco industry is going all out to defend it.

We need a new system. We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Deepening unemployment, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality, there's no denying it.

Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.

We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly

segment where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the Organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books.

The latest being The Sickness is the System

when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself. You can check out his work at

R-D-Wolf.com and that's R-D-W-O-L-F dot com. Professor Wolf, welcome to the show.

Thank you, glad to be here. Thank you so much. Well, I mentioned

in the introduction or alluded to, of course, nicotine in cigarettes, and the Biden administration

is considering requiring tobacco companies to lower the nicotine in all cigarettes sold in the U.S.

to levels at which they are no longer

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