Capitalism in Crisis: Biden is Funneling Trillions to the Capitalists and Calling it an Infrastructure Program
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss the Biden administration's next big priority -- passing an infrastructure plan his administration says will create a huge number of jobs. What’s in the proposal, will it pass and what does it mean for the working class?
Richard Wolff 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 rdwolff.com
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| 0:00.0 | Joe Biden's next big priority is passing an infrastructure plan. |
| 0:06.5 | His administration says will create a huge number of jobs. |
| 0:11.6 | What's in the proposal? |
| 0:12.8 | Will it pass? |
| 0:13.6 | And what does it mean for the working class? |
| 0:17.0 | We need a new system. |
| 0:19.1 | We need a new society. |
| 0:59.6 | 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, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality, there's no denying it. |
| 1:04.3 | Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis. |
| 1:08.1 | We are excited to have again Professor Richard Wolfe. |
| 1:11.3 | He joins us on a regular weekly segment where we discuss the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes |
| 1:16.3 | of big business. |
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| 1:33.1 | listening to this show. |
| 1:35.3 | Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. |
| 1:39.0 | He's the author of many books, the latest being The Sickness is the the system when capitalism fails to save us from |
| 1:46.5 | pandemics or itself. You can check out his work at rd.wulf.com and that's spelled r dwol |
| 1:53.9 | f.com. Richard Wolfe, welcome back. Thank you, Ryan. Glad to be here. Glad to have you. We missed you for one week, |
| 2:03.1 | but you're back, and our audience really loves this segment. We get lots of feedback about it, |
| 2:09.1 | and it gives us a chance to talk about the things in the news related to the economy, related |
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