The rising tide of fascist organizations and armed ultra-right militias came into clear

view with a temporary seizure and dispersal of Congress on January 6th.

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 once again for our regular weekly segment where we discuss

the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of

big business, and we talk about how the economy can be reconstituted on a new basis so that

the needs of the people and the planet come first.

Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work.

He is the author of many books, the latest being,

The System is the Sickness When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.

Be sure to check out his work at R.D. Wolf.

That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F.com.

Professor Wolf, welcome back.

Thank you, Ron. I'm glad to be here.

Thank you for joining us.

Of course, we talk with you every week about economics and the big story of economics.

But of course, economics is interconnected with politics.

Perhaps, as some say, economics is concentrated politics or vice versa.

Politics is concentrated economics if you're coming from a class point of view.

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