Today we'll discuss two sickening injustices of the U.S. capitalist economy.

As the housing crisis intensifies, landlords are now stooping so low as to go after the

children of the tenants they target for eviction. And at the same time, the ultra-rich are enjoying a historic decline

in their payments for the estate tax on large inheritances, saving over $10 billion in 2020 alone

thanks to the Donald Trump tax cuts.

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. Dapening 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 very 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 working class, and the crimes of big business. I'm your host, Brian Becker.

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

He's the author of many books, the latest being The Sickness is the System

when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

He also has a new hard copy edition of his book, Understanding Marxism.

It's only been recently released.

It features a new lengthy introduction, which strengthens the case for why Marxism is worth

understanding.

You can check out all of his work at R.D.Wolf.com. That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F.com.

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