Elon Musk Buys Twitter - How Capitalism Mutilates the Notion of a "Free Press"
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss Elon Musk, a billionaire, buying Twitter, one of the world's largest mass communications platforms. Why are billionaires so determined to control the information available to the public?
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | At the cost of $44 billion, Elon Musk appears to be taking control of one of the most important |
| 0:09.4 | means of mass communication in the world. |
| 0:12.3 | That would be Twitter. |
| 0:13.9 | What does this tell us about so-called free speech and democracy under capitalism? |
| 0:21.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:27.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:01.7 | Music necessity. We are excited. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolf join us again for our regular weekly segment where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working |
| 1:06.9 | class, and the crimes of big business. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. The Socialist Program |
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| 1:30.5 | Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization, Democracy at Work and the author of many |
| 1:35.7 | books, the latest being The Sickness is the System, when capitalism fails to save us from |
| 1:41.9 | pandemics or itself. |
| 1:49.5 | There's a new hard copy edition of Professor Wolfe's book, Understanding Marxism, which has been released recently. |
| 1:51.6 | It features a new lengthy introduction, strengthening the case for why Marxism is worth |
| 1:58.4 | understanding. |
| 1:59.7 | You can check out all of his work at R.D.Wolf.com. That's R.D.W.O.F.F.com. |
| 2:07.7 | Professor Wolf, welcome back. Thank you, Ryan. Glad to be here. |
| 2:12.1 | Well, we had a last-minute change of plans, Richard. I want to mention it to the audience that when we talked |
| 2:19.5 | about this show on Monday, the headlines were something like this. The war in Ukraine will last a long |
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