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The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

Free Market or State Intervention? A Debate Inside the Right

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

The Socialist Program

Politics, News

4.7587 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the split within the right wing, where some uber-conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation, have come out in support of government subsidies and state intervention — not the so-called free market. What has caused this huge shift and what does it mean for the left?

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

Today we'll talk about a new dynamic within right-wing politics in the United States.

0:08.0

The media is making a big ado about the fact that young conservatives, apparently,

0:14.0

no longer care about the so-called free market.

0:18.0

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

0:22.2

We need a new society.

0:27.1

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

0:59.3

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. 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 working

1:04.3

class, and the crimes of big business.

1:07.6

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

1:09.5

The Socialist Program brings you content three days a week

1:12.4

thanks to the support of our patrons at patreon.com forward slash the socialist program. We appreciate

1:19.7

all of your support and encourage you to become a patron today if you enjoy listening to this show.

1:26.1

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

1:29.8

He's the author of many books.

1:31.2

The latest being The Sickness is the System

1:34.4

when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

1:38.6

Be sure to check out all of his work at R-D-Wolf.com.

1:42.2

That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F.ff.com professor wolf welcome back thank you very much brian i'm very

1:49.0

glad to be here thank you for joining once again richard you know at the time of the invasion of

1:56.2

afghanistan the invasion of iraq the bush administration announced a new set of principles for U.S. foreign

2:04.9

policy. And one of the principles was, and this was kind of ironic, the establishment and

2:12.4

promotion of a free market everywhere. So the U.S. was apparently going to go to war in Iraq and have drone strikes all over the

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