German Militarism is Back. Why That's Bad for Everyone w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss Trump's demands that European countries double their military spending, and the new German government has embraced the open remilitarization of Germany--a major shift in policy for Germany since the defeat of Hitler and Nazism in 1945.
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 | Donald Trump demanded that European countries double their military spending. |
| 0:07.0 | The new German government has embraced the open re-militarization of Germany, |
| 0:12.0 | a major shift in policy for Germany since the defeat of Hitler and Nazism in 1945. |
| 0:20.0 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:22.8 | We need a new society. |
| 0:24.7 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:27.5 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:29.3 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:31.6 | but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:37.1 | Music We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment |
| 1:01.0 | where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the crimes of big business, |
| 1:06.4 | the needs of the working class. I'm your host, Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you content |
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| 1:23.9 | today. Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. |
| 1:28.8 | He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is available at |
| 1:34.6 | Democracy at Work.Info. Professor Wolf, welcome back. |
| 1:39.3 | Thank you very much, Brian. Glad to be here. |
| 1:42.2 | You know, I mentioned in the beginning, Richard, that Donald Trump was |
| 1:45.6 | demanding that European countries spend as much as 5% of their GDP. That was his demand on military goods. |
| 1:56.1 | You know, it was Obama back in 2010 or 2011, maybe it was 2012, that first issued the demand that all of the NATO |
| 2:04.8 | countries spend at least 2% of their GDP on military goods. |
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