World leaders are gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for a major United Nations conference on climate

change.

But beyond the false promises and hollow phrases, what will it really take to pull the planet

back from the brink of total disaster?

What can prevent the capitalists from killing the planet?

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 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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Thanks to the support of our patrons at patreon.com forward slash the socialist program. We appreciate all of your support and encourage you to

become a patron today if you enjoy listening to the show. 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.

And a new hard copy edition of Professor Wolfe's book,

Understanding Marxism, has just been released.

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