Joe Manchin took his war on workers and working families to new lows over the weekend as he

announced on Fox News that he was pulling out of negotiations with the White House over the

build back better social programs. But these negotiations have long been a farce. From the

beginning, Biden pursued a ridiculous strategy,

praising Mansion in public instead of building pressure and offering concession after concession to

mansion. Now this situation has reached an impasse that only mass struggle can break.

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.

Yeah. 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 joined again by Professor Richard Wolffe, who talks to us every Wednesday

in this regular weekly segment where we discuss the biggest stories related to the economy,

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

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Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the Organization Democracy at Work, the author of many books,

the latest being The Sickness is the System when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

We're also encouraging people to get the new hard copy edition of Professor Wolfe's book

Understanding Marxism, which has been released recently, and which features a new lengthy

introduction, strengthening 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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