Pharmacy giant Wright Aid has filed for bankruptcy in a massive corporate collapse driven by lawsuits

related to the company's deadly role fueling the opioid crisis.

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. 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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if you're not yet, to become a patron today. 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. Be sure to

check out all of his work at R.D.Wolf.com. That's R.D.W.O.F.com. Professor Wolf, welcome

back. Thank you, Brian. I'm glad to be here.

Thank you. There's different parts to this story, Richard, which is true about most stories.

But these are big parts. I mean, there's one, the opioid crisis, again, fueled really by the

capitalist class or sectors of it, which sought to make huge

profits and did make huge profits from sort of using addiction as a business model. And certainly

the pharmacies were well into that. We had lawsuits from the West Virginia Attorney General,

other states where masses of people

have become addicted in the last decade, especially, and so many people are dying.

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