Queens, Kings and Capitalism
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how the corporate-owned media has been consumed with wall-to-wall coverage of the death of the Queen, fawning over the British monarchy. But the lifestyle that’s being celebrated is one based on plunder and empire. While their “subjects” live in poverty, the royals live a life of total luxury – all because they were lucky enough to be born into the right family.
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 | The corporate-owned media has been consumed with wall-to-wall coverage of the death of the queen, |
| 0:07.7 | fighting over the British monarchy. |
| 0:09.9 | But the lifestyle that's being celebrated is one based on plunder and empire. |
| 0:15.1 | While her, quote-unquote, subjects lived in poverty. |
| 0:18.4 | The queen lived a life of total luxury, all because she was lucky enough |
| 0:23.1 | to be born into the right family. |
| 0:25.9 | We need a new system. |
| 0:28.0 | We need a new society. |
| 0:29.9 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not |
| 0:35.3 | only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We're very excited to have Professor Richard Wolf join us for our regular weekly segment where we discuss the biggest stories relating to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of |
| 1:11.3 | big business. I'm Walter Smolerick, filling in for Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you |
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| 1:25.9 | enjoy listening to the show. |
| 1:33.1 | Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, |
| 1:35.7 | the latest being The Sickness is the System. |
| 1:39.9 | When capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself, |
| 1:43.7 | check out all of his work at r.D.Wolf.com. |
| 1:48.9 | So, Professor Wolf, I mean, it's the story you can't escape this past week or so. |
| 1:50.7 | The death of the queen. |
| 1:56.1 | All of the coverage is completely just fawning and favorable, you know, |
| 1:58.9 | about what a wonderful humanitarian she was. |
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