Today we continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism, a method for understanding

and changing the world used by many of the activists, organizers, and great revolutionaries

in modern history. We'll discuss the Marxist understanding of the real estate market and how

the speculative nature of the capitalist

market leads to tragedies like the deadly Miami condo collapse.

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 There's no denying it. Capitalism is

in crisis and capitalism is the crisis. We are excited to be joined once again by Professor Richard

Wolf. He talks to us every Wednesday in our 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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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 for itself. Be sure to check out his work

at rd-wolf.com. That's r d-W-O-L-F dot com. Professor Wolfe, welcome back. Thank you. Glad to be here. Professor Wolf, today we're

going to talk about the terrible Surfside condo tower collapse in Miami. It's a Miami area

beachfront town of Surfside. Many, many people have been killed, perhaps more than a hundred.

Survivors have not been found since the rescue mission began. The rest of the condo tower

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