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

and changing the world used by activists, scholars, educators, and many of the great

revolutionaries of modern history.

This week, we continue our multi-parts series on agriculture under capitalism with a special focus today

on the present-day factory farming system. What effect does the modern process of capitalist

agricultural production have on workers, farmers, animals, and the environment?

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. Deppening 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 again join us 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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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many

books, the latest being the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from

pandemics or itself.

You can check out his work at R-D-Wolf.com.

That's R-D-W-O-L-F.com. Richard Wolf, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here.

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