Time to Abolish the Supreme Court? Why “Private Property” Should Not Be Supreme

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal eviction moratorium and putting 11 million people at risk of being thrown onto the streets in the middle of a pandemic. The rationale used by the court to issue this cruel edict is the essence of capitalism -- protect property owners’ “right to exclude” at all costs.

Richard Wolff 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 rdwolff.com.

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0:00.0	Today we discussed the Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal eviction moratorium
0:07.1	and putting 11 million people in the United States at risk of being thrown into the streets
0:15.1	in the middle of the COVID pandemic.
0:18.4	The rationale used by the court to issue this cruel edict is the essence
0:24.2	of capitalism. Protect property owners, quote, right to exclude, close quote, at all costs.
0:33.5	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. Deepening unemployment, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality.
1:14.6	There's no denying it. Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.
1:20.6	We are happy to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment,
1:26.6	where we talk about the biggest stories related
1:29.1	to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business. I'm your host,
1:35.4	Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you content three days a week thanks to the support
1:41.1	of our patrons. Go to patreon.com forward slash the socialist program and become a
1:47.9	subscriber today. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of
1:54.7	many books, the latest being the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.
2:03.2	Be sure to check out his work at R.D.Wolf.com. That's R.D.W.O.F.F.com.
2:10.6	Professor Wolf, welcome back. Thank you. Glad to be here. Thank you. In 1912, Richard, Eugene Debs ran for president. He ran for president
2:21.6	four times, the last time being from his jail cell, where he was imprisoned for 10 years at hard
2:28.5	labor for the crime of speaking out against the American entrance into World War I. But in 1912, which is the same year that
2:37.0	the voters got, not of course women because they still didn't have the right to vote, but voters
2:42.6	and most black people, but those who could vote got to vote directly for their senator and their
2:49.6	state. Prior to that, there wasn't direct elections for
2:52.8	the Senate. Eugene Debs called for the abolition of the Senate. He said, why do we need a House of
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