TMBS ReAir 143: The ABCs of Capitalism & Strategy for a Socialist Future ft. Vivek Chibber
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
TMBS aired on June 9th, 2020
Episode summary:
Notes on the uprising and how we move forward.
Vivek Chibber joins us to break down the ABC’s of capitalism and what socialism’s future might look like.
During the GEM, David breaks down how COVID has affected the shipping industry and kept sailors trapped on their boats.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Brooks Show. |
| 0:18.3 | We're broadcasting live from our various quarantine zones across Brooklyn on this week's program. |
| 0:26.6 | Vivek Chibber, professor at New York University, author of the ABCs of capitalism. |
| 0:34.6 | We're talking about what is capitalism?, strategies for fighting it, the future of the |
| 0:41.8 | socialist project, and good socialism, good liberalism versus not good socialism, not good |
| 0:50.3 | wokivism, with Vivek Chibber labor walkouts and solidarity with the uprisings against |
| 1:00.3 | the murder the murders of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor will touch on that of course we have a |
| 1:07.5 | gem with David Griscombe and I forgot to introduce Matt and David. |
| 1:11.9 | My apologies. |
| 1:12.7 | Matt and David, how are you guys doing? |
| 1:19.2 | Matt's doing all right. |
| 1:20.5 | Matt's doing all right. |
| 1:21.4 | We've gotten some technical hiccups this week, folks. |
| 1:27.6 | On the post game, Joshua Khan Russell is talking about the actions in the Bay Area. |
| 1:33.1 | Ben Burgess explains why Chris Rock had the best argument by analogy ever. |
| 1:39.0 | Ooloff Palm, we might find out who assassinated him tomorrow. |
| 1:43.2 | Let's remind ourselves of what an extraordinary leader he was. |
| 1:46.7 | Also, why calling to censor on the Internet is a disaster for the left. |
| 1:52.6 | Don't do that to Michael Moore's movie, regardless of what you think of it. |
| 1:56.9 | We're going to be covering all of that as well as Cornell West's distillation of the Democratic lesson, small D democratic lesson of today's moment. |
| 2:09.6 | All that and much, much more on the Michael Brooks show. |
| 2:13.6 | But first, let's talk about the ongoing uprisings taking place across the country, |
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