The Amacron variant, a new variant of COVID-19, is causing panic in global financial markets,

with huge stock sell-offs taking place worldwide.

Are we standing on the precipice of a new economic downturn as the virus continues to mutate?

And meanwhile, landlords in the United States are stooping so

low as to target the children of adult tenants who they are evicting. 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 widening inequality, there's no denying it.

Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.

We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for a 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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become a patron today if you enjoy listening to this show. 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.

And a new hard copy edition of Professor Wolfe's book, Understanding Marxism, has been released,

which features a new lengthy introduction which strengthens the case for why Marxism is worth

understanding. You can check out all of his work at

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

Well, we have a couple stories. I do want to talk about the impact. It's not simply the new

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