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#1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers


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Air Date 6/18/2025

Critics of capitalism like us often advocate for the system to come to an end and be replaced with another that aligns better with human needs and continued existence. Well, it's possible that the system is close to having run its course and will be making way for something different. Unfortunately, the natural course of capitalism is to concentrate wealth and, by extension, power so that's what's happened and we're now getting close to basically reinventing feudalism. So, wrong direction.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: The End of Capitalism: What comes next is worse. Part 1 - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 4-18-25

KP 2: People vs. Neoliberalism: Race, Gold, IQ, & the Capitalism of the Far Right (w/ Quinn Slobodian) - Bad Faith - Air Date 5-15-25

KP 3: Musk vs. Trump Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-6-25

KP 4: Why Do Workers Need Welfare: How Billionaires TRICKED Us into Keeping Wages Low & the Poor Desperate - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 6-3-25

KP 5: Capitalism's Critics w John Cassidy - Behind the News - Air Date 6-5-25

KP 6: Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back. - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 6-6-25

KP 7: Labor Movement v. Fascism Worker Organizers & Labor Educators Are Under Attack - Laura Flanders and Friends - Air Date 5-4-25

KP 8: Shawn Fain's Radical Plan For 2028 - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-20-25

(01:00:31) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On how to snowball progressive policies

DEEPER DIVES

(01:10:12) SECTION A: NEO-LIBERALISM

A1: Who Will Likely Win and Lose the U.S.-China Trade War - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Air Date 5-27-25

A2: Daily Take The Great American Tariff Scam Starring Donald Trump as the Savior Who Sells You Out - The Hartmann Report - Air Date 6-5-25

A3: Quinn Slobodian - The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right - How To Academy Podcast - Air Date 6-6-25

A4: The End of American Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) - Current Affairs - Air Date 6-3-25

A5: The next stage of capitalism Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracy - The Institute of Art and Ideas - Air Date 2-13-25

A6: The End of American Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) Part 2 - Current Affairs - Air Date 6-3-25

A7: People vs. Neoliberalism Race, Gold, IQ, & the Capitalism of the Far Right (w/ Quinn Slobodian) - Bad Faith - Air Date 5-15-25

(02:06:40) SECTION B: CORPORATE DEMOCRATS

B1: How the Democrats Abandoned Workers - Confronting Capitalism - Air Date 5-7-25

B2: The End of Capitalism: What comes next is worse. Part 2 - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 4-18-25

B3: Abundance Gang Wants To Crush Unions - The Majority Report - Air Date 6-7-25

B4: How the Democrats Abandoned Workers Part 2 - Confronting Capitalism - Air Date 5-7-25

B5: Abundance Gang Wants To Crush Unions Part 2 - The Majority Report - Air Date 6-7-25

B6: Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back. Part 2 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 6-6-25

(02:57:58) SECTION C: LABOR AND RESISTANCE

C1: An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US - Working People - Air Date 5-28-25

C2: Labor Movement v. Fascism Worker Organizers & Labor Educators Are Under Attack Part 2 - Laura Flanders and Friends - Air Date 5-4-25

C3: Arizona Dems Say NO To Billionaire-Bought Primaries - The Majority Report - Air Date 6-11-25

C4: An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US Part 2 - Working People - Air Date 5-28-25

C5: Who Will Likely Win and Lose the U.S.-China Trade War Part 2 - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Air Date 5-27-25

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Description: Photo of a handmade protest sign held in the air that says “CAPITALISM IS KILLING US”

Credit: “ClimateStrike-210924-4-1140371” by Mark Dixon, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped

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