Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad

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How does capitalism affect our personal lives? How does the economy affect life at home, relationships at work, romance and dating? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad is a bi-weekly podcast that explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn how to support the podcast. Visit us at: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capitalismhitshome

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Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad episodes:

04.22.2024
"The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand?
[S07 E09] "The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand and How Do We Raise Our Satisfaction With Our Lives? The United States has lost its position in the top 10 happiest nations? We have lost on every...
04.22.2024
How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America?
[S07 E08] How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America? We need to add to the powerful emerging union movement and unite it with all of our progressive movements whether Climate Justice, Black Lives Matter, the Feminist Movement,...
03.01.2024
World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard
[S07 E07] World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard The time for colonialism and settler colonialism is over! Whether it's in South Africa, America, Europe or Israel. The world is transforming. With the rise of China and the other BRICS...
02.09.2024
Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development
[S07 E06] Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development Despite the sometimes depressing and unnerving problematic state of affairs we are seeing a growing number of people finding new connections and support systems amongst themselves, binding together and forming supporting systems...
01.19.2024
Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism
[S07 E05] Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism What exactly do these terms mean- White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy and Capitalism? These are social divisions that function together. They separate us. They prevent us from...
12.15.2023
Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 2 of 2
America's changing global posiAmerica's Big Picture and Its Impact on Individual lives and escaping sadness in ways that are tragic and also ways that are hopeful and strong. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk...
12.09.2023
Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 1 of 2
Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs are all heavily marketed. Opioid medications like Oxycontin induce addiction, guns facilitate suicide, and pills numb justified anxiety and depression. Why are they now epidemics? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk...
11.10.2023
Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?
Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life? The nuclear family form we recognize as the "traditional family" began with the rise of capitalism in the late 1700s. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad...
09.21.2023
What Are Some Life Supports for America's Failing Isolated Nuclear Families?
We can support our failing families. We can learn from attempts abroad and from our own history. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and...
09.21.2023
US Empire Falls. Families Fail? Why?
All Empires rise and fall. America's Empire is no exception. We need to admit it, cut the military budget and make a good life for Americans. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The...
07.10.2023
Alternative Family Structures are Not New
Socialist visions of communal shared domestic labor and child rearing have existed in the past and exist in the present. In 1917 following the Russian Revolution the government changed the rules and created a domestic revolution. At the turn of...
05.12.2023
Capitalism’s Impact on Our Personal Lives
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues speaking about the impacts of a corrupt capitalism system on mental health and personal lives.
04.27.2023
BRICS & The End of US Dominance
The US is out of control and we are in denial. The proof is abundant: Mass shootings, extreme inequality, lost wars, weak currency, high suicide rates, corporate greed, climate crises, deregulation, and more. In this episode of Capitalism...
04.13.2023
Signs of a Declining Empire
The US is out of control and we are in denial. The proof is abundant: Mass shootings, extreme inequality, lost wars, weak currency, high suicide rates, corporate greed, climate crises, deregulation, and more. In this episode of Capitalism Hits...
03.30.2023
All Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad traces a brief history of the rise and fall of the American empire. Throughout much of the 20th century, the US was the dominant global power, with strong unions, social programs,...
03.16.2023
The Impact of Gender Roles - Care Work, Mass Violence & the Way Forward
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues to explore the ways our upbringing within gender roles impact our relationship to society, and specifically, why it’s mostly men who commit acts of mass violence. Women traditionally occupy...
03.02.2023
Where do Gender Roles Come From?
In this episode of CHH, Dr. Harriet Fraad traces back the origin of gender roles to the beginning of civilization to explore how and why certain types of work have been historically and traditionally performed by the female gender.
02.16.2023
Inflation & Manufactured Poverty
In this week’s episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the personal effects of inflation. In a country that bombards all of us, even our youngest children, with images of wealth and prosperity as a symbol...
02.02.2023
What Are The Personal Costs of Inflation?
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad is joined by Prof. Richard Wolff, host of Economic Update to discuss inflation and the collateral damage it has caused Americans. In the first part, Prof. Wolff explains what inflation is...
01.19.2023
Ukraine War & Our Coping Mechanisms
“Denial is a way the brain copes with a painful reality.” In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of how Americans are coping with a falling empire: by not facing it. Human brains have the...
01.05.2023
Waking Up to the Falling American Empire
Welcome to Season 6! In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad dissects a harsh reality: the American empire is falling and the signs of its decline are everywhere. High divorce rates, low wages and high unemployment, mass shootings,...
12.22.2022
Broken Social Bonds
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the impact of broken social bonds on our mental health. This week she focuses on government and the ways in which our American government has failed to...
12.08.2022
How Disconnection Harms Us
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad speaks on the value of connection for our emotional, political, psychological and social lives as human beings. We’re seeing more and more disconnection as the pandemic draws on, remote work increases,...
10.27.2022
Family - A Feminist, Class Analysis
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad traces the history of the traditional family unit and offers a class analysis of how it has shifted and evolved since the 1700s. Fraad discusses the feudal arrangement of families, the...
10.13.2022
Individualism is a Capitalist Deception
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad argues against capitalist values like individualism and freedom. Too often those in charge, the "great male heroes,” receive all the credit for achievements built on the backs of so many. Fraad...
09.29.2022
Adoring the Monarchy
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad dissects the bizarre American adoration of the British monarchy following Queen Elizabeth II’s death. The monarchy symbolizes the absence of social mobility, hierarchy, and the appropriation of public money for private...
09.15.2022
System-Driven Loneliness
**CW: This episode contains discussions of rape** In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad takes a look at capitalist-driven loneliness. Crime is often thought of as a person breaking the law, but what about the crimes capitalism allows,...
09.01.2022
Trauma & Survival Mechanisms
**CW: This episode features discussions of sexual assault and police brutality** In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad draws on her therapeutic expertise to discuss psychological mechanisms people unconsciously rely on when facing a reality that is too...
07.21.2022
United We Win, Divided We Fall
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the recent Supreme Court decisions and asks: why were these decisions made when they do not align with the majority of American’s beliefs? When a system fails...
07.07.2022
Roe v. Wade Overturned - How Did We Get Here?
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad looks at the recent dramatic US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. She argues that all of the SCOTUS decisions for 2022 share a common purpose. First, they help...
06.23.2022
US Militarism & Domestic Terrorism
“We have to accept that empire and militarism is not what’s going to save the world, it’s what’s going to destroy the planet.” In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues discussing America’s problem with gun violence. Because...
06.09.2022
America's Problem With Mass Shootings - An Analysis of Uvalde
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad looks at mass shootings in the US and in particular the most recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas. She examines the psychological, emotional, political, and economic reasons the US is the world...
05.26.2022
Connection - The Foundation of Mental Health
"Capitalism is really bad for our health.” In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad discusses mental health through the lens of a 4-legged table of connection: intimate relationships, friends, larger groups such as PTAs, work, or political groups,...
05.12.2022
The Right vs. Gender Freedom
With rising inflation rates, mass resignations, poor working conditions, and expensive housing, it’s clear that capitalism in the US is falling apart. To counter this, the right wing is working hard to repress each and every marginalized group in order...
04.28.2022
Mental Health in a Profit-Driven, Isolated Society
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of mental health. She argues that we need to do away with the medical model of mental health that diagnoses depression as a brain disease and seeks to...
04.14.2022
The Business of Mental Health
"One out of four American women take antidepressant drugs." In this episode, Dr. Fraad addresses how mental health is diagnosed and treated in the US. Human suffering and misery have been systematically categorized as disorders for which treatment with medication...
03.31.2022
Why The Women’s Liberation Movement Fractured
During its inception, the Women’s Liberation Movement was rooted in anti-capitalist and anti-racist ideals, pushing for equality for all. Today, however, feminism tends to focus mainly on gender equality. In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad discusses how...
03.17.2022
The Origins of Racism - An Untold History
Our nation's racism was a deliberate policy developed in response to rebellions in the 1600s when white indentured servants, free black men and women and enslaved black people rose up together against their exploitation. In this episode of Capitalism Hits...
03.03.2022
Sex Work - A Marxian Class Analysis
**CW: RAPE, SEX TRAFFICKING** In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad brings a Marxian class analysis to a highly controversial topic: sex work. Though illegal in the United States, sex work is all around—from brothels and sex trafficking...
02.17.2022
Political Right v.s. Abortion Rights
**CW: THIS EPISODE DISCUSSES ABORTION AND FORCED STERILIZATION** Control of women's reproduction is a common weapon in the hands of the Right Wing. In the episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad breaks down the fight for reproductive rights...
02.03.2022
How Americans Cope With Falling Living Standards
Declining living standards, joblessness and pronounced inequality are leaving Americans feeling disconnected, helpless and depressed. In this episode, Dr. Fraad talks about the 3 Ds: depression, dissociation and denial, Americans are resorting to as coping strategies for their stark decline...
01.20.2022
Capitalism and Opioids - A Deadly Combination
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues an ongoing critique of the for-profit health care system in the US and examines some of its deadly effects. Overdose numbers are far higher than in any other rich country...
01.06.2022
Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Unity
Welcome to Season 5 of Capitalism Hits Home! In this episode, Dr. Fraad explores identity politics by looking into the many facets of her own identity. 99% of us share an identity as exploited, oppressed people. We have different experiences and...
12.23.2021
Addiction and Desperation
In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad looks at the epidemic of deaths in the United States. She examines the five interlocking forces of our for-profit health care system—pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy chains, hospitals, insurance companies, and doctors—that have...
12.09.2021
What Can Americans Do To Be Happier?
The UN released its 2021 World Happiness Report. In this episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad answers why as world's richest nation, the US is not even one of the happiest. What do Americans need to do to be happier people?...
11.11.2021
US Workers Strike
In this episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad talks about the strikes sweeping the nation. The mass resignations, demonstrations and work stoppages reveal a huge worker dissatisfaction with American capitalism.
10.28.2021
Americans Face Mass Evictions
In this episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad talks about the 40 Million Americans face eviction after Oct. 31, 2021. What kind of society treats the right to shelter, and with that the right to life as a commodity? Should that...
10.14.2021
Why Does the US Lead the World in Rape?
Rape is a hate crime. This podcast analyses the forces that shape US rape in gender, culture, psychology and capitalism.
09.30.2021
Capitalism & Patriarchy - Cuomo, Cosby, Weinstein & Epstein
Capitalism is a class system of a small employer class making profit from the labor of a huge class of employees, who depend on employers for survival. Patriarchy is a system in which men are entitled to appropriate services from...
09.16.2021
The Labor History We Need to Celebrate - The One We Never Hear About
In the episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad talks about the importance of celebrating Labor, which is essential to life. But she argues that we need to go beyond and learn what our labor history is - something which is absent...

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Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad episodes:

"The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand?

How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America?

World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard

Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development

Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism

Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 2 of 2

Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 1 of 2

Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?

What Are Some Life Supports for America's Failing Isolated Nuclear Families?

US Empire Falls. Families Fail? Why?

Alternative Family Structures are Not New

Capitalism’s Impact on Our Personal Lives

BRICS & The End of US Dominance

Signs of a Declining Empire

All Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception

The Impact of Gender Roles - Care Work, Mass Violence & the Way Forward

Where do Gender Roles Come From?

Inflation & Manufactured Poverty

What Are The Personal Costs of Inflation?

Ukraine War & Our Coping Mechanisms

Waking Up to the Falling American Empire

Broken Social Bonds

How Disconnection Harms Us

Family - A Feminist, Class Analysis

Individualism is a Capitalist Deception

Adoring the Monarchy

System-Driven Loneliness

Trauma & Survival Mechanisms

United We Win, Divided We Fall

Roe v. Wade Overturned - How Did We Get Here?

US Militarism & Domestic Terrorism

America's Problem With Mass Shootings - An Analysis of Uvalde

Connection - The Foundation of Mental Health

The Right vs. Gender Freedom

Mental Health in a Profit-Driven, Isolated Society

The Business of Mental Health

Why The Women’s Liberation Movement Fractured

The Origins of Racism - An Untold History

Sex Work - A Marxian Class Analysis

Political Right v.s. Abortion Rights

How Americans Cope With Falling Living Standards

Capitalism and Opioids - A Deadly Combination

Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Unity

Addiction and Desperation

What Can Americans Do To Be Happier?

US Workers Strike

Americans Face Mass Evictions

Why Does the US Lead the World in Rape?

Capitalism & Patriarchy - Cuomo, Cosby, Weinstein & Epstein

The Labor History We Need to Celebrate - The One We Never Hear About