The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

Capitalist Media Monopolies Are the Enemy of Democracy


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We continue a series of discussions about the basics of  Marxism, focusing today on the corporate-owned media. The majority of  the media in the United States is owned by five giant corporations --  What does this tell us about the so-called “free press”?

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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