Economic Update: Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System Change
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[S12 E32] Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System ChangeIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff defines recession and shows its relation to inflation and st...

i think it's a great lib radicalisation video if there's anybody in your life you may want to share with

yes he concludes with coops, whether you like that or not he spends 99% of the video eviscerating capitalism with history and personable real life everyday experience

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    My take is based on the (possibly wrong?) stat that a staggering majority of licensed truckers in Canada were vaccinated and the "trucker protests" represented a very small minority and were largely not truckers themselves but just anti-vaxers latching on to publicity. Could be wrong though, I'm a filthy americlap from the other end of the nation

    edit: also they were canadians in canada protesting the american requirements for border crossings, so it seems to be a general categorical misunderstanding of power and how to apply pressure

    • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah that's ultimately right, for sure. They weren't necessarily all anti-vax but generally united against Canadian approach to covid. Their criticisms were multivalent and some of them had legitimate validity, but there were definitely a lot of people who thought engaging them was equivalent to advocating red-brown alliance and flamed Wolff as if that's what he was doing.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah I definitely fall into the "thought this was too red browny to be good" category. A first nations youtube channel I'm subscribed to had some positive coverage of the protests that surprised me, but watching it seemed to just be generic anti-vax solidarity. I'm definitely open to the idea that vaccination requirements can be anti-worker, but the arguments seem to never be framed in a sane way, like providing additional sick days if required to get vaccinated. It always just seems like blanket anti-vax messaging, but I haven't spent much time paying attention to speak with authority.

        • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah for sure I'm not trying to say the protestors were good or had good takes at all, they were ultimately mostly just CHUD shitheads mostly motivated by the idea that their open resistance to the liberal consensus would make liberals mad and that's like their one lever of power. But that doesn't make them fascists and doesn't mean leftists engaging with them is bad, that's all.