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Economic Update: The Great American Purge

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Check out our latest book with Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism https://www.democracyatwork.info/books Support the show! Become an EU patron on Patreon:   / economicupdate   Economic Update: [S8 E24] The Great American Purge This week’s episode of Economic Update is a little different from the usual program. Professor Wolff begins by explaining the economics behind the great U.S. anti-leftist purge (“McCarthyism”) after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of that purge over the last half century. In the second half, Prof. Wolff explains how that history produced a very different political response to the crash of 2008 compared to FDR’s response in 1929. Read a transcript of this episode on our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_t... _______________________________________________________________________________________ Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save U …...more
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Economic Update: The Great American Purge
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Check out our latest book with Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism https://www.democracyatwork.info/books Support the show! Become an EU patron on Patreon:   / economicupdate   Economic Update: [S8 E24] The Great American Purge This week’s episode of Economic Update is a little different from the usual program. Professor Wolff begins by explaining the economics behind the great U.S. anti-leftist purge (“McCarthyism”) after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of that purge over the last half century. In the second half, Prof. Wolff explains how that history produced a very different political response to the crash of 2008 compared to FDR’s response in 1929. Read a transcript of this episode on our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_t... _______________________________________________________________________________________ Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" released in September 2020. Available as a paperback now! www.democracyatwork.info/books "Richard Wolff in his new book examines frightening and anti-democratic configurations of corporate power, offering not only a blueprint for how we got here, but a plan for how we will rescue ourselves and create new models of economic and political justice.” - Chris Hedges Check out Prof. Wolff's other books "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism" http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/democra... _________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow us ONLINE: Patreon:   / economicupdate   Websites: http://www.democracyatwork.info/econo... http://www.rdwolff.com Facebook:   / economicupdate     / richarddwolff     / democracyatwrk   Twitter:   / profwolff     / democracyatwrk   Instagram:   / democracyatwrk   Subscribe to our podcast: http://economicupdate.libsyn.com Shop our Store: http://bit.ly/2JkxIfy Prof. Wolff's books with d@w: "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism" http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/democra...
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