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Economic Update: Black Socialists of America (BSA)

Sep 27, 2018

Updates on Chicago hotel workers strike and Philadelphia parking lot attendants organizing, Cuomo's centrist, money-dependent campaign, another socialist (Julia Salazar) wins election, McDonald's workers strike in 10 cities against employer's failure to stop sexual harassment. Interview: Z and Sean, two leaders of new...

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EU Extra: Prof. Michael Pelias

Sep 25, 2018

Professor Wolff interviews Professor Michael Pelias about the rationale and goals of launching a new Left University in New York City.

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Economic Update: Launching a New University

Sep 20, 2018

Updates on Tenth Anniversary of Lehman Brothers Bank collapse, assisting Ocasio-Cortez show how to finance socialist projects, Colin Kaepernick's ad for Nike and contradictions of capitalism.  Interview with Michael Pelias on launching a new Left University in New York: rationale and goals.

 

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Keynesian Vs. Marxian and Neoclassical Economics

Sep 13, 2018

This week's special edition of Economic Update deals with Keynesian economics as a theory that clashes with both the mainstream economics ("neoclassical") that celebrates private capitalism and with critical theories such as Marxian economics that are opposed to capitalism. 

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Economic Update: Gov't Take-over Not Always Socialism

Sep 6, 2018

This special editon of Economic update deals with how and why government take-over of private corporations need not be and often is not "socialism" and why it is often done to strengthen private capitalists.
 

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