Notas del episodio
"You can criticize many things in the United States, but there are taboos, and the number one taboo is that you cannot criticize Capitalism. That is equated with disloyalty. The first project of Democracy at Work is to reopen the critical analysis of capitalism, and the second is to offer a critique of traditional Socialism with its emphasis on the government coming in and doing things that offset the failure of the private system.
This story about Capitalism being wonderful, this story is fading. You can’t do that anymore. The Right Wing cannot rally its troops around Capitalism. That’s why it doesn’t do it anymore. It rallies the troops around being hateful towards immigrants. It rallies the troops around “fake elections,” around the right to buy a gun, and around White Supremacists. Those issues can get some support, but “Let’s ...