Authoritarian Capitalism Trumps Everything

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From neo-fascist resurgence to regulatory rollback by way of xenophobic white nationalism, the bloody thirst for profits has fueled a triumphant return of no-holds-barred capitalism

 

 

From neo-fascist resurgence to regulatory rollback by way of rabid white nationalism, the bloody thirst for profits has fueled a triumphant return of no-holds-barred capitalism. Host Paul Roland reads from a few articles and takes your calls:

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https://truthout.org/articles/trump-s-popularity-and-the-rise-of-authoritarian-capitalism/

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+capitalism+stokes+the+far+right+and+climate&client=firefox-b-1-ab

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/opinion/politics/kevin-rudd-authoritarian-capitalism.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/is-capitalism-a-threat-to-democracy

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ulpanaylaylo's picture

Thanks Paul and callers (except for the obnoxious uncommunicative caller troll who claimed to be a current contributor to the thoughtful and analytical current affairs cyber'zine CounterPunch). The article and a half you had a chance to read before the calls and discussion of the structural weaknesses of current global caputalism, i.e. Neo-Liberal E-CON or the phrase that demonstrates a remaining taboo of Lifestyles Info'tainment since it cannot be uttered much less have its policy outcomes subjected to cost\benefit analysis.

I especially liked the way you moderated the discussion with regular community radio chat caller Harvey (a Canadian emigre to No Cal? I'm guessing from his slight accent and modest yet insistently helpful talking points. I first started hearing his comments on Pacifica's KPFA, NPR's KQED and the SF Unified School District's wonderfully educultural KALW back in Bay Area circa late 90's, turn of century and early to mid-aughts). You wrangled Harvey back to the talking points of the essays you read and structural dynamics of caputalism\Neo-Liberal Cronyism under discussion. Harvey turned out to be able to deal with dialogue and your exchange helped focus this unwieldy subject.

Keep on doing and playing illustrative songwriters whose historical vignettes of social struggle rarely get any U.S. airplay, like Leon Rosselson.

Warmly yours from Wage Slave Week (NPR's phantom program from the perspective of the majority of U.S. with no capital to speculate with or invest living paycheck to paycheck...) and long dried out Main Street

Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Shifters
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa
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