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SLP446 Alex Gladstein The Scourge of “Structural Adjustment”

Stephan Livera Podcast

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The Marxists Are Criticizing Global Capitalism

I think we need to sympathize or at least I'm trying to sympathize with the fact that. what they're calling capitalism, meaning these big multinational companies that come into these poor countries and like basically exploit people. And it's not just a Marxist, it's just like the people of the third world, right? Like they've seen this movie before. They've lived decades and decades where foreign corporations come in unfavorable terms and they get they extract value from these countries and they leave. That is the legacy of what is known as capitalism more broadly to the mainstream, right? Yeah, sure. It's kind of fun to play with because we could say, well, it's not

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