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[BEST OF] Capitalist Chaos and Crimes: The Great Recession of 2008

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The Rise of Class Consciousness in the US After the Financial Crisis

Sociology professor says financial crisis exposed society's fault lines as well as politics surrounding that. Says it gave rise to things like the occupy movement which got a lot of people engaged and even resulted in stuff like Bernie Sanders running for president. When center falls out when capitalist economy enters period of crisis or collapse obviously there's going to be right-wing reaction as well as left-wing revolutionary you know fervor, he adds.

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