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Inequality's Insidious Spread - COVID-19, India, Insurance

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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The Most Important Leaders of Independence

Oxfam found this level of inequality in such an otherwise poor but emerging economy, it called it, quote, obscene. To break out of the horrors of colonialism you had to also change the economic system within capitalism or else the system will research inside your independent country. Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Mao Taitung in China, and Subhas Chandra Bose in India. All argued you have to go beyond capitalism as well as beyond your colonial status within capitalism.

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