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Episode 34 - Line Goes Down (Ft. Dr. Richard Wolff)

The Deprogram

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Capitalism Is What Enabled the United States to Break Away From the British Empire

Capitalism created the british empire. It moved to germany and japan, but they could not work out a deal so they went to war against each other,. Meanwhile, capitalism fooled them all and moved once again. And it has moved since to china, india, brazil and all of that. So that for the first time in a century, the united states has a very serious economic competitor. We have not had such a competitor for a century. We don't know how to deal with it. We don’t know how to develop a policy for it. I speak as an american, we have not hadsuch a competitor for a century

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