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Episode 2 - COVID Capitalism: The Political Economy of the COVID Pandemic
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Samir Sonti probes Leo Panitch about the character of the advanced capitalist economies through which the Covid-19 pandemic spread so rapidly. What has the pandemic revealed about the toll of neoliberalism on the poor and working-class, on migrants and people of color? And what about the organizations and parties that claim to protect them: namely organized labor, social democratic parties and our own Democratic Party?What signs are there that broad-based social struggle may be in the process of a revival in response to the grim realities that the pandemic has laid bare?
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