In this month's Global Capitalism lecture, Prof. Wolff discusses the following topics: France’s General Strike March 7, 2023Women, Unions and Strikes in the USInflation, Profits, Inequality in the USState versus Private Capitalism: China *Global Capitalism is produced by @democracyatwrk

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: At an Historical Turning PointImpact on USImpact on EuropeImpact on China, India, Russia, BRICS

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: US mid-term electionsUS Capitalism: Crises at homeUS capitalism: Crises abroad

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: Compare economic performances (GDP growth, inflation, real wages)Ukraine War/Taiwan Provocations as both China-US conflictsUS edges closer to civil war and foreign wars at same time: implications

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: Global economic splits: US/UK/Japan/Australia vs BRICS+ US political splits: inflation, interest rates, recession, stock market crash, deepening inequality, Democratic Party self destruction Cultural splits: abortion, Miranda, church-state

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: Rising US labor militancy: Amazon to Grinnell CollegeHousing and stock market: bubbles and burstsFrench left unity: a model for the world?McConnell, GOP serve lenders, crush students with debt

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: Impact of Ukraine eventsWhat the FED can and cannot do about itSolutions for inflation, past and present

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: US Capitalism’s Public Health Disaster: Where Blame BelongsTrying to Shift Blame to Mandates: Desperate LibertarianismCovid, Inflation,“Broken Supply Chains” = Systemic Crisis

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: Major Chinese Economic Achievements and ProblemsChina-US Interdependence, Competition, and Cold WarIs China Socialist? What does “Chinese Socialism” Mean?

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: Medical (Covid) and military (Afghanistan) defeats deepen social divisionsExploding debt bubbles (gov’t, corporate, and personal)Threats of inflationChina’s rise as a US competitor: its “surprise” strategy

In this month's lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following: China’s Economic Growth since its Revolution (1949)China’s Economic “Model” and the Global EconomyChina, Capitalism, and SocialismChina versus the US: Options versus Threats

In this month's lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:  Changes in Government Spending and TaxingJoe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt: Differences and SimilaritiesHistoric Decline of US Capitalism: Reality vs Denial

In connection with Prof. Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he will also give short updates on: who lost what; who gained what; where is the US economy headed now; and lastly, political fallout: revisiting the January 6 DC assault

Professor Wolff will also give short updates on: the US military intervention in elections; a major political breakthrough in Argentina led by women; the economics of advertising; Trump’s political crash and lastly, Biden’s Economic “Team.”

This is a special post-election Global Capitalism featuring comments from guests Lee Camp, Lee Carter, Laura Flanders, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Nomi Prins, and Yanis Varoufakis.

Prof. Wolff presents the following topics: the failures mount: failed preparation for COVID-19; failed containment of COVID-19; failed preparation for 2020 capitalist crash; failed containment of crash’s social effects; failed scapegoating. The social problems explode: systemic racism; State and local budget collapse; unaffordable housing and eviction.

Topics: mass unemployment undercuts US capitalism; Trump vs Biden: neither are solutions, the choice is a symptom of system decline; what old socialist responses to today’s crisis would be; what new socialist solutions to today’s crisis could be. Wolff also covers: why US capitalism has needed racism, and and how it has used it; why US current protests against racism and police violence are so strong.

Prof. Wolff talks about the protests sweeping across the US incited by yet another brutal killing of a Black American, George Floyd. He argues that the capitalist system, with its endless drive for profits over people, is the true culprit and failing Americans. The levels of inequality, massive unemployments, and injustices are symptomatic of a system that is in deep trouble. Divide and conquer, or class war is the tactic capitalists are using to distract Americans from uniting against the common enemy: capitalism.

Topics: why capitalist enterprises & governments failed to prepare for Corona; private unemployment vs gov’t re-employment; pandemic policies worsen inequality, instability of capitalism; how to do better than capitalism during Corona. In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he covers the following issues: Bubonic plague/feudalism dies; Corona virus/capitalism dies; the pandemic and worker cooperative enterprises.

In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he will also cover the following issues:  US in decline turns nationalist, drops old allies, targets China Europe in decline turns toward China, away from USUK and Japan: isolated, in greater declineOther nations desperate to survive amid changing alliancesBloomberg: another billion dollar disaster uses the systemWhy some mega-corporations are OK with Green New Deal movement