Capital Strike

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Air date: 
Mon, 02/13/2017 - 9:00am to 10:00am
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Why do the wealthy elite have so much power over government?

 

Clayton Morgareidge shows how the power of capital to go on strike is the most important leverage the wealthy elite have over government. He draws on "When Capital Goes on Strike" from the Jacobin Magazine website, and this 1935 piece by Bertholt Brecht.

 

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