On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He discusses the causes of the mass protests in France and the rest of Western Europe and the drive by Europe’s leaders to gear up for war against Russia, Europe’s hypocrisy in buying hundreds of billions of euros worth of Russian energy while funding Ukraine’s Zelensky, the solution to Europe’s terminal decline and loss of power, China’s and Russia’s goal being to stay on the sidelines while the US’ unipolar world implodes, whether the US working class can trust progressives and ‘democratic socialists’ ahead of the midterms, what socialism actually means for progressive politicians in the US, how socialism is likely to evolve in the US in the future, how the Israel lobby’s and military-industrial complex’s power over Congress is ultimately their downfall, the two scapegoats in the US being immigrants and Russia, and much more.
Chapters
(00:00:00) - Introduction and global context
(00:01:25) - Western Europe's war mistakes and loss of empire
(00:03:27) - Russian energy funding the war and European economic decline
(00:05:04) - Military Keynesianism and the end of colonial empires
(00:08:37) - Churchill, decolonization, and China/Russia's anti-imperialism
(00:12:06) - China's economic rise and strategic patience
(00:13:35) - US progressives, socialism, and the midterms
(00:16:21) - Mamdani, Sanders, and new American socialism
(00:20:12) - Military-industrial complex and medical industry parallels
(00:22:51) - AIPAC, Israel lobby, and shifting US politics
(00:24:09) - Democratic Party, Russia scapegoating, and closing remarks
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