Socialism vs Covid-19: A Very Different Story
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
English - June 04, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsPolitics News Government economics capitalism coops economy politics workercooperative Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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US has 5% of world's population but 30% of world's Covid-19 deaths. US capitalism did poorly against the virus. Today's program explores how socialism could and would prepare for and respond to Covid-19 differently. We include both the logic of socialism's different policies and examples of socialist-influenced policies in other countries.