While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power.
Fidel Castro was not a utopian socialist. He rejected those who believed that you could leap from poverty directly to wealth.
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us.
On the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing today, we ask how we can avoid nuclear holocaust. Plus overreaction to U.S. socialism and Trump’s trap in Iran. Scott Ritter, Rick Wolff, 8 p.m. EDT Tonite.