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How Capitalism is Killing Itself
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How Capitalism is Killing Itself

2016 · 36 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Richard Wolff, Marxist economist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Amherst, sits down with journalist Abby Martin to argue that capitalism's own internal logic is producing the conditions for its collapse. Wolff walks through the core Marxist toolkit for a general audience: dialectical and historical materialism, surplus value, the crises of overproduction that trigger recessions, and what he calls capitalism's built-in contradictions between production for profit and the needs of the people who do the producing. Martin frames the conversation around a 2016 poll showing young Americans viewing socialism more favorably than capitalism, and around Bernie Sanders's presidential run, both offered as evidence that Marx's 133-year-old critique still has an audience. The film does not pretend to even-handedness; it is built to explain and defend Marxist analysis rather than debate it, using Wolff as its sole interview subject throughout. The result plays as an introduction for newcomers and a refresher for people who already know the terminology, built entirely around one long conversation rather than outside voices or archival material.