{"id":2980,"date":"2020-05-23T17:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:56:30","slug":"what-is-capitalism-audio-and-video-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"What is capitalism? (audio and video recordings)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ye7Z9GWcxoQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/what-is-capitalism-5-23-20_202005\" allowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"40\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A discussion among Dick Howard, Chris Nineham, Shane Mage, Leo Panitch and Chris Cutrone. (Chris Cutrone&#8217;s prepared opening remarks were his three recent articles on capitalism, &#8220;<a aria-label=\"Robots and sweatshops (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/platypus1917.org\/2020\/02\/01\/robots-and-sweatshops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robots and sweatshops<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a aria-label=\"Jobs and free stuff (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/platypus1917.org\/2020\/03\/01\/jobs-and-free-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jobs and free stuff<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a aria-label=\"Capital and labor (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/platypus1917.org\/2020\/05\/01\/capital-and-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital and labor<\/a>.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cutrone_whatiscapitalismflyer080320.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[PDF flyer]<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The present is characterized not only by a political crisis of the global neoliberal order but also by differing interpretations of the cause of this crisis: capitalism. If we are to interpret capitalism, we must also know how to change it. We ask the panelists to consider the following questions:<br>&#8211; What is capitalism?<br>&#8211; Is capitalism contradictory? If so, what is this contradiction and how does it relate to Left politics?<br>&#8211; How has capitalism changed over time, and what have these changes meant politically for the Left?<br>&#8211; Does class struggle take place today? If so, how, and what role should it play for the Left?<br>&#8211; Is capitalism in crisis? If so, how? And how should the Left respond?<br>&#8211; If a new era of global capitalism is emerging, how do we envision the future of capitalism and what are the implications of this for the Left?\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion among Dick Howard, Chris Nineham, Shane Mage, Leo Panitch and Chris Cutrone. (Chris Cutrone&#8217;s prepared opening remarks were his three recent articles on capitalism, &#8220;Robots and sweatshops,&#8221; &#8220;Jobs and free stuff&#8221; and &#8220;Capital and labor.&#8221; [PDF flyer]) The present is characterized not only by a political crisis of the global neoliberal order but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,16,43],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","tag-45","tag-marxism","tag-trump-era"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}