Chris Hedges: The Capitalist Class Wants To Keep The Working Class In A State Of Constant Distress

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“The longer the ruling elites refuse to address the root causes behind these protests, the more they loot the treasury to enrich themselves and their fellow oligarchs, the more they engage in futile and absurd efforts to deflect blame, the more unrest will spread. The last desperate resort by the oligarchs to save themselves will be to stoke the fires of racialized violence between disenfranchised whites and disenfranchised people of color.” — Chris Hedges

with Chris Hedges

The Jimmy Dore Show on Jun 4, 2020

See also:

The Treason of the Ruling Class by Chris Hedges

National Guard Troops Refuse Trump’s Race War

From the archives:

The Good, the Potential, and What Might Happen, by David Swanson + Chris Smiley: Truth About The Uprising From A Leftist

If The Capitalist State Isn’t Overthrown, Its Grip Will Tighten, by Rainer Shea

It Can Happen Here, by Kenn Orphan

Chris Hedges: The Real Looting of America

A Long Time For Killing by Michael Parenti

US Lectures World on Human Rights as Cops Kill Blacks With Impunity, by Finian Cunningham + Rebellion Against Police Murder Tears Through the US, by Sophie Squire + Margaret Kimberley: The US is the World’s Worst Abuser of Human Rights

Danny Haiphong: George Floyd and the Centrality of White Supremacy in America

Chris Hedges: How the Covid-19 Pandemic has Exposed the Weakness of American Society

The Economic Collapse Is Going To Get A Lot Worse, by Rainer Shea

Chris Hedges: It’s the System of Corporate Power and That Is Not Going To Get Better Unless We Make War Against the System

The Year of the Pig: Should Workers Support Police Strikes? (must-read)+ Caleb Maupin: Low Wages, Police Terror and the Necessity of Revolution