GRITtv: The End of Capitalism? Alexander Cockburn and David Harvey

Counterpunch co-editor Alexander Cockburn and Marxist Geographer David Harvey on the financial crisis, the future of capitalism, and how we got to where we are.

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News & Politics

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• david harvey
• alexander cockburn
• capitalism
• marxism
• socialism
• karl marx

[cosmicviewer477]

Americans simply need to learn to get by with less. I share a car with my roommate. Heck, I barely use a personal automobile now. I consume meat-based products a few times a week, as opposed to every day, and I eat out ONLY on special occasions, and guess what? I haven't died. It is possible. Harvey is right, everyone doesn't need to own a home, and I'll add to that: everyone doesn't need three-quarters of the stuff they think they do. A renewed sense of simplicity is what we need.

[S2Cents]

I like the jacket. Cockburn is a savvy observer of the American political scene and gets how the powers that be stick it to the working (wo)man. Same w/ Harvey.

[cosmicviewer477]

@ConstructiveMinds100 Oh no, that is certainly NOT what I'm suggesting. What I am suggesting is that we need to starve the system by slowly checking out of it. In other words, let the rich battle with the rich, while the rest of us stop feeding the system that they have created to enslave us by living more simply. That is what I'm suggesting.

[ConstructiveMinds100]

@cosmicviewer477 So you are telling that one person can have 100 houses and other people can rent a room when they are in 40's.  Could please clarify your way of thinking.

[jeresdc]

SOLUTIONS! -> Zeitgeist: Moving Forward documentary

[iseecheese]

@EmmaYaBasta , homeowning has been around in most cultures since the beginning of time, families would stay in the same house for 100's of years normally if it was a strong structure like a cave or stone or brick, the usa just made people become middle class from being poor so average people could afford building their own house because they were sick of that not existing in elitist europe/ asia for 1000's of yrs, its not a fetish is a basic human right, but i do agree no empire last forever

[iseecheese]

3:50 the last thing we need is 1930''s communists left ideas, we saw exaclty at that time what hte result was, other than that these guys seem good,

[lumeriam]

yes RICH Americans need to learn to live less heavily on the Planet. The rest of us are due for more sustenance.

[EmmaYaBasta]

Homeowning is an peculiar US fetish. US society is mired in debt & its infrastructure is crumbling. Much like the British Empire before it, US capitalism finds itself overextended as it is bogged down in predatory wars it cannot win & a military that is stretched to the limit; empires are expensive beasts. Unless something is done to fix structural economic problems, the economic decay is just going to get worse & all of this debt is eventually going to collapse our entire financial system.

[rachelgolem]

FOLLOW ME COMRADE!!!!!

TO THE EMPTY FOOD STORE!!!!

[WorldPeace4All6]

@rbdgirl12

He is correct about there not being a scarcity in food. More than enough food is produced to feed the entire world. There is no shortage of food. Capitalism prevents people from eating.