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Class Unity
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We are an independent volunteer organization that hosts courses and educational events on political and economic topics from a majoritarian, class-reductionist perspective.
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Christopher Mott & Oliver Bateman | Elections, Empire, & the Limits of American Democracy
Oliver Lee Bateman is an American journalist, sports historian, attorney, and competitive powerlifter. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pittsburgh and works full-time as the Head of Content and Editorial at Perceptyx. Known for his extensive coverage of sports, legal history…
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The Fraud Economy: Christian Parenti on Cuba, Empire & the Deep State
Class Unity discusses political economy, the state, imperialism, and nationalism with Christian Parenti, who is a professor of economics at John Jay College and the author of many essays and books, the most recent of which is Radical Hamilton. “Cuba’s Real Crime in the Minds of American Elites,”...
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Aaron Good | Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Deep State
Aaron Good earned his PhD in Political Science from Temple University. His doctoral dissertation was titled “American Exception: Hegemony and the Tripartite State,” which focused on elite criminality, US hegemony, and state structures. He has worked as a history and social science instructor...
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Oliver Lee Bateman | Politics, Marketing, and Pro Wrestling
Oliver Lee Bateman is an American journalist, sports historian, attorney, and competitive powerlifter. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pittsburgh and works full-time as the Head of Content and Editorial at Perceptyx. Known for his extensive coverage of sports, legal history…
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Steve Keen & Michael Hudson | Iran, AI, & the Climate Crisis
Steve Keen is an Honorary Professor UCL, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London. Michael Hudson is an American economist who is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy...
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Michael Hudson & Steve Keen | The Federal Reserve, The Constitution, and the End US Hegemony
Steve Keen is an Honorary Professor UCL, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London. Michael Hudson is an American economist who is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy...
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Ali Alizedeh | Iran, Empire, and the New Global Order (re-upload)
Ali Alizadeh is an Iranian-British political commentator, broadcaster, and the founder of Jedaal TV, an independent internet-based media organization. Based in London, he provides commentary on international geopolitics, Middle Eastern affairs, and Iranian foreign policy. YouTube: @jedaalenglish
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Steve Hall | Crime, Finance Capitalism, and the Left
Steve Hall is Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Teeside University (UK). He writes on criminology, sociology, political economy and leftist politics. Among many other publications, is the author of The Rise of the Right (2017) and The Death of the Left (2022), which has a really interesting...
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David Abraham | Why Capitalism Can’t Fix This Crisis
Abraham taught German and European history at Princeton University from 1977 to 1985. After transitioning to law, he clerked for Judge Leonard Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1989 to 1990 and then worked as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New...
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L. Randall Wray | MMT, Heterodox Economics, and the Future of Economics
Prof. L. Randall Wray joined Class Unity to talk about Modern Monetary Theory, heterodox economics, and the future of economic studies. Prof. Wray is a professor of Economics at Bard College and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. Previously, he was a professor at the University of...
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William I. Robinson | The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism
We are joined by William I. Robinson for a conversation on the global implications of the recent US attack on Venezuela. The discussion will place this and other acts of US aggression within the broader crisis of world capitalism, the breakdown of the post-WWII international world order, and the...
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Michael Hudson & Vijay Prashad | Hyper-Imperialism, Imperialism, and Global Politics
Welcome to another Class Unity speaker event. Today we will be joined by authors Vijay Prashad and Michael Hudson to discuss hyper-imperialism, imperialism, and the state of global politics. Michael Hudson is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, a researcher at the...
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Class Unity News Round Up #1
Members of class unity discuss recent events in domestic and geopolitics: Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, Denmark, Bulgaria, NATO, ICE, the Fed, Powell, Trump
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Transmissions Ep. 20: Philip Cunliffe | Is Globalization Over?
Welcome to Episode 20 of Class Unity: Transmissions. For this episode, Nick is joined by Class Unity member Dave for a wide-ranging conversation with Philip Cunliffe on the question of the national interest. Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations at University College London,...
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Ingo Schmidt | Economics as Class Struggle
In today’s episode, we’re joined by Professor Ingo Schmidt for a wide-ranging discussion on economic theory and left politics. Dr. Schmidt is a Professor of Labour Studies at Athabasca University in British Columbia, Canada. His PhD research focused on trade unions and Keynesianism, and his work...
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Clyde W. Barrow | Marxist State Theory Today
In this episode, we are joined by political theorist Clyde W. Barrow to revisit the classic debates in Marxist state theory and to consider their renewed relevance in the present conjuncture. Barrow was a guest speaker in the CU “State Theory” course that ran earlier this year, and we thought…
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Benjamin Studebaker on The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy | A Q&A with Class Unity
Benjamin Studebaker talks with Class Unity about his new book, “The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut” (2023). You can find him here: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/about/ And his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Chronic-Crisis-American-Democracy-Shut/dp/3031282094 And you…
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Vivek Chibber on The Class Matrix | A Q & A with Class Unity
Vivek Chibber discusses his latest book, “The Class Matrix” (2022), as well as the so-called “cultural turn”, with Class Unity. You can find his book here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674245136 And you can find Class Unity here: https://classunity.org
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Class, Higher Education, and Consciousness | Q&A with Gary Roth
Gary Roth talks to Class Unity about class, higher education, and consciousness. Gary teaches Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of “The Educated Underclass” (Pluto, 2019) and “Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick” (Brill/Haymarket Books, 2015). For a sample of…
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The Return of Inflation with Paul Mattick Jr. | A Q & A with Class Unity
Paul Mattick Jr. talks with Class Unity about his new book, “The Return of Inflation” (2023), about money, capital, capitalism, class, politics, and inflation. See the following interview for details about his latest book:...
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Sarah Knuth on “Rentiers and the Green Economy”
Sarah Knuth talks to Class Unity about rentiers, the political economy of green energy, neoliberalism, and capitalism. You can find her essay here: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1215052 And here:...
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Thomas Fazi on the European Union and the Contemporary Left
Thomas Fazi talks with Class Unity about the politics and economics as well as the problems of the European Union and issues with the contemporary left. He is the author of: “The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor: A Critique from the Left”, with Toby Green. Hurst....
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Woke Imperium: How the U.S. Uses Social Justice to Sell Empire | Christopher Mott
In this episode, we discuss geopolitics and the emerging age of multipolarity with Dr. Christopher Mott, Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy. Dr. Mott is an international relations scholar specializing in historical geopolitics, grand strategy, and the intersection of defensive...
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Steve Keen on the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 | A Teach-in for Class Unity
Prof. Steve Keen talks with Class Unity about the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8, the problems with mainstream understandings of it, and the contemporary situation. He is the author of:The New Economics. A manifesto. Polity. (2021)Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? Polity. (2017)Developing...
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Walter Benn Michaels Talks Politics with Class Unity
Walter Benn Michaels talks about the present political moment with Class Unity. You can find one of our favorite essays by him here: https://nonsite.org/the-political-economy-of-anti-racism/ And you can find his most recent book with Adolph Reed Jr. here:...
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Joel Kotkin | Neo-Feudalism: Tech Oligarchs and the Secular “Clerisy”
Joel Kotkin is a writer on urban affairs and a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast and the conservative magazine The Spectator, as well as the author of several books. In 2020, he published The Coming of…
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Costas Lapavitsas Talks to Class Unity About the 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis
Costas Lapavitsas Joined Class Unity for a discussion about the 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis. We recently reviewed his works, which you can find here in our study group here: https://classunity.org/2024/04/25/the-2008-financial-crisis/ You can find him and his work here:...
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L. Randall Wray discusses the 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis and Politics with Class Unity
Prof. L. Randall Wray joined Class Unity to talk about the 2007-9 GFC and politics. Prof. Wray is a professor of Economics at Bard College and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in Kansas City. You can find…
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Kshama Sawant | Free Speech, Running for Congress, and the Working Class
Welcome to another Class Unity event. We are joined today by Kshama Sawant. Kshama is a socialist politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. She is now running as an independent for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington’s 9th congressional…
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Vijay Prashad on Imperialism and the Contemporary Left | Q&A w/ Class Unity on “Washington Bullets”
Vijay Prashad talks with Class Unity about the politics and economics of imperialism as well as issues with the contemporary left. He is the author of many books, including: (2011) Marx’s Capital: An Introductory Reader. Contributed by Vijay Prashad, Venkatesh Athreya, Prasenjit Bose, Prabhat...
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Transmissions Ep. 18: Technofeudalism versus Total Capitalism (w/ Alex Hochuli)
In this episode, we’re joined by writer and political analyst Alex Hochuli to discuss his recent essay in American Affairs, “Technofeudalism Versus Total Capitalism.” The conversation explores the rising popularity of the “technofeudalist” thesis — associated with thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis,...
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Wolfgang Streeck | Ukraine, Gaza, and the Current Crisis of Capitalism
Members of Class Unity discuss the crises of capitalism, the political economy of war, and the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza with Professor Wolfgang Streeck. Wolfgang Streeck is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. In addition to being director of that…
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Michael Hudson & Dirk Bezemer | Finance Parasites Versus the Real Economy
Michael Hudson is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and the author of many books and papers on political economy, the history of economics, economic history, finance, and imperialism. Dirk Bezemer is a...
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Adolph Reed Jr. | No More Compromises
Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. He is also an organizer with the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute’s Medicare for All – South Carolina...
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Jan Toporowski – Military Keynesianism, Kalecki, and the Current Crisis of International Politics
Members of Class Unity discuss the return of military Keynesianism, the work of the Polish Marxian economist Michał Kalecki, and the current crisis of international politics with Professor Jan Toporowski. Jan Toporowski is Visiting Professor of Economics in the department of International...
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Class, Capitalism, and Higher Education w/ Mitch Hernandez and Adam Rensch
In our latest speaker series, Class Unity discusses class, capitalism and higher education with Mitch Hernandez and Adam Rensch. Mitch Hernandez is a doctoral candidate in the cultural studies and comparative literature department of the University of Minnesota. His general interests include the...
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Class Unity – The Great Realignment – Political and Geopolitical
Class Unity members discuss the realignment, Trump’s betrayal of his anti-establishment base, geopolitical developments, and the NYC mayoral election. For membership inquiries, political education courses, and speaker events please visit: http://www.classunity.org find us on YouTube @Class_Unity
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Class Unity: Warren Mosler Discusses MMT, Banking, and Taxing the Rich
Class Unity speaks with Warren Mosler, a leading voice and theorist of Modern Monetary Theory. He spent much of his career in the business world as entrepreneur and investor, founding and operating a successful hedge fund. Later he became an author on economics and along with others founded a new...
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Marxism and “Woke” Ideology : A Conversation With Radika Desai and Paul Gottfried
Professors Radhika Desai and Paul Gottfried discuss Marxism, “Woke” ideology”, and whether Marxism is “woke”. Professor Desai teaches political economy and political science at the University of Manitoba. You can find her here: https://radhikadesai.com...
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Mattie C. Webb: The Politics of Labor, Race, and Sanctions in Apartheid South Africa.
Mattie is a social and political historian of the United States and southern Africa in the twentieth century. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the...
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Robert C. Hockett Discusses Money and How It Works pt.2
Robert C. Hockett, Professor of law at Cornell law school, joins Class Unity for part 2 of the discussion on money: how it works and how it relates to banking, capital, and investment. He makes the case for a new set of reforms designed to socialize investment. His research lies in the fields of...
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Robert C. Hockett Discusses Money and How It Works pt.1
Robert C. Hockett, Professor of law at Cornell law school, joins Class Unity to discuss money: how it works and how it relates to banking, capital, and investment. He makes the case for a new set of reforms designed to socialize investment. His research lies in the fields of organizational...
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Transmissions Ep. 1 7 w/ Ben Thomason
In this episode, Jamal, Heph, Daniel, and Martin speak with Ben Thomason on USAID, the Middle East, the new Trump administration, tariffs and more. Ben Arthur Thomason is an expert on twentieth and twenty-first century US empire and international relations and completed his PhD in American…
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FTC Manning Talks to Class Unity about Rent, Land, Class, and Politics.
FTC Manning Talks to Class Unity about Rent, Land, Class, and Politics. Support Class Unity by making a donation today: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?h… You can find the essay we discussed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/… You can find their work at: https://independent.academia.edu…...
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Transmissions Ep. 16: Election Autopsy 2024
Class Unity members cover the reaction of the Democratic Party to Kamala Harris’ loss and discuss what we can expect in Donald Trump’s next presidency.
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Transmissions Ep. 15: Elections Special 2024
Class Unity members discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, the state of the U.S. politics and the economy, and how they relate to global geopolitical developments.
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PoliEdPod12: Geopolitical Economy (w/ Radhika Desai)
Radhika Desai talks with Class Unity about geopolitical economy, imperialism, realism, the state of the left, and and dollar hegemony. She is the author of “Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire” (2013) and “Capitalism, Coronavirus and War” (2022). You can find Class...
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PoliEdPod 11: American Imperialism & “Democracy Promotion” (w/ Ben Thomason)
In this episode, Jamal, Heph and Daniel speak to Ben Thomason, an expert on American culture and politics, on so-called “democracy promotion,” and the way in which the US uses media and civil society to manipulate other countries in furtherance of corporate interests. Here is some of Thomason’s...
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PoliEdPod 10: The Cargo Cult of Woke (w/ Christian Parenti)
Christian Parenti talks with Class Unity about the “compatible left”, so-called Wokeness, contemporary politics, and institutions like the CIA. Parenti is the author of “Radical Hamilton” (2020) and “Tropic of Chaos” (2011). You can find his article here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2024/06/……
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PoliEdPod 9: Michael Heinrich on Reading Marx
Michael Heinrich talks to Class Unity about Marx’s Capital, Politics, and the contemporary Left.
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