Digital Liberation Front - LIVE

09/02/2023

Labor lawyer and negotiator Joe Burns talks with Steve about the US labor movement, class struggle unionism, and the radicalism of the working class.

08/26/2023

What motivates people to act? Steve interviews Stephanie D. Preston, author of The Altruistic Urge: Why We Are Driven to Help Others.

08/19/2023

Four weeks of RP Book Club in one episode. The Case for a Job Guarantee, by Pavlina R Tcherneva. Featuring Fadhel Kaboub, Ben Wilson, Rohan Grey, and the author herself.

08/12/2023

Through MMT and functional finance, we know taxes manage the value of a nation’s currency. Economics professor Mat Forstater talks about other functions of taxation and reminds us to consider the total impact and ripple effects of any policy.

Mathew Forstater & Steve Grumbine talk taxation and how MMT’s insights take us beyond the ledger.

08/05/2023

Jason Hickel discusses our current ecological and social crises, which he lays at the feet of capitalism. He defines and describes ecosocialism as the credible solution.

07/29/2023

Steve talks with Ndongo Samba Sylla, Senegalese development economist & program manager of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, West Africa office. They discuss austerity and the debt trap faced throughout the Global South.

07/16/2023

YouTuber and podcaster 1Dime talks with Steve about the unique control mechanism of US capitalism’s political institutions.

07/08/2023

Michael Hudson talks to Steve about the US as a failed state with a paralyzed economy. The country is in a debt deflation and economic polarization that is transferring wealth and income away from labor and industry and into the financial sector, or FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate).

Michael Hudson talks to Steve about the US as a failed state with a paralyzed economy. The country is in a debt deflation and economic polarization that is transferring wealth and income away from labor and industry and into the FIRE sector.

07/01/2023

David Correia and Tyler Wall, co-authors of Police: A Field Guide, lead a webinar where they answer questions and dispel common myths and misunderstanding of the role of police.