Capitalism Hits Home

This episode discusses the seamy means by which a working class Jeffrey Epstein accumulated $550,000,000 by providing more than his tax and money market expertise to his wildly wealthy white male clients and their servants in our government, at Harvard and at other prestigious educational and scientific institutions.

The US has had a class revolution in the household over the last 50 years and the left did not notice, no less champion that revolution. Hot button issues like abortion and birth control rights or family leave are shadow battles in that revolution. It is time to pay attention.

The US has had a class revolution in the household over the last 50 years and the left did not notice, no less champion that revolution. Hot button issues like abortion and birth control rights or family leave are shadow battles in that revolution. It is time to pay attention.

The ideology of racism began as a rationalization for the hideous crimes of slavery. This podcast explores the US development of white supremacy and how to change it.

For most of human existence, human societies were hunter gatherer societies. We survived through our ability to cooperate. That changed with the evolution of private property which was left to heirs. Controlling women ensured that only a man’s heirs could inherit his property. Just as early matriarchal religions provided the ideology of sharing and worship of women’s sexuality, patriarchal religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam created religious ideology that endorsed a male God and male suprema

The one class revolution that has happened in America is in the US household. This podcast exposes the class underbelly of revolutionary struggles around abortion rights, paid maternity leave and family leave. Lost abortion rights and no paid maternity or family leaves keep women from advancing at work as they take time to care for children. Abortion and family leaves are sites of the revolutionary struggle for America’s personal and family life.

The one class revolution that has happened in America is in the US household. This podcast exposes the class underbelly of revolutionary struggles around abortion rights, paid maternity leave and family leave. Lost abortion rights and no paid maternity or family leaves keep women from advancing at work as they take time to care for children. Abortion and family leaves are sites of the revolutionary struggle for America’s personal and family life.

This podcast examines the sea change in US gender roles that has rendered toxic masculinity outmoded and intolerable.That gender metamorphosis is a powerful impetus for social ,personal and political movements against sexual abuse. At the same time there is a powerful American backlash of right wing misogynists from Incels to Trump.This podcast explores the interaction of the economy, politics and psychology as they transform gender, US personal life and the routine practice of sexual assault.  

Gender struggle highlights the struggle between those holding on to former gender roles with women serving men and children and those recognizing the opportunity that we now have to be equal partners in the home and at work. Movements like #Metoo or #Timesup, March for Women, or abortion rights, and many more, support the conditions of existence for equal partnership. This is a moment of gender struggle that surrounds all of us in the USA today.

American men are in serious trouble. Former standards of masculinity as aggression, power, and stoic denial of emotional vulnerability are now widely considered toxic. The economic dominance that white men had with family wages disappeared when American capitalists mechanized, computerized, and outsourced white men's jobs from the 1970s on. I hope this podcast helps us understand men's confusion and suffering and helps to transform it into new human possibilities.

In the second part of this 2 part show, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the the Sugar Arrangements Industry, a marriage of America's trillion dollar educational debt with the emotional and sexual labor of young, usually college students, serving rich men  in exchange for the money they need for college.

American men are in serious trouble. Former standards of masculinity as aggression, power, and stoic denial of emotional vulnerability are now widely considered toxic. The economic dominance that white men had with family wages disappeared when American capitalists mechanized, computerized, and outsourced white men's jobs from the 1970s on. I hope this podcast helps us understand men's confusion and suffering and helps to transform it into new human possibilities.

Part 2 of 2 Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the Sugar Arrangements Industry, a relatively new development in America. 

The Sugar Arrangements Industry is a relatively new development in America. Sugar Arrangements are a marriage of America's trillion dollar educational debt with the emotional and sexual labor of young, usually college students, serving rich men  in exchange for the money they need for college.

Sexual assaults have been a perk of male power seemingly forever. This podcasts asks why sexual abuse has been a perk of male power and why women are are daring to call it out now. I look at the issue through a Marxian lens which clarifies so much about why: why is it everywhere and why is it now confronted and condemned?