Fightback Radio #1: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Depression - Part 1: The Crash

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 2:34 p.m.

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As we enter into a new depression, set off by the pandemic, many are drawing parallels with the Great Depression of the 1930s. This is an important period for socialists to understand - as the saying goes, those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. In Part 1, we discuss how the initial stock market crash set off the depression, and how the capitalists made it worse.

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