Fightback Radio #2: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Depression - Part 2: From New Deal to Slave Camps

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 3:21 p.m.

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In part 2 of our series on the Great Depression, we look at the different responses of capitalist governments to the economic crisis. While the United States resorted to the New Deal and Keynesianism, Canada stuck to its laissez-faire guns, and introduced slave camps to contain the growing masses of unemployed. Either way, was capitalism able to provide a way out of the Depression?

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