Hope's Finish: Meet Barack Obama, the Billionaires' Buddy

Obama Joins Club of the Super-Rich – Defends Global Capitalism in Lecture

by TRNN

July 30, 2018

Prof. Leo Panitch and Paul Jay discuss Obama’s Mandela lecture; Obama wants the impossible – a world where the super-rich give up “a little” and there is no massive inequality.

Professor Leo Panitch is Professor Emeritus of York University and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism, The Political Economy of American Empire, and editor of The Socialist Register. The next issue is titled “A World Turned Upside Down.”