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May 28
Clara Mattei: we built the market, and now it controls us. On Marx's commodity fetishism and why capitalism can never deliver the human, ecological, and creative goals it promises.
Watch full episode with @RadDesai
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May 8
In September 2025, Nepal's Gen Z toppled a government in two days.
Western media barely covered it.
Ira Regmi joins @claraemattei on what actually happened ↓
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May 5
Our first FREE event in the UK!
Wed 13 May · Bishop’s Stortford (40 min from London)
Dr. Clara Mattei, @claraemattei, Dr Carolina Alves (UCL), @cacrisalves, moderated by Dr. Camila Vergara, @Camila_Vergara,
War abroad, austerity at home, & what comes after elite rule.
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May 5
Free entry · 6–8 PM(GMT). Registration helps us plan, but walk-ups are welcome:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-abroa…
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Apr 29
"There's nothing natural or inevitable about capitalism. We built it. Now we're trapped in it."
@claraemattei on why the 'individual greed' framing fails — and why even moral business owners are forced to exploit.
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Apr 22
"We have been formatted to be passive consumers."
The candidates are preselected. The choices are narrow. After you vote, your influence on policy is near zero.
Matt Harder and @claraemattei on why democracy feels broken and what participatory budgeting can do about it.
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Apr 13
New FREE event just dropped for Patreon supporters:
Political theorist @Camila_Vergara and social ecologist on cooperatives, popular assemblies, and what real democracy actually looks like in practice — from Rojava to Tulsa.
Full video Wednesday on YouTube.
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Apr 8
"Progressive" economists might be doing more to protect capitalism than the ones they claim to oppose.
Clara Mattei at Oxford — on why austerity isn't a mistake, why your market dependence is the point, and why the system is more fragile than it looks.
New episode out today.
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Mar 31
Episode goes live tomorrow:
Munira Khayyat is the author of A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (UC Press).
youtube.com/@freefreeforum
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Mar 26
The dollar gets stronger as the bombs fall.
@claraemattei sits down with economist @C_Lapavitsas to break down what the Iran war reveals about US imperial power—the dollar system, oil prices, $2B/day in military spending, & why this war won't end the way Trump planned.
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