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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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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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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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"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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Original piece aired on Beneath the Surface with Suzi Weissman on @KPFK radio.
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"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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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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"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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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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