Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad

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  • 23 minutes 55 seconds
    Patriarchy and Capitalism: Joint Partners in Sexual Abuse

    In this week's episode, Dr. Fraad discusses the prevalence of sexual assault allegations and crimes committed by powerful and wealthy men. The news is filled with the names of famously accused rapists: Donald Trump, Puff Daddy, Weinstein, Cosby, Epstein, etc. The #MeToo movement allows them to be exposed. This podcast explores the question of why widespread rape is a perk of monied powerful men.

     

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    13 December 2024, 9:30 pm
  • 37 minutes 16 seconds
    Why Did Trump Win?

    In this week's episode, Dr. Fraad explores why and how a convicted felon who was found liable for sexual assault was chosen to lead America. Americans and particularly white American men are frightened. They have lost family wages and their wives as well. White women have lost the lifetime financial support of their domestic labor and child care. Americans have no Left Party to explain their lesser lives. Why not? This podcast begins to explain it.

     

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    15 November 2024, 9:30 pm
  • 21 minutes 55 seconds
    History of Childhood

    In this episode, Dr. Fraad discusses the history of childhood. To quote the most well-known historian of childhood, Lloyd deMause, "The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only begun to awaken." We all begin life as children. Our history must be claimed. Feudalism and capitalism cast children as private property to use, abuse, exploit, or love. This podcast explores our common history through a Marxist lens. In case we need the footnote it follows: Lloyd deMause The History of Childhood. Psychohistory Press, New York. 1974

     

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    1 November 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 24 minutes 2 seconds
    Whole Societies Can Be In Denial, Ours Certainly Is...

    In this episode Dr. Fraad discusses how the American Empire is Falling. That truth which is recognized throughout the rest of the world and in U.S. financial circles, is denied across America. However, the evidence cannot be denied. Where the denial expresses itself most is in "Spirit Level Afflictions". Glaring economic and social inequality, distrust between people, addiction, mental illness, lowered life expectancy, birth rate decline, suicide, homicide, imprisonment rates, and much more. All signs of a society in deep turmoil.

     

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    18 October 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 21 minutes 50 seconds
    A Crime of Domination, Denial of Need & Dis-Connection from Other Human Beings

    In this episode, Dr. Fraad juxtaposes our capitalist system with sexual assault. Capitalist exploitation, like rape, requires a lack of connection and empathy for the workers one exploits. Capitalism encourages domination and disconnection from workers' human needs and wants. The rapist does the same. Rapists refuse to see their victim as a fellow human but only as an object to be exploited and dominated. While the majority of rape victims are women 10 percent are men yet another remnant of patriarchy.

     

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    4 October 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 27 minutes 40 seconds
    Birth Strike in the USA

    American women are on a birth strike. The U.S. leads the developed world in reducing the global birth rate. Only well-funded government programs for families and children will change this phenomenon. U.S. women cannot be the national safety net. This week's episode explains why U.S. women are on a birth strike and what we can do to correct that.

     

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    20 September 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 28 minutes 52 seconds
    The Spirit Level of the United States

    In 2009 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett wrote their best-selling book,  "The Spirit Level" which showed how economic inequality spawned extensive social suffering. 

    Recently those authors revisited the United States 15 years later, and every aspect of the social problems referenced in their work has increased with the increase of inequality. They elide capitalism's leading role in delivering misery. I do not evade it.

     

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    6 September 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 23 minutes 14 seconds
    Whither Family-Withered Families

    Family was a mainstay of child development and emotional sustenance for both adults and children. US families are now falling apart. Today's episode asks the question: "What can be done to replace their sustaining power?"

     

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    23 August 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 21 minutes 25 seconds
    Marriage Is No Longer A Rite of Passage in American Adulthood

    In Today's times, most marriages end in legal or extra-legal separation or divorce. Why is this happening? What are its social political and personal causes and effects? Today's show explores this phenomenon  

     

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    9 August 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 18 minutes 47 seconds
    A Revolution in the Family Is Already Happening

    There is a worldwide revolution that is already happening. It’s in the family, the primary site of creating and sustaining human life. Just as the nuclear family replaced the feudal family, new family forms are replacing the nuclear family as marriage breaks apart and children are born.

     

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    26 July 2024, 8:30 pm
  • 17 minutes 40 seconds
    Trump As Totem

     

    Donald Trump has morphed from a transgressive man into a "Totem", a symbol and embodiment of the rage of Americans at the erosion of white male privilege, and the economic and social devaluation of the their lives. He embodies the retribution for the ravages of capitalism.

     

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    12 July 2024, 8:30 pm
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