The Family - Does It Work? Did It Ever?
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
Release Date: 06/03/2024
The Love Lost by the Left
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad points out how the Left has turned away from the love of community that helped fuel the movements behind leaders like MLK and Che and explains why this has turned out to be a huge mistake. She then explains the importance of love of community, connection, and justice in building a unified Left. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at...
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How Capitalism Breeds Sociopathic Mental Illness
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
This week on Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad discusses how the profit motive that defines capitalism is that no one hires you unless they make more money from your work than they pay you. That is simply considered good business, and Dr. Fraad explains how compassion and empathy remain variables that are absent from "good business." Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at...
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What’s In Store For Women Under Trump?
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad delves into the striking parallels between the Trump administration's strategies and the tactics outlined in the Nazi playbook. The podcast also examines actionable ways to counter and halt this dangerous agenda. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly donor:...
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What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad delves into the concept of "Love," coming just a few days after Valentine's Day. She examines how America has undergone a significant revolution in recent history—a transformation in the meanings and practices of love. Love and marriage no longer "go together like a horse and carriage," as Frank Sinatra's 1955 song once claimed. Today, most Americans are single, and the majority of marriages end in separation or divorce. This podcast explores the reasons behind this profound shift. Learn more about CHH: We make it a...
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Marriage and Capitalism
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad explores the global shift in household structures, which stands in stark contrast to traditional marriage norms. As the fundamental unit for creating and sustaining human life, the family is undergoing profound transformations. Just as the nuclear family once replaced the feudal family, new and diverse family structures are now emerging in place of the nuclear model, as marriage declines and new patterns of child-rearing and family formation take root. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of...
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Prolific Rapists Exposed and Prosecuted: Why Do These Men Rape?
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
In this week's episode, Dr. Fraad reflects on 2024, a year in which there were several high-profile sexual assault cases featured in mainstream media. Dr. Fraad will highlight four cases of brutal sexual assault allegations by men against women that gained significant media attention. This week's podcast delves into the underlying reasons for these assaults, the increased media coverage surrounding them, and explores actionable steps to prevent future incidents of sexual violence. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help...
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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Trump and his Supporters
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
In this week's episode, Dr. Fraad discusses what the Trump administration means for the American people. All but the wealthiest American men, women, and children will suffer while billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the proposed agency, DOGE( the Department of Governmental Efficiency). They plan to cut government jobs, job protections, and aid for poor and working-class people, especially the most vulnerable members of our society. The cuts will protect the wealthiest from interference with their profits. However, we can fight back! Learn more about CHH: We...
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Patriarchy and Capitalism: Joint Partners in Sexual Abuse
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
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. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time,...
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Why Did Trump Win?
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
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. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and...
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History of Childhood
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad
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 Learn more about CHH: We make it a...
info_outline[S07 E10] The Family Does It Work? Did It Ever?
The family is a sacred cow, It is presented as instinctual, and eternal. It isn't. Family is breaking down. It's time to study it, question it, and create new alternatives and study the successful alternatives whose stories have been repressed. If we do, we can find ways to empower and free each other on every level.
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