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Dr Anthony Monteiro: Capitalist Profits = People’s Impoverishment
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
06 Aug 2018
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Apple’s triumph in becoming the first corporation in history to be valued at a trillion dollars is “in many ways a meaningless achievement for the vast majority of the American people,” said Dubosian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro. Most Americans are “poorer than before the Great Recession,” and enduring a crumbling infrastructure and educational system all across the country.

Crisis of Capitalism

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