EP.875: Coronavirus Fallout Could Lead to Revolutions in the West!- Ex-World Economic Forum Director

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former director of the World Economic Forum, Frank-Jurgen Richter. He discusses the impact Coronavirus will have on the European Union’s unity, the possibility of class warfare and revolutions in the West comparable to Russia in 1979 and France in 1789, anti-establishment sentiment as a result of globalisation, how unfettered capitalism has created the conditions for mass social unrest amid COVID-19, the possibility of something worse than the Great Depression as the US-China rivalry heats up between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump and more! Finally, we speak to Bhaskar Sunkara, author of ‘The Socialist Manifesto’. He discusses how Coronavirus has shattered neoliberalism’s illusions, how a path to socialism can be forged out of the fallout from Coronavirus, addressing criticisms of socialism as an authoritarian ideology, the leaked Labour report revealing internal conspiracy against Jeremy Corbyn, why the state can intervene to solve crises like homelessness and poverty, America’s anti-socialist liberals and their backlash against Bernie Sanders for supporting socialists internationally and more!