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The Epstein scandal exposes the full moral decay of the capitalist class. For the rich and powerful, power comes with a sense of total impunity to exploit the most vulnerable and a rejection of common moral principles. In the face of the rottenness of the Epstein class, ordinary people are beginning to question the very morality of the system in which we live.
This talk by Hélène Bissonnette – leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Canada – will explain how morality develops, its hypocritical nature under class society, and the crisis of bourgeois morality today.
The Epstein scandal exposes the full moral decay of the capitalist class. For the rich and powerful, power comes with a sense of total impunity to exploit the most vulnerable and a rejection of common moral principles. In the face of the rottenness of the Epstein class, ordinary people are beginning to question the very morality of the system in which we live.
This talk by Hélène Bissonnette – leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Canada – will explain how morality develops, its hypocritical nature under class society, and the crisis of bourgeois morality today.










![Will the US go to war? / Trumpism unravelling | AGAINST THE STREAM
[Due to technical difficulties, this episode was published late. Apologies!]
This week, the turmoil in the Middle East reached new heights as Israel launched a series of attacks on Iran, targeting its military leadership and striking several of its nuclear facilities. This has since escalated dramatically with further attacks on Iran and Iranian retaliations against Israel.
Israel’s latest war represents a dramatic turn in the situation both in the Middle East and globally, as Trump is currently weighing up US involvement in the strikes against Iran. Despite a layer of the Republican establishment frothing at the mouth over the chance to deal a blow to a longstanding enemy, many prominent voices within Trump’s camp oppose US intervention as a betrayal of his initial promise to be the ‘peace President’ and bring an end to US support for ‘forever wars’.
With splits emerging within Trumpism over the future of US foreign policy, it is unclear how these events in the Middle East will develop. As Marxists, we cannot predict the course of events with absolute certainty, but this makes it all the more crucial to engage in a meticulous study of such twists and turns in the world situation.
For this reason, this week’s episode of Against the Stream welcomes Fred Weston and Hamid Alizadeh from the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International, to pick apart this week’s developments and what they mean for the situation in the Middle East and the US.
This is the last episode of Against the Stream until the first week of September. Catch up on all of our previous episodes on Youtube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Chapters:
00:00 – Israel attacks Iran
1:01:00 – Trumpism begins to unravel
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