Upstream is a quarterly documentary and bi-weekly conversation series that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. Blurring the line between economic analysis and storytelling, we look beyond the numbers to explore a wide variety of themes pertaining to our tumultuous 21st century economy.
261 episodes transcribedFacts don’t care about your feelings. Logic isn’t fair. Reason isn’t concerned with your emotions. These oft-regurgitated cliches hurled at the left b...
Weight loss has become a fully fledged industry in the United States—another classic trick by the capitalist class: manufacture a problem to make prof...
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Pan-African Marxist, underdevelopment theorist, guerrilla intellectual, father, husband, radical—these are all terms that we could use to describe Wal...
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As socialists in the United States one of our most important tasks—at least under our current material conditions—is to raise class consciousness amon...
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Righteous indignation, truth, justice, and, maybe most important, love. These are some of the pillars that support the work that Dr. Cornel West, toda...
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"What Israel is doing right now has nothing to do with antisemitism. What Israel is doing right now is a genocide. What Israel has been doing for the...
The imperial core—which is comprised of settler-colonial states like those in Western Europe, as well as states like the United States, Canada and Aus...
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Contradiction is one of the most important concepts in Marxist philosophy. When we think about Marxism, we typically think about the contributions tha...
Every wonder why it feels like almost every single tech product you use is actively trying to screw you? Why it is that your printer requires you to s...
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There’s no question that the crisis of capitalism and imperialism have reached a breaking point—it’s clearly visible not only in opinion polls but als...
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“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and f...
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