Top Video Courses

• IS RECOVERY POSSIBLE? OR IS IT TOO COSTLY? AND FOR WHOM? For mainstream economists, the key question is how to bring about such a recovery. For Marxist and heterodox critics, the main issue is whether sustained growth is possible to start with. But there is a prior question that neither seems to ask: can capitalists afford recovery in the first place? This TWO-HOUR VIDEO presentation, by Jonathan Nitzan, is the first in a four-part Speaker Series on the Capitalist Mode of Power.
• THE END OF POVERTY? 'The poor are always with us,' from the New Testament, is still sadly apt in the 21st century. But few seem to be able to explain why poverty is so widespread. Activist filmmaker Philippe Diaz examines the history and impact of economic inequality in the third world in this documentary, and makes the compelling argument that it's not an accident or simple bad luck that has created a growing underclass around the world. 105 minutes, good to start a study group.
• DEBTOCRACY: MARXISM ON FILM. For the first time in Greece, here's a 75 minute documentary produced by the audience. 'Debtocracy' seeks the causes of the debt crisis across Europe and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media.
• SELLING CIGARETTES, BACON AND EGGS,AND WARS:  Edward Bernays: Part 1 and Part 2, Cigarettes and Sufferettes, and the Selling of Wars. The nephew of Freud, Bernays invented public relations as a tool for capitalism, not only to sell its goods, but also its wars and other policies. The key the all other media studies. Less than 20 minutes. Great discussion starter on how hegemony is manufactured.
• Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change.In a 30 minute video with Bill Moyers, Klein, author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, says the tragic destruction of Hurricane Sandy can also be the catalyst for the transformation of politics and our economy. Good discussion group starter.
• The Mexican-American War. A 90-minute video documentary on one of the most controversial conflicts in U.S. history, this unjust war  erupted as President James K. Polk sought to extend the borders of the nation to the Pacific, taking by force whatever territory stood in the way.
• From Capitalism's Crises to a New Order: 11 minute David Harvey animation video. Great discussion starter
• Reading Marx's Capital. 13 Video Lectures with David Harvey, author of 'The Enigma of Capital'. Powerful and effective, but be prepared to workk at it!
• Ollie Stone's 'Untold History' All 10 parts of Stone's series on birth of the American Empire. Chapter 1: World War II Chapter 2: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace Chapter 3: The Bomb Chapter 4: The Cold War: 1945–1950 Chapter 5: The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World. Chapter 6: JFK: To the Brink Chapter 7: Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune Chapter 8: Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Revival of Fortune Chapter 9: Bush & Clinton: Squandered Peace - New World Order Chapter 10: Bush & Obama: Age of Terror
• Gramsci and Hegemony. This is a 30-minute video by Peter D Thomas,  author of The Gramscian Moment. Gramsci was someone who completed our understanding of Marxism by substituting the rich aspect of cultural analysis with his revolutionary politic in a way that Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin and Trotsky didn't do. This is great video for introducing the study of his works.
• Discussion Starter:  Automated Green Energy Production.  This seven-minute video hightlighting Conergy, a fully automated factory producing solar cells in Germany, should open a variety of topics--the new working class, the labor theory of value, the falling rate of profit, the ability to shift to a solar-powered world, and much more.

• Democracy, Human Rights and 21st Century Socialism.  20-minute video of Carl Davidson on the topic in 2010. Davidson is co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a national board member of the Solidarity Economy Network, and a member of Steelworker Associates. This talk, useful for discussion groups on socialism and democracy, was on a panel with four others at the 2010 USSF in Detroit, co-sponsored by Democratic Socialist of America

• Frantz Fanon Documentary - Black Skin, White Mask: 5 10-min videos
• Carl Davidson at Berlin's Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on Mondragon's Impact
• Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 with David Harvey: 4 90-min videos so far...
• Marxian Economics with Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick.
• Hobsbawm on Gramsci
• Rising Inequality in America: Moyers with Ehrenreich
• African America Freedom Struggle with Claybourne Carson.