{"id":8372,"date":"2011-10-15T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2011-10-17T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:03:09","slug":"professor-victor-wallis-speaks-on-the-roots-of-the-current-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/15\/professor-victor-wallis-speaks-on-the-roots-of-the-current-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Victor Wallis Speaks on the &#8220;Roots of the Current Crisis.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Free School University at OccupyBoston we have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hzy5IQa07Kw\" title=\"Video on YouTube\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Victor Wallis Speaks on the &#8220;Roots of the Current Crisis.&#8221; Video 1 of 3<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hzy5IQa07Kw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>There is much that Professor Wallis says that matches what I have been saying on this blog and in private conversations. I&#8217;ll name just a few below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The existence of Socialist and Communist governments scared capitalists into making concessions to the middle-class.  Once Communism was defeated, all hell was free to break loose<\/li>\n<li>Politically educating the public is the first priority of a President or of a political movement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Some items mentioned in the video that I want to remember to follow up include:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/16\/capitalism-hits-the-fan-richard-wolff\/\" title=\"Subsequent post leading to Richard Wolff\" target=\"_blank\">Capitalism Hits the Fan<\/a><\/strong>  &#8211; 1 hour lively lecture. Rick Wolfe<\/dt>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openmediaboston.org\/\" title=\"Open Media Boston web site.\" target=\"_blank\">Open Media Boston<\/a><\/strong><\/dt>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Word-Short-History-American-Tradition-Socialism\/dp\/184467679X\" title='The \"S\" Word on Amazon.com' target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;S&#8221; Word: A short history of an American tradition, Socialism<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; John Nichols book.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<hr \/>\n<p>October 16, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 of the video has been posted.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HloXtB52kLY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I am not as infatuated with this part as I was the first part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Free School University at OccupyBoston we have Professor Victor Wallis Speaks on the &#8220;Roots of the Current Crisis.&#8221; Video 1 of 3 There is much that Professor Wallis says that matches what I have been saying on this blog and in private conversations. I&#8217;ll name just a few below. The existence of Socialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}