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Obama Says Inequality Led to Rise of the Right, but Takes No Responsibility for It – Source: The Real News (08/02/2018)

Prof. Leo Panitch and Paul Jay of therealnews.com discuss Obama’s Mandela lecture; Obama wants the impossible – a world where the super-rich give up “a little” and there is no massive inequality.

In part II they discuss how globalization led to the politics of fear and resentment, but won’t acknowledge how global capitalism and his presidency created the conditions for it