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Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad

How does capitalism affect our personal lives? How does the economy affect life at home, relationships at work, romance and dating? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad is a bi-weekly podcast that explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn how to support the podcast, visit us at: www.democracyatwork.info/capitalismhitshome

Capitalism Hits Home is a Democracy at Work (d@w) production. d@w produces media and live events to expose capitalism’s systemic problems and to show how democratizing our workplaces solves them. We can do better than capitalism.
 
HOST: Dr Harriet Fraad is a Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. Dr. Fraad was a founding mother of the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven, CT. She writes and speaks on the intersection of politics, economics and personal life in the USA. She appears regularly on ActTV, Women’s Spaces on WBBK, Sonoma County and North San Francisco, and MK Mendoza, on KSFR, New Mexico. Her latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics. NY: Routledge 2019. Her work can be found on her website, harrietfraad.com.

Dec 17, 2020

Dr. Fraad and Professor Forlano discuss the recent New York Times editorial by Nicholas Kristof, The Children of Porn Hub, and the intersection of capitalism with sex. Dr. Fraad presents some very interesting alternative approaches to sexual education and normalization from countries far closer to socialism than our...


Dec 10, 2020

This episode of CHH explores the Trump phenomenon, when millions shared Trump's message that they were conned but did not know that he pulled the biggest con of all.


Dec 3, 2020

On this week's show, Dr. Fraad and Julianna Forlano discuss the difference between the life of a Walmart worker with that of a Mondragon worker. Some folks say that socialism inhibits creativity while capitalism enhances competition which spurs creativity. That is not the case. In our capitalist nation, the mass of...