Escape from Capitalism
That's the name of Clara Mattei's new book. I just watched the best short (40 minute) analysis of capitalism I have *ever* seen in her interview on British TV.. She's an Italian professor of economics at the University of Tulsa and she was absolutely brilliant! It is must viewing for your classes if you teach but it really is worth your 40 minutes to watch it. It starts US/Europe oriented but ends with Gramsci and the Global South. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc Best, Steve Steven J. Klees Former President and Honorary Fellow, Comparative and International Education Society University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Professor and Director, International Education Policy Program Affiliate Faculty, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Studies Center Affiliate Faculty, Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity College of Education University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301-405-2212 *https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees <https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees>* Book: *The Conscience of a Progressive* Blog: https://blog.umd.edu/stevenklees/ Co-founder: https://www.thealternativesproject.org/
Dear Steven and others Thanks for forwarding this interview . I heard it now. Very nice I have one question which is for the whole group. While Clara's arguments against Capitalism and hopes of overturning its hegemony are welcome, I did not find her articulating very strongly a critique of "Industrialism" , an ideology of unlimited material growth. While she did mention approvingly of "Participatory Budgeting" , there are today so many alternatives in rural areas all over the world whose economics-politics-society-technologies-core values can be broadly described as "anti-Industrialism" , that I hope her book says something about them too. . Sujit Sinha On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 2:16 AM Steven J. Klees <[email protected]> wrote:
That's the name of Clara Mattei's new book. I just watched the best short (40 minute) analysis of capitalism I have *ever* seen in her interview on British TV.. She's an Italian professor of economics at the University of Tulsa and she was absolutely brilliant! It is must viewing for your classes if you teach but it really is worth your 40 minutes to watch it. It starts US/Europe oriented but ends with Gramsci and the Global South.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc
Best, Steve
Steven J. Klees
Former President and Honorary Fellow, Comparative and International Education Society
University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Professor and Director, International Education Policy Program
Affiliate Faculty, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Studies Center
Affiliate Faculty, Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity
College of Education
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-2212
*https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees <https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees>*
Book: *The Conscience of a Progressive*
Blog: https://blog.umd.edu/stevenklees/
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it is really a stunning interview, very concise. clara mattei is wonderful. thanks for sharing, I’ll share further. I pulled the youtube link up here:
Dr. Andreas Weber Westendallee 111 14052 Berlin + 49 170 811 84 92 biologyofwonder.org New books out: 
Il giorno 01.06.2026, alle ore 07:19, Sujit Sinha <[email protected]> ha scritto:
Dear Steven and others Thanks for forwarding this interview . I heard it now. Very nice I have one question which is for the whole group. While Clara's arguments against Capitalism and hopes of overturning its hegemony are welcome, I did not find her articulating very strongly a critique of "Industrialism" , an ideology of unlimited material growth. While she did mention approvingly of "Participatory Budgeting" , there are today so many alternatives in rural areas all over the world whose economics-politics-society-technologies-core values can be broadly described as "anti-Industrialism" , that I hope her book says something about them too. . Sujit Sinha
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 2:16 AM Steven J. Klees <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That's the name of Clara Mattei's new book. I just watched the best short (40 minute) analysis of capitalism I have ever seen in her interview on British TV.. She's an Italian professor of economics at the University of Tulsa and she was absolutely brilliant! It is must viewing for your classes if you teach but it really is worth your 40 minutes to watch it. It starts US/Europe oriented but ends with Gramsci and the Global South.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc
Best, Steve
Steven J. Klees Former President and Honorary Fellow, Comparative and International Education Society University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Professor and Director, International Education Policy Program Affiliate Faculty, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Studies Center Affiliate Faculty, Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity College of Education University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301-405-2212 <tel:301-405-2212> https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees Book: The Conscience of a Progressive Blog: https://blog.umd.edu/stevenklees/ Co-founder: https://www.thealternativesproject.org/ _______________________________________________ GTA-PeDAGoG mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.ourproject.org/mailman/listinfo/gta-pedagog
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