“We’ve never had a purely capitalist economy—we’ve had state-subsidies for some and exclusion for others”

“We’ve never had a purely capitalist economy—we’ve had state-subsidies for some and exclusion for others”

In an interview with ProMarket, UC Irvine law professor Mehrsa Baradaran discussed the connection between the current protest wave and the deep-seated structural inequalities within America’s economy, and why, in her view, “we’ve never had a purely capitalist economy—we’ve had state-subsidies for some and exclusion for others.”