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Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.
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Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.
All Audio Archive podcasts are free. No revenue is generated through advertising. No AI support.
More details about the project, background informations, articles, video shorts, essays and more you'll find on our webpage www.audio-archiv.com
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Sep 26, 2025
Sep 26, 2025
51 min
🎓 Stefan Fuchs (Wirtschaftsjournalist) im Gespräch mit Riccardo Petrella (geb. 1941). Der italienische Politologe und Menschenrechtsaktivist und emeritierte Professor der katholischen Universität de Louvain in Belgien gilt als einer der profiliertesten Kritiker des entfesselten Marktes. Er kämpft seit den 70er Jahren nicht nur gegen die Privatisierung von Wasser. Im Wettbewerb um die Privatisierung von Bildung, medizinischer Versorgung, Transportsystemen und Sozialsystemen verbirgt sich die Enteignung weiter Teile der gesellschaftlichen Besitzstände zum Zwecke individueller Bereicherung. Die fehlende Besteuerung großer Vermögen und weitgehgende Befreiung der Besteuerung von Kapitalerträgen durch die Politiker der "Mitte" führte zu "Zwei Klassen Gesellschaften" in den westlichen Demokratien, dem Erstarken rechtsradikaler und faschistischer Parteien und dem Abbau demokratischer Grundrechte. In dem vor einem Viertel Jahrhundert geführten Gespräch mit Riccardo Petrella standen die Kriege der Märkte im Mittelpunkt.
/🎓 Stefan Fuchs (business journalist) in conversation with Riccardo Petrella (born 1941). The Italian political scientist, human rights activist and professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium is considered one of the most prominent critics of the unbridled market. Since the 1970s, he has fought not only against the privatisation of water. Competition and privatisation in education, healthcare, transport systems and social systems conceal the expropriation of large parts of society's assets for the purpose of individual enrichment. The lack of taxation on large fortunes and the extensive exemption of capital gains from taxation by politicians of the ‘centre’ is leading to a two-class society in Western democracies, the rise of right-wing extremist and fascist parties, and the dismantling of fundamental democratic rights. In a conversation with Riccardo Petrella a quarter of a century ago, the focus was on the wars of the markets.
/🎓 Stefan Fuchs (journaliste économique) s'entretient avec Riccardo Petrella (né en 1941). Politologue italien, militant des droits de l'homme et professeur émérite de l'Université catholique de Louvain en Belgique, il est considéré comme l'un des critiques les plus virulents du marché dérégulé. Depuis les années 70, il lutte non seulement contre la privatisation de l'eau. La concurrence et la privatisation de l'éducation, des soins médicaux, des systèmes de transport et des systèmes sociaux cachent l'expropriation d'une grande partie des acquis sociaux à des fins d'enrichissement individuel. L'absence d'imposition des grandes fortunes et l'exonération fiscale quasi totale des revenus du capital par les politiciens du « centre » conduisent à une société à deux vitesses dans les démocraties occidentales, à la montée en puissance des partis d'extrême droite et fascistes et au démantèlement des droits démocratiques fondamentaux. Il y a un quart de siècle, l'entretien avec Riccardo Petrella était axé sur les guerres des marchés.
📚 Veröffentlichungen u.a. / publications a.o. / publications entres autres:
- Riccardo Petrella: "Wasser für alle: Ein globales Manifest." Rotpunkt Verlag, Zürich 2000.
- Riccardo Petrella: "Désir d'humanité." Les éditions écosociété, Montréal 2004.
- Riccardo Petrella: "Pour une nouvelle narration du monde." Les éditions écosociété, Montréal 2007.
#warofmarkets #ricardopetrella #menschenrechte
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