The Brief Podcast
Published October 24, 2020 Revised December 30, 2021
With profiteering corporations like Purdue Pharma and the wealthy Sackler family in the news, and with deaths from opioids climbing amidst the global pandemic, it’s time to revisit the longer history of drugs, empire and racism that underscore the current crisis.
This short web comic, based on a chapter of cultural theorist Max Haiven’s Revenge Capitalism , draws the links between the opioid tragedy and the global system of racial capitalism that makes so many people disposable and uses racism and fascism to cover its tracks.
The Brief Podcast