How to Defeat “Wealth Supremacy” and Build a Democratic Economy
The United States economic system is facing increasing scrutiny for the it has generated. A significant part of the stranglehold that the current form of capitalism has is cultural: the idea that when stock prices are booming and the Dow Jones is high, the and ordinary Americans are thriving.
But applying a clarifying lens to the prevailing economic model reveals that we live under a system of what author calls “wealth supremacy,” which is the title of her new book. Kelly is a distinguished senior fellow at the , a nonprofit working to catalyze the creation of a democratic economy. She spoke with è! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on è Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her book and what it will take to realize a democratic economic system.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined è! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of è! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 of the same name.
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