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ask for your support, if you call him right now --866-359-4334 866-359-4334, we turn to a speech richard wolff gave a week ago here in new york. it is tired opened -- titled "as capitalism's crisis deepens, thoughts of socialism return again." richard: i will go through a bunch of short topics as we might do and then turn to the main topic of the evening which has to do with socialism, the varieties of socialism, and what the term means. let's get going with the shorter ones. a very important venture capitalist, private equity fund leader named schwarzman -- for those of you that follow this, you will know he is a big player in this. he is a millionaire. over the last month he did something remarkable, or maybe not so remarkable, but i wanted to talk to you about it. he gave $150 million to universityyale --yale -- yale university, one of the big against the university of gotten, pocket change for mr. schwartzman, but for most of you, probably would not be. it is also very nice for ylae but -- yale, but to give $150 million to yale is to give a few pennies to a gentleman like mr. schwartzman.