I am 76 and autistic and my family have been Marxists since Benjamin Franklin wrote the Declaration of Independence that needed the authority of an Aristocrat like Thomas Jefferson. In 1793 Ruissia invaded Lithuania and destroyed the great Temple of The Gaon of Vilna. Marx thanked Ben Franklin and Voltaire for founding Marxism but it was the Gaon who founded the Enlightenment.
My grandfather was a Jewish Socialist in the early 20th century. He taught me socialism and humanism. He was not well educated but he was very smart. I am still a socialist and until recently I had been disappointed in the recent generations' still too much accepting of the standard socio-economic arguments without questioning anything. Finally now the newest generations are beginning to question the inhumanity of a non-democratized employer - employee relationship that humanity has not yet experimented with.
I am 76 years old and my great great grandfather was a Jewish Socialist. My father came to Montreal in the 1920s and Montreal loves Kamala, Celine, Cohen and democracy Cohen led the country band at Westmount, Kamala's High School. It's coming from the silence at the dock of the bay. ua-cam.com/video/ifwtWF485HU/v-deo.html
For humans living with one another in a community or society, the most important theory is the theory of justice. Some individuals demand freedom of action, subject to almost no constraints. Others (most of us, I believe) accept that there must be a limit to our behavior, to our freedom. The philosopher Mortimer Adler wrote that liberty is freedom constrained by justice. Adler had his own theory of justice (persuasive to me, for one). He wrote that one can conclude a society is just IF all individuals have access to the goods of a decent human existence. Adler's list of such "goods" is long. By his measure, there are few societies existing society that he would describe as just.
176 countries have signed the UN’s International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights-which includes right to health care, food, shelter, and so on. Four of those signatories never ratified: Comoros, Palau, Cuba, and the United States. But Cuba has the right to food enshrined in their constitution.
Theory has its place but it is not available and understood by most people. Professor Wolff's genius is that he can explain philosophical ideas in common terms. I sometimes disagree with his conclusios but not always.
Ive been telling people about Richard Wolff. Hoping they listen and start watching him. The way he describes everything is much more elegant than i can explain them.
"How the glass was ground affects what you see." The physical variability of telescope lenses is a great metaphor for the effect of theory on perception. No knowledge of the material world is theory-neutral or separable from the knower or his tools. This insight gets dismissed as "postmodern" by some people who never bother to answer the claim (let alone read what Marx-and Hegel-wrote that was analogous to it).
The intense focus on reminding us of our ‘partiality’, or involvement with *what* we see, reminds me of Cezanne’s life - work. Carried on almost as far is could go ( with oils & canvas ) by his heirs, the Analytical Cubists. Braque & Gris in particular. I’d love to see Marxists spend some more time on Heisenberg & Bohr,.as well as Mandelbroit’s fractal sets…
Excellent discussion on the interplay between democracy, crisis, and Marxist theory! It’s crucial to explore how dialectical thought can offer solutions to the pressing global challenges we face today. The rise of far-right authoritarianism and the climate crisis are indeed urgent issues that require thoughtful analysis and innovative approaches.
I think it was two years ago that I left off trying to get through Das Capital I. Still, I like that Dr. Wolff had once explained socialism as a family. You don't, at least I hope not, expect your children to pay for their dinner. I listen to him because he uses normal language to explain things, This show did a good job of explaining what theory is, but I hope you explain dialectic a little better in the future. Also, why was Dr. Wolff's water bottle blurred out?
@@dinnerwithfranklin You know, so many things come up, and now I am reading and watching about Palestine and the climate. But although Prof Wolff may just be a lens to understand the source, his ideas are also a more readily available source. Barring Marx being resurrected to host a You Tube channel to explain his work, you need someone or many someones with skills in scholarship to help interpret them.
@@timmoore3188 I couldn't agree more. I'm reading Capital again and getting more and more from it but having someone with expertise is really useful. Very well said Tim.
@@dinnerwithfranklin we also need to share these books. Someone gave me a digital copy of the Capital series. My local county library has almost zero books to borrow on Marxism or anarchism, or radical indigenous struggles, subjects I am now interested in.
@@timmoore3188 I just thought of David Harvey's series on Capital that may be useful. I've had to buy the revolutionary books I've read from another country as well. They may be available here but aren't to be found in local shops.
As an artist, a ballerina, an astronomer, and a Jew, I understand how the dialectical process is essential for experimentation, growth, evolution, all with the desire to improve and repair the ongoing destruction of our planet and our humanity.
As someone with no artistic talent and minimal knowledge of astronomy or ballet, and as a non-Jew, and as someone who’s lying on a couch and typing on an iPad after having prepared and eaten a vegetarian meal, I agree.
If anyone might have some basic suggestions on how to converse with a mainstream audiance about socialism in a way that doesn't trigger their engrained automatic reaction to attack any criticism of capitalism, pls let me know. Thank you all.
Democracy is when those who make decisions on your behalf have the duty to ask for your consent first. Today's republics are actually modern oligarchies where the interest groups of the rich are arbitrated by the people, that is, you can choose from which table of the rich you will receive crumbs. The "fatigue" of democracy occurs when there is a big difference between the interests of the elected and the voters, thus people lose confidence in the way society functions. As a result, poor and desperate citizens will vote with whoever promises them a lifeline, i.e. populists or demagogues. The democratic aspect is a collateral effect in societies where the economy has a strong competitive aspect, that is, the interests of those who hold the economic power in society are divergent. Thus those whealty, and implicitly with political power in society, supervise each other so that none of them have undeserved advantages due to politics. For this reason, countries where mineral resources have an important weight in GDP are not democratic (Russia, Venezuela, etc.), because a small group of people can exploit these resources in their own interest. In poor countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc.) the main exploited resource may even be the state budget, as they have convergent interests in benefiting, in their own interest, from this resource. It is easy to see if it is an oligarchy because in a true democracy laws would not be passed that would not be in the interest of the many. The first modern oligarchy appeared in England at the end of the 17th century. After the bourgeois revolution led by Cromwell succeeded, the interest groups of the rich were unable to agree on how to divide their political power in order not to reach the dictatorship of one. The solution was to appoint a king to be the arbiter. In republics, the people are the arbiter, but let's not confuse the possibility of choosing which group will govern you with democracy, that is, with the possibility of citizens deciding which laws to pass and which not to. The solution is modern direct democracy in which every citizen can vote, whenever he wants, over the head of the parliamentarian who represents him. He can even dismiss him if the majority of his voters consider that he does not correctly represent their interests. It's like when you have to build a house and you choose the site manager and the architect, but they don't have the duty to consult with you. The house will certainly not look the way you want it, but the way they want it, and it is more certain that you will be left with the money given and without the house. It is strange that outside of the political sphere, nowhere, in any economic or sports activity, will you find someone elected to a leadership position and who has failure after failure and is fired only after 4 years. We, the voters, must be consulted about the decisions and if they have negative effects we can dismiss them at any time, let's not wait for the soroco to be fulfilled, because we pay, not them. In any company, the management team comes up with a plan approved by the shareholders. Any change in this plan must be re-approved by the shareholders and it is normal because the shareholders pay.
Wikipedia - Ricardo Semler - Ricardo Semler (born 1959) is the chief executive officer and majority owner of Semco Partners, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering.
It’s common sense. In order to cut Fed must increase money supply. That spikes inflation. Bond holders then require higher yield on long term bonds which will cause long term rates to go up, while the fed is dropping short term rates. The fed obviously knows economics and knows this. But, their purpose is to save a dying economy at the expense of higher long term rates, until the collapse happens - in other words the rate cuts are designed to “kick the can down the road” at the expense of a worse collapse. The final conclusion can only be that this is a controlled collapse, engineered as the great economic reset with the participants being the fed, well for me tho Bitcoin is the ultimate defence against a tyrannical government.r.....I've been engaged in active trading and managed to grow a nest egg of around 2.3Bitcoin to a decent 24Bitcoin....I'm especially grateful to Linda Wilburn, whose deep expertise and traditional trading acumen have been invaluable in this challenging, ever-evolving financial landscape.
In a field as rapidly evolving as cryptocurrency, staying updated is crucial. Linda’s continual research and adaptation to the latest market changes have been instrumental in helping me make informed decisions.
How do we square the circle of marxist industrialisation & agricultural environmentalism thru social inclusion / democracy rathrr than capitalist tacit consent? Environmentalism can't succeed until international debt is cancelled & there is land reform overthows our historical masters 😢
Yes the brain acts as a filter of consciousness not matter. Reality is consciousness. If you like this is the basis for dialectical idealism. This does not impede class consciousness it strengthens it. The modern term for this is non-dual understanding which by definition is socialistic.
In physics we have hypotheses - the first question, then theory which is the possible conclusion based on observables. But theory is never fact. Fact really does not exist in physics. What exists is observables. The point if physics is not to prove a theory but to disprove it in order to better understand our universe.
My Dear Shahram Azhar, you shouldn't take that long while making A Maverick of a body & soul beside. You could have made him sit among the audience. 8:20 not over yet.
Astronomy is the study of what the telescope did. Or reported it "saw." 😏 Or really, of the observables that it was capable of observering and relating.
@@dinnerwithfranklin there is content, just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there. Richard Wolf is a crackpot economist. This is classic college professor “akshully, REAL communism has never been tried before and trust me my college professor version will totally work trust me bro” It never has. And it never will.
I'm sure it confuses people when Richard speaks because his platform is titled Democracy At Work, however, the Constitution for the united States "of" America states plainly that each states is supposed to be a REPUBLICAN form of government. So, what really does he stand for? 🤔 It's certainly not the Constitution! 🚫
@@Ghost-eu1rgPlease define freedom. I struggle to understand what kind of freedom exists within authoritarian capitalist hierarchies. Also, it is quite arrogant and authoritarian of you to believe that you can speak for “the rest of us.” You may be surprised to discover a wide range of diversity among their views.
@@DanFeldman-Edge freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. We have this in capitalist society unlike in socialist or communist societies so I’m not sure where you’re getting that silly idea from. And I disagree, the majority of people are too smart than to fall for the lies of socialism/communism. More places today (including self proclaimed socialist ones) choose capitalism as their preferred economic system.
@@Ghost-eu1rgYour freedoms are illsional, voicing opinions when self censorship is the natiral state to live in and journalists are hounded and theatened with life imprisonment for releasing the truth. When all the news outlets are owned by banks. Where once eminent experts who are critical of the state are never reported. I also note that you criticise those who use there names online opinions but dont use your name.
I am sorry, but what has 'dialectics' -- a 'theory'/'method' that has been refuted by history over and over again -- got to do with this? 'The dialectic' is far too vague and confused to be able make sense of _anything,_ let alone the crisis we are seeing in bourgeois democracy. Historical Materialism, that has had every trace of Hegel excised, _certainly can._ Which is why Marx abandoned this Hegelian aberration by the time he published the Second Edition of 'Capital', as my last reply to you amply demonstrated.
So, all these contradictions are not contradictions at all then. And if we continue to do nothing then our lives will get better.... any time now. lmao
@@tanujSE No one I know is having a better life now than they did 3 decades ago and we all live under capitalism Your advice to all of us is to have faith in this system and do nothing?
@@tanujSE Three things. First I refuse to believe that you really think money=capitalism. Second, no one is talking about money, we are talking about an alternative to capitalism. Thirdly, capitalism is the system that has formed society and it is that society we live in.
Although Marxism have concrete criticism against capitalism but itself Marxism also failed to exist from various parts of planet & contemporary has serious challenges...
Everyone I know has the experience of their lives getting poorer over the decades so for sure they are all wrong and their lives are getting better every year. They just don't understand that less money to spend for more and more expensive commodities is, in fact, better for us.
Marxism usually fails because the US/UK/EU fascists invade and overthrow those countries. That is what happened in most of South America, which is why we have a refugee crisis at our southern border.
It's more than clear to me that most people HAVEN'T read the Constitution FOR the united States of America. Why? A: because they continue to promote Democracy. that's not in the document people. Wake the hell up!
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1. States and Elections Clause. Republics have elected representatives. Elections are a democratic process - part of a democracy.
This will never happen in real life no sane person is going to make their money to give it all to someone else they don’t know. This is why most Americans don’t like paying taxes people like to keep the fruits of their labor.
@@someonenotnoone yes it is we have already seen throughout history what happens when socialists take over. I want to own my own business and get very wealthy what you do is your business don’t enforce your beliefs on me.
@@Bwilli1990of course no one wants, nor is anyone asking, to give ALL of your money away. I actually don’t mind giving some of it away so we have laws, and a reliable infrastructure. Don’t you?
Should be called Marxian hypotheses. There is no theory to it not even in the colloquial sense. Professor Wolf almost got me years ago. Then I actually took the time to study how people want to live and that it necessarily requires elements of capitalism. Just look at the good professor, if he had to take the same wage as a person that mucks out horse stalls he wouldn't be showing the good word of Marxism he would be desperately engaging in speculation and capitalism just to enable him to live a quarter-way decent life. I don't think he would mind the non-use of deodorant by people when they go out into public spaces though. 😂
Professor Wolff, thank you for helping me, even at age 71, to learn more about Marxism; to engage more. Intellect does not have to ossify.
I am 76 and autistic and my family have been Marxists since Benjamin Franklin wrote the Declaration of Independence that needed the authority of an Aristocrat like Thomas Jefferson. In 1793 Ruissia invaded Lithuania and destroyed the great Temple of The Gaon of Vilna. Marx thanked Ben Franklin and Voltaire for founding Marxism but it was the Gaon who founded the Enlightenment.
My grandfather was a Jewish Socialist in the early 20th century. He taught me socialism and humanism. He was not well educated but he was very smart. I am still a socialist and until recently I had been disappointed in the recent generations' still too much accepting of the standard socio-economic arguments without questioning anything. Finally now the newest generations are beginning to question the inhumanity of a non-democratized employer - employee relationship that humanity has not yet experimented with.
I am 76 years old and my great great grandfather was a Jewish Socialist. My father came to Montreal in the 1920s and Montreal loves Kamala, Celine, Cohen and democracy
Cohen led the country band at Westmount, Kamala's High School. It's coming from the silence at the dock of the bay.
ua-cam.com/video/ifwtWF485HU/v-deo.html
Thanks!
I'm so glad this series exist
Brilliantly moderated by Shahram
The greatest philosopher who changed my vision to the world when I was 18
🥰 Both of you to educate the people.
Great!
Always great to see Prof. Wolff, I just wish the host would look at the camera, at us the viewers.
For humans living with one another in a community or society, the most important theory is the theory of justice. Some individuals demand freedom of action, subject to almost no constraints. Others (most of us, I believe) accept that there must be a limit to our behavior, to our freedom. The philosopher Mortimer Adler wrote that liberty is freedom constrained by justice. Adler had his own theory of justice (persuasive to me, for one). He wrote that one can conclude a society is just IF all individuals have access to the goods of a decent human existence. Adler's list of such "goods" is long. By his measure, there are few societies existing society that he would describe as just.
176 countries have signed the UN’s International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights-which includes right to health care, food, shelter, and so on. Four of those signatories never ratified: Comoros, Palau, Cuba, and the United States. But Cuba has the right to food enshrined in their constitution.
Excellant info amd éducation
Theory has its place but it is not available and understood by most people. Professor Wolff's genius is that he can explain philosophical ideas in common terms. I sometimes disagree with his conclusios but not always.
This is why I'm studying philosophy, economics and political science together.
This is great❤ greetings from the Netherlands
Ive been telling people about Richard Wolff. Hoping they listen and start watching him. The way he describes everything is much more elegant than i can explain them.
Preach Shahram Azhar
"How the glass was ground affects what you see." The physical variability of telescope lenses is a great metaphor for the effect of theory on perception. No knowledge of the material world is theory-neutral or separable from the knower or his tools. This insight gets dismissed as "postmodern" by some people who never bother to answer the claim (let alone read what Marx-and Hegel-wrote that was analogous to it).
But I am so sad that the world going to go through a war for changes instead of diplomatic way
Conflict ushers in change for better or worse it's still change.
@@bradleyp3655 change is inevitable and we don’t have the control , we have just control of ourselves . That is the law
The intense focus on reminding us of our ‘partiality’, or involvement with *what* we see, reminds me of Cezanne’s life - work.
Carried on almost as far is could go ( with oils & canvas ) by his heirs, the Analytical Cubists. Braque & Gris in particular.
I’d love to see Marxists spend some more time on Heisenberg & Bohr,.as well as Mandelbroit’s fractal sets…
Shahram❤
Excellent discussion on the interplay between democracy, crisis, and Marxist theory! It’s crucial to explore how dialectical thought can offer solutions to the pressing global challenges we face today. The rise of far-right authoritarianism and the climate crisis are indeed urgent issues that require thoughtful analysis and innovative approaches.
8k views that's it? This should have a million views, but i guess it's too dangerous.... How can dialectic have so few views.
I think it was two years ago that I left off trying to get through Das Capital I. Still, I like that Dr. Wolff had once explained socialism as a family. You don't, at least I hope not, expect your children to pay for their dinner.
I listen to him because he uses normal language to explain things, This show did a good job of explaining what theory is, but I hope you explain dialectic a little better in the future.
Also, why was Dr. Wolff's water bottle blurred out?
I understand why you stopped. It is a difficult read. Worth it in my opinion but not easy.
@@dinnerwithfranklin You know, so many things come up, and now I am reading and watching about Palestine and the climate. But although Prof Wolff may just be a lens to understand the source, his ideas are also a more readily available source. Barring Marx being resurrected to host a You Tube channel to explain his work, you need someone or many someones with skills in scholarship to help interpret them.
@@timmoore3188 I couldn't agree more. I'm reading Capital again and getting more and more from it but having someone with expertise is really useful.
Very well said Tim.
@@dinnerwithfranklin we also need to share these books. Someone gave me a digital copy of the Capital series. My local county library has almost zero books to borrow on Marxism or anarchism, or radical indigenous struggles, subjects I am now interested in.
@@timmoore3188 I just thought of David Harvey's series on Capital that may be useful.
I've had to buy the revolutionary books I've read from another country as well. They may be available here but aren't to be found in local shops.
As an artist, a ballerina, an astronomer, and a Jew, I understand how the dialectical process is essential for experimentation, growth, evolution, all with the desire to improve and repair the ongoing destruction of our planet and our humanity.
As someone with no artistic talent and minimal knowledge of astronomy or ballet, and as a non-Jew, and as someone who’s lying on a couch and typing on an iPad after having prepared and eaten a vegetarian meal, I agree.
@@tantzer6113Awesome!
29:58 when he talks about the puppy's DOO DOO is my favorite part
An excellent intro! PL. provide the weblink to the next part
If anyone might have some basic suggestions on how to converse with a mainstream audiance about socialism in a way that doesn't trigger their engrained automatic reaction to attack any criticism of capitalism, pls let me know. Thank you all.
Democracy is when those who make decisions on your behalf have the duty to ask for your consent first. Today's republics are actually modern oligarchies where the interest groups of the rich are arbitrated by the people, that is, you can choose from which table of the rich you will receive crumbs.
The "fatigue" of democracy occurs when there is a big difference between the interests of the elected and the voters, thus people lose confidence in the way society functions. As a result, poor and desperate citizens will vote with whoever promises them a lifeline, i.e. populists or demagogues.
The democratic aspect is a collateral effect in societies where the economy has a strong competitive aspect, that is, the interests of those who hold the economic power in society are divergent. Thus those whealty, and implicitly with political power in society, supervise each other so that none of them have undeserved advantages due to politics. For this reason, countries where mineral resources have an important weight in GDP are not democratic (Russia, Venezuela, etc.), because a small group of people can exploit these resources in their own interest. In poor countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc.) the main exploited resource may even be the state budget, as they have convergent interests in benefiting, in their own interest, from this resource. It is easy to see if it is an oligarchy because in a true democracy laws would not be passed that would not be in the interest of the many.
The first modern oligarchy appeared in England at the end of the 17th century. After the bourgeois revolution led by Cromwell succeeded, the interest groups of the rich were unable to agree on how to divide their political power in order not to reach the dictatorship of one. The solution was to appoint a king to be the arbiter. In republics, the people are the arbiter, but let's not confuse the possibility of choosing which group will govern you with democracy, that is, with the possibility of citizens deciding which laws to pass and which not to.
The solution is modern direct democracy in which every citizen can vote, whenever he wants, over the head of the parliamentarian who represents him. He can even dismiss him if the majority of his voters consider that he does not correctly represent their interests.
It's like when you have to build a house and you choose the site manager and the architect, but they don't have the duty to consult with you. The house will certainly not look the way you want it, but the way they want it, and it is more certain that you will be left with the money given and without the house. It is strange that outside of the political sphere, nowhere, in any economic or sports activity, will you find someone elected to a leadership position and who has failure after failure and is fired only after 4 years. We, the voters, must be consulted about the decisions and if they have negative effects we can dismiss them at any time, let's not wait for the soroco to be fulfilled, because we pay, not them. In any company, the management team comes up with a plan approved by the shareholders. Any change in this plan must be re-approved by the shareholders and it is normal because the shareholders pay.
🙌🏽❤
Do you think this war between good and bad going to take decades until people wins
Wikipedia - Ricardo Semler - Ricardo Semler (born 1959) is the chief executive officer and majority owner of Semco Partners, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering.
What about part 2 !! :)
Start here: 8:29
It’s common sense. In order to cut Fed must increase money supply. That spikes inflation. Bond holders then require higher yield on long term bonds which will cause long term rates to go up, while the fed is dropping short term rates. The fed obviously knows economics and knows this. But, their purpose is to save a dying economy at the expense of higher long term rates, until the collapse happens - in other words the rate cuts are designed to “kick the can down the road” at the expense of a worse collapse. The final conclusion can only be that this is a controlled collapse, engineered as the great economic reset with the participants being the fed, well for me tho Bitcoin is the ultimate defence against a tyrannical government.r.....I've been engaged in active trading and managed to grow a nest egg of around 2.3Bitcoin to a decent 24Bitcoin....I'm especially grateful to Linda Wilburn, whose deep expertise and traditional trading acumen have been invaluable in this challenging, ever-evolving financial landscape.
She's often interacts on Telegrams, using the user-name.
@Lindawilburn
In a field as rapidly evolving as cryptocurrency, staying updated is crucial. Linda’s continual research and adaptation to the latest market changes have been instrumental in helping me make informed decisions.
Always backup your trading with a good strategy.
Nice, I was just hodling before I found Wilburn. In my opinion she is the very best out there.
👍👍👌 professor RichardWolff ✌️👏👏
What was the question again?
How do we square the circle of marxist industrialisation & agricultural environmentalism thru social inclusion / democracy rathrr than capitalist tacit consent? Environmentalism can't succeed until international debt is cancelled & there is land reform overthows our historical masters 😢
Yes the brain acts as a filter of consciousness not matter. Reality is consciousness. If you like this is the basis for dialectical idealism. This does not impede class consciousness it strengthens it. The modern term for this is non-dual understanding which by definition is socialistic.
investigate as anthropology the phenomenon of political parties.
In physics we have hypotheses - the first question, then theory which is the possible conclusion based on observables. But theory is never fact. Fact really does not exist in physics. What exists is observables. The point if physics is not to prove a theory but to disprove it in order to better understand our universe.
My Dear Shahram Azhar, you shouldn't take that long while making A Maverick of a body & soul beside. You could have made him sit among the audience. 8:20 not over yet.
Yo, whoever is monitoring this should hit up Nick from revolutionary blackout network. Try to set up a show where Wolff came come on nicks show
The question is: are you organized?
Astronomy is the study of what the telescope did. Or reported it "saw." 😏 Or really, of the observables that it was capable of observering and relating.
Or you see things that are familier to you
You can call it whatever you like but lawyers ruling government yields the same results.
Hegel was an amazing philosopher. I loved his works .
Crisis? Have you studied the history of man? We live in a time, a blip of time with incredible prosperity and peace.
This guy is a crackpot “economist”
just ask those palestinians
@@danielh5159 yeah, ask them why they elect terrorists to lead them
@@Ghost-eu1rg ad hominem with no content.
@@dinnerwithfranklin there is content, just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.
Richard Wolf is a crackpot economist. This is classic college professor “akshully, REAL communism has never been tried before and trust me my college professor version will totally work trust me bro”
It never has. And it never will.
Oh my goodness , Henry K was one of the greatest fascist , I am still confused which one is more evil Him or Natenyahu
Just my copy of "Understanding Capitalism" and I'm really looking forward to reading it.
Sane me
I'm sure it confuses people when Richard speaks because his platform is titled Democracy At Work, however, the Constitution for the united States "of" America states plainly that each states is supposed to be a REPUBLICAN form of government. So, what really does he stand for? 🤔 It's certainly not the Constitution! 🚫
If a Constitution enforces oligarchy and hierarchy, then said Constitution is anti-humanist and should be dismantled and rewritten.
@@DanFeldman-Edge good luck with that. The rest of us like freedom thank you very much
@@Ghost-eu1rgPlease define freedom.
I struggle to understand what kind of freedom exists within authoritarian capitalist hierarchies.
Also, it is quite arrogant and authoritarian of you to believe that you can speak for “the rest of us.” You may be surprised to discover a wide range of diversity among their views.
@@DanFeldman-Edge freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
We have this in capitalist society unlike in socialist or communist societies so I’m not sure where you’re getting that silly idea from.
And I disagree, the majority of people are too smart than to fall for the lies of socialism/communism. More places today (including self proclaimed socialist ones) choose capitalism as their preferred economic system.
@@Ghost-eu1rgYour freedoms are illsional, voicing opinions when self censorship is the natiral state to live in and journalists are hounded and theatened with life imprisonment for releasing the truth. When all the news outlets are owned by banks. Where once eminent experts who are critical of the state are never reported. I also note that you criticise those who use there names online opinions but dont use your name.
Astronomy is the study of what the telescope did.
Search engines are your friends.
I am sorry, but what has 'dialectics' -- a 'theory'/'method' that has been refuted by history over and over again -- got to do with this? 'The dialectic' is far too vague and confused to be able make sense of _anything,_ let alone the crisis we are seeing in bourgeois democracy. Historical Materialism, that has had every trace of Hegel excised, _certainly can._
Which is why Marx abandoned this Hegelian aberration by the time he published the Second Edition of 'Capital', as my last reply to you amply demonstrated.
These all are the things which happens within capitalism and solved within it
So, all these contradictions are not contradictions at all then. And if we continue to do nothing then our lives will get better.... any time now. lmao
@@dinnerwithfranklin Many things are happening and happening within capitalism,communism makes none of the way
@@tanujSE No one I know is having a better life now than they did 3 decades ago and we all live under capitalism
Your advice to all of us is to have faith in this system and do nothing?
@@dinnerwithfranklin Ofcourse it's better to keep faith in money else it itself will bite you
@@tanujSE Three things. First I refuse to believe that you really think money=capitalism. Second, no one is talking about money, we are talking about an alternative to capitalism. Thirdly, capitalism is the system that has formed society and it is that society we live in.
Although Marxism have concrete criticism against capitalism but itself Marxism also failed to exist from various parts of planet & contemporary has serious challenges...
Everyone I know has the experience of their lives getting poorer over the decades so for sure they are all wrong and their lives are getting better every year. They just don't understand that less money to spend for more and more expensive commodities is, in fact, better for us.
Marxism usually fails because the US/UK/EU fascists invade and overthrow those countries.
That is what happened in most of South America, which is why we have a refugee crisis at our southern border.
It's more than clear to me that most people HAVEN'T read the Constitution FOR the united States of America. Why? A: because they continue to promote Democracy. that's not in the document people. Wake the hell up!
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1. States and Elections Clause.
Republics have elected representatives. Elections are a democratic process - part of a democracy.
The Constitution is literally a contract for democracy led by We the People, which creates the US Federal Government as a republic to represent us.
@@kevinschmidt2210 oh yeah, and where did you learn that at? don't worry, I'll wait.
This will never happen in real life no sane person is going to make their money to give it all to someone else they don’t know. This is why most Americans don’t like paying taxes people like to keep the fruits of their labor.
What you described isn't what anyone is advocating for.
@@someonenotnoone yes it is we have already seen throughout history what happens when socialists take over. I want to own my own business and get very wealthy what you do is your business don’t enforce your beliefs on me.
@@Bwilli1990of course no one wants, nor is anyone asking, to give ALL of your money away. I actually don’t mind giving some of it away so we have laws, and a reliable infrastructure. Don’t you?
@@samahlan that what you say but not what you do they have a saying watch what they do not want they say.
@@Bwilli1990 no, we have not already seen all there is to see. You're complacent. Capitalism is also forced on others, don't get yourself confused.
Should be called Marxian hypotheses. There is no theory to it not even in the colloquial sense. Professor Wolf almost got me years ago. Then I actually took the time to study how people want to live and that it necessarily requires elements of capitalism. Just look at the good professor, if he had to take the same wage as a person that mucks out horse stalls he wouldn't be showing the good word of Marxism he would be desperately engaging in speculation and capitalism just to enable him to live a quarter-way decent life. I don't think he would mind the non-use of deodorant by people when they go out into public spaces though. 😂
It should also be apparent to you people don't want to live that way either. For things like Snickers, capitalism is fine.
This is some commie shit
Kinda yea. But the fact that you see it like that proves what Richard said this vid. So thanks for proving his point.
@@AB-bh6rb and what point is that exactly?
Yes as opposed to capitalist shit
This is a Marxist channel. Looking at things through dialectics helps us understand the imbalances an economic system can create.
@@deezeed2817 if only you realized how stupid this actually is