As an older gentleman that was brought here to the states from a European country at 5yrs of age in 1965 via ship. I grew up here and still living here in the Boston area ever since. I did make it to college but was never a high level student who majored in Economics after changing majors from marketing. Got a degree but barely average at best. While in college I was a registered republican for a long time after graduation. While in college taking some union/management courses I always seem to favor management and basically against the union position. Being fed up with the GOP and not in favor of the democratic party I switched affiliations to independent in later life. Basically and presently I'm against both prevailing parties but also never ever though of myself as a Marxist. But since getting acquainted to your UA-cam videos a couple of months ago I've been very interested in listening to you and your talking points. So here I am eagerly waiting for your next video. Thanks for your enlightenment in this subject matter.
@@subtlesleuth873 Sad... I guess they see the union as an outside body providing a service instead of being their own vessel for emancipation? There is no magic pill we got to agitate, educate and organize.. my feeling is that once coworkers really feel their power at the grassroot, once they understand their power come from their own labor and being organized like a block, only then they see the union as themselves
Democracy is nigh impossible, if the masses are apathetic or careless about their issues. American life is bent on materialism, rather than their own mental or spiritual wellbeing. Social media emphasizes the notion that you should buy "this" or "that" to feel happy. Corporate society is dominant not only in the economic levels, but also in our culture and social beliefs. Which is why many Americans fall for this silly "American Dream" concept.
Prof. Wolff, I appreciate your efforts but don't make the debate dirty by discussing the subject of workers & labours( W & L) with socialism & communism. W & L are pious class and very respectable & self-reliant community. They are not complaining, blaming & crying by seating on the shoulders of the people who carries their weight, which Communists are doing.Socialism is a refined ward of communism,i.e. will not robe but will cheat only, which the cunning politicians are already attending in the world excusing communism.
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@@betweentheline801 Eat shit you sad gullible brainwashed moron.
Unions are absolutely crucial for a democratic society that truly includes and is accountable to everyone. You simply cannot anything more than the veneer of democracy when the economic structures and relationships that all people are immersed in are undemocratic, when ordinary working people have no say in the decisions of the wealthy oligarchy that tremendously affects their lives. Unions give them that say, and for a country that prides itself on checks and balances in government, it's surprising that it's so apathetic and even antagonistic to having checks and balances in the economic sphere of life.
Thank you for expanding my awareness. Have to rewind and replay for what did not sink in the first go round. That you cut to the core, emphasize, and align your body-mind-speech is absorbing and effective. Appreciate your videos.
To all that attempt to discredit professor Wolff by asking him trick-questions: you can do it, but be sure he'll use it well as an excellent opportunity to disprove your point and to prove his point. Why? Because he's honest, he's smart, he's straightforward and, last but not least, he is absolutely right.
Wolff discredits himself, and he doesn't answer questions unless they are pre-screened, and he certainly doesn't answer questions posed here. This question was a "perfect softball", since he has already answered it many times. ( and clearly the questioner had missed the previous videos on it so it was a "rinse and repeat"exercise. ) Questioning the "narrative" is easy, as you should know, since the best you had was "troll" to the question asked elsewhere.
@@1911olympic Try reading the actual question that was asked...what more PROOF do you need???? ua-cam.com/video/ppN3LxNTv4I/v-deo.html&lc=Ugx_INhCBaXTVtRuTEV4AaABAg.9D6o2FyGhq89DOcMJ3U2lb You can start with the above link, and then do the same with every "ask Prof Wolff" question....
@@jgalt308 I did. However it doesn't give me any reason to change my statement. Of course Prof. Wolff is a dangerous enemy for the reactionaries, because the know he is honest, smart, wise and he is right. Furthermore he is popular for these reasons. A impressive enemy for the reactionaries. Reason to fight him with all means, like you do. You won't succeed. Why? Because he is honest, smart, wise and very right. And now I'll close this discussion and spend my energy elsewhere.
@@1911olympic Which just demonstrates that you possess no ability to reason...and Wolff is not anyone's enemy, and is essentially irrelevant with a minor following in his own right, and he gets a bump from similar voices due to his "anti-capitalist" rant and his doom and gloom predictions for the fiat/inflationary model he really doesn't understand and the oligarchical corruption of government it has resulted in. Predictions regarding the collapse of the present system are essentially mainstream, so there is nothing unique in this message...and further complicated by the overblown reaction to a non existent epidemic, which has further exacerbated the failure to resolve the previous crash correctly by letting the banks an institutions responsible for it FAIL, which would have happened if the system were truly capitalistic. So he is not honest, nor smart, nor wise, nor right...and since all you have is babble, you should save your energy and spare us these irrelevant ramblings, as should Wolff as he is nothing more than a distraction and a misdirection from the true source of the problem which began on March 9, 1933.
Fortunately we here in Austria (Central Europe) had a very strong socialist government after WW1 already : for the first time workers and other poor families had access to healthy housing and even washhouses collectively in each housing unit with the most modern equipment and this up from 1919 until now. I look back to this "red era" with nostalgia. Health service was great and is free of charges until now. "Neoliberalism" is now haunting and I look confidently to the socialist transformation of the USA. This is really critical for the whole world and I strongly support it. Professor Wolff your voice is so important and gives hope to the whole planet. Change is so necessary for all of us. Otherwise the profit hunting system will devour us all. Let's stop this nightmare now.
We cannot forget Eugene V. Debs, Big Bill Hayward, Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Big players in the creation of the industrial union the Industrial Workers of the World. Daniel De Leon pushed it further with the concept of the Socialist Industrial Union Program in which labor would take hold of the means of production and create an economic labor administration (people who are elected from each department to socially plan the economy) and do away with the political state through the ballot box.
Professor Wolff. You are doing an amazing job. Thank you so incredibly much for your work. Don't let the trolls get to you. Even if they are horribly wrong they will simply try to wear you down and exhaust you.
I live in Canada now. Left China twenty years ago. Based on my own over 10 year experiences as a "union" staff in a state owned company in China (1988 - 1999), I can tell you my take on this. I don't believe there is real legal independent union that represents workers in China. Currently there are some efforts by workers trying to organize independent unions, but their efforts trying to organize independent union free from the goverent control, have been crushed ruthlessly by the government. I personally know one "illegal" underground labour organizer who has been put in jail by the Chinese police. Actually today union staff in any state owned company, are still being considered as employees of the company as I was one of them over twenty years ago.
Thank you for your factual comment.The instant this clown said Denmark is socialist,I assumed he's a propaganda brainwasher. I always tell people to talk to those who actually lived it to get the facts. Not those like Bernie and AOC, who barely know the definition,live the most extreme capitalist lifestyle, and try to convince us they are experts at socialism.they are clueless. I prefer to speak to people like yourself and others who lived it and suffered horribly,under a system that never once succeeded.
We have very strong unions here in Denmark as should all countries , we the workers create the wealth of the elite hence we need strong unions to make sure we are getting our piece of the pie.Six weeks paid holiday ,4% paid into our pension.
Wolff is a consummate educator. Howard Zinn's _A People's History of the United States_ is a terrific read for those interested in the subject without mainstream censorship.
The fact is that there has never been a totally true socialist/communist state. We don't know how it would work, if at all, in this modern world. Whereas, we had capitalist states with many different political/social forms and we know its flaws and weaknesses and we are able to deal with them.
the fact that there are about 200 countries in the world,and there are only a measly 5 commie countries left,and people in those 5 are rising up against it, is all I need to know how well socialism works. 🤮
I hate unions! Well cancel your social security never take a lunch break your shift now is 12-18 hours long now no more minimum wage now well pay you $.03 an hour. you have a child, too bad work or quit and starve
Or just stand on your own two feet as an individual and get paid based on merit, your choice & for what it's worth I do not "hate" unions and recognize the good done buy them in the past but me personally I'm not interested in collectivism.
There's a utopian way of thinking about socialism, and it's not just on the left. I find a lot of centrist and right wing people also expect socialism to be perfect, either because they look at old slogans and platforms and don't know any of the contexts they were made in, or they are just being duplicitous and playing into this image of wild eyed promises by revolutionaries to immediately fix all our problems in a day, instead delivering something often claimed to be actually worse than before Revolutionaries have over promised and under delivered, but we've also done the opposite. I think workers are understandably fed up with politics, and the Cold War kinda thinking that amplifies all the faults, hides all the successes, and removes all context of socialist politics, and just hammers into people's brains that since socialism isn't perfect, it's not worthwhile. If unions don't directly run industries but are instead a part of a bigger civil society and has to negotiate with other parts of society, then that's proof socialism is built on a lie. If workers in socialism go on strike, that's more proof. If strikes are typically formally illegal, even more proof. American socialists don't have to adopt the laws of other countries, but we have to understand where they came from beyond "stalinist authoritarianism." and we have to go out of our way to learn the nuance of a socialist country. Strikes are illegal in China, but apparently the Chinese government usually, in the vast majority of cases, sides with strikers. Something similar played out in Russia during the Civil War. Most strikes were about the generally terrible conditions people were in, due to world War 1 and the Civil War. But some railway workers went on strike because they knew how important they were to the war effort and just wanted more money. Socialists have typically wanted to incorporate a single, mass union into the government as a part of democracy and workers power. Rather than pursue strikes as means to solve disputes, the hope is we can solve issues through discussion, like how the capitalist ruling class does in Congress. Obviously, this isn't perfect, because it can't be, it has people in it. But it is better than what we have now? And do we have to outlaw strikes? Gene Sharp and color revolutions should be well known to leftists, and if you don't know him, look him up. Marcy Smith wrote some good stuff about him. What Sharp innovated was the use of nonviolent actions to provoke a "dictatorship" into either heavy handed actions, or paralysis. Sharp wasn't some libertarian leftist, he worked in an Ivy League think tank with the intelligence and defense industries. Sharp's methods involve using a neoliberal vanguard, loyal to capitalism, to seize hold of a legitimate popular protest movement, and to direct it, using populist and leftist slogans, towards demolishing a "dictatorship," which is any country with any semblance of national sovereignty, publicly owned industry, or outright socialist policies. This includes using independent labor activism, outside the officially recognized union, to cause a crisis that will bring neoliberal counter revolution and the ultimate demise of all workers power. This puts any country outside of NATO at risk of effectively being overthrown, not by a more open and grassroots based workers government, but the exact opposite. Ever wonder why the Arab Spring, HK uprising, Venezuela or Bolivian opposition get such glowing reports in the same media that tells us permanent war and austerity are just the natural state of things?
Why don't unions work together? Why don't they recruit new members for ALL unions? Why don't European unions help U.S. unions? Why isn't there more solidarity?
If the mention of FDR in a Michael Jackson song released in 1994 (!) does not convince you that he was class conscious, then listen to another song written by him called MONEY. Listen closely around the 03:18 mark. There is a reason he was made out to be a freak. He was a dangerous artist that needed to be discredited and ridiculed. Peace
@@kassandrarichard3565 Yeah, he was a racist-hypocrite, singing about "it don't matter if you're black or white", then he has his skin color changed. "Oh it was a rare disease" LOL! It was a delusion of grandeur.
You are right. Most modern unions are extremely moderate, and generally don't see themselves as opposed to the bosses (see themselves as working towards a common goal) and certainly not the state or the system (though they will say some nice things against the government when the nominal right wing party is in power). We need a modern unionism movement that can foresee a future beyond capitalism.
@@justinszabo5205 I disagree. Capitalism isn't the problem; its the corruption that started with corporate person-hood. We need to abolish it. No system is going to work when it's corrupt; we just need to nip the corruption in the bud. If we have to do it with a national labor union, then that's what we need to be working towards; each of us, using whatever means available, to achieve it. Once the new democracy is in place, by unionizing every job and connecting the unions, we'll vote for what we deserve; strike for, and get it.
But isn't that the same with capitalism? It seems to me that both have the same results with some powerful individuals taking charge and ruining the whole thing?
Without elements of Socialism, even the less than bare minimum level the US has, life, honestly, would not be worth living. You would just be mindless husk living to work and working to live.
The wisest thing that should be on every individual's list is Investing in different streams of income that don't depend on the government to bring money especially now the pandemic is hitting the economy pretty hard, making money from the comfort zone of one's home will be the best and safest thing to do now
There are so many Investments out there but if profit must be considered, then not all those Investment are good to go into and not all can withstand the test of time.
There’s the problem with liberalism right there - dismissing “silly polarities” without understanding the biological determinism of human tribalism causing them - which is bad science, including remaining willfully ignorant, primarily because such contrarian and deterministic information conflicts with relying on the tactic of making appeals to reason, which are hoped to expediently and rationally achieve the leftist political agenda of working class solidarity. Meanwhile, human tribalism remains determined by in-group and out-group identities, fealty to authority, national exceptionalism, national innocence, and regressive reactionary authoritarian instincts that aren’t determined by reason, other than by the reason of nature in service to reproducing the biological phenomenon of human tribalism. Far beyond simply manufacturing consent for capital, liberalism manufactures consent for the entire Western experiment, which is a system of structural violence that suspends the paleo-conservative hegemony of white Christian nationalist tribalism and their fascist synthesis with capital and corporations over the multiracial multicultural working class. The corporate capture of government belies the structural synthesis between the paleo-conservative state with capital, which capture represents the authoritarian prosecution of capital and infliction of structural violence to become so egregious that it destroys the mythology, propaganda, and illusions that formerly manufactured consent for capital, including the system they intended to rule over. This authoritarian escalation and war on labor culminates in late stage vulture capitalism, and inflicting fascism to maintain “law and order,” which is code for clinging to power in a failed state through outright violence, and retaining the state monopoly on violence by blaming everyone except the state and capital as criminals and terrorists. Nevertheless, because of tribal instincts, the human condition always defaults to reorganizing through identitarian politics into new formations of subdivided tribalism, where each begin repeating the cycle over again. The American Crisis will not be allowed to self-organize into secular egalitarian working class solidarity; labor will be co-opted by self-interested identitarian politics, misinformed and misdirected by the media, right-wing dog whistles will foment fear and hate, and liberals will feed as tribalism does off demonizing the other side, and repeating the lesser of two evils to kick the can down dystopian road. The American Crisis will be reined in by authoritarian apparatus, including subjected to a new system of technofascist oppression that maintains paleo-conservative hegemony - or - the 245 year-old now embarrassingly imperfect union will break apart, and fragment along regional and partisan lines. Enlightenment ideals that are asserted to be implemented in the Western experiment identify the advocates of liberty and freedom as the first authoritarian theocratic right-wingers to show up in defense of god, guns, and nationalism, just as they did 245 years ago. In addition, where capital and opulent minority oligarchy has waged a relentless war on democracy to render it as illusion and mythology, where electoral reform performs their own pubic acceptance eulogy’s before retiring to the happy hunting grounds of the status quo. Solutions to the human condition subject to the Anthropocene, 6th mass biodiversity extinction, and climate catastrophe, will require an internal appeal to reason among those with reason, including a cognitive-based intervention to nature’s discredited authoritarian instincts. That intervention will resemble science-based systems-based eco-socialism, which reverse engineers Homo sapiens in sustainable homeostasis with environmental determinism. Victory will be hard-won by furious leftists bracing their limp wrists, and transpire according to nature’s winner-take-all battlefield that The Authoritarians play on, while competing in the evolutionary arms race.
I can't argue with any that. For anyone who wants to watch the best video I've ever seen on the topic of tribalism. See: Tribalism by TheraminTrees ua-cam.com/video/Cx4GvzjRMx8/v-deo.html
Unless we wish to destroy each other we must implement a permanent UBI now! Then we can transition to a RBE. Also support the Money Free Party and The Venus Project so we can finally go beyond politics poverty and war.
Sorry, but calling Denmark and Portugal socialist yet trying to somehow paint China as less socialist because they often work tightly with the government is quite ridiculous. There's a huge difference in the the relationship between government and unions in a bourgeois dictatorship like Denmark and Portugal and a proletarian dictatorship like China. In a bourgeois society, unions are a counterweight to government and must necessarily be independent and fight against capitalist leadership. In a proletarian society, unions serve to complement the government and enable adequate representation of workers in politics and the whole point is to work together with the socialist leadership. Don't be a lib.
Employers, like all citizens in the United States, have the right to free speech. Although employers cannot prevent unions from soliciting to their employees or punish employees for supporting a union, employers can express their disproval of labor unions to employees. Employers can explain to workers why they dislike unions and how unionization might affect the company. Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935- This Act secures workers’ abilities to bargain as a group instead of individually. The NLRA prohibits employers from firing and disciplining workers for trying to organize labor! For the most part, employers cannot ban or discriminate against pro-union employees. If the employees want to be represented by a Union, they are free to make that choice. Employers must negotiate in collective bargaining if requested Both sides must negotiate in good faith, meaning that neither party can intentionally behave badly during negotiations Employers cannot prevent employees from organizing Employers cannot prohibit signs or symbols promoting the union Employers cannot promise or grant benefits to bribe employees Employers should not hold meetings about unions in a supervisor’s office U.S. employers are willing to use a wide range of legal and illegal tactics to frustrate the rights of workers to form unions and collectively bargain. Employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns. And one out of five union election campaigns involves a charge that a worker was illegally fired for union activity. Using more comprehensive measures, employers were charged with illegally firing workers in nearly a third (29.6%) of all NLRB-supervised elections, a violation of NLRA Section 8(a)(3)! Employers are charged with violating NLRA Section 8(a)(1) by making threats, engaging in surveillance activities, coercing, disciplining, changing work terms, threatening to remove benefits, threatening to close plants, questioning employees about their union activities or membership, spying or pretending to spy on union gatherings, granting wage increases deliberately timed to discourage employees from forming or joining a union, retaliating or harassing workers in nearly a third of all union election campaigns! Employers were more likely to be charged with violating the law where there were larger bargaining units. More than half (54.4%) of employers in elections involving more than 60 employees (roughly 25% of elections) were charged with violating federal law. Beyond this, there are many things employers can do legally to thwart union organizing; employers spend roughly $340 million annually on “union avoidance” consultants to help them stave off union elections. This combination of illegal conduct and legal coercion has ensured that union elections are characterized by employer intimidation and in no way reflect the democratic process guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act. www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/coercion-of-employees-section-8b1a Far more U.S. workers want unions than have the benefit of representation today. In 2018, only 6.4% of private-sector workers were union members (BLS 2019). That stands in stark contrast to the nearly half (48%) of all nonunion workers who say they would vote for a union if given the opportunity-a 50% higher share than when a similar survey was taken in 1995 (Kochan et al. 2018). When workers are able to win union representation and collectively bargain, their wages, benefits, and working conditions improve. On average, a worker covered by a union contract earns 13.2% more than a peer with similar education, occupation, and experience in a nonunionized workplace in the same sector. Union workers are more likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance, and their employers contribute more toward those plans. They are also more likely to have paid vacation and sick leave. Union workers are more likely to have retirement plans, with their employers contributing more toward those plans than comparable nonunion employers do. Unions also create safer workplaces. And union workers are covered by due process protections, so that, unlike nonunion workers in the U.S., union workers cannot be fired “at will,” with no warning and for almost any reason.
Yeah! He helped the religious Jews in ww2 quite a lot didn't he? Just as he helps all other innocent deaths that occur in a random fashion every second. But hey, they should be glad, they're in heaven now!
what a crazy world in that word that was too so thanks but no thanks and thank god there's no god or fallen angel I can find next door to smite us worse than a virus or a volcano to muck up whatever good we can squeeze out of what we got like a happy ending or just a good regular flick or two and there's the rub
@@1911olympic That only proves that the devil is real. We are victims of other people's free will when they used their free will to steal, kill, and destroy. God does not violate our free will. God is proven by numerous accounts of seemingly supernatural accounts of so many of those Jews being saved when they called out to God. Forced socialism/communism hates free will, just like the devil hates human free will. We all the free will to fight against what is oppressing us. You have the free will and the right to fight against the forced capitalism that oppresses you and I have the free will and the right to fight against the forced communism that oppresses me. But under God we do not have the right to force ourselves on anyone else. We do not have the right to be a business owner that pays poverty wages. Neither do we have the right to force people to work where and when they don't want to work as I have seen and read has happened every time communism has been enforced.
"Trade unions are a school of communism. -Vladimir Lenin" Vladimir Lenin made unions an integral part of the “people’s republic” he founded in 1917. “Shakedown Socialism” author Oleg Atbashian, a propagandist for the Soviet Union before he migrated the United States in 1994, writes that in the Soviet Union, “organized labor was part of the official establishment and union membership was universal and mandatory” and “that system’s seemingly magnanimous goals - fairness, economic equality and social justice - in real life brought forth a rigged game of wholesale corruption, forced inequality and grotesque injustice.” Hmm, sounds a lot like what unions have inflicted upon the United States: wholesale corruption as many union chapters have historically acted as fronts for organized crime; forced inequality as unionized public employees out-earn their counterparts in the private sector; grotesque injustice as greedy unions strong-armed lavish salaries and benefits for themselves that bust the budgets of entire states, forcing non-union folks to suffer higher taxes and fewer services.
As an older gentleman that was brought here to the states from a European country at 5yrs of age in 1965 via ship. I grew up here and still living here in the Boston area ever since. I did make it to college but was never a high level student who majored in Economics after changing majors from marketing. Got a degree but barely average at best. While in college I was a registered republican for a long time after graduation. While in college taking some union/management courses I always seem to favor management and basically against the union position. Being fed up with the GOP and not in favor of the democratic party I switched affiliations to independent in later life. Basically and presently I'm against both prevailing parties but also never ever though of myself as a Marxist. But since getting acquainted to your UA-cam videos a couple of months ago I've been very interested in listening to you and your talking points. So here I am eagerly waiting for your next video. Thanks for your enlightenment in this subject matter.
wait this is awesome. good on you for keeping your mind open !
Solidarity forever ✊🏻union Strong 💪 Chicago carpenters local 10 ❤️125 years building Chicago 🇺🇸✌️
solidarity 💪
I'm a brother out of an NYC local. It's a shame to see a large number of members not understand the very essence of our union
Solidarity Forever✊ Working People's Power!
@@subtlesleuth873 Sad... I guess they see the union as an outside body providing a service instead of being their own vessel for emancipation? There is no magic pill we got to agitate, educate and organize.. my feeling is that once coworkers really feel their power at the grassroot, once they understand their power come from their own labor and being organized like a block, only then they see the union as themselves
Lol
"You can have a democracy, or you can have a system with high concentrations of wealth, but you cannot have both."
Have a peanut.
Well said
Democracy is nigh impossible, if the masses are apathetic or careless about their issues. American life is bent on materialism, rather than their own mental or spiritual wellbeing. Social media emphasizes the notion that you should buy "this" or "that" to feel happy.
Corporate society is dominant not only in the economic levels, but also in our culture and social beliefs. Which is why many Americans fall for this silly "American Dream" concept.
Prof. Wolff,
I appreciate your efforts but don't make the debate dirty by discussing the subject of workers & labours( W & L) with socialism & communism.
W & L are pious class and very respectable & self-reliant community. They are not complaining, blaming & crying by seating on the shoulders of the people who carries their weight, which Communists are doing.Socialism is a refined ward of communism,i.e. will not robe but will cheat only, which the cunning politicians are already attending in the world excusing communism.
@@betweentheline801 Eat shit you sad gullible brainwashed moron.
Unions are absolutely crucial for a democratic society that truly includes and is accountable to everyone. You simply cannot anything more than the veneer of democracy when the economic structures and relationships that all people are immersed in are undemocratic, when ordinary working people have no say in the decisions of the wealthy oligarchy that tremendously affects their lives. Unions give them that say, and for a country that prides itself on checks and balances in government, it's surprising that it's so apathetic and even antagonistic to having checks and balances in the economic sphere of life.
True, but we can also have socialism
Thank you for expanding my awareness. Have to rewind and replay for what did not sink in the first go round. That you cut to the core, emphasize, and align your body-mind-speech is absorbing and effective. Appreciate your videos.
Thanks, Professor Wolff. The knowledge you bring us is vital for the moment we are going through.
"They Don't Care About US" - Michael Joseph Jackson
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To all that attempt to discredit professor Wolff by asking him trick-questions: you can do it, but be sure he'll use it well as an excellent opportunity to disprove your point and to prove his point. Why? Because he's honest, he's smart, he's straightforward and, last but not least, he is absolutely right.
Wolff discredits himself, and he doesn't answer questions unless they are pre-screened, and he
certainly doesn't answer questions posed here.
This question was a "perfect softball", since he has already answered it many times. ( and clearly
the questioner had missed the previous videos on it so it was a "rinse and repeat"exercise. )
Questioning the "narrative" is easy, as you should know, since the best you had was "troll" to
the question asked elsewhere.
Any proof?
@@1911olympic Try reading the actual question that was asked...what more PROOF do you need????
ua-cam.com/video/ppN3LxNTv4I/v-deo.html&lc=Ugx_INhCBaXTVtRuTEV4AaABAg.9D6o2FyGhq89DOcMJ3U2lb
You can start with the above link, and then do the same with every "ask Prof Wolff" question....
@@jgalt308 I did. However it doesn't give me any reason to change my statement. Of course Prof. Wolff is a dangerous enemy for the reactionaries, because the know he is honest, smart, wise and he is right. Furthermore he is popular for these reasons. A impressive enemy for the reactionaries. Reason to fight him with all means, like you do. You won't succeed. Why? Because he is honest, smart, wise and very right. And now I'll close this discussion and spend my energy elsewhere.
@@1911olympic Which just demonstrates that you possess no ability to reason...and Wolff is not anyone's enemy,
and is essentially irrelevant with a minor following in his own right, and he gets a bump from similar voices due to
his "anti-capitalist" rant and his doom and gloom predictions for the fiat/inflationary model he really doesn't
understand and the oligarchical corruption of government it has resulted in.
Predictions regarding the collapse of the present system are essentially mainstream, so there is nothing
unique in this message...and further complicated by the overblown reaction to a non existent epidemic,
which has further exacerbated the failure to resolve the previous crash correctly by letting the banks an institutions
responsible for it FAIL, which would have happened if the system were truly capitalistic.
So he is not honest, nor smart, nor wise, nor right...and since all you have is babble, you should save your
energy and spare us these irrelevant ramblings, as should Wolff as he is nothing more than a distraction
and a misdirection from the true source of the problem which began on March 9, 1933.
PJ McGuire the founder of my union(United Brotherhood of Carpenters) was a member of the Socialist Workers Party
Local 714 UBC!
Another masterclass from comrade wolff
Unions have become stagnant. They need to get shaken up from below. It's up to the membership to turn them around.
Proud to be a 21 year teamster!!
Fortunately we here in Austria (Central Europe) had a very strong socialist government after WW1 already : for the first time workers and other poor families had access to healthy housing and even washhouses collectively in each housing unit with the most modern equipment and this up from 1919 until now. I look back to this "red era" with nostalgia. Health service was great and is free of charges until now. "Neoliberalism" is now haunting and I look confidently to the socialist transformation of the USA. This is really critical for the whole world and I strongly support it. Professor Wolff your voice is so important and gives hope to the whole planet. Change is so necessary for all of us. Otherwise the profit hunting system will devour us all. Let's stop this nightmare now.
We cannot forget Eugene V. Debs, Big Bill Hayward, Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Big players in the creation of the industrial union the Industrial Workers of the World. Daniel De Leon pushed it further with the concept of the Socialist Industrial Union Program in which labor would take hold of the means of production and create an economic labor administration (people who are elected from each department to socially plan the economy) and do away with the political state through the ballot box.
Professor Wolff. You are doing an amazing job. Thank you so incredibly much for your work.
Don't let the trolls get to you. Even if they are horribly wrong they will simply try to wear you down and exhaust you.
I live in Canada now. Left China twenty years ago. Based on my own over 10 year experiences as a "union" staff in a state owned company in China (1988 - 1999), I can tell you my take on this. I don't believe there is real legal independent union that represents workers in China. Currently there are some efforts by workers trying to organize independent unions, but their efforts trying to organize independent union free from the goverent control, have been crushed ruthlessly by the government. I personally know one "illegal" underground labour organizer who has been put in jail by the Chinese police. Actually today union staff in any state owned company, are still being considered as employees of the company as I was one of them over twenty years ago.
Thank you for your factual comment.The instant this clown said Denmark is socialist,I assumed he's a propaganda brainwasher. I always tell people to talk to those who actually lived it to get the facts. Not those like Bernie and AOC, who barely know the definition,live the most extreme capitalist lifestyle, and try to convince us they are experts at socialism.they are clueless. I prefer to speak to people like yourself and others who lived it and suffered horribly,under a system that never once succeeded.
We have very strong unions here in Denmark as should all countries , we the workers create the wealth of the elite hence we need strong unions to make sure we are getting our piece of the pie.Six weeks paid holiday ,4% paid into our pension.
you do know your country is mixed economy,not socialist?
Excellent, Dr. Wolff!!
Wolff is a consummate educator. Howard Zinn's _A People's History of the United States_ is a terrific read for those interested in the subject without mainstream censorship.
Always great prof!
That was dope!
The fact is that there has never been a totally true socialist/communist state. We don't know how it would work, if at all, in this modern world. Whereas, we had capitalist states with many different political/social forms and we know its flaws and weaknesses and we are able to deal with them.
the fact that there are about 200 countries in the world,and there are only a measly 5 commie countries left,and people in those 5 are rising up against it, is all I need to know how well socialism works. 🤮
Пламенный привет. С канала Семина зашел, которому интервью давали.
I hate unions!
Well cancel your social security
never take a lunch break
your shift now is 12-18 hours long now
no more minimum wage now well pay you $.03 an hour.
you have a child, too bad work or quit and starve
Or just stand on your own two feet as an individual and get paid based on merit, your choice & for what it's worth I do not "hate" unions and recognize the good done buy them in the past but me personally I'm not interested in collectivism.
@ RICHARD ,go on mate carry on Spot on from Liverpool Merseyside UK 🤣🤣🤣😂
There's a utopian way of thinking about socialism, and it's not just on the left. I find a lot of centrist and right wing people also expect socialism to be perfect, either because they look at old slogans and platforms and don't know any of the contexts they were made in, or they are just being duplicitous and playing into this image of wild eyed promises by revolutionaries to immediately fix all our problems in a day, instead delivering something often claimed to be actually worse than before
Revolutionaries have over promised and under delivered, but we've also done the opposite.
I think workers are understandably fed up with politics, and the Cold War kinda thinking that amplifies all the faults, hides all the successes, and removes all context of socialist politics, and just hammers into people's brains that since socialism isn't perfect, it's not worthwhile. If unions don't directly run industries but are instead a part of a bigger civil society and has to negotiate with other parts of society, then that's proof socialism is built on a lie. If workers in socialism go on strike, that's more proof. If strikes are typically formally illegal, even more proof.
American socialists don't have to adopt the laws of other countries, but we have to understand where they came from beyond "stalinist authoritarianism." and we have to go out of our way to learn the nuance of a socialist country. Strikes are illegal in China, but apparently the Chinese government usually, in the vast majority of cases, sides with strikers. Something similar played out in Russia during the Civil War. Most strikes were about the generally terrible conditions people were in, due to world War 1 and the Civil War. But some railway workers went on strike because they knew how important they were to the war effort and just wanted more money.
Socialists have typically wanted to incorporate a single, mass union into the government as a part of democracy and workers power. Rather than pursue strikes as means to solve disputes, the hope is we can solve issues through discussion, like how the capitalist ruling class does in Congress. Obviously, this isn't perfect, because it can't be, it has people in it. But it is better than what we have now? And do we have to outlaw strikes?
Gene Sharp and color revolutions should be well known to leftists, and if you don't know him, look him up. Marcy Smith wrote some good stuff about him. What Sharp innovated was the use of nonviolent actions to provoke a "dictatorship" into either heavy handed actions, or paralysis. Sharp wasn't some libertarian leftist, he worked in an Ivy League think tank with the intelligence and defense industries. Sharp's methods involve using a neoliberal vanguard, loyal to capitalism, to seize hold of a legitimate popular protest movement, and to direct it, using populist and leftist slogans, towards demolishing a "dictatorship," which is any country with any semblance of national sovereignty, publicly owned industry, or outright socialist policies.
This includes using independent labor activism, outside the officially recognized union, to cause a crisis that will bring neoliberal counter revolution and the ultimate demise of all workers power. This puts any country outside of NATO at risk of effectively being overthrown, not by a more open and grassroots based workers government, but the exact opposite.
Ever wonder why the Arab Spring, HK uprising, Venezuela or Bolivian opposition get such glowing reports in the same media that tells us permanent war and austerity are just the natural state of things?
Thanks for this
When I was in the union apprenticeship they told us to vote Democrat but I still voted split ballot.... I vote for the person not a party
we need unions
Why don't unions work together? Why don't they recruit new members for ALL unions? Why don't European unions help U.S. unions? Why isn't there more solidarity?
IF ROOSEVELT WAS LIVING, HE WOULDN'T LET THIS BE, NO - They Don't Care About Us (written & composed by Michael Jackson).
@Jordan B. Peterson's Pet Communist Lobster Nah,
He became RICH and thus changed class without knowing it himself.
If the mention of FDR in a Michael Jackson song released in 1994 (!) does not convince you that he was class conscious, then listen to another song written by him called MONEY. Listen closely around the 03:18 mark. There is a reason he was made out to be a freak. He was a dangerous artist that needed to be discredited and ridiculed. Peace
@@kassandrarichard3565 Yeah, he was a racist-hypocrite, singing about "it don't matter if you're black or white", then he has his skin color changed. "Oh it was a rare disease" LOL! It was a delusion of grandeur.
Unions are complicit in Capitalism.
You are right. Most modern unions are extremely moderate, and generally don't see themselves as opposed to the bosses (see themselves as working towards a common goal) and certainly not the state or the system (though they will say some nice things against the government when the nominal right wing party is in power). We need a modern unionism movement that can foresee a future beyond capitalism.
@@justinszabo5205 I disagree. Capitalism isn't the problem; its the corruption that started with corporate person-hood. We need to abolish it. No system is going to work when it's corrupt; we just need to nip the corruption in the bud. If we have to do it with a national labor union, then that's what we need to be working towards; each of us, using whatever means available, to achieve it. Once the new democracy is in place, by unionizing every job and connecting the unions, we'll vote for what we deserve; strike for, and get it.
We need unions in the gaming industry!
Organize The People There! Be a Leader!😀
They use it to climb up.... then they dump the latter once they reach the top. A clear, century long pattern of behavior.
But isn't that the same with capitalism? It seems to me that both have the same results with some powerful individuals taking charge and ruining the whole thing?
@@kellharris2491 Yeah
Without elements of Socialism, even the less than bare minimum level the US has, life, honestly, would not be worth living. You would just be mindless husk living to work and working to live.
The wisest thing that should be on every individual's list is Investing in different streams of income that don't depend on the government to bring money especially now the pandemic is hitting the economy pretty hard, making money from the comfort zone of one's home will be the best and safest thing to do now
You're absolutely right 💯👍
Waiting for the government to provide is just a big waste of time
Investments are the stepping stones to success
Investing is good but investing in the right things is the actual key to success
There are so many Investments out there but if profit must be considered, then not all those Investment are good to go into and not all can withstand the test of time.
America should miss the AFL cio
There’s the problem with liberalism right there - dismissing “silly polarities” without understanding the biological determinism of human tribalism causing them - which is bad science, including remaining willfully ignorant, primarily because such contrarian and deterministic information conflicts with relying on the tactic of making appeals to reason, which are hoped to expediently and rationally achieve the leftist political agenda of working class solidarity. Meanwhile, human tribalism remains determined by in-group and out-group identities, fealty to authority, national exceptionalism, national innocence, and regressive reactionary authoritarian instincts that aren’t determined by reason, other than by the reason of nature in service to reproducing the biological phenomenon of human tribalism.
Far beyond simply manufacturing consent for capital, liberalism manufactures consent for the entire Western experiment, which is a system of structural violence that suspends the paleo-conservative hegemony of white Christian nationalist tribalism and their fascist synthesis with capital and corporations over the multiracial multicultural working class. The corporate capture of government belies the structural synthesis between the paleo-conservative state with capital, which capture represents the authoritarian prosecution of capital and infliction of structural violence to become so egregious that it destroys the mythology, propaganda, and illusions that formerly manufactured consent for capital, including the system they intended to rule over. This authoritarian escalation and war on labor culminates in late stage vulture capitalism, and inflicting fascism to maintain “law and order,” which is code for clinging to power in a failed state through outright violence, and retaining the state monopoly on violence by blaming everyone except the state and capital as criminals and terrorists. Nevertheless, because of tribal instincts, the human condition always defaults to reorganizing through identitarian politics into new formations of subdivided tribalism, where each begin repeating the cycle over again.
The American Crisis will not be allowed to self-organize into secular egalitarian working class solidarity; labor will be co-opted by self-interested identitarian politics, misinformed and misdirected by the media, right-wing dog whistles will foment fear and hate, and liberals will feed as tribalism does off demonizing the other side, and repeating the lesser of two evils to kick the can down dystopian road. The American Crisis will be reined in by authoritarian apparatus, including subjected to a new system of technofascist oppression that maintains paleo-conservative hegemony - or - the 245 year-old now embarrassingly imperfect union will break apart, and fragment along regional and partisan lines. Enlightenment ideals that are asserted to be implemented in the Western experiment identify the advocates of liberty and freedom as the first authoritarian theocratic right-wingers to show up in defense of god, guns, and nationalism, just as they did 245 years ago. In addition, where capital and opulent minority oligarchy has waged a relentless war on democracy to render it as illusion and mythology, where electoral reform performs their own pubic acceptance eulogy’s before retiring to the happy hunting grounds of the status quo.
Solutions to the human condition subject to the Anthropocene, 6th mass biodiversity extinction, and climate catastrophe, will require an internal appeal to reason among those with reason, including a cognitive-based intervention to nature’s discredited authoritarian instincts. That intervention will resemble science-based systems-based eco-socialism, which reverse engineers Homo sapiens in sustainable homeostasis with environmental determinism. Victory will be hard-won by furious leftists bracing their limp wrists, and transpire according to nature’s winner-take-all battlefield that The Authoritarians play on, while competing in the evolutionary arms race.
I can't argue with any that.
For anyone who wants to watch the best video I've ever seen on the topic of tribalism.
See: Tribalism by TheraminTrees ua-cam.com/video/Cx4GvzjRMx8/v-deo.html
@@Mavrik9000 Thanks for the positive feedback! I’ll check the link out - looking forward to it. Cheers~
10 intelligent minutes...
Unless we wish to destroy each other we must implement a permanent UBI now! Then we can transition to a RBE. Also support the Money Free Party and The Venus Project so we can finally go beyond politics poverty and war.
Destiny...
Remember the USSR?
Me neither🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Sorry, but calling Denmark and Portugal socialist yet trying to somehow paint China as less socialist because they often work tightly with the government is quite ridiculous. There's a huge difference in the the relationship between government and unions in a bourgeois dictatorship like Denmark and Portugal and a proletarian dictatorship like China. In a bourgeois society, unions are a counterweight to government and must necessarily be independent and fight against capitalist leadership. In a proletarian society, unions serve to complement the government and enable adequate representation of workers in politics and the whole point is to work together with the socialist leadership. Don't be a lib.
Can Wolff do a video on the right wing unions and the the parts of the working class that’s stupidly anti communist?
Stupidly? lol What a hypocrite!
Unions are great. You can get paid well for doing very little work, along with making it difficult to fire you, even if you're terrible
Sort of like a CEO then
Employers, like all citizens in the United States, have the right to free speech. Although employers cannot prevent unions from soliciting to their employees or punish employees for supporting a union, employers can express their disproval of labor unions to employees. Employers can explain to workers why they dislike unions and how unionization might affect the company.
Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935- This Act secures workers’ abilities to bargain as a group instead of individually. The NLRA prohibits employers from firing and disciplining workers for trying to organize labor! For the most part, employers cannot ban or discriminate against pro-union employees. If the employees want to be represented by a Union, they are free to make that choice.
Employers must negotiate in collective bargaining if requested
Both sides must negotiate in good faith, meaning that neither party can intentionally behave badly during negotiations
Employers cannot prevent employees from organizing
Employers cannot prohibit signs or symbols promoting the union
Employers cannot promise or grant benefits to bribe employees
Employers should not hold meetings about unions in a supervisor’s office
U.S. employers are willing to use a wide range of legal and illegal tactics to frustrate the rights of workers to form unions and collectively bargain. Employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns. And one out of five union election campaigns involves a charge that a worker was illegally fired for union activity. Using more comprehensive measures, employers were charged with illegally firing workers in nearly a third (29.6%) of all NLRB-supervised elections, a violation of NLRA Section 8(a)(3)! Employers are charged with violating NLRA Section 8(a)(1) by making threats, engaging in surveillance activities, coercing, disciplining, changing work terms, threatening to remove benefits, threatening to close plants, questioning employees about their union activities or membership, spying or pretending to spy on union gatherings, granting wage increases deliberately timed to discourage employees from forming or joining a union, retaliating or harassing workers in nearly a third of all union election campaigns! Employers were more likely to be charged with violating the law where there were larger bargaining units. More than half (54.4%) of employers in elections involving more than 60 employees (roughly 25% of elections) were charged with violating federal law. Beyond this, there are many things employers can do legally to thwart union organizing; employers spend roughly $340 million annually on “union avoidance” consultants to help them stave off union elections. This combination of illegal conduct and legal coercion has ensured that union elections are characterized by employer intimidation and in no way reflect the democratic process guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act.
www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/coercion-of-employees-section-8b1a
Far more U.S. workers want unions than have the benefit of representation today. In 2018, only 6.4% of private-sector workers were union members (BLS 2019). That stands in stark contrast to the nearly half (48%) of all nonunion workers who say they would vote for a union if given the opportunity-a 50% higher share than when a similar survey was taken in 1995 (Kochan et al. 2018). When workers are able to win union representation and collectively bargain, their wages, benefits, and working conditions improve. On average, a worker covered by a union contract earns 13.2% more than a peer with similar education, occupation, and experience in a nonunionized workplace in the same sector. Union workers are more likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance, and their employers contribute more toward those plans. They are also more likely to have paid vacation and sick leave. Union workers are more likely to have retirement plans, with their employers contributing more toward those plans than comparable nonunion employers do. Unions also create safer workplaces. And union workers are covered by due process protections, so that, unlike nonunion workers in the U.S., union workers cannot be fired “at will,” with no warning and for almost any reason.
Vote Kamala if you want America to become a Union 😅
F4WP
No where to run. The world has gone crazy. Read God's word
Yeah! He helped the religious Jews in ww2 quite a lot didn't he? Just as he helps all other innocent deaths that occur in a random fashion every second. But hey, they should be glad, they're in heaven now!
what a crazy world in that word that was too so thanks but no thanks and thank god there's no god or fallen angel I can find next door to smite us worse than a virus or a volcano to muck up whatever good we can squeeze out of what we got like a happy ending or just a good regular flick or two and there's the rub
@@1911olympic That only proves that the devil is real. We are victims of other people's free will when they used their free will to steal, kill, and destroy. God does not violate our free will. God is proven by numerous accounts of seemingly supernatural accounts of so many of those Jews being saved when they called out to God. Forced socialism/communism hates free will, just like the devil hates human free will. We all the free will to fight against what is oppressing us. You have the free will and the right to fight against the forced capitalism that oppresses you and I have the free will and the right to fight against the forced communism that oppresses me. But under God we do not have the right to force ourselves on anyone else. We do not have the right to be a business owner that pays poverty wages. Neither do we have the right to force people to work where and when they don't want to work as I have seen and read has happened every time communism has been enforced.
@@abeautifuldayful You then have not yet looked at pure evil in the face. I have.
"Trade unions are a school of communism. -Vladimir Lenin"
Vladimir Lenin made unions an integral part of the “people’s republic” he founded in 1917. “Shakedown Socialism” author Oleg Atbashian, a propagandist for the Soviet Union before he migrated the United States in 1994, writes that in the Soviet Union, “organized labor was part of the official establishment and union membership was universal and mandatory” and “that system’s seemingly magnanimous goals - fairness, economic equality and social justice - in real life brought forth a rigged game of wholesale corruption, forced inequality and grotesque injustice.”
Hmm, sounds a lot like what unions have inflicted upon the United States: wholesale corruption as many union chapters have historically acted as fronts for organized crime; forced inequality as unionized public employees out-earn their counterparts in the private sector; grotesque injustice as greedy unions strong-armed lavish salaries and benefits for themselves that bust the budgets of entire states, forcing non-union folks to suffer higher taxes and fewer services.
I loathe anything communist.
All the social programs he mentioned are garbage