What an eye opener. As an oldie who wasn't. taught all this at school and never got to university it's been an enlightening experience to listen to professor Wolff. I,m trying to catch up on a lifetime of capitalist indoctrination and seeing a different world that I hope my grandchildren and all those young people can change to a fairer system.Good luck to you all
In my home Country Nicaragua 1977 at the University UNAN one semester of Sociology and one semester of Introduction of Economy I learned all Richard is been teaching in his lectures very eye opener. That what surprise the level of ignorance of a chunk of this society ignore all of these facts. Need to follow Noam Chomsky, Howard Zin, Hitchings, Naomy Klein, Gore Vidal you will not be sorry
@Leo I agree. It can be so frustrating to ask a rightist to define a term they just used and they have no definition... just the word. Beyond me to explain it.
This is one the most gentle introductory talks I've heard Dr. Wolff give - think I might use this one to try and ease in some of my more academically minded yet politically reticent friends and acquaintances.
I happened to watch this today, when Bernie suspended his 2020 campaign. :-( I was lucky enough to have been a student in Burlington when Bernie was mayor.
I walked into my local "Sneers" department store and took a look at the clothing department where I saw: Made in Burma, Made in Ceylon, Made in China, Made in Thailand, Made in Indonesia, Made in the Philippines, Made in India, Made in Kenya, Made in Bangladesh and my all time favorite - Made in the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
That's because liberals here want to keep raising the minimum wage. As a business owner you're always looking t minimize your costs to increase profits so that you can open more business ventures that keep people employed and the unemployment rate low. This creates more in taxes so that you can have paved streets, clean communities, more police protection, etc. Wake up people, you are going to have none of this under a communist regime. All you're going to have is the poliburo's boot planted firmly on you're throat.
Back in the good old days when everyone paid taxes including the corporation (bigger people), our roads were paved, our kids had good teachers, the elders had a minimum of care, the workers belonged to unions and got paid living wages.
+Kate M it is sad but true. you don't have the money for that anymore. you collectivly decided that fighting wars and making the elite wealthy beyond imagination is more important then the things you listed. and you as a society apperently still do. the people are the ones with all the power, power you choose to hand over. as long as you do not demand for things to change and are willing to take the power back again if these changes are not implimented you apperently do still agree with what your gouverment does internationally as well as domesticly.
The problem with your analysis is the term people. It is plural. One person or a few persons, as in the coup in Turkey, cannot effect change. If you attempt this, as Chris Hedges often says, you will experience the most intense physical violence against yourself and your peers and continued, intensifying repression. What is needed is a change in values. That cannot come from religions based on the logic of the 1st century, the 5th century, the 10 th century BCE or any other repressive religions. That is the realm of the government that now is acting immorally. I don't know where this change of values will come from, whether from in the US or elsewhere, or from what quarter of thinking. Perhaps Socialism is part of that thinking. Perhaps Progressivism is part of that. Perhaps intellectualism is part of that. Perhaps a respect for the dignity of life will be part of that. Perhaps the individuals in the country will wake up and demand change. What I see now is not hopeful. Any hope for the people to wake up and make change is insane. The people today who want the most amount of change are the ones who want to change the secular world into repressive religious implementation. There are so many problems in the US right now that many of us want to leave and go live on a peaceful South Sea island. If you have the answers, please put some of them out there and help stop this crazy self-destructive path we are on. Do we have to destroy this world before we will wake up to our essential need to heal and redeem the planet from the massive destruction we have inflicted on it?
juli grlee i am talking as a poeple as a whole. I know what happens if you go against the ruling class on your own. The key is education of the people who know they are screwed but do not understand what is screwing them and misdirect their anger, usually against imigrants or gouvernment. Expecting politics at this point to change is naive, and any legislation that makes progress will be undermined by big enterprise with certainty. They did it with the new deal and they will do it again, probably faster as they now know how. The population has to rise up, like has been done in the past around the world. Burn the system to the ground and start fresh. It is the only way to create actual sustainable change and a society where everyone trully is equal and where there is no ruling elite that is able to confiscate wealth and power as they please.
Hey Supernova The population has to assert it's power for sure but total destruction will be a disaster for the most vulnerable, women, children, minorities, the underemployed, the unemployed, the LGBT community and so on. What we need are coalitions that unite the vulnerable so they can assert their power.
In Janesville, WI where GM closed up shop, the city gave them everything they asked for over a ten year period with the threat of closing. Then when they closed the city was stuck with hundreds of vacant houses, a recession in assessed values for twenty years, and vacant buildings and space extremely polluted. If Janesville would have spent the money creating a coop of the workers they could have made cars that sold for $15,000, which would have doubled wages and no-one would have left Janesville chasing GM jobs.
I attended a meeting of the American Communist Party in 1990 in Houston. It was in the warehouse district in a dark building where you had to use a secret knock and a tiny door opened. There was a Democratic Socialist reading room where I found one person. Six people in total were in the communist meeting- the leader was a Cuban woman. My boyfriend was an economist who carried a red card. Now Bernie is running in 2020. How things change.
I’ve worked in a massive industrial plant before. The plant manager didn’t do a fucking thing in terms of day to day operations. Never saw the guy on the plant floor ever. The plant didn’t need him at all to run. Yet he was payed $140 per hour and the operators who actually did the work were paid $14 per hour. That’s how you know this system is an absolute farce. I’m not saying that managers aren’t necessary or that everyone should make the same. But the disparity between them is ridiculous.
Prof Wolff mentioned that he would have a continuation lecture at Occidental about learning from the past experiements of socialism. Is that lecture also filmed and up on UA-cam? I'd very much like to watch/listen to Professor Wolff's take on how to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
All true, but it wasn't just oversupply of labour that dropped the wage bill for corporations - it was that the cost of living in developing countries is so much lower, and there are no unions to demand living wages there. The oversupply probably keeps the wages low, until the vast majority of workers in the developing world organise and unionise - and that may never happen!
I mean, he was right in that 2016 was a year of massive change. The people in the country wanted change in any way they could get it. Unfortunately, the Democrats, per usual had their heads up their collective asses and instead of nominating Bernie Sanders like they should have, they ran an establishment candidate against the radical (Trump) and lost. And now we continue to deal with the fallout.
I was a member of a worker owned coop for 12 years. Some people were involved and worked hard others just went along for the free ride. Some had experience they brought to the table others had none yet everyone got the same benefit. Without incentive and reward for hard work people got burnt out resentful and left.
It doesn't always work. I have to hope it works other times. Thing is, I bet those freeloaders in your coop made off with a lot less than the thieves at the top of corporations make off with. I'm just thinking here, I'm sorry it didn't work out for you and the others putting in the work.
Sounds like a quote from Atlas Shrugged. The author died broke and on social welfare. firing people for not doing their job is not a "Co-op" problem. Perhaps you got the wrong management structure?
The March 1st Texas Primary Shows Massive Suppression Of Voting By Mail. One of the most important rights of American citizens is the “franchise”. It our right to vote. That right has come under fire in Texas by the republican controlled Texas legislature that purposefully made voting more difficult, especially voting by mail. It is difficult to admit, but for the first time since I reached voting age, I did not vote in a primary. I had eye surgery scheduled for that day and it could not be changed. When I tried to order my vote by mail ballot, I became submerged in a confusing and contradictory maze of instructions that I knew were designed to suppress voting by mail. Since Texas has separate primary ballots for democrats and republicans, I chose to entrust the outcome of the democratic primary to my democratic brethren. I made this decision after reading the instructions. It became crystal clear that the new vote by mail guidelines were guaranteed to create massive compliance failures in urban counties and on March 1st, my fears were realized. In Texas, over 23,000 mail in ballots were rejected. In my home county of Harris, almost 7,000 ballots of that total were rejected for technicalities. This is almost 20% of all rejected mail in votes. During the primary election in 2018, the county only rejected 135 mail in ballots out of more than 48,000. This is less than 0.3%. The culprit is Senate Bill 1 which, in addition to other vote suppression schemes, was designed to suppress voting by mail in larger and more liberal counties. This is how a democratic republic is destroyed from within. We now have proof that voter suppression by The Texas Legislature is real, and it’s a harbinger of things to come as more republican controlled state primaries take their toll on the most basic citizen franchise.
He didn't finish his story about the rich russians heading to the opera aristocracy " then we took everything they had and killed them, lied to ourselves and killed millions based on a lie"
@Dirk Knight Well, since Trump became the US president and lovers with Kim Jong Un I bet the NK people have more access to US networks these days. But you would know about that more than I do, so I won't speculate further.
Capitalism as it is today, i.e. an international band of pirates, is crime against humanity. As much as the former Soviet Union and the countries of the Eastern Block needed capitalist entrepreneurship in order to set things in motion in Russia the United States needs socialist infrastructure to slow down the feeding frenzy and provide a soft cushion for the working people. The earth is a limited globe. To talk about the economic growth is like a doctor, who, after diagnostic, discovers a malignant tumor and does all s-he can to accelerate its growth. You cannot live in a crystal palace surrounded by ghetto.
@martinjanecek4950 He hasn't learned that ignorance is bliss. The problem is that the ignorant has an enormous problem with learning. However, capitalist systems that tames pervasive abuses maximize profits disregarding societal humanistic policies should not be denounced, such as socialist democratic governments of North and West Europe.
The disturbing thing is the number of gigglers in the audience. I think this is a matter for dry and black humour, as per R Wolff, but I don’t believe these people get it.
Eleven & a half minutes of introduction?! Richard Wolff needs no introduction, let alone over 11 minutes of it! I wonder how many people quit watching because the intros bored them to death. I can see that a LOT of people knew they could skip forward.
What a shallow introduction by tha New York transplant Ella Turenne. How can she connect Oxy to Highland Park, Eagle Rock, El Sereno, Glassel Park, Echo Park, Frogtown, etc. if she's from New York?
Who and where is the leader who is rising who will help America listen to this tough talk and help the capitalist understand it is their responsibility to help the middle class come back to an affordable living standard. Capitalist are a sneaky group and properly challenged, they know how to help the middle class get back to a comfortable living standard and how to keep their pot continually refilling and getting fatter. Who is the leader on the horizon who has the statesmanship Ava dirksen, the vision of a Goldwater, and the buddy buddy situation that Reagan strike with senior senator Tip O'Neill......... OK all we have now yes Donald J trump and he was misguiding desperately ignorant lovers. So Mr. wolff. No leader to take your hard message to the people and wise them up. Tump and in a few years. America will lose international currency standard. I sure hope the rich leaders of my adopted nation where I now live will be smart enough to hold their economy so that my SSA well still let my family live here. The Republican Party was too busy learning how to rape the American economy and the Democrats were woozy from being hit in the head by the loss of their union donations and the second class dependency on GOP handouts. , OK. Now what?
I don't believe the universities run the loan programs that tie up student debt for 40 years. Plus, funding is consistently being restricted, which is a government issue.
7:18 statistics like this for the state that is by far the largest population in the country are completely idiotic. Do things per capita so you don't look like such a fool
Change ... sorry going back to the failures of socialism is not so much change as a form of cultural degradation one of ever reduced freedoms or ever increased coercive taxation ....Using rhetorical tactic of using one sided economic rationals of state intervention , or the term “capitalism” to foster the always toxic Envy Politics to attack personal freedom and basic HUMAN RIGHTS as found in the UNDHR 1948, including yes PROPERTY RIGHTS is always wrong. Respecting such rights is part of long standing Judeo-Christian culture, as noted in Property Rights protected by the 10 commandments “Thou shall not steal”… even if you belong to the Marxist Religion that places “ Dialectical Materialism” ahead of God- a violation of the first commandment for Judeo-Christians, stealing is still wrong.
What the "Cultural Leftists" or Marxist never tell you is that Marxism Like Christianity, Buddhism, or Hinduism, is a religion, a faith doctrine, belief system, or identity construct. Marxism as a Religion operates, like most religions in a complex and defining context within a host of social fields and human knowledge, Marxist philosophy, Marxist sociology and Marxist aesthetics, art and culture. However unlike, most religions it masquerades as a non-religion, but as a political stance or even as a “science”, a term now rarely used by even Marxists themselves, as the they have been ridiculed for the abuse of the term.
The American economist Joseph E. Schumpeter ( Harvard) stated very clearly the larger truth about Marxism , (and as the observation applies to Cultural Leftism in general) that it is categorically a religion: 'Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and secondly a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.” Deluded people ... always want to save the world ... Just Like Richard Here ... But who will save them from their political delusions ????
@Rachel Landry any time there has ever been a socialist society or regime in power throughout human history, whole populations of humanity have been destroyed. What in the world makes you think socialism on America of all places would be any better? 🤦🏻♂️completely justified.
If you are not happy with the way that businesses are treating your community, why not set up your own business and run it as you think it should be run ? Instead you want to use the political system, and the police, as a weapon to get what you want form someone else.
As if politics and businesses are not connected, also we do start our own business..it’s called worker co ops where workers make the decisions for the workers not the ceos..but politicians who take money from big corporations (lobbying) do their very best to keep co ops from flourishing
He is a typical socialist/communist. He believes that he will be a part of the ruling class, because he has all of the answers. It is an easy-sell to the lazy and haters of the rich who are sick with envy. He never explains why everyone wants to come to the US, legally or illegally.
In Dr. Wolff's video "Lecture on Worker Coops: Theory and Practice of 21st Century Socialism" he claim that under socialism, China, between 1991-2016 has "experienced a more rapid economic development and growth than any capitalist country has ever done before." The problem I have with this statement is that starting in 1978 China started moving to a capitalist economy, which is why they "experienced a more rapid economic development and growth". Here is the true story: has "experienced a more rapid economic development and growth than any capitalist country has ever done before." The problem I have with this statement is that starting in 1978 China started moving to a capitalist economy, which is why they "experienced a more rapid economic development and growth". Here is the true story: Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million people starved to death in China as the result of the largest socialist experiment in history. (maybe the reason that the richest 62 people in the world have more money that the lowest half of the world is that the lowest half of the world isn't capitalistic? Certainly before 1978, 1 billion of those poorest people in China weren't capitalistic, they were socialist.) In 1978, Deng Xiaoping was eager to adopt capitalist methods and reforms in order to stimulate economic growth and restore confidence in the party. According to official World Bank figures, the percentage of extremely poor people in China in 1981 stood at 88.3%. By 2015 only 0.7% of the Chinese population was living in extreme poverty. In this period, the number of poor people in China fell from 878 million to less than ten million. In 2018 China had 680 billionaires. The party identifies among its core tasks the advancement of the fundamental interest of the greatest majority of Chinese people. Deng, who famously said poverty is not socialism, interpreted this to mean that it was okay if some people needed to get rich to improve the livelihoods of the masses. Since the introduction of his reforms, more than 700 million people have been lifted out of poverty in China. Of course Jack Ma (the co-founder of Alibaba) is a Chinese socialist? That is why he has a net worth of $41.3 billion (with a B). Jack was born to a poor family in China in 1964, when almost 90% of the Chinese were living in extreme poverty. He struggled to go to college. After graduation he applied ten times to Harvard Business School and got rejected each time. how did he get his start? In his own words: "I went for a job with the police; they said, 'you're no good. I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy ...". Good thing he didn't get a job because there is no way for workers to work their way up the ladder. Maybe we should have a wealth tax in this country and give it to the poor, like Liberia, Central African Republic, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger. All of which have an average annual income less than $1,000. Great Chinese Famine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine China's Economic Success Proves the Power of Capitalism www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/08/chinas-economic-success-proves-the-power-of-capitalism/#340c8053b9d7 Why Communist China Is Home to So Many Billionaires fortune.com/2018/11/29/communist-china-billionaires-jack-ma/ I haven't seen this kind of serial liar since Donald Trump.
The chinese famine was caused by a variety of factors that u cannot directly attribute to socialism just as i cannot say that the holocaust was the fault of capitalism even though it operated under that framework. Factors like lenskyo a deeply mistaken soviet scientist, suggesting reforms like deep plowing that only dug up the infertile sand and rock under the rich topsoil. He also had other mistaken ideas abt planting nearer because they discovered that plants with familial relationships would not compete for resources which was not communicated or known at the time. This as well as many other factors like the fact that the local governments wouldnt report the famine caused the central government to not know what was happening and not redistribute, in fact at the time china was exporting millions of tons of grain from their more prosperous regions as there was miscommunication on different levels of government. I would also check the source for the number as it seems exaggerated The reforms made by deng were special economic zones. U cannot just look at something and immediately conclude it was because of this or that. The chinese government has a strong grasp over the countries that operate within its borders and has a semi planned economy. If u want an example to the contrary the russian economy completely and utterly bottomed out after the capitalist reforms and reduced the nation from a global superpower to the current russia
Also the current world is all capitalistic. Every year 9million people die of starvation, we can feed 10 billion even with our waste, millions more die of unclean water which we can provide, millions more from preventable diseases. This is a real death toll of capitalism, 15 million every year, 2 holocausts and a half every year, these resources could all be provided.
Also as he mentions the soviet union under a centrally planned economy had the most growth and the boom and bust cycles of capitalism and crisies of overproduction where the people dont have enough to buy all the products happen and if ur retort is just 10 million billion people died therefore its bad i cannot accept that as a legitimate argument. If u want to argue from history u have to know the history, i cant just say that manifest destiny happened in a capitalistic economy and therefore conclude capitalism means killing native tribes, also in china there are a bunch of worker coops too
@@andrewliu8048 No one says the holocaust was caused by capitalism. But you could say the holocaust was caused by Hitler and his antisemitic polices. Likewise you could say that the Chinese famine was directly caused by Mao and his strict communist policies. Both were caused by totalitarian states, just as the mass governmental murders in soviet Russia under Stalin. To a large degree the famine was caused by Mao's insistence on people to produce steel which prevented farmers from tending to their crops. Under democratic capitalism, people would be free to chose the best use of their resources for themselves. Success or failure would be up to the individual. Russia under years of communism was not prepared for capitalism. Factories that were under central control under communism were suddenly without leadership. That is why "entrepreneurs" (corrupt businessman) could go to these factories and buy a MIG 25 for a case of vodka. That is why capitalism didn't work in post soviet Russia, until they started to figure it out.
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What an eye opener. As an oldie who wasn't. taught all this at school and never got to university it's been an enlightening experience to listen to professor Wolff. I,m trying to catch up on a lifetime of capitalist indoctrination and seeing a different world that I hope my grandchildren and all those young people can change to a fairer system.Good luck to you all
I am a current student and they still don't teach anything this. Everything he says makes perfect sense.
I remember being really shocked when I realized how one sided my education had been as well
Thanks POPS 1 LOVE. We will get a hold of things.
kerrykeel16 changung? ha ha ha ..... ha. dream about it.
In my home Country Nicaragua 1977 at the University UNAN one semester of Sociology and one semester of Introduction of Economy I learned all Richard is been teaching in his lectures very eye opener. That what surprise the level of ignorance of a chunk of this society ignore all of these facts. Need to follow Noam Chomsky, Howard Zin, Hitchings, Naomy Klein, Gore Vidal you will not be sorry
Gosh I am always so impressed with Dr Wolff's perspective.
Aye, his speeches are almost always different, the watermark of a true intellectual.
@Leo I agree. It can be so frustrating to ask a rightist to define a term they just used and they have no definition... just the word. Beyond me to explain it.
You are not alone
I regard him the massenger of Marx in an age which is all ears and eyes to the greatest person ever walked on the earth
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@11:15 to skip straight to Wolff.
Thanks for that.
Thanks, the blabbering before was really pointless.
This is one the most gentle introductory talks I've heard Dr. Wolff give - think I might use this one to try and ease in some of my more academically minded yet politically reticent friends and acquaintances.
Same
Wow, don't know how I got to listen to this video, but what a lecture!! Highly recommend!
I happened to watch this today, when Bernie suspended his 2020 campaign. :-( I was lucky enough to have been a student in Burlington when Bernie was mayor.
Great lecture as always. Please keep on.
👑 He is great and his Consciousness is great.
I walked into my local "Sneers" department store and took a look at the clothing department where I saw: Made in Burma, Made in Ceylon, Made in China, Made in Thailand, Made in Indonesia, Made in the Philippines, Made in India, Made in Kenya, Made in Bangladesh and my all time favorite - Made in the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
No sneers left now
You can thank Bill Clinton for that, NAFTA delivered cheap goods to the US citizenry, but exported all the good paying jobs.
That's because liberals here want to keep raising the minimum wage. As a business owner you're always looking t minimize your costs to increase profits so that you can open more business ventures that keep people employed and the unemployment rate low. This creates more in taxes so that you can have paved streets, clean communities, more police protection, etc. Wake up people, you are going to have none of this under a communist regime. All you're going to have is the poliburo's boot planted firmly on you're throat.
@@jaimerodriguez8045 you sound like a hopelessly ignorant imbecile. Please go take a nap.
@@Smoothsoulsinger that’s why you had nothing to say but an insult.
Wolff is great, I watch his lectures several times a week
Back in the good old days when everyone paid taxes including the corporation (bigger people), our roads were paved, our kids had good teachers, the elders had a minimum of care, the workers belonged to unions and got paid living wages.
very very sad Kate
+Kate M it is sad but true. you don't have the money for that anymore. you collectivly decided that fighting wars and making the elite wealthy beyond imagination is more important then the things you listed. and you as a society apperently still do.
the people are the ones with all the power, power you choose to hand over. as long as you do not demand for things to change and are willing to take the power back again if these changes are not implimented you apperently do still agree with what your gouverment does internationally as well as domesticly.
The problem with your analysis is the term people. It is plural. One person or a few persons, as in the coup in Turkey, cannot effect change. If you attempt this, as Chris Hedges often says, you will experience the most intense physical violence against yourself and your peers and continued, intensifying repression.
What is needed is a change in values. That cannot come from religions based on the logic of the 1st century, the 5th century, the 10 th century BCE or any other repressive religions. That is the realm of the government that now is acting immorally.
I don't know where this change of values will come from, whether from in the US or elsewhere, or from what quarter of thinking. Perhaps Socialism is part of that thinking. Perhaps Progressivism is part of that. Perhaps intellectualism is part of that. Perhaps a respect for the dignity of life will be part of that. Perhaps the individuals in the country will wake up and demand change.
What I see now is not hopeful. Any hope for the people to wake up and make change is insane. The people today who want the most amount of change are the ones who want to change the secular world into repressive religious implementation.
There are so many problems in the US right now that many of us want to leave and go live on a peaceful South Sea island. If you have the answers, please put some of them out there and help stop this crazy self-destructive path we are on. Do we have to destroy this world before we will wake up to our essential need to heal and redeem the planet from the massive destruction we have inflicted on it?
juli grlee i am talking as a poeple as a whole. I know what happens if you go against the ruling class on your own. The key is education of the people who know they are screwed but do not understand what is screwing them and misdirect their anger, usually against imigrants or gouvernment.
Expecting politics at this point to change is naive, and any legislation that makes progress will be undermined by big enterprise with certainty. They did it with the new deal and they will do it again, probably faster as they now know how.
The population has to rise up, like has been done in the past around the world. Burn the system to the ground and start fresh. It is the only way to create actual sustainable change and a society where everyone trully is equal and where there is no ruling elite that is able to confiscate wealth and power as they please.
Hey Supernova
The population has to assert it's power for sure but total destruction will be a disaster for the most vulnerable, women, children, minorities, the underemployed, the unemployed, the LGBT community and so on. What we need are coalitions that unite the vulnerable so they can assert their power.
Thank you for this! I love him. Learned so much from him truly grateful!
Prof. Wolff starts @ 12:00 mins in.
Its actually 11:31
This tailor KNOWS Professor Wolfe's moves... to reach out and express with his arms.
In Janesville, WI where GM closed up shop, the city gave them everything they asked for over a ten year period with the threat of closing. Then when they closed the city was stuck with hundreds of vacant houses, a recession in assessed values for twenty years, and vacant buildings and space extremely polluted. If Janesville would have spent the money creating a coop of the workers they could have made cars that sold for $15,000, which would have doubled wages and no-one would have left Janesville chasing GM jobs.
So why didn't they do that?
I attended a meeting of the American Communist Party in 1990 in Houston. It was in the warehouse district in a dark building where you had to use a secret knock and a tiny door opened. There was a Democratic Socialist reading room where I found one person. Six people in total were in the communist meeting- the leader was a Cuban woman. My boyfriend was an economist who carried a red card. Now Bernie is running in 2020. How things change.
How is the Cosmic Arts Astrological Services company doing? You literally sound like a dirty hippy who had a trust fund.
That tiny door was really last concert cafe.
Who is a communist you liable people. So you should work in a supermarket. Putting prices on items
Bernie is a joke and fake
You all in comments are smarter than people I talk to. It is encouraging to see smart comments.
Work in corporate America for a few years and you will see that this guy is speaking straight facts.
Not every day you see Puerto Rico mentioned in something like this. I feel seen as hell
Seen, but not represented!
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Hi Hector, thanks.
Awesome!
Richard Wolfe for president
41:32 "self-made industrialist ... no such thing" Amen, Dr Wolff!!
I’ve worked in a massive industrial plant before. The plant manager didn’t do a fucking thing in terms of day to day operations. Never saw the guy on the plant floor ever. The plant didn’t need him at all to run. Yet he was payed $140 per hour and the operators who actually did the work were paid $14 per hour. That’s how you know this system is an absolute farce. I’m not saying that managers aren’t necessary or that everyone should make the same. But the disparity between them is ridiculous.
Hector Villagra is an awesome parent and husband.
Flint is absolutely NOT a suburb of Detroit, its 60 miles away!
came for the knowledge, left cus his geography is off.
Anyone else here in 2022?
Yeah.
Prof Wolff mentioned that he would have a continuation lecture at Occidental about learning from the past experiements of socialism. Is that lecture also filmed and up on UA-cam? I'd very much like to watch/listen to Professor Wolff's take on how to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
All true, but it wasn't just oversupply of labour that dropped the wage bill for corporations - it was that the cost of living in developing countries is so much lower, and there are no unions to demand living wages there. The oversupply probably keeps the wages low, until the vast majority of workers in the developing world organise and unionise - and that may never happen!
Oh, my goodness!!
I'm interested to know of Dr. Wolff's optimism from '16 holds or is squashed, or only diminished.
I mean, he was right in that 2016 was a year of massive change. The people in the country wanted change in any way they could get it. Unfortunately, the Democrats, per usual had their heads up their collective asses and instead of nominating Bernie Sanders like they should have, they ran an establishment candidate against the radical (Trump) and lost. And now we continue to deal with the fallout.
Great stuff
I was a member of a worker owned coop for 12 years. Some people were involved and worked hard
others just went along for the free ride. Some had experience they brought to the table others had none
yet everyone got the same benefit. Without incentive and reward for hard work people got burnt out
resentful and left.
It doesn't always work. I have to hope it works other times. Thing is, I bet those freeloaders in your coop made off with a lot less than the thieves at the top of corporations make off with. I'm just thinking here, I'm sorry it didn't work out for you and the others putting in the work.
Sounds like a quote from Atlas Shrugged. The author died broke and on social welfare.
firing people for not doing their job is not a "Co-op" problem. Perhaps you got the wrong management structure?
People who dislike this are literally have no reason lmfao
The March 1st Texas Primary Shows Massive Suppression Of Voting By Mail.
One of the most important rights of American citizens is the “franchise”. It our right to vote. That right has come under fire in Texas by the republican controlled Texas legislature that purposefully made voting more difficult, especially voting by mail.
It is difficult to admit, but for the first time since I reached voting age, I did not vote in a primary. I had eye surgery scheduled for that day and it could not be changed.
When I tried to order my vote by mail ballot, I became submerged in a confusing and contradictory maze of instructions that I knew were designed to suppress voting by mail.
Since Texas has separate primary ballots for democrats and republicans, I chose to entrust the outcome of the democratic primary to my democratic brethren.
I made this decision after reading the instructions. It became crystal clear that the new vote by mail guidelines were guaranteed to create massive compliance failures in urban counties and on March 1st, my fears were realized.
In Texas, over 23,000 mail in ballots were rejected. In my home county of Harris, almost 7,000 ballots of that total were rejected for technicalities. This is almost 20% of all rejected mail in votes.
During the primary election in 2018, the county only rejected 135 mail in ballots out of more than 48,000. This is less than 0.3%. The culprit is Senate Bill 1 which, in addition to other vote suppression schemes, was designed to suppress voting by mail in larger and more liberal counties.
This is how a democratic republic is destroyed from within. We now have proof that voter suppression by The Texas Legislature is real, and it’s a harbinger of things to come as more republican controlled state primaries take their toll on the most basic citizen franchise.
Here we are, 6 years later and no one remembers who Sanders was. And Europe is about to destroy itself.
2020 anyone 👀
2021!
Richard Wolff @ 11:28
I'm surprised his still alive..
What the heck is an assistant dean for community engagement??
A communiist organizer.
You can call capitalism anything but do not call it a democratic system because it is not in some countries capitalism is worse than feudalism
that's a nice cup
The guy's a great story teller. We need Paul Harvey to tell the rest of the story.
Please speak somewhere in Alabama sometime. People need to hear it here. So badly.
He didn't finish his story about the rich russians heading to the opera aristocracy " then we took everything they had and killed them, lied to ourselves and killed millions based on a lie"
His yogurt analogy is completely backwards...his ideas are in control of him
Mental mind on socialism go on democracy of capitalism. Do you like wearing jeans in summer on capitalism truths.
Holy shit. I realised I live in a modern socialist society.
FUCK YEAH!
@Dirk Knight Well, since Trump became the US president and lovers with Kim Jong Un I bet the NK people have more access to US networks these days. But you would know about that more than I do, so I won't speculate further.
@Dirk Knight You seem to have mistaken yours as food. Tin is not for consumption, you know?
@Dirk Knight 😂😂😂 bon appétit
Capitalism as it is today, i.e. an international band of pirates, is crime against humanity. As much as the former Soviet Union and the countries of the Eastern Block needed capitalist entrepreneurship in order to set things in motion in Russia the United States needs socialist infrastructure to slow down the feeding frenzy and provide a soft cushion for the working people. The earth is a limited globe. To talk about the economic growth is like a doctor, who, after diagnostic, discovers a malignant tumor and does all s-he can to accelerate its growth. You cannot live in a crystal palace surrounded by ghetto.
Because he is old so people will listen!
All is ok with communism, apparently.
consider therapy
@martinjanecek4950 He hasn't learned that ignorance is bliss. The problem is that the ignorant has an enormous problem with learning. However, capitalist systems that tames pervasive abuses maximize profits disregarding societal humanistic policies should not be denounced, such as socialist democratic governments of North and West Europe.
That’s what you got out of the lecture, huh? Keep being a dipshit, I guess.
The disturbing thing is the number of gigglers in the audience. I think this is a matter for dry and black humour, as per R Wolff, but I don’t believe these people get it.
Eleven & a half minutes of introduction?! Richard Wolff needs no introduction, let alone over 11 minutes of it! I wonder how many people quit watching because the intros bored them to death. I can see that a LOT of people knew they could skip forward.
And WHY do you prevent the video from being saved to watch later?! This isn't a video for children!
What a shallow introduction by tha New York transplant Ella Turenne. How can she connect Oxy to Highland Park, Eagle Rock, El Sereno, Glassel Park, Echo Park, Frogtown, etc. if she's from New York?
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Who and where is the leader who is rising who will help America listen to this tough talk and help the capitalist understand it is their responsibility to help the middle class come back to an affordable living standard. Capitalist are a sneaky group and properly challenged, they know how to help the middle class get back to a comfortable living standard and how to keep their pot continually refilling and getting fatter. Who is the leader on the horizon who has the statesmanship Ava dirksen, the vision of a Goldwater, and the buddy buddy situation that Reagan strike with senior senator Tip O'Neill.........
OK all we have now yes Donald J trump and he was misguiding desperately ignorant lovers. So Mr. wolff. No leader to take your hard message to the people and wise them up. Tump and in a few years. America will lose international currency standard. I sure hope the rich leaders of my adopted nation where I now live will be smart enough to hold their economy so that my SSA well still let my family live here.
The Republican Party was too busy learning how to rape the American economy and the Democrats were woozy from being hit in the head by the loss of their union donations and the second class dependency on GOP handouts. , OK. Now what?
The whole world runs on credit. Blame the university’s for student debt
I don't believe the universities run the loan programs that tie up student debt for 40 years. Plus, funding is consistently being restricted, which is a government issue.
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All ego and no trousers
the Greeks
7:18 statistics like this for the state that is by far the largest population in the country are completely idiotic. Do things per capita so you don't look like such a fool
Change ... sorry going back to the failures of socialism is not so much change as a form of cultural degradation one of ever reduced freedoms or ever increased coercive taxation ....Using rhetorical tactic of using one sided economic rationals of state intervention , or the term “capitalism” to foster the always toxic Envy Politics to attack personal freedom and basic HUMAN RIGHTS as found in the UNDHR 1948, including yes PROPERTY RIGHTS is always wrong.
Respecting such rights is part of long standing Judeo-Christian culture, as noted in Property Rights protected by the 10 commandments “Thou shall not steal”… even if you belong to the Marxist Religion that places “ Dialectical Materialism” ahead of God- a violation of the first commandment for Judeo-Christians, stealing is still wrong.
What the "Cultural Leftists" or Marxist never tell you is that Marxism Like Christianity, Buddhism, or Hinduism, is a religion, a faith doctrine, belief system, or identity construct.
Marxism as a Religion operates, like most religions in a complex and defining context within a host of social fields and human knowledge, Marxist philosophy, Marxist sociology and Marxist aesthetics, art and culture. However unlike, most religions it masquerades as a non-religion, but as a political stance or even as a “science”, a term now rarely used by even Marxists themselves, as the they have been ridiculed for the abuse of the term.
The American economist Joseph E. Schumpeter ( Harvard) stated very clearly the larger truth about Marxism , (and as the observation applies to Cultural Leftism in general) that it is categorically a religion: 'Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and secondly a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.”
Deluded people ... always want to save the world ... Just Like Richard Here ... But who will save them from their political delusions ????
Socialism in America? 🤦🏻♂️
@Rachel Landry any time there has ever been a socialist society or regime in power throughout human history, whole populations of humanity have been destroyed. What in the world makes you think socialism on America of all places would be any better? 🤦🏻♂️completely justified.
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Perhaps a bit too negative
Kids laughing.
Clueless.
If you are not happy with the way that businesses are treating your community, why not set up your own business and run it as you think it should be run ?
Instead you want to use the political system, and the police, as a weapon to get what you want form someone else.
If it isn't the purpose of the government and by extension the police to protect our half of the social contract what is it's purpose?
@@dinnerwithfranklin2451
The silence as a response is downright deafening. Well said.
As if politics and businesses are not connected, also we do start our own business..it’s called worker co ops where workers make the decisions for the workers not the ceos..but politicians who take money from big corporations (lobbying) do their very best to keep co ops from flourishing
Henry Twigger- you sound like an indoctrinated capitalist imbecile. Go take a nap.
He is a typical socialist/communist. He believes that he will be a part of the ruling class, because he has all of the answers. It is an easy-sell to the lazy and haters of the rich who are sick with envy. He never explains why everyone wants to come to the US, legally or illegally.
In Dr. Wolff's video "Lecture on Worker Coops: Theory and Practice of
21st Century Socialism" he claim that under socialism, China, between
1991-2016 has "experienced a more rapid economic development and growth
than any capitalist country has ever done before." The problem I have
with this statement is that starting in 1978 China started moving to a
capitalist economy, which is why they "experienced a more rapid economic
development and growth". Here is the true story:
has "experienced a more rapid economic development and growth than any
capitalist country has ever done before." The problem I have with this
statement is that starting in 1978 China started moving to a capitalist
economy, which is why they "experienced a more rapid economic
development and growth". Here is the true story:
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million people starved to death in China as
the result of the largest socialist experiment in history. (maybe the
reason that the richest 62 people in the world have more money that the
lowest half of the world is that the lowest half of the world isn't
capitalistic? Certainly before 1978, 1 billion of those poorest people
in China weren't capitalistic, they were socialist.)
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping was eager to adopt capitalist methods and reforms
in order to stimulate economic growth and restore confidence in the
party.
According to official World Bank figures, the percentage of extremely
poor people in China in 1981 stood at 88.3%. By 2015 only 0.7% of the
Chinese population was living in extreme poverty. In this period, the
number of poor people in China fell from 878 million to less than ten
million.
In 2018 China had 680 billionaires. The party identifies among its core
tasks the advancement of the fundamental interest of the greatest
majority of Chinese people. Deng, who famously said poverty is not
socialism, interpreted this to mean that it was okay if some people
needed to get rich to improve the livelihoods of the masses. Since the
introduction of his reforms, more than 700 million people have been
lifted out of poverty in China.
Of course Jack Ma (the co-founder of Alibaba) is a Chinese socialist?
That is why he has a net worth of $41.3 billion (with a B). Jack was
born to a poor family in China in 1964, when almost 90% of the Chinese
were living in extreme poverty. He struggled to go to college. After
graduation he applied ten times to Harvard Business School and got
rejected each time. how did he get his start? In his own words: "I went
for a job with the police; they said, 'you're no good. I even went to
KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job.
Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy ...". Good thing he
didn't get a job because there is no way for workers to work their way
up the ladder.
Maybe we should have a wealth tax in this country and give it to the
poor, like Liberia, Central African Republic, Burundi, Democratic
Republic of the Congo and Niger. All of which have an average annual
income less than $1,000.
Great Chinese Famine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
China's Economic Success Proves the Power of Capitalism
www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/08/chinas-economic-success-proves-the-power-of-capitalism/#340c8053b9d7
Why Communist China Is Home to So Many Billionaires
fortune.com/2018/11/29/communist-china-billionaires-jack-ma/
I haven't seen this kind of serial liar since Donald Trump.
Wow, you are a moron.
The chinese famine was caused by a variety of factors that u cannot directly attribute to socialism just as i cannot say that the holocaust was the fault of capitalism even though it operated under that framework. Factors like lenskyo a deeply mistaken soviet scientist, suggesting reforms like deep plowing that only dug up the infertile sand and rock under the rich topsoil. He also had other mistaken ideas abt planting nearer because they discovered that plants with familial relationships would not compete for resources which was not communicated or known at the time. This as well as many other factors like the fact that the local governments wouldnt report the famine caused the central government to not know what was happening and not redistribute, in fact at the time china was exporting millions of tons of grain from their more prosperous regions as there was miscommunication on different levels of government. I would also check the source for the number as it seems exaggerated
The reforms made by deng were special economic zones. U cannot just look at something and immediately conclude it was because of this or that. The chinese government has a strong grasp over the countries that operate within its borders and has a semi planned economy. If u want an example to the contrary the russian economy completely and utterly bottomed out after the capitalist reforms and reduced the nation from a global superpower to the current russia
Also the current world is all capitalistic. Every year 9million people die of starvation, we can feed 10 billion even with our waste, millions more die of unclean water which we can provide, millions more from preventable diseases. This is a real death toll of capitalism, 15 million every year, 2 holocausts and a half every year, these resources could all be provided.
Also as he mentions the soviet union under a centrally planned economy had the most growth and the boom and bust cycles of capitalism and crisies of overproduction where the people dont have enough to buy all the products happen and if ur retort is just 10 million billion people died therefore its bad i cannot accept that as a legitimate argument. If u want to argue from history u have to know the history, i cant just say that manifest destiny happened in a capitalistic economy and therefore conclude capitalism means killing native tribes, also in china there are a bunch of worker coops too
@@andrewliu8048 No one says the holocaust was caused by capitalism. But you could say the holocaust was caused by Hitler and his antisemitic polices. Likewise you could say that the Chinese famine was directly caused by Mao and his strict communist policies. Both were caused by totalitarian states, just as the mass governmental murders in soviet Russia under Stalin. To a large degree the famine was caused by Mao's insistence on people to produce steel which prevented farmers from tending to their crops. Under democratic capitalism, people would be free to chose the best use of their resources for themselves. Success or failure would be up to the individual.
Russia under years of communism was not prepared for capitalism. Factories that were under central control under communism were suddenly without leadership. That is why "entrepreneurs" (corrupt businessman) could go to these factories and buy a MIG 25 for a case of vodka. That is why capitalism didn't work in post soviet Russia, until they started to figure it out.
look up Professor in the dictionary.......
There was a picture of Richard Wolff next to it
Bernie turned out to be the worst kind of Trojan Horse ever. Never again will I place hope in electoral politics.