In my early adult life I was a stereotypical 'doomsday prepper' with little faith in society's trajectory and a fairly conspiratorial view on Government. Now approaching 30 soon, The concept of 'waking up' to the class struggle has given me so much optimism towards human nature.

@nicadi2005

27 күн бұрын

"The concept of 'waking up' to the class struggle has given me so much optimism towards human nature." - Easily fixable. Just ponder the question: "Why the LONG sleep?"...

@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybody

26 күн бұрын

@@nicadi2005 up bringing, perception, education, systematic reasons, etc. I feel like that's as if asking why become sober from a drug instead of initially being sober.

@josepablolunasanchez1283

21 күн бұрын

I disagree. The origin of the struggles of people are two: 1. Institutions violating the law. 2. Interests allow people to get rich without hard work. Make money without producing anything. Imagine you are rich, very rich. You have 2 options. 1. Invest in creating a factory. Manufacture is difficult and many things can go wrong when producing, distributing or selling. You will be very busy. 2. Put money in the bank and make money with interests. Sit and wait. All that idle time is boring, so you may have dreams of changing society in ways that hurt people because you do things disconnected from the reality of affected people. Spare time among the rich is a societal danger.

@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybody

21 күн бұрын

​@@josepablolunasanchez1283 Whilst I understand your feelings in the conclusion of 2. I would argue that this explanation only highlights the dynamic between power and money, which itself is the foundation of the class struggle. Unregulated wealth perpetuates their power through social violence.

@nicadi2005

17 күн бұрын

@@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybody "up bringing, perception, education, systematic reasons, etc." - All those things you enumerated are SQUARELY under the control of the individual. *Are you implying this 'sleepwalking' most people seem to exhibit is actually a matter of choice?!*

Dr Wolff should not be surprised by the resurgence of the Left in the US. His eloquent, thoughtful, and expert analysis has fueled that rise by providing exactly the education and the voice that this country so desperately needed.

@switzjon8405

24 күн бұрын

It may also be its destruction

@josepablolunasanchez1283

21 күн бұрын

Amazingly Chinese communism is a libertarian paradise. Low taxes, deregulated job market, low government spending. US on the contrary has huge government spending, making it very interventionist.

@xgxfhzxfuhfjgfhgf

14 күн бұрын

@@switzjon8405how

As a working class guy who is pro-union, I agree 100% with you Professor Wolff, but I want an honest Union. I was in unions that sold out its workers by not standing with its workers. Unions need to make sure they support the rank and file.

@MrDXRamirez

26 күн бұрын

without being specific ... unions were infiltrated by the FBI and the Mob, syndicalists, thugs and assassins...you’d have to go back to 1965 for the start of the death of unions...the biggest and the last bastion of collective bargaining left in the US economy is UPS, a union in negotiations with private equity investors and Wall Street who want wages reduced, cuts in pensions, and payroll cuts,---compensating for the loss of employees, they want technology in the workplace that speeds up the work and increases the output of the workers. UPS makes up 13% of US GDP, that’s a lot. It stands to add more from fewer workers. There aren’t any Mobs, and Moles infiltrating the unions today and there are no socialists and anarchists in their ranks, what there is, is a class struggle between labor and capital.

@badomaji

25 күн бұрын

The policies that brought us here were made by those running for office who were either dependent on 'donations' from those who have too much, or were in the ranks of those having too much. We are being 'ruled' by those who worship the golden calf.

@user-vs7wj4kd8n

23 күн бұрын

美国的工会就象一个黑工头，不是在帮助工人，是在欺负工人的同时，借工人的名义敲诈工厂所有者，

@josepablolunasanchez1283

21 күн бұрын

Unions are a business model. They charge a fee and every 3 months they find an excuse to organize a protest, using a small amount for banners, and labor to make banners and attendance of protest is free. A very profitable business model.

@MrDXRamirez

21 күн бұрын

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 More profitable than the Union model for business is the capitalist model for business. Profits, profits and more profits. Expansion, domination, control, of all the little workers and little countries where the little workers come from, work, work, work, than die. BIG PROFITS.

Thank you Professor Wolf. Forming a union is hard it’s an uphill battle. On the other hand keeping the traitors out of the movement is battle which is the hardest to fight. Don’t forget the power of the democratic presidents and the prime ministers. The memories of Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney are fresh in the minds of the workers. All three demolished the union structure with stroke of the pen. Organized labour should be strong enough to tell these people where to go. And then they (The capitalists) has a sweet poison (an olive branch) to win back the labour movement with little raises so that the movements don’t become Violent (Revolution) Don’t take the olive branch. Be united and Fight them back.

@TacticalMayo

27 күн бұрын

He is the traitor.

@ronstephen-wy4ib

27 күн бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

@Support_Ad_Blocker

27 күн бұрын

@@TacticalMayo troll

@jgalt308

27 күн бұрын

Organized labor...struggling toward eventual unemployment. It's a good thing that Wolff never bores you with the "details". Has the Professor ever made a comment regarding the "just in time" supply chains? Was it positive or negative?

@Support_Ad_Blocker

27 күн бұрын

@@jgalt308 Yes, we should all work for pennies and kiss the sphincters of our oppressors. You've got Ann Rand down to an art.

Very encouraging THEY/WE the working class are getting back their/our power BUT the need for an Economic system WE/THEY control and owned by public society is still paramount.

@josepablolunasanchez1283

21 күн бұрын

Just make institutions to enforce existing laws. Today institutions are violating law. Examples? First amendment in social media since forever with censorship. Trump had 8th amendment violated.

Wow, BUGU is united! 98% in favor?!? Outstanding!

@saundraraynor2858

24 күн бұрын

BUGWU

I am Canadian. Love your wisdom. I learn a lot❤❤. Thanks

Trying to explain that increasing prices are the result of conscious decisions by the owners. Seems simple to me but there are many who perform amazing mental feats to avoid admitting this simple calculation.

@jgalt308

27 күн бұрын

Was Standard Oil a monopoly? Did they raise prices because they could? Given your claim, the answer should be obvious if it was true. So your answer is?

5/19/2024 I went to Zhangjiajie with my children in 2016, and I was amazed at China's progress. Curiosity led me to study the Belt and Road Initiative, China's annual review and planning assessment meeting, and some of China's five-year plans. Then I said to the children that China will be the leading force for a better future for the world. Today, I am very happy to hear a person with a high social status but no Chinese cultural background say what I see and believe. I hope more and more people can see what you see, and give up their arrogance and prejudice, and work together to build a peaceful and harmonious global village❗️🙏

Excellent presentation

Inflation, a matter of collusion ...

@Googlag

27 күн бұрын

Are you calling everything a conspiracy? For you, the system that generates inflation is not a scientific understanding of its operation? Are there just bad guys sitting there? Do you just need to replace bad guys with good ones? You do not have a sufficient understanding of capitalism and its stage of imperialism. Since the decomposition of primitive communism. Capitalism evolved to imperialism. With the fall of the socialist bloc of the USSR. In a short time, imperialism began to globalize and give birth to its mimicking forms. In Russia, for example, a full-fledged capitalist society was not built. Artificially created financial sharks - Oligarchs. Over the 30 years of plunder of the Soviet heritage, little has been created other than gas transportation structures for the sale of raw materials from hydrocarbons and metallurgy. Therefore, today there is a Scandinavian model of capitalism, an Asian model of capitalism. All this is a mimicry of capitalism, with minor similarities to socialism.

@geraldmantel4955

27 күн бұрын

@@Googlag In this case, it's a conspiracy, maybe compounded by the fact that the Fed keeps flooding the world with Amerikans dollars.

@nicadi2005

27 күн бұрын

Market control, same...

@switzjon8405

24 күн бұрын

It is a matter of endless spending on a trillion-dollar debt and printing endless money and the Fed manipulation. Aka Government

As one who lives in the Bible Belt,I appreciate Mr Sexton's discussing his roots in the Evangelical Movement.I know several fellow Kentuckians who have similar stories.As Dr Wolff often says,"life is about contradictions."

Thank you Professor Wolff.

A turn left in what timeframe? Within the next few years? Extremely unlikely. Within the next few decades? Maybe. In my opinion, continued slow imperial decline & episodic dysfunction is the most likely path (just comparing to the path that other empires took), but there's always room for surprises.

@josepablolunasanchez1283

21 күн бұрын

USA is already far left. A huge portion of US economy relies on government spending. Without it a huge recession would happen

Thanks as always

thank you

About pay for academic workers, when I was in the 6th grade, I was part of a summer-long enrichment program at a public university. This was around 1987-88. I remember seeing several Porches, Ferraris, Mercedes Benz, and even a Lamborghini parked all over campus. As kids, we never got tired of seeing them, and we gleefully wished we could own one someday. But when I became enrolled there as a student in 1994, these cars were almost completely absent from the campus landscape. Years later following budget cuts and other austerity measures, I put two-and-two together, and now understand why there were no more fancy cars around anymore.

Dr. Wolff et al.: Tks., much appreciative.

Omg, such great info 💙

WE NEED 3 PARTY 🎉❤PS. NATIONAL PARTY

@harbhajandosanjh9856

27 күн бұрын

You will never get the third one. Even your constitution is framed for the rich and the powerful. You have money you can beat any crime you have committed. There are loopholes in your constitution for the wealthy and the powerful. Look at Trump. A known rascal will become the next president 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 because the voters will have no choice. USA can’t find anyone better than these two. They are both corrupt. Even if someone else comes in he or she will not be better than them either. Look China one man has brought the country from the rags to the most powerful country in the world. You know why because that Man is honest, he is dedicated, he loves his people and his country, he is father of the nation. Above all he is A LEADER not a politician with a rotten back ground of a lawyer, corrupt, criminal and person without any integrity and conscience. Russia and China have leaders we have politicians. 👏👏👏👏👏👏😍

@AdmiralBison

27 күн бұрын

I agree we need a party that represents the working class and society.... So why not take over both the Democratic and Republican parties? We don't want to be in the same situation in 1780's France were there was only one small party representing the workers was outnumbered by all the parties owned by the aristocrats and nobles.

@MathUDX

22 күн бұрын

@@AdmiralBison Why not... attempt the same dumb tactic that's been attempted every 8-12 years for the last century? Gee I wonder if we should try that again.

Professor Wolff for President 2024!

Thanks!

Thanks

We need an Uncle Ho type of figure to emerge in America.

@Googlag

27 күн бұрын

What will happen when uncle dies? Division of inheritance?

I wonder how much longer the algorithm can determine our politics.

Nice! I don't know if he's addressed this before, but I wonder if he would do a segment comparing MMT to its competitor theories

Is there a chance Chris L. Hedges will land at D@W now that his show has left TRNN?

Let's not forget Shawn Fain endorsed Genocide Joe.

Great interview. I wish your interviews were longer. Is there any reason why they are limited to approx 15 minutes? 30 would be better.

@jgalt308

27 күн бұрын

Expanding this free B.S. site, cost him 20% of his Patreon subscribers...resulting in months of absence, and him cutting loose David Harvey and the "All Things Co-op" crew. Clearly, NOT a democratically run co-op...but the 15 minutes does allow him to "control" the content and direct it toward the meaningless rhetoric that fits the mindless victim agenda which never bore you with the details.

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

@@jgalt308ok bootlicker

I usually listen to the podcast via Apple, but this episode seems to be unavailable when I try to reproduce it 🤔

It can only be a question of how long is the working day to be since wages was not the variable for the 45 years? When was the last time you got a pay increase working in the private sector? Right, ---my point exactly.

Co-ops in particular working with strong active unions are the closest we can get to achieving (libertarian)🏴socialism. A true🗳️💙social democracy.🐦‍🔥☭🕊️🌸🏳️‍🌈Ⓐ🏳️‍⚧️

@disastrousemouse

27 күн бұрын

You still have to contend with a necessary switch to low/no-growth economy, which will require more automation, modular consumer goods with long-lasting foundational structures, and access versus ownership models. Still, worker cooperatives are a bridge and it builds cooperative praxis, IMO.

Most rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them

@Juanw5ayne

27 күн бұрын

Exactly! My grandparents were so frugal but they had a TON of money on both sides. I remember my grandfather telling me "you want to make money while you sleep." And I guess that attitude passed down to my dad (RIP), because I remember going to his house one day and I had bought something I really liked, so I wanted to show it to him. So I said "Look at this! Isn't it cute? It was on sale...I saved 50%!" My dad replied "Well, if you're spending, you're not saving." Obviously I had no retort, and that has always stuck with me.

@DaniCharney

27 күн бұрын

Saving and investing wisely while prioritizing necessities and a few small luxuries in relation to one's total assets is a great approach. It helps ensure financial stability and I my for the enjoyment of life's little pleasures without compromising long-term financial goals. It's all about finding a balance that works for you!

@KathyJvanest

27 күн бұрын

very true, a huge part of my portfolio growth has come during this bear market. I've been able to scale from $180K to $572K in a short period of time.

@MattHardwood1

27 күн бұрын

How do you do that? I'm interested

@KathyJvanest

27 күн бұрын

Thanks to my co-worker (Alex) who suggested Ms Brenda Leigh Van.

I don't see how America is retreating into all the entertainment. All the "entertainment" sucks. There's nothing to retreat into.

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

ClearChannel and Iheart radio is waiting with monotonous propaganda for your escape.

🎉🎉

The problem with unions is the people that support them.

23:13 Darn near all of entertainment has a progressive message. It's why most are failing. People are growing tired of it.

What is the big picture of what they are trying to gain and who has the most to gain from most of American's pain?

Jimi Hendrix once said "everything in life is a gimmick, something to get your money". We are so manipulated that the majority accepts it, thinking this is normal. Glad we have people such as Richard Wolff who show us what's really going on. A hearty thank you for your insights.

?? I think the audio needs to be fixed and then the video reuploaded.

#directdemocracy#smartfuncities...💗🍃🙏🏻

😎

Honestly I’ll take Americas growth over the recession we have. And our inflation is worse too because the USD that is the main currency in the world is almost twice as expensive as it was a decade ago which means everything imported is more expensive which is most things in a small country with a small currency.

We as True Amerikans would rather blame the Russians than blame the real source of the problems, Wash DC.

@TheRantingRooster

27 күн бұрын

What is a "true American?"

@geraldmantel4955

27 күн бұрын

@@TheRantingRooster Excellent question, I've been wondering the same thing for the last 60 1/2 years ...

@Support_Ad_Blocker

27 күн бұрын

The greatest threat to the United States is the United States.

@Glumclam

27 күн бұрын

The problem is capitalism the government is just another tool of capital.

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

Capitalism devours democracy and shits oligarchs.

Not a prayer

Economic despair engenders fascism from an angey public. I'd love to think otherwise.

@theboyisnotright6312

27 күн бұрын

I think we are seeing this in trump. It's not so much a political movement as a cult of personality. I can't for the life of me understand why you would look to that conman as a savior. But there it is. Honestly don't worry about trump so much as the person that will take over when he dies. Or the whole thing might just fall apart. Who knows? 4:04

@vivalaleta

27 күн бұрын

@@theboyisnotright6312 It's because of every American white men had a place in this country - good blue collar job, house, vacations. And though it's shittier for all that group has lost the most. They're angry as hell and we need to convince them of worker's rights before they go full fascist.

@samaval9920

27 күн бұрын

Efjc despair in Goba South majority often rovokes reactions to nationa inde endence,rightist centrist eft national ist or socia ist. Antico onial independence pften motivates people in Global South, but nationalism in imperial Global North is rightist imperialist -- how to develop non or anti imperial GlobalNorth national ID??

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR DISTINCTION.

Dear Professor Walffe gooten Tag , i think we have to crate 3 party because the two party dont represent 70 percent dont represent common peoples

Do unions have a formula? 😅

Amerika .... DUH!

@TacticalMayo

27 күн бұрын

USA 🇺🇲 USA 🇺🇲 USA 🇺🇲

@geraldmantel4955

27 күн бұрын

@@TacticalMayo Duh ... Duh ... Duh!

@Support_Ad_Blocker

27 күн бұрын

@@geraldmantel4955 Rah Rah 'Murica! Free-dumb!

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

‘Merikkka. Dumb and dumber

Reaganomics : Take from poor to give to the rich and maybe rich will give a bit back. Bidenomics : I dont know man, just leave me alone.

@traciewebster4175

25 күн бұрын

The rich are supposed to give a lot to the poor per scripture in the Bible. If there are rich people claiming to be religious then why aren't they doing it?

Lemme guess your name, Jaxon claxon

❤️I will be forever grateful to you miss Caroline Anthony, I really don't know how to appreciate you, you change my life and my family situation, a huge thanks to her expert Caroline...❤

@JonasTanner

28 күн бұрын

I will advise you stop trading on your own if you keep losing. And i don't trade on my own anymore, I always required help and assistance

@JonasTanner

28 күн бұрын

from my personal financial advisor

@WatfordLouis

28 күн бұрын

YES!!! That's exactly her name (CAROLINE ANTHONY ) so many people have recommended highly about her and am just starting with her from Brisbane Australia

@WatfordLouis

27 күн бұрын

This sounds so good and I would like to be a party to this, is there any way I can speak with her?

@JonasTanner

27 күн бұрын

Sure! She interacts on what's Apk using the digit below👇

Legalize tiktok

@user-cj2wz8sb1l

27 күн бұрын

no

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

Too much truth, fascists operate in the lie.

Tvs Laying not talk tis News.

LOLOL ABSOLUTELY NOT.

about zero, is the realistic answer

I know professor Wolff knows this and i often think he tries to oversimplify his message, presumably for the audience he believes he has and the response he is hoping to arouse. Economic growth as a simple percentage reflecting the entire country tells you virtually nothing about the wellbeing of its citizens.

❤❤I ❤❤would ❤❤have to ❤❤say that ❤this our stem is doomed to fail so what you are saying we invent bigger numbers 10 or 11thousand dollars a hour but we want more what do thing?

@richardthut7071

27 күн бұрын

I just have to say how 🤔 far can it go

Ths distractions are language based... words "obfuscate" "nascent" "duoploldtlc "faid~~" are not generally recognisable meanings... listen 2 yrselves"... & Prof, dosge hyperbole

Ex CIA JORGE SOROS AR EUROPEA.

Not govierna Real Americans today govierna Washington Israel GENOSIDAS govierna Washington.

Beardo, if you’re not being authentic you’re a flop. You can thank tiktok for that.

US political stem is becoming increasingly childish a absolute imbersment i think that you people have been sniffing to much gun powder 😂

Stopping watch at 21:58 cause i worked 10 hours today...here my fear: you still believe that this civilization is changeable. How far down do we dig? How far back? What structural changes are required? This dude, Richard, has good jargon, blaming TV, basically...it needs to collapse. When anyone has a decent idea about what to replace this with, i will listen. But if y'all wanna talk shit while i work 10 hours a day, he calls you "Mr Wolfe, i call you "Richard." At this point, propose an alternative, what we do day zero, Khmer Rouge refrence intended, or it is all wind of garbage i heard all my life. What to do day one? I am asking, cause this chat is chatter. I am a smart man, have taken billy clubs, what shall we do? And do not dare tell me to vote. I remember.

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

Start a cooperative.

@nathangostey

27 күн бұрын

I think that the point was to get organized with unions and the social parties that you align with. But honestly there aren't easy or clear action steps to achieve those things either. There's more information about this stuff online that Richard covers via debates, etc., but you may have to do a little digging.

@nathangostey

27 күн бұрын

And to add on to what I said, what you want (action steps) wasn't the subject of the video

If Boston U grad students wanted to be true Amerikans, they would take a 50 percent pay cut and donate the difference to pay down the National Debt ... so there.

@TheRantingRooster

27 күн бұрын

Why not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and other "multi-billionaires", who have stashed an estimated $21 to $36 TRILLION in untaxed income in offshore tax havens, donating everything above 1 billion? They would make a bigger dent that college students. You must hate the working class. 🤔

@ronstephen-wy4ib

27 күн бұрын

You've done that already, right?

@geraldmantel4955

27 күн бұрын

@@ronstephen-wy4ib Check's in the mail!

@dbarker7794

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for the laugh, bro. 😂

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

Just tax the rich and it’s done.

look where we are on the *political compass*. dot, if you will, org. a turn merely left right now, takes us to worse places. freedom first. "We are convinced that freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, and socialism without freedom is slavery and barbarity." --Bakunin

Bourgeois democracy is the rule of exploiters, the democracy of the minority. Socialist democracy is the power of the workers, the democracy of the majority.. But you personally can remain among the minority. In their insignificant illusions and fairy tales of garage billionaires.

@user-dj6hu9gq4t

27 күн бұрын

Waiting to be eaten.