Host of #EconomicUpdate, Prof. of Economics Emeritus @UMassAmherst, visiting Prof. @TheNewSchool, founder @democracyatwrk. #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism
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#WolffBites: French President Macron focuses on violent police repression of teenagers. How France's elite responds to millions of teachers and students protesting inadequate funding of schools. Result: protests spread across Europe.
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Check out our last #EconomicUpdate with Steve Mellon and @profwolff "From #Strike to #Worker Co-Op" here: youtube.com/watch?v=FPmow3pu…
Thank you to @RobinsonErhardt and @democracyatwrk for organizing this conversation
Latest Episode of @RobinsonErhardt Featuring @profwolff @CornelWest & @normfinkelstein : America Is in DENIAL | On Mamdani, Tucker, & Trump
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Latest Episode of @RobinsonErhardt Featuring @profwolff @CornelWest & @normfinkelstein : America Is in DENIAL | On Mamdani, Tucker, & Trump
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#WolffBites: French protests against cuts in public services spread to Portugal and Italy, as earlier to Belgium. Italy's gov't learns nothing, hits protesters with police, solving nothing, provoking more protests.
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Richard Wolff, Cornel West, & Norman Finkelstein: America Is in DENIAL | On Mamdani, Tucker, & Trump
(Available everywhere, links in replies)
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
01:06 What Do Elections Actually Change?
05:47 How Enthusiasm Turned Into Disappointment for Zohran Mamdani
09:36 The Deep Denial in the United States
14:11 Is Another New Deal Still Possible?
17:27 The Repression of American Colonialism
23:49 Is America’s Decline Irreversible?
30:25 Cornel West on Bernie, Mamdani, and Colonialism
42:12 America Fears Socialism—But for How Long?
44:36 Neoliberalism Is a Curse on Socialism
49:06 Jill Stein and Why Cornel West Left the Green Party
52:15 Bernie Sanders and the Holocaust
59:52 Is Tucker Carlson Dangerous for the Left?
1:06:53 Can Immigration Be Fixed?
1:11:04 How Capitalism Destroyed Itself in Germany
1:15:21 Do Blacks Have Legitimate Complaints About Immigrants?
1:19:23 International Relations
1:21:04 Biden, Obama, and Red Lines
1:25:09 What If Our Heroes Were Racist?
1:27:27 Will the Rest of Us Ever Be Prosperous Again?
1:42:29 Who Is Pumping Denial Down America’s Throat?
1:48:55 John Stuart Mill on Truth
1:50:34 Rick’s Biggest Mistake in Life
1:57:00 Cornel’s Biggest Mistake in Life
2:01:49 The Academy Caved to Biden, Trump, and Israel
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Watch our most recent #DialecticatWork with @profwolff & @ShahramAzhar here: tinyurl.com/4na3rn5j @democracyatwrk @dialecticatwork #socialism #capitalism #economics
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Check out an all-new @dialecticatwork out now "Professor Wolff meets Louis #Althusser" w/ @ShahramAzhar & @profwolff @democracyatwrk #dialecticatwork #democracyatwork Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=N1CO-NFD…
#WolffBites: Union Pacific donated $2.5 million for Trump's White House ballroom. Meanwhile Union Pacific seeks approval of its $85 billion Norfolk Southern acquisition. How gov't and big business serve one another.
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#WolffBites: Planned public execution at Fort Hood would NOT be new. Over last year at least 238 boat people in the Caribbean have been publicly executed. Public execution is just coding home.
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#WolffBites: Capitalism made the already richest man in the world - Musk - much richer (a trillionaire). Musk uses that money to buy US elections so officials will preserve the capitalism that enriched him. That is the opposite of democracy.
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Are Trump’s $5,000 Bribes WELFARE? | Richard Wolff
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#WolffBites: As people increasingly ask "how can we do better than capitalism," the Nobel prize goes yet again to economists who work to keep capitalism by "managing" its profound instabilities better.
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#WolffBites: US consumer confidence just fell (in September) to its lowest level since the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile Trump and Bessent repeat, like robots, how "great" the economy is.
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Why Is the Minimum Wage STILL $7.25? | Richard Wolff
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