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New this week: New world economy, corporate academia, treasury bonds, artificial intelligence & democracy
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New this week: AI & ChatGPT, NIMBY/YIMBY politics, the healthcare struggle, China’s phase of capitalism
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David Harvey is having a busy spring. But all throughout, he has shared new episodes of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles about the most helpful ways to look at capitalism, Marx’s insights for the modern world, and the impact of war in this moment.
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New this week: Silicon Valley Bank Mania! “woke” economics, Housing w/ Harvey, China & small businesses
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New this week: U.S. empire’s rise & fall, homeless shelter industrial complex, immigration & the working class, the U.S. dollar in trouble
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Richard Wolff recently answered two questions from the audience as part of the Ask Prof Wolff series that have taken off. Within a few days, each has over 100,000 views. Watch these videos on YouTube or listen to them as a podcast on your favorite podcast player.
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New this week: Lula’s Brazil, whistleblowers, Biden’s spending bills, women labor leaders
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New this week: France on strike, economic nationalism, gender roles, what’s wrong with the housing market?
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New this week: Workers take over factories, Ponzi scheme capitalism, protecting food & healthcare from profits
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Richard Wolff sees the writing on the wall of these global events. Will any, or all, of these struggles create the most profound challenge to capitalism? Watch ‘Challenging Capitalism’ or listen to it as a podcast today.
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Essential Reading
If you want to understand capitalism in order to make society better, then understanding Marx’s analysis is fundamental in drawing your attention to capitalist production’s core conflict: class struggle. It is everywhere, and it influences everything and everyone in our society. Marx is the theoretician who first explained it systematically. He was a social critic for whom capitalism signified not the end of human history, but the latest phase that badly needed a transition to something better.
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The coronavirus pandemic, economic crash, political divisions, and social tensions have plunged the declining American capitalist system into chaos. In this collection of over 50 unique essays, Prof. Wolff argues that a mere return to normalcy is inadequate to tackle the accumulated problems of US capitalism.
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Understanding Socialism tackles the taboos and unveils the often hidden histories of socialism, but most importantly it offers a way forward: a socialism built on democracy in the workplace. A blend of history, analysis and opinion, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.
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