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Article by Richard D. Wolff "The emerging new always both frightens and inspires the fading old. History is that unity of opposites. Sharp-edged rejections of what is new clash with enthusiastic celebrations of it. The old gets pushed away even as bitter denials of that reality surge. The emerging new world...
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Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the recent New York Times research on the bank bailout, stating that the regional banks massive sections of the country depend on were on the verge of collapse. Is this study real or a propaganda piece to cover up that the government spent billions...
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Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how economic powerhouses like China, Russia, Brazil and others are moving away from using the dollar, changing its status as the world’s reserve currency. This shift could erode the power that U.S. banks and corporations have relied on for decades.
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New this week: U.S. National Debt (Good or Bad?), Values at Work!, Interpreting Marx
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New this week: Sanctions don’t work, reforming capitalism doesn’t work, but Yanis Varoufakis on audio does work
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Prof Wolff isn’t afraid to tell the truth: the landscape of capitalism is changing, and it’s important to understand. That’s what the new episode of Economic Update: The Emerging New World Economy accomplishes.
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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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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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