On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on new Puerto Rico deal, French street battles, German leaders' need humility, fake Cleveland revitalization, selling out national parks. Major analysis of Brexit in changing world economy.
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Choosing violence is the easiest & inhumane path and it results in tremendous loss – they are never worth the losses we suffer. Fight the economic system battle in the field of economic systems, in its right battle ground. Channelise your anger to start worker coops, to start unselfish businesses. We all have the infinite power within to start an economic revolution using the weapons of economics, we are here to learn this art form. The process of achieving such a change will be an exciting one, its a journey of discovering our true human nature as More & more people will join you, just as we all have joined Prof Wolff to learn more and do more for a good cause.
Lets use subtler, finer & higher powers we all have – the intellectual powers. Understand from Prof’s lectures how the inherent “profit driven” – “greed fuelled” – engine of capitalism is the root cause of what we see today. You then don’t see gross things like “People” are bad, capitalists are bad, etc.. you begin to see that ideas are bad, you begin to see the root of problems. With such deeper understanding, you attack & challenge the idea – “not people”.. The war is on! A big one, but its in the realm of ideas. Here, truth alone survives.
Start businesses based on ideas that are unselfish, non-greedy. Thats the battle on economic level , a true battle that will win the economic war. Please join us, we need everyone in it.
PS: I too analyse like Prof wolff the cause of evil in society today. But I’m no prof. But I leave it to you accept/reject my analysis/ideas on www.facebook.com/unselfisness
Thank you :)
Frantin Edwards your thoughts are very muddled there is no clarity and logic to what you are presenting, so I see a very idealistic person with no prayer of an idea on how change occurs in the real world. I have been organizing for 46 years both in the univeristy , but mostly in the workplace and community. You need to take off the rose colored glasses and see the the difficult process of change and the hard work it takes to build a movement. I damn well am not expending energy to say “nice try”. It has got to work. Your non-violent ideas ignore how historic changes have occurred in the labor and anti-racist movements. The ghetto rebelions in Harme in 1964, Watts in LA in 1965, Detroit in 1967 did more to advance the anti-racist movement than any march in Selma. The garbage workers violent struggle in Memphis in 1968 that won trnscended any attempts at non-violence by MLK in that struggle. The mutinies on the Kitty Hawk and Constellation led by Black sailors during trhe Vietnam War as well as the fraggings of officers by the GI’s forced the US aggression there to come to an end as the US military was no longer reliable for imperialist interests. I can m=name hundreds of other events that were won with violence, including the greatest labor struggle in modern US hiostory, the Great Flint Sit-down strike of 1936-37 at General Motors which wone industrial unionism in the auto industry. You guys have a lot to learn before you spout ideas that will never cut in the engendering real world change. The masses make history and can not be encumbered by dictates of people who do not think as workers. non-violence is a middle class ideology not a working class ideology.
Frantin Edwards your thoughts are very muddled there is no clarity and logic to what you are presenting, so I see a very idealistic person with no prayer of an idea on how change occurs in the real world. I have been organizing for 46 years both in the univeristy , but mostly in the workplace and community. You need to take off the rose colored glasses and see the the difficult process of change and the hard work it takes to build a movement. I damn well am not expending energy to say “nice try”. It has got to work. Your non-violent ideas ignore how historic changes have occurred in the labor and anti-racist movements. The ghetto rebelions in Harme in 1964, Watts in LA in 1965, Detroit in 1967 did more to advance the anti-racist movement than any march in Selma. The garbage workers violent struggle in Memphis in 1968 that won trnscended any attempts at non-violence by MLK in that struggle. The mutinies on the Kitty Hawk and Constellation led by Black sailors during trhe Vietnam War as well as the fraggings of officers by the GI’s forced the US aggression there to come to an end as the US military was no longer reliable for imperialist interests. I can m=name hundreds of other events that were won with violence, including the greatest labor struggle in modern US hiostory, the Great Flint Sit-down strike of 1936-37 at General Motors which wone industrial unionism in the auto industry. You guys have a lot to learn before you spout ideas that will never cut in the engendering real world change. The masses make history and can not be encumbered by dictates of people who do not think as workers. non-violence is a middle class ideology not a working class ideology.
I don’t know which world you are living in, but looks like you have internet there; this time try learning about other ways of revolting. Most of us in this world, except some terrorists, have evolved beyond the animal behaviour of violence & killing each other.
@ Frantin – I’m in complete agreement with Prof Wolff and ideas on my page always encourage worker co-ops.
But I agree you with that we have to eliminate the capitalist monetary system. And worker coops is an important first step to achieve such a system. Please see www.facebook.com/unselfishness and www.unselfishmovement.com
Only an egalitarian international communist movement can smash the capitalist state and organize the working class for economic and political egalitarianism. Only such a movement can abolish the capitalist monetary system and build a society that distributes . the wealth that labor produces and harnesses it for the nefit of humanity We do not need worker coops we need communism. Please see www.plp.org.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/noncompete-clauses-increasingly-pop-up-in-array-of-jobs.html?_r=0
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/when-the-guy-making-your-sandwich-has-a-noncompete-clause.html