Another good podcast, especially the interview with Adam Hochschild. When Prof. Wolff asked him about Trump and fascism, I thought Hochschild’s response was pretty accurate; Trump’s rhetoric is certainly fascist, but is idiealogy has always been about himself. I’ve always felt that Trump was a bit of a phony, and many of the things he says now, while incendiary, also strike me as phony. It’s like he’s back on his show entertaining the masses.

I know many will disagree with me on this, but I’m not particularly scared of Trump like many on the Left are. And it’s because I think that he and his campaign frankly are phony. I have my reasons, but the validity or sincerity of his candidacy are things that I very much doubt.

So I agree that his rhetoric is fascist. His ideology, I’m not particularly convinced.

Prof. Wolff, please take a look at this short article and give us your thoughts.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/08/01/Avoid-Recession-Fix-Corporate-Tax-Code.

It’s interesting that Cleveland is the home of Evergreen- a longtime success story of redevelopment money promoting worker cooperatives. I wonder what a local organization in any city in the US could do to foster this type of investment. It seems loke money buys local elections and agendas as well as national. Certainly, developers control our local San Francisco administrations- getting many kick backs and exceptions to zoning rules that are not granted to individuals.