RT Interview: Richard Wolff on 90th Anniversary of Lenin's Death

[iamthebandfanman]

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[BelgianMadCow]

1. Presenter proves he doesn't understand what Richard Wolff is saying

with his stupid question "but can democracy work under socialism". Otherwise, a great segment.

[iamthebandfanman]

2. i know..

that part literally made me get angry at the computer screen .. lol..

people should really understand terms, phrases, and definitions before they attempt to speak about it.. classic right winger, im sure.

[jtuck004]

3. "...The way to move forward is to change the organization of enterprises themselves. From being

run by a handful of major shareholders and boards of directors that they select, to transform enterprises into democratic institutions where the workers themselves collectively make the decisions which ground an economic system..."

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So we need to get busy learning the financial end of how to gain the ownership, so we CAN make the decisions to transform it, and where that is not possible start a competing business (which will win with the new principles, yes? Else why are we doing this?) , or simply substitute the thing you needed with something different and make that yourself.

Slow, but likely the only solution. This is exactly what the organizers of labor were calling for in the days of the Industrial Unions of 1865 to about 1920ish, nearly those exact words - not socialism, but cooperative and democratic ownership of the means of production.

Thank you for posting this.