Professor Richard Wolff on Worker Coops: Theory and Practice of 21st Century Socialism

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1. This was very good

Saw this earlier.

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2. Richard Wolff-Everyone's favorite Marxist

Marxism was quite the success in the USSR.

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3. A little neo-McCarthyism there?

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6. Sir, have you no shame?

If the guy is a marxist , he's a marxist for crying out loud .

"Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Wolff

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7. Nobody's saying he's not....

.... but I don't see what's wrong with that. A Marxist critique of our contemporary gangster capitalism is much-needed.

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10. So what are you saying? That someone who . ..

.... points out that a marxist is a marxist is engaged in some sort of smear campaign? Sorry, but pointing out that a self professed marxist is a marxist isn't mcarthyism.

If you want to persuade others to actually take such a critique serriously, you might want to avoid gratuitous name calling, such as "mcarthyism" and "gangster". It gives the impression that you don't have anything genuinely thoughtful to say.

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12. People who don't want to take the critique seriously won't ............

..... even if they pretend gratuitous name-calling is the deterrent. But Richard Wolff's radio program is expanding rapidly, his speaking engagements are in high demand, and he's making lots of TV appearances lately, so apparently lots of people are taking the critique seriously.

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13. I think that avoiding....

.... gratuitous name calling would be a good policy under any circumstances.

[Omaha Steve]

4. The former USSR was not Socialism

Social Security and Medicare are however.

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5. LOL, doing a little rebranding there?

Deny the failures and take credit for the success of others.

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8. USSR was a failed State Capitalist system.

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11. It became a failed State Capitalist system right around the time . ..

..... that it failed. Up until then it was a socialist paradise .

[L. Coyote]

9. I suspect this should read co-ops. Chickens live in coops.

But I could be wrong, maybe they are going to move the workers into coops.

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14. Excellent, and well worth the time. n/t

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15. K & R!

Thanks for posting this!