I find it outrageous that in a country that claims to be a "democracy", college & university professors dare not broach certain topics in fear of putting their careers in jeopardy.
I find it outrageous that we have the balls in western nations to call ourselves democracies when capitalism prevents it in the 70% off life most spend at work and incentivizes the capitalist minority to corrupt the 30% we actually get when not in work, to the wants of the capitalist minority before the absolute needs of the majority below. All ensured by the capitalist minority buying the majority of centrist and right wing politicians and media simultaneously which ensures the actual left is kept away from debate never mind actual political power which is why in reality there are NO actual left wingers in the senate and not enough in the house to fill a broom cupboard in reality. All you have at best are centrists, center left on social justice matters to manufacture the illusion of difference and provide cover for being just as right wing as the right on domestic economics and foreign policy, all for the betterment of capitalism and its minority, at any externalized cost to society, nation and planet. Over 40yrs I have come to the conclusion that our democracy is a myth, performative theater in pretense of democracy, not actual democracy, and this will remain so for as long as the majority only ever vote for a centrist or a right winger, no matter the party or nation at the time as neither of those two camps will ever stand up to capitalism itself that is lining their pockets and campaigns and retirement funds with gold. It should also be noted that a democracy demands and requires a systemically well informed population to be able to come to good collective decisions, that has never been possible under capitalism where the bulk of media has been in the hands of a handful of capitalists for a century plus.
@HaggardPillockHD Not helped by the fact they are increasingly getting more and more geriatric. Leaders/politicians/managers didn't always use to be so old, now they are mostly from the cold war.
i was a huge fan of the pod already. now that i know robinson has a moral compass, this is probably my number 1 podcast (also listen to Revolutionary Left Radio, folks)
Keep inviting people like Richard Wolff, it's priceless for science centered folks to be subjected Marx's theories since most don't realize his approach is more science based than modern Economics -- which is ridiculed as pseudoscience for good reason, given that they dismiss anything that isn't within a capitalist & free trade framework. Even the protectionist Econs are limited by their complete subservience to Capitalism.
"his approach is more science based than modern Economics" Seriously? Give me a break. His approach was based on one thing and one thing only. Resentment.
@@anthonybrett Resentment is when you believe economics should be a material science and not based on arbitrary things like the imaginary laws governing the free will of the human spirit?
Finkelstein completely ignores the foundational role of Islam which lies at the bottom of the whole conflict. It’s a religious war. An Islamic caliphate is what these nuts are marching for! If you are devient in any way then you’ll be flung from a building. This is certainly not hearsay it’s the truth. It’s called ‘shar’ia’ law. I’ve studied it for 30 years. Read the Qur’an then you will be more educated about the terror which it’s surrounded by 👹👺
Norman Finkelstein ignores the absolutely crucial place which Islam holds in this conflict. It is FUNDAMENTAL! It’s all over their charter. You cannot divorce religion from politics & economics as Islam informs absolutely everything. It’s a state of affairs which most people in the west just cannot fathom for we have divorced Christianity from the state & the legal system & we operate a healthy balance of powers. There are tiny courts which a woman, for eg, could go to to divorce her abusive husband but she is not equal to a male in the eyes of sharia law. She is only worth half of a man. There are countless women who have been stoned to death under sharia even if someone concocts a lie about a woman having an affair she can be therefore falsely accused & face the same fate. Iran still stones women & there was a recent stoning in Palestine. These people are kept down by their religion & it robs, especially women. This is a RELIGIOUS war which Hamas make clear. It wants an Islamic caliphate & after destroying Israel then they would move on elsewhere with all their thousands of terror cells. All this will, in turn, attract nutters who will attack people here. Of course, we have let them into our countries. We HAVE to care for our countries. Why give them away for nothing? For Islam to take over? Why can’t these marching individuals realise that their support for Hamas is blind? I heard today of Queers for Palestine! Queers? Well they would have a very short life before being thrown from a building in Gaza. All of their western supporters should be forced to live in Gaza. Perhaps then they would see that Israel is unequivocally the only democracy in all of the Arab states. Palestinians working & 25% of them living in Israel have equal rights & citizenship as in any other democracy. They get paid 4 times what they would earn in Gaza. In fact, Gaza is prime land but its people have done nothing to develop it whereas the Israelis have made a paradise. Apparently Gaza has beautiful beaches which could be part of a tourism future. It will not happen because Hamas want to stay in control of the people who have given them the majority vote. These mentally sick terrorists have literally blown up all their billions from us. We never learn who is deserving of our help. We could spend it on our own people. These immigrants, don’t you worry, have tens of millions spent on them here with free flats, benefits, you name it whilst some of them murdering & injuring our people. Billions have been wasted building their tunnels. Can you imagine the stupidity here & the selfishness! Finally, Hamas will never settle with Israel because it will never recognise Israel as being a state. They didn’t just shoot the Israelis but they savaged them in agonising & grotesque ways including very young children. How would you react if this happened to you? I wonder! If they lay all their weapons down & promise peace then they would find that the Israelis would help in every way to build their country & live like most humans. But it’s a fruitless hope tragically
I love this guy So enlightening Thank you RUclips for making access to such brilliant minds possible, for the average Joe and Jane Learned so much without signing up for a course at a pricey university at my own time 😊 What a great time to be alive Thank you God
Thank you again ,Richard, for having Professor Richard Wolff on again. When one listens to him or reads his books, ones mind opens. Another remarkable discussion from a man notably who asks sane questions and delivers with great wisdom. "The only thing that will redeem mankind is coorperation." Bertrand Russell
@@JuanCarlosbarquero-f3e I propose that people with low SAT scores be treated by doctors with low MCAT scores - this way we will let evolutionary forces to decide whether white patriarchal metrics matter
I appreciate Mr. Wolfe's background and education that frames his point of view. Mine, understandably, is a bit different than seeing things through a Marxist prism of class struggle. I grew up in middle class America wherein I watched my parents', well mainly father's, point of view based upon him coming from an Anglo, Germanic European influenced cultural background. I also was critical of his point of view, adopted from a rather mainstream, Republican perspective. At about age 12, in Middle School, then called Jr. High, at the end of the McCarthy era, and in the midst of the "Red Scare", I wrote that I thought we should "get to know" Communists, not be afraid of them.
I heard my father use the phraseology "when White Man ..." came this continent, or some other event. tt stuck in my mind to this day, in my 70s. What kind of point of view did his thinking reflect? In my mind White Superiority. I think the "White Superiority blows other frameworks out of the water. I think the reverberations from that status of self-delusion are the main framework we psychologically deal with that has now manifested in Gaza. It's a manifestation of the same self-delusion of slave master to slave. "How dare you take away my 'free labor', my tools for dominance. I'm White.
On the 7th, there were no direct attacks on civilians, only collateral damage. Out of the 769 names on the Haaretz dataset, 462 were military personnel, including 55 soldiers, 13 privates, 59 corporals, 200 sergeants (45 of whom were sergeant majors), 48 commanders, 32 lieutenants, 5 lieutenant colonels, 6 colonels, 37 officers, 10 inspectors, 6 intendents, and 2 Lance Corp. This was a military defeat, and they are taking it out on the rest. Out of the 1148 total names, 403 were military personnel, 59 belonged to the police, and 668 were civilians. This means that the collateral damage on the 7th was lower than any of the iTf "mowing" operations, which has a ratio of 6:1. The ratio of civilians to military personnel killed on the 7th was 1.6:1, with 462 military personnel out of 1148 total. When including all casualties, not just deaths, the collateral damage ratio of the "mowing" operations is 162:1 and not "just" 6:1 based on analyzing UN OHC data from 2008 to 2022. A 162 :1 ratio means that for every 162 civillians, 1 military personnel is a casualty. The 7th had a ratio of 1.6:1, a hundred times lower. The reported (not all have their ages listed) ages of the victims are as follows: 0-4: 2 civilians 5-12: 8 civilians 13-17: 14 civilians 18-25: 132 civilians 26-40: 119 civilians 41-60: 55 civilians 61+: 40 civilians 18-25: 258 active duty military personnel 26-40: 60 active duty military personnel 41-60: 17 active duty military personnel 61+: 1 active duty military personnel
I'm not going to pretend I don't appreciate this comment, but all the same, it feels like engaging with the propaganda in this earnest way by trying to dispel it with a wall of texts helps it more than it effectively fights it. I kind of hate putting it this way, but don't negotiate with terrorists. it's important to have the facts obviously but I hope it's clear what I'm getting at. some of the counter spin and damage control the zionist propaganda machine is putting out there is so bad and dumb that it's not even worthy of acknowledgement except to point and laugh. that's all I'm saying. in particular, a correction like this is far, FAR more likely to just be read as justification for cannibalism and totally railroaded. that's a big part of why i wouldn't generally consider it constructive. I understand you just copy pasted this with not that much specific context or dialogue with the episode but still
There is a more detailed report of of oct 7th titled "I scrapped the information about 1096 of the 1460 killed on 7th of October Attack. Children Less than 1%"
The first time the phrase “human animal” was recorded in history was by Eichmann in WW2 he literally said “we have to be savages in a chapter that will never be written when treating human animals”, even their calculating of calories was also done " In the Tantura (2022) documentary there is a iTf man who says that they took a pregnant woman, made bets whether the baby is a boy or a girl, disemboweled and cut her stomach open to check who won, another one talking about school children who were raising their the hands, the same way kids do in a classroom, after he rounded them up. He then kept firing. Both laughing merrily and casually at the recollection. In another documentary '1948: Creation & Catastrophe', a survivor speaks about women getting violated infront of their family members by iTf. She was a child at the time and still wept as an elderly woman. For more recent atrocities, "Breaking the Silence" record statements by the iTf themselves, they recount the events witht he same casualty their forebears do. The journalist Gideon Levy once was at a checkpoint in the west bank where the soldiers there force the ambulance to wait an hour before someone clears it through as part of a routine while they watch Tv. The journalist waited with the ambulance then got angry, confronted the iTf soldier asking him what if it were your mother in the ambulance, the soldier made the same face and pointed his weapon at him. This was many years ago, it had only gotten worse since. They simply dont see them as human.
The Hamas attacks were totally indiscriminate, and especially barbaric and sadistic - these are the actually facts, as opposed to your insane propaganda
I am so enjoying Prof Wolff’s comments about how ridiculous is the standing of UK in the world. I feel so nauseated with all our politicians that I feel unable to listen to them. I love that he sees them as they are and says it. Thank you Richard Wolff.
UK is worse than just "junior, deputy, assistant" (Wolff) of the US. The US has a nefarious hold on London elites. John Pilger did a doc video of the gradual destruction of the beloved NHS through US influence.
Thanks so much for the last hour. Fascinating. I really agree with Richard closing comments completely, so important to have these conversations, thank you both so much for giving up your time
I'm glad you have decided to take on controversial, but arguably some of the most practically important, issues with serious thinkers. Curious what the next two perspectives showcased will be.
It always disturbing to hear western marxists talk about the "socialist root" of the izraeli project. While the USSR did recognise the establishment of that state, it very quickly reverted to supporting the Palestinian struggle. That is why RD Wolff is a rare case in challenging that idea. However, there is a truth about the fact that even the most "lefty" izraeli mostly support the colonial project because they do profit from it, the same way many lefties in the US are in favour of that settler colonial project ("they live on the other side of imperialism" as V Prashad so succinctly put it). Finally, that even someone as well aware of imperialism as RD Wolff still thinks that the Al Aqsa Flood operation was a "horrible horrible thong" shows how scared the west is when it comes to arm struggle waged by the oppressed Global South/Majority. It is the biggest disappointment that the Global Majority has seen in the western left, and that is why the majority of humanity is moving away from the west both philosophically and socially. Any human being with a iota of humanity and sense of fairness will NEVER condemn the colonised for waging arm struggle "By Any Means Necessary" (Malcom X), because those means are dictated by the material conditions within which they live and against which they struggle. Anything short of full support for anti-imperialist liberation movements in the "South" displays the hypocrisy of the western thought. At the end of the day, the zionist project was and has always been a colonial project, a way for western capitalists to project power and control the main energy sources that drive capitalism (i.e., fossil fuel). To resolve the issue in Palestine requires challenging and destroy that colonial project (the root of the problem as RD Wolff so clearly suggested). It is also worth noting that you could have a "socialist coop-oriented" colonial state, which might look "socialist" from the inside (like the kibbutzes). But considering those formations as a "positive" socialist experience ignores the theoretical advances that V Lenin and K Nkrumah (among many other non-western marxists) have brought to our understanding of what a socialist society could look like.
"it very quickly reverted to supporting the Palestinian struggle." - Yes, after beginning of anti-Semitic campaigns USSR of course stopped supporting Israel. "most "lefty" izraeli mostly support the colonial project because they do profit from it" - profit from so called colonial project by staying alive. "It is the biggest disappointment that the Global Majority has seen" - there is no such thing as global majority. Every region has internal struggles between local powers. "Any human being with a iota of humanity and sense of fairness will NEVER condemn the colonised for waging arm struggle "By Any Means Necessary" " - if someone starts a war by any means necessary he must be stopped, because he has the lowest moral standard and is the worst option as a local power. "because those means are dictated by the material conditions within which they live and against which they struggle" - material conditions are the cause of any event and therefore cannot be used as a justification at all. If a murderer kills because of material conditions he should still be put in the prison just because he is a threat to the surrounding people. "To resolve the issue in Palestine requires challenging and destroy that colonial project" - no, deporting all Arabs to the Arabic peninsula from which they started their colonial project is not a good idea. "ignores the theoretical advances that V Lenin" - who is literally a European who lived in European Russia like me and for some time in Switzerland and who never wrote anything which can be directly applied here. Anyway his socialist experiment began with the creation of a dictatorship with concentration camps, so probably not a good example to follow.
No one better to discuss the criminal state of Israel & the U.S. by extension & the genocide going on in Gaza, than Prof. Wolff. Thank you for having him on your show.
I have just discovered your channel. It is the first video i have been watching. Thank-you for this interview and its marxist insight of the palestinian conflict.
I love listening to Mr. Wolff. It often feels like listening to a stream of consciousness (i.e. isn't 100% sure of the destination), but there is no jibberish. It's a performance for sure, but it also leads to a valuable perspective. I guess, like he said, there is no singular truth, so I won't call it "the" truth, but it IS his truth and you can tell he has fought hard for it. It's definitely worth listening to. Thanks for posting it!
In my opinion Marx is relevant in the Gaza and Israel situation because he criticizes capitalism. Israeli capitalism has to be similar to American capitalism where the oligarchy was the most money can buy the legislation. Israeli-American Oligarchy slow-played a development of Gaza and the military-industrial, prison-industrial complex was glad to sell the defenses and with a 60% unemployment rate, Gaza erupted right on schedule.
Well Professor Wolff. Thank you for teaching us other ways of thinking about humanity and class structure as it could be applied to todays events. Stay well
It has taken me a few episodes and at first it was like Hmmmmmyaaaaaasuuuuuucoooooookaaaaaaa , any way after thinking wow. His arrangement of guests and his comparison from the show to show is really cool and I'm looking forward to more gust. And also all of the right questions are being asked without I don't think rubbing anyone wrong or insulting anyone their questions that are good questions that kind of questions a good host should ask. I compliment you and keep up the good work and I look forward to a lots of new and old. Guest to conquer and fix the world!!!!!! Once upon in my time I looked at myself as a socialist . And probably not even knowing what a socialist really was and that there is a difference in all three socialism Marxism and communism I hope your guests and I'm sure they couldn't do it on just one podcast but hopefully over a couple of shows talk about all and how they differ from each other and also I would love your guests to tell us how it would behoove us all in future. Let's just see what kind of salesman your guest is LOL. But I really enjoy your show and I thank you you and your guest.
Dude, you’re awesome. Yes, these professors do pontificate but you have the best way to phrase and poise questions to further the “conversation”, rather the dissertation haha. I swear one thing of these times listening I’m gonna count how many sentences you average per episode. Excellent shit.
youtube search recommendations for such: Geopolitical Economy Report with Ed Norton Michael Hudson Garland Nixon Joti Brar Mark Blyth Chris Hedges Enjoy.
oh my God i have to say it again! I adore this man! I can imagine how challenging it has been for Professor Wolff to have to converse with the narrow cultish world view of the academia of the empire. I am so grateful for his insights. I am so grateful i can learn from him.
great episode man! for foreign affairs from a leftist lens, invite Vijay Prashad! He is amazing, very learned, very good communicator, really funny. Michael Hudson is another giant, but he's a little technical. he's great for pure geoeconomics and some geopolitics
Not many people admitted to the fact that with the fall of the Berlin wall, it wasn't democracy that had one, which is what this event is celebrated for, it was capitalism that won. We're now seeing it reach exasperated limits. We need to refer to ancient Greece to examine what democracy entails.
Peeling back layers of media spin, this is raw perspective and truth - unfiltered and unapologetic. Today’s mainstream narratives are a wild ride of distortion, dwarfing Orwell’s wildest dreams. Dive into this video for a dose of harsh, vital reality. ❤❤❤
wolff is a Zionist trien not to be noticed and don’t wanna condemn his largest contributors: he has no Chutzpaw to condemn Israel and has completely showed his colors ……he’s not with the people or just a residue of the man he used to be or thought he was! Oy Vey in deed……right there with decrepit Bernie Sanders!
Oh wow Robinson. I will, definitely, be watching this later today. I have not been watching your videos recently but will be binge watching soon. You have an amazing channel and your content is high quality and engaging.
At 1:32:20 minutes......David Graeber mentioned something similar “Everyday we wake up and collectively make a world together: But which one of us, left to our own devices, would ever decide they wanted to make a world like this one?”
1:03:33 “it’s the economy, stupid”Specifically, the $5Billion gas field off the coast of Gaza that isn’t going anywhere, soIsrael is investing a few $billion in weapons to make the people of Gaza go somewhere.
Thank you Robinson. Your love for Impcat Pins subsumes anything I could intelligently opine about the pain of what is going on. Your search for truth , whatever truth may be, helps liberate us all.
Richard makes some salient points but some of his points are ahistorical or irrelevant. He infers that the present genocide is unique to the present right wing government. But this has happened several times before: 2008-2009, 2012, 2014 and 2012. On each of these occasions, Israel bombed Gaza, causing hundreds and sometimes thousands of casualties. They had a term for is: "Mowing the lawn". The difference is that this one is much, much, worse, causing far more casualties. Also, the anti Netanyahu demonstrations against his taking over the Judiciary were just that. They were not pro Palestinian demonstrations. Many Israeli flags were in evidence but Palestinian flags are nowhere to be seen. Finally, according to opinion polls support for the war is overwhelming, including among those who oppose Netanyahu. But Richard is spot on about Britain, and I speak as a Brit!
Dear Prof Wolff, please come to Australia and help us move away gracefully from the declining empire. We have strong labor unions and a Labor government in place, but they need some brave ideas. I shudder to think of you living in the US as it gets more crazy.
Professor Wolff, you are as articulately incisive as ever and I’ve not heard such intelligent thought expressed since the late 20th century. I will do my small part to tell people about you and this video, but what truly scares me is that the rest shall be up to them.
I enjoyed rhe worker owner relationdship comment as a former industrial engineer doing manufacturing measurement time studies which related to pay at the 3M company. Later not considered illegal.
I always appreciate Richard’s perspective. Thanks for facilitating that. I hope one day we can all agree that unnecessarily harming the class known as non-human animals, who have no voice and no vote, for profit, is one unarguably “bad” thing that many humans do. And then rationally discuss more compassionate ways of behaving with the interests of all animals and insects and fishes and birds in mind, and ultimately with each other too 🌱 ❤.
Thank you very much for your useful podcast. It is inspiring. And that lead me to wonder if the non capitslist economic system, established earlier in Israel in the form of cooperatives called kipoutz, spread in all over Arab region in the Middle East , especially in the whole Palestine...the conflict between the two sides Jews and Arabs wouldn't happened... @HaggardPillockHD in near future, with the increasing inequalities in American society, the awareness among the people there and across the world, will enforce the big shift to take place from capitalism to its alternative: a sort of "cooperatism" where the relationship in work places will be transformed and no more private ownership will exist any more...I hope will this happens not too late before the end of the anthropocene
The US would probably now allow it to happen, and even if the Palestinian territories did adopt a kibbutz system (and who's to say they didn't anyway), this does not guarantee that they'd be any better off in terms of their treatment by the occupying government
@@HaggardPillockHD in near future, with the increasing inequalities in American society, the awareness among the people there and across the world, will enforce the big shift to take place from capitalism to its alternative: a sort of "cooperatism" where the relationship in work places will be transformed and no more private ownership will exist any more...I hope will this happens not too late before the end of the anthropocene
@@bma1955alimarber You're more optimistic than I am. Virtually every facet of our lives is led by a big industry. I'm hopeful for a more socialist-progressive future where all lives are equally valued and where wellbeing is more valued than profits.
What has happened since Marx's time that could have profound implications for the theory, for instance robotics and AI? If people have more leisure and UBI removes that sort of class, will another spring up, maybe in the AI? Like if there's a government need to be efficient and use an AI manager for a certain amount of people, managing the UBI and tracking purchases to verify the person, could those managers have AI managers? Another thing is PFAS, which kind of digs away at "not one theory working because people are different" argument. The mask of the effect is that the same substance affects people in profoundly different ways, because it has multiple effects on different areas of the body and people have strengths and weaknesses, and is itself invisible. If it affects people emotionally, could this inspire these class systems (not PFAS but something else from the days of yore)...and because AI is designed into this structure it won't change. Great to hear Prof Wolff again, thanks.
yay! also; nice decision to talk about "controversial" issues, I think you'll find you attract way more people than you will alienate by being principled and honest
Fantastic interview, I look forward to what you will create with your fuck it attitude and am anxious to see how you handle this subject from other angles. Free Palestine
Some learned men mention but in passing what a fortuitous coincidence that the War in Gaza happened at a time when Netanyahu was facing deep resentment from the Israelis for his power grab and that resentment got swept to the wayside when 'the enemy suddenly decided to attack'. More honest learned men would mention that the War in Gaza did not suddenly happen on that particular start date when Hamas attacked but there were, as in all conflicts, various start dates viewed from different sides. Proff. Wolff is the most honest of them all when he explains the societal dynamics of it all.
I understand I am spamming this video with comments and I apologize. Anyways, I just wanted to mention that going through the comment section in here, this is the first time i've seen your content, and i'm super impressed with your community and the way they behave lol. maybe it's cause it's not a massive sprawling 5m sub media empire, but it seems like you normally aren't wading in the deep end and if this was a stretch for you, i'm basically shocked at how well they're taking it, lol. I'm a huge fan of Richard Wolff personally and I'm glad I found your show. Maybe the algorithm is starting to bend towards justice in recommending you to me LOL
The Marxist view of society and history can be very useful and I actually share it, in my un-sophisticated way. But applied to this particular conflict it cannot explain much. And it's visible that professor understands, or at least, feels those limitations. So he prefers to focus on analyzing a broader context and general trends in the Piketty's spirit. I think that the science of geopolitics, geoeconomics and historical patterns of conflicts may say more on the subject. But I may be wrong. 🙃
He talks about glazed looks and that he knows what everyone else thinks but they do not understand him. He's projecting, but I don't think he understands that. I'm not sure that he has the mental fortitude to even understand the subjects he's touching on. How is he even an influential person?
He's not...he also has recently learned the hard way that his "choir" prefers free BS rather than having to pay for it. His message seeks emotional reactions. Reasoning and critical thinking are not his thing.
I find it outrageous that in a country that claims to be a "democracy", college & university professors dare not broach certain topics in fear of putting their careers in jeopardy.
I find it outrageous that we have the balls in western nations to call ourselves democracies when capitalism prevents it in the 70% off life most spend at work and incentivizes the capitalist minority to corrupt the 30% we actually get when not in work, to the wants of the capitalist minority before the absolute needs of the majority below. All ensured by the capitalist minority buying the majority of centrist and right wing politicians and media simultaneously which ensures the actual left is kept away from debate never mind actual political power which is why in reality there are NO actual left wingers in the senate and not enough in the house to fill a broom cupboard in reality. All you have at best are centrists, center left on social justice matters to manufacture the illusion of difference and provide cover for being just as right wing as the right on domestic economics and foreign policy, all for the betterment of capitalism and its minority, at any externalized cost to society, nation and planet.
Over 40yrs I have come to the conclusion that our democracy is a myth, performative theater in pretense of democracy, not actual democracy, and this will remain so for as long as the majority only ever vote for a centrist or a right winger, no matter the party or nation at the time as neither of those two camps will ever stand up to capitalism itself that is lining their pockets and campaigns and retirement funds with gold.
It should also be noted that a democracy demands and requires a systemically well informed population to be able to come to good collective decisions, that has never been possible under capitalism where the bulk of media has been in the hands of a handful of capitalists for a century plus.
While the rest of us have moved on, the cold war mindset never left the ruling class.
@HaggardPillockHD Not helped by the fact they are increasingly getting more and more geriatric. Leaders/politicians/managers didn't always use to be so old, now they are mostly from the cold war.
Are you kidding? Most academics are Marxist ideologues like Wolf, or at least a significant portion. Way more than the general population
It's a new level of "woke" or "political correctness."
I’m impressed by your willingness to engage sincerely with speakers across the political spectrum.
The guy is an idiot, not less. Israel cannot ally itself with China - China is pragmatic and it prefers 500 million Arabs over 7 million Jews.
i was a huge fan of the pod already. now that i know robinson has a moral compass, this is probably my number 1 podcast (also listen to Revolutionary Left Radio, folks)
Keep inviting people like Richard Wolff, it's priceless for science centered folks to be subjected Marx's theories since most don't realize his approach is more science based than modern Economics -- which is ridiculed as pseudoscience for good reason, given that they dismiss anything that isn't within a capitalist & free trade framework. Even the protectionist Econs are limited by their complete subservience to Capitalism.
whtever agrees with your prejudices is "science"
LOL Marx and science, you people are hilarious
"his approach is more science based than modern Economics"
Seriously? Give me a break. His approach was based on one thing and one thing only. Resentment.
Marxism is a religion and a cult. It is not at all based on science
@@anthonybrett Resentment is when you believe economics should be a material science and not based on arbitrary things like the imaginary laws governing the free will of the human spirit?
As always, Prof. Wolff is on point with his brutally frank anaylsis and potential solutions.
If you have three hours to go over the history of region get Norm Finklestein on your show
Finkelstein is a liar and a fraud.
Another Marxist. When are you going to finally kick "class warfare" to the curb?
aye, takes a while, but he is enthralling.
Finkelstein completely ignores the foundational role of Islam which lies at the bottom of the whole conflict. It’s a religious war. An Islamic caliphate is what these nuts are marching for! If you are devient in any way then you’ll be flung from a building. This is certainly not hearsay it’s the truth. It’s called ‘shar’ia’ law. I’ve studied it for 30 years. Read the Qur’an then you will be more educated about the terror which it’s surrounded by 👹👺
Norman Finkelstein ignores the absolutely crucial place which Islam holds in this conflict. It is FUNDAMENTAL! It’s all over their charter. You cannot divorce religion from politics & economics as Islam informs absolutely everything. It’s a state of affairs which most people in the west just cannot fathom for we have divorced Christianity from the state & the legal system & we operate a healthy balance of powers. There are tiny courts which a woman, for eg, could go to to divorce her abusive husband but she is not equal to a male in the eyes of sharia law. She is only worth half of a man. There are countless women who have been stoned to death under sharia even if someone concocts a lie about a woman having an affair she can be therefore falsely accused & face the same fate. Iran still stones women & there was a recent stoning in Palestine. These people are kept down by their religion & it robs, especially women. This is a RELIGIOUS war which Hamas make clear. It wants an Islamic caliphate & after destroying Israel then they would move on elsewhere with all their thousands of terror cells. All this will, in turn, attract nutters who will attack people here. Of course, we have let them into our countries. We HAVE to care for our countries. Why give them away for nothing? For Islam to take over? Why can’t these marching individuals realise that their support for Hamas is blind? I heard today of Queers for Palestine! Queers? Well they would have a very short life before being thrown from a building in Gaza. All of their western supporters should be forced to live in Gaza. Perhaps then they would see that Israel is unequivocally the only democracy in all of the Arab states. Palestinians working & 25% of them living in Israel have equal rights & citizenship as in any other democracy. They get paid 4 times what they would earn in Gaza. In fact, Gaza is prime land but its people have done nothing to develop it whereas the Israelis have made a paradise. Apparently Gaza has beautiful beaches which could be part of a tourism future. It will not happen because Hamas want to stay in control of the people who have given them the majority vote. These mentally sick terrorists have literally blown up all their billions from us. We never learn who is deserving of our help. We could spend it on our own people. These immigrants, don’t you worry, have tens of millions spent on them here with free flats, benefits, you name it whilst some of them murdering & injuring our people. Billions have been wasted building their tunnels. Can you imagine the stupidity here & the selfishness! Finally, Hamas will never settle with Israel because it will never recognise Israel as being a state. They didn’t just shoot the Israelis but they savaged them in agonising & grotesque ways including very young children. How would you react if this happened to you? I wonder! If they lay all their weapons down & promise peace then they would find that the Israelis would help in every way to build their country & live like most humans. But it’s a fruitless hope tragically
What a great discussion! Glad algorithm hooked me up. Professor Wolff is one of my spirit animals. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE
One of your "spirit animals!" I love it!!!
Your “spirit animal” is a blithering moron? 😂
I love this guy
So enlightening
Thank you RUclips for making access to such brilliant minds possible, for the average Joe and Jane
Learned so much without signing up for a course at a pricey university at my own time 😊
What a great time to be alive
Thank you God
Thank you again ,Richard, for having Professor Richard Wolff on again. When one listens to him or reads his books, ones mind opens. Another remarkable discussion from a man notably who asks sane questions and delivers with great wisdom.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is coorperation."
Bertrand Russell
as SAT scores go down love of Marxism goes up
@@cropframe ... funny! ... Tells us a lot about SAT scores
@@JuanCarlosbarquero-f3e I propose that people with low SAT scores be treated by doctors with low MCAT scores - this way we will let evolutionary forces to decide whether white patriarchal metrics matter
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I appreciate Mr. Wolfe's background and education that frames his point of view. Mine, understandably, is a bit different than seeing things through a Marxist prism of class struggle. I grew up in middle class America wherein I watched my parents', well mainly father's, point of view based upon him coming from an Anglo, Germanic European influenced cultural background. I also was critical of his point of view, adopted from a rather mainstream, Republican perspective. At about age 12, in Middle School, then called Jr. High, at the end of the McCarthy era, and in the midst of the "Red Scare", I wrote that I thought we should "get to know" Communists, not be afraid of them.
I heard my father use the phraseology "when White Man ..." came this continent, or some other event. tt stuck in my mind to this day, in my 70s. What kind of point of view did his thinking reflect? In my mind White Superiority. I think the "White Superiority blows other frameworks out of the water. I think the reverberations from that status of self-delusion are the main framework we psychologically deal with that has now manifested in Gaza. It's a manifestation of the same self-delusion of slave master to slave. "How dare you take away my 'free labor', my tools for dominance. I'm White.
huge fan of Richard Wolff, and a huge fan of how welcomed the kitty is to stay in the video lol
On the 7th, there were no direct attacks on civilians, only collateral damage. Out of the 769 names on the Haaretz dataset, 462 were military personnel, including 55 soldiers, 13 privates, 59 corporals, 200 sergeants (45 of whom were sergeant majors), 48 commanders, 32 lieutenants, 5 lieutenant colonels, 6 colonels, 37 officers, 10 inspectors, 6 intendents, and 2 Lance Corp. This was a military defeat, and they are taking it out on the rest.
Out of the 1148 total names, 403 were military personnel, 59 belonged to the police, and 668 were civilians. This means that the collateral damage on the 7th was lower than any of the iTf "mowing" operations, which has a ratio of 6:1. The ratio of civilians to military personnel killed on the 7th was 1.6:1, with 462 military personnel out of 1148 total. When including all casualties, not just deaths, the collateral damage ratio of the "mowing" operations is 162:1 and not "just" 6:1 based on analyzing UN OHC data from 2008 to 2022.
A 162 :1 ratio means that for every 162 civillians, 1 military personnel is a casualty. The 7th had a ratio of 1.6:1, a hundred times lower.
The reported (not all have their ages listed) ages of the victims are as follows:
0-4: 2 civilians
5-12: 8 civilians
13-17: 14 civilians
18-25: 132 civilians
26-40: 119 civilians
41-60: 55 civilians
61+: 40 civilians
18-25: 258 active duty military personnel
26-40: 60 active duty military personnel
41-60: 17 active duty military personnel
61+: 1 active duty military personnel
I'm not going to pretend I don't appreciate this comment, but all the same, it feels like engaging with the propaganda in this earnest way by trying to dispel it with a wall of texts helps it more than it effectively fights it. I kind of hate putting it this way, but don't negotiate with terrorists. it's important to have the facts obviously but I hope it's clear what I'm getting at. some of the counter spin and damage control the zionist propaganda machine is putting out there is so bad and dumb that it's not even worthy of acknowledgement except to point and laugh. that's all I'm saying.
in particular, a correction like this is far, FAR more likely to just be read as justification for cannibalism and totally railroaded. that's a big part of why i wouldn't generally consider it constructive. I understand you just copy pasted this with not that much specific context or dialogue with the episode but still
There is a more detailed report of of oct 7th titled
"I scrapped the information about 1096 of the 1460 killed on 7th of October Attack. Children Less than 1%"
The first time the phrase “human animal” was recorded in history was by Eichmann in WW2 he literally said “we have to be savages in a chapter that will never be written when treating human animals”, even their calculating of calories was also done
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In the Tantura (2022) documentary there is a iTf man who says that they took a pregnant woman, made bets whether the baby is a boy or a girl, disemboweled and cut her stomach open to check who won, another one talking about school children who were raising their the hands, the same way kids do in a classroom, after he rounded them up. He then kept firing. Both laughing merrily and casually at the recollection. In another documentary '1948: Creation & Catastrophe', a survivor speaks about women getting violated infront of their family members by iTf. She was a child at the time and still wept as an elderly woman. For more recent atrocities, "Breaking the Silence" record statements by the iTf themselves, they recount the events witht he same casualty their forebears do.
The journalist Gideon Levy once was at a checkpoint in the west bank where the soldiers there force the ambulance to wait an hour before someone clears it through as part of a routine while they watch Tv. The journalist waited with the ambulance then got angry, confronted the iTf soldier asking him what if it were your mother in the ambulance, the soldier made the same face and pointed his weapon at him. This was many years ago, it had only gotten worse since. They simply dont see them as human.
Look into the Hannibal directive. Israel dustified its own on Oct 7. On purpose. It's doctrine....
The Hamas attacks were totally indiscriminate, and especially barbaric and sadistic - these are the actually facts, as opposed to your insane propaganda
I am so enjoying Prof Wolff’s comments about how ridiculous is the standing of UK in the world. I feel so nauseated with all our politicians that I feel unable to listen to them. I love that he sees them as they are and says it. Thank you Richard Wolff.
Britain is the first country in the world to make slavery illegal. Muslims were still slavers long after Britain did that
yup as an english/irish woman it gives me great joy and amusement!
UK is worse than just "junior, deputy, assistant" (Wolff) of the US. The US has a nefarious hold on London elites. John Pilger did a doc video of the gradual destruction of the beloved NHS through US influence.
From afar, the hatred of Corbyn is puzzling.
@@eemoogee160 huh ? yes that is puzzling
Thanks for not being silent!
Incredible intellectually honest talk. Kudos.
Wonderful to hear Prof. Wolff and I appreciate his personal passion showing through in this dark moment.
Thanks so much for the last hour. Fascinating. I really agree with Richard closing comments completely, so important to have these conversations, thank you both so much for giving up your time
This is called wisdom. Gratitude
I'm glad you have decided to take on controversial, but arguably some of the most practically important, issues with serious thinkers. Curious what the next two perspectives showcased will be.
Prof. Richard Wolff has much to taught us, glad you had him on to speak on this issue.
wow, you're braver than most academics, especially those who wear a radical aesthetic.
WOW Professor Richard Wolff is truly amazing speaker thank you.
I'm sorry TRUMP,I'm voting for a socialiizion candidate
you gotta check out the shows he streams on KPFA radio too
It always disturbing to hear western marxists talk about the "socialist root" of the izraeli project. While the USSR did recognise the establishment of that state, it very quickly reverted to supporting the Palestinian struggle. That is why RD Wolff is a rare case in challenging that idea. However, there is a truth about the fact that even the most "lefty" izraeli mostly support the colonial project because they do profit from it, the same way many lefties in the US are in favour of that settler colonial project ("they live on the other side of imperialism" as V Prashad so succinctly put it).
Finally, that even someone as well aware of imperialism as RD Wolff still thinks that the Al Aqsa Flood operation was a "horrible horrible thong" shows how scared the west is when it comes to arm struggle waged by the oppressed Global South/Majority. It is the biggest disappointment that the Global Majority has seen in the western left, and that is why the majority of humanity is moving away from the west both philosophically and socially. Any human being with a iota of humanity and sense of fairness will NEVER condemn the colonised for waging arm struggle "By Any Means Necessary" (Malcom X), because those means are dictated by the material conditions within which they live and against which they struggle. Anything short of full support for anti-imperialist liberation movements in the "South" displays the hypocrisy of the western thought.
At the end of the day, the zionist project was and has always been a colonial project, a way for western capitalists to project power and control the main energy sources that drive capitalism (i.e., fossil fuel). To resolve the issue in Palestine requires challenging and destroy that colonial project (the root of the problem as RD Wolff so clearly suggested). It is also worth noting that you could have a "socialist coop-oriented" colonial state, which might look "socialist" from the inside (like the kibbutzes). But considering those formations as a "positive" socialist experience ignores the theoretical advances that V Lenin and K Nkrumah (among many other non-western marxists) have brought to our understanding of what a socialist society could look like.
Yes, exactly, there’s this Western brain cancer that makes even many leftists opposed to armed struggle against imperialism.
"it very quickly reverted to supporting the Palestinian struggle." - Yes, after beginning of anti-Semitic campaigns USSR of course stopped supporting Israel. "most "lefty" izraeli mostly support the colonial project because they do profit from it" - profit from so called colonial project by staying alive. "It is the biggest disappointment that the Global Majority has seen" - there is no such thing as global majority. Every region has internal struggles between local powers.
"Any human being with a iota of humanity and sense of fairness will NEVER condemn the colonised for waging arm struggle "By Any Means Necessary" " - if someone starts a war by any means necessary he must be stopped, because he has the lowest moral standard and is the worst option as a local power.
"because those means are dictated by the material conditions within which they live and against which they struggle" - material conditions are the cause of any event and therefore cannot be used as a justification at all. If a murderer kills because of material conditions he should still be put in the prison just because he is a threat to the surrounding people. "To resolve the issue in Palestine requires challenging and destroy that colonial project" - no, deporting all Arabs to the Arabic peninsula from which they started their colonial project is not a good idea. "ignores the theoretical advances that V Lenin" - who is literally a European who lived in European Russia like me and for some time in Switzerland and who never wrote anything which can be directly applied here.
Anyway his socialist experiment began with the creation of a dictatorship with concentration camps, so probably not a good example to follow.
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You're the man, Robinson!
I adore Professor Wolff ! i feel such relief when i hear him speak, to me his words resonate with truth and compassion ❤
No one better to discuss the criminal state of Israel & the U.S. by extension & the genocide going on in Gaza, than Prof. Wolff. Thank you for having him on your show.
pseudo-science crowd loves you, Robinson
I have just discovered your channel. It is the first video i have been watching. Thank-you for this interview and its marxist insight of the palestinian conflict.
I adore Richard Wolff. Great guest to have!! ❤
I love listening to Mr. Wolff. It often feels like listening to a stream of consciousness (i.e. isn't 100% sure of the destination), but there is no jibberish. It's a performance for sure, but it also leads to a valuable perspective. I guess, like he said, there is no singular truth, so I won't call it "the" truth, but it IS his truth and you can tell he has fought hard for it. It's definitely worth listening to. Thanks for posting it!
One of your very best episodes so far!
Excellent guest, a genius
I concur.
Only in the kingdom of the blind...where he is another blind person who claims he can see.
Kudos to you for taking on this third rail of a topic
Simply incredible🤯. Thank you for this 👏👏👏
In my opinion Marx is relevant in the Gaza and Israel situation because he criticizes capitalism. Israeli capitalism has to be similar to American capitalism where the oligarchy was the most money can buy the legislation. Israeli-American Oligarchy slow-played a development of Gaza and the military-industrial, prison-industrial complex was glad to sell the defenses and with a 60% unemployment rate, Gaza erupted right on schedule.
Thank you for talking about Palestine
Loved your intro, fuck it indeed. Glad you won't shy away from controversial topics. And i'm happy to see Professor Wolff any time!
awesome show
Well Professor Wolff. Thank you for teaching us other ways of thinking about humanity and class structure as it could be applied to todays events. Stay well
great to hear. Professor Wolff is speaking out from the heart
It has taken me a few episodes and at first it was like Hmmmmmyaaaaaasuuuuuucoooooookaaaaaaa , any way after thinking wow. His arrangement of guests and his comparison from the show to show is really cool and I'm looking forward to more gust. And also all of the right questions are being asked without I don't think rubbing anyone wrong or insulting anyone their questions that are good questions that kind of questions a good host should ask. I compliment you and keep up the good work and I look forward to a lots of new and old. Guest to conquer and fix the world!!!!!! Once upon in my time I looked at myself as a socialist . And probably not even knowing what a socialist really was and that there is a difference in all three socialism Marxism and communism I hope your guests and I'm sure they couldn't do it on just one podcast but hopefully over a couple of shows talk about all and how they differ from each other and also I would love your guests to tell us how it would behoove us all in future. Let's just see what kind of salesman your guest is LOL. But I really enjoy your show and I thank you you and your guest.
Sheesh, let Dr Wolff drive me nuts then bring me totally in on the end with civility. Nice work both of yall
Great stuff. Interview 3 please.
so excited to watch this after work
Thank you for this important discussion!
Absolutely brilliant interview, thank you Richard for you insight and spreading your words to the rest of the world via UTube
Dude, you’re awesome. Yes, these professors do pontificate but you have the best way to phrase and poise questions to further the “conversation”, rather the dissertation haha. I swear one thing of these times listening I’m gonna count how many sentences you average per episode. Excellent shit.
Finally, someone talking about "class" and "class struggles. " Thank you.
There is a whole subculture of anti-Capitalist youtubers. I'd be happy to recommend some!
youtube search recommendations for such:
Geopolitical Economy Report with Ed Norton
Michael Hudson
Garland Nixon
Joti Brar
Mark Blyth
Chris Hedges
Enjoy.
oh my God i have to say it again! I adore this man! I can imagine how challenging it has been for Professor Wolff to have to converse with the narrow cultish world view of the academia of the empire. I am so grateful for his insights. I am so grateful i can learn from him.
1:55 yeah! Great to see Dr. Wolff again
great episode man! for foreign affairs from a leftist lens, invite Vijay Prashad! He is amazing, very learned, very good communicator, really funny. Michael Hudson is another giant, but he's a little technical. he's great for pure geoeconomics and some geopolitics
when it comes to Israel Robinson doesnt have any lens but leftist
Hell yeah I'd love to see Dr Vijay Prashad here in this topic
just subscribed to your podcast because of your courage to cover these topics. thanks man
ASk him to find courage to invite Charles Murray and discuss group IQ gaps
these long freeform interviews data-charging the global net communuty are gonna change the world we live in for the better.
Not many people admitted to the fact that with the fall of the Berlin wall, it wasn't democracy that had one, which is what this event is celebrated for, it was capitalism that won. We're now seeing it reach exasperated limits. We need to refer to ancient Greece to examine what democracy entails.
Peeling back layers of media spin, this is raw perspective and truth - unfiltered and unapologetic. Today’s mainstream narratives are a wild ride of distortion, dwarfing Orwell’s wildest dreams. Dive into this video for a dose of harsh, vital reality. ❤❤❤
Thank you so, so much!
There you go Robinson. Great opening monologue.
F- it is the right approach. Uncomfortable questions must be brought to the table
Wolff's urging that we need to understand our differences has moved me. Thank you
wolff is a Zionist trien not to be noticed and don’t wanna condemn his largest contributors: he has no Chutzpaw to condemn Israel and has completely showed his colors ……he’s not with the people or just a residue of the man he used to be or thought he was! Oy Vey in deed……right there with decrepit Bernie Sanders!
what a wonderful explanation of the human condition. thank you prof Wolff.
Invite people like Wolff not VDH , Wolff states facts while Victor was repeating lies after lies and talking points that were debunked .
Great presentations, I subscribed.
Ofcourse the Wolf is on the right side of history here too < 3
right, like every commie ever was
Actually, Wolff (double F as in double failure) is on the left side of history
@@notanemoprog Hello friend. Failure? Compared to who?
Which is the part that puts him on the wrong side of history?
Oh wow Robinson. I will, definitely, be watching this later today. I have not been watching your videos recently but will be binge watching soon. You have an amazing channel and your content is high quality and engaging.
Came for the Finkelstein, stayed for the general high quality content
Brilliant, nuanced, important discussion!!!! Just subscribed! ❤
what the heck kind of cat is that? Also, deep respect for Prof Wolff. Thank you for this episode.
At 1:32:20 minutes......David Graeber mentioned something similar “Everyday we wake up and collectively make a world together: But which one of us, left to our own devices, would ever decide they wanted to make a world like this one?”
1:31:51 actually
The Knowledge Steak starts at atound 17:00
43:00 emergence of ideology from class difference (and material & historic particularities?)
I like the things you are doing here- ***subbed, liked, comment***
Great guest, great program
Thanks!
Thank you so, so, so much, T!
antisemitism pays
1:03:33 “it’s the economy, stupid”Specifically, the $5Billion gas field off the coast of Gaza that isn’t going anywhere, soIsrael is investing a few $billion in weapons to make the people of Gaza go somewhere.
That makes a lot of sense. More sense than any thing I have read.
Thank you Robinson. Your love for Impcat Pins subsumes anything I could intelligently opine about the pain of what is going on. Your search for truth , whatever truth may be, helps liberate us all.
We are lacking great thinkers in our politicians
From the UK point of view - sorry - I cannot help but fall about laughing 😂😂😂. Your comment is an absolute understatement. Love it.
Some are not even "thinkers". Not much functioning gray matter among the lot.
Richard makes some salient points but some of his points are ahistorical or irrelevant. He infers that the present genocide is unique to the present right wing government. But this has happened several times before: 2008-2009, 2012, 2014 and 2012. On each of these occasions, Israel bombed Gaza, causing hundreds and sometimes thousands of casualties. They had a term for is: "Mowing the lawn". The difference is that this one is much, much, worse, causing far more casualties. Also, the anti Netanyahu demonstrations against his taking over the Judiciary were just that. They were not pro Palestinian demonstrations. Many Israeli flags were in evidence but Palestinian flags are nowhere to be seen. Finally, according to opinion polls support for the war is overwhelming, including among those who oppose Netanyahu. But Richard is spot on about Britain, and I speak as a Brit!
Dear Prof Wolff, please come to Australia and help us move away gracefully from the declining empire. We have strong labor unions and a Labor government in place, but they need some brave ideas. I shudder to think of you living in the US as it gets more crazy.
Only Richard Wolff could be dumb enough to analyze this situation as if everyone had no Religion there.
Professor Wolff, you are as articulately incisive as ever and I’ve not heard such intelligent thought expressed since the late 20th century. I will do my small part to tell people about you and this video, but what truly scares me is that the rest shall be up to them.
Had to watch 2 times.
I enjoyed rhe worker owner relationdship comment as a former industrial engineer doing manufacturing measurement time studies which related to pay at the 3M company. Later not considered illegal.
Palestine ❤
thanks for content
I always appreciate Richard’s perspective. Thanks for facilitating that. I hope one day we can all agree that unnecessarily harming the class known as non-human animals, who have no voice and no vote, for profit, is one unarguably “bad” thing that many humans do. And then rationally discuss more compassionate ways of behaving with the interests of all animals and insects and fishes and birds in mind, and ultimately with each other too 🌱 ❤.
Thanks!
Thank you!!!
Amazing type 1 jacket. Fine greek, y2 leathers?
Thank you very much for your useful podcast. It is inspiring. And that lead me to wonder if the non capitslist economic system, established earlier in Israel in the form of cooperatives called kipoutz, spread in all over Arab region in the Middle East , especially in the whole Palestine...the conflict between the two sides Jews and Arabs wouldn't happened...
@HaggardPillockHD in near future, with the increasing inequalities in American society, the awareness among the people there and across the world, will enforce the big shift to take place from capitalism to its alternative: a sort of "cooperatism" where the relationship in work places will be transformed and no more private ownership will exist any more...I hope will this happens not too late before the end of the anthropocene
The US would probably now allow it to happen, and even if the Palestinian territories did adopt a kibbutz system (and who's to say they didn't anyway), this does not guarantee that they'd be any better off in terms of their treatment by the occupying government
@@HaggardPillockHD in near future, with the increasing inequalities in American society, the awareness among the people there and across the world, will enforce the big shift to take place from capitalism to its alternative: a sort of "cooperatism" where the relationship in work places will be transformed and no more private ownership will exist any more...I hope will this happens not too late before the end of the anthropocene
@@bma1955alimarber You're more optimistic than I am. Virtually every facet of our lives is led by a big industry. I'm hopeful for a more socialist-progressive future where all lives are equally valued and where wellbeing is more valued than profits.
What has happened since Marx's time that could have profound implications for the theory, for instance robotics and AI? If people have more leisure and UBI removes that sort of class, will another spring up, maybe in the AI? Like if there's a government need to be efficient and use an AI manager for a certain amount of people, managing the UBI and tracking purchases to verify the person, could those managers have AI managers?
Another thing is PFAS, which kind of digs away at "not one theory working because people are different" argument. The mask of the effect is that the same substance affects people in profoundly different ways, because it has multiple effects on different areas of the body and people have strengths and weaknesses, and is itself invisible. If it affects people emotionally, could this inspire these class systems (not PFAS but something else from the days of yore)...and because AI is designed into this structure it won't change.
Great to hear Prof Wolff again, thanks.
yay! also; nice decision to talk about "controversial" issues, I think you'll find you attract way more people than you will alienate by being principled and honest
I am learning
Highest respect for you Prof. Wolff!
Yet another banger
Mao says that where there is oppression, there will be uprising! It is right to rebel!!
It seems most important to always follow the money.
Love that Robinson is open to a conversation with every political side, view, every creed and race as long as they agree that it is Israel's fault.
Illuminating.
Fantastic interview, I look forward to what you will create with your fuck it attitude and am anxious to see how you handle this subject from other angles.
Free Palestine
I thought the Harvard woman left because she was done for multiple plagiarism.
Obviously it was the Israel lobby who got rid of her, no one cares about plagiarism
Some learned men mention but in passing what a fortuitous coincidence that the War in Gaza happened at a time when Netanyahu was facing deep resentment from the Israelis for his power grab and that resentment got swept to the wayside when 'the enemy suddenly decided to attack'. More honest learned men would mention that the War in Gaza did not suddenly happen on that particular start date when Hamas attacked but there were, as in all conflicts, various start dates viewed from different sides. Proff. Wolff is the most honest of them all when he explains the societal dynamics of it all.
I understand I am spamming this video with comments and I apologize. Anyways, I just wanted to mention that going through the comment section in here, this is the first time i've seen your content, and i'm super impressed with your community and the way they behave lol. maybe it's cause it's not a massive sprawling 5m sub media empire, but it seems like you normally aren't wading in the deep end and if this was a stretch for you, i'm basically shocked at how well they're taking it, lol. I'm a huge fan of Richard Wolff personally and I'm glad I found your show. Maybe the algorithm is starting to bend towards justice in recommending you to me LOL
The Marxist view of society and history can be very useful and I actually share it, in my un-sophisticated way. But applied to this particular conflict it cannot explain much. And it's visible that professor understands, or at least, feels those limitations. So he prefers to focus on analyzing a broader context and general trends in the Piketty's spirit. I think that the science of geopolitics, geoeconomics and historical patterns of conflicts may say more on the subject. But I may be wrong. 🙃
the marxist view he is using and applying is historical materialism
Marxism is to philosophy as flat Earth is to science.
He talks about glazed looks and that he knows what everyone else thinks but they do not understand him. He's projecting, but I don't think he understands that. I'm not sure that he has the mental fortitude to even understand the subjects he's touching on. How is he even an influential person?
He's not...he also has recently learned the hard way that his "choir" prefers free BS
rather than having to pay for it.
His message seeks emotional reactions. Reasoning and critical thinking are not his thing.
If we only had politicians think.like you