Fascist always blame everything on "socialism" or "communism" which have never been truly practiced. Ever wonder why that is? B/c the fascists can't be honest about being to blame for what's truly going on. Quit being duped. This is feudalism. It's right wing. Follow the money, b/c the only ones who aren't being inconvienced (as always) are rich white silly f*ckers.
McConnell is just as much a socialist as Bernie and Prof. Wolf. He's just a socialist for the rich. Let's never forget the biggest upward bailout of wealth in human history occurred under his party's reign. So I'm well within my right to call McConnell and Republicans socialists, just socialists for the rich at the tax payer's expense.
Amazing. I never thought about the voting implications of home ownership. I was focused on the economic devastation. Thank you so much, Dr. Wolf, for your insights work on behalf of the workers of the World.
Finally, mercifully, I was recently able to find a home. The voter info packet just arrived in the mail, and it's true. Suddenly I DO care a lot more about local zoning measures etc. It's actually pretty profound.
"[the students are simply the first ones, line up with them, line up behind them, get for yourself (as a debtor) what the students are fighting for themselves." Whoah! I felt the power behind that statement. I would hope that people (not people in congress) could understand that they too are suffering from debts and that the corporations are not on their side.
It’s simply extraordinary that voters in Kentucky ( ? ) find a bizarre, brain-meltingly boring dullard like McConnell someone they see fit to perennially return to Washington.
The Democrats never run anyone good against him. Let us not pretend, anyway, brother. There's really only one big party in Washington. One big 'property party,' with two names.
Generations of incest, underfunded schools and drinking water fouled by coal ash, lead, arsenic and mercury explain Mitch McConnell. The entire Appalachian crescent has been a sink of cognitive dissonance since the civil war.
Amazing! To me, one of the most interesting guests on the show so far. He exposes based both on experience (history) and theory (I love it when the works are mentioned, gives me more to read!). Thanks as always for your work!
The deplorable state of American "education" should be recognized as a harbinger of things to come, as well as an indelible "Black Spot" on American history itself. Is it unreasonable to expect that a nation TRULY devoted to the well-being of its citizenry would do all that it possibly could to uplift those individuals in any way it could? The American government has done just the opposite! More than any other factor, our emasculated education system should be a shocking indicator of how little respect the American Government has for its own citizens.
@@ssamd263 I can't tell if this is a trick question, but I'll bite. The deplorable state of education came first. The wealthy-class in "American" territory has been trying to prevent the working-class from learning since before there was an American-country in which to run for office. Then, once the country was formed, the wealthy-class continued to prevent the working-class slaves and indentured-servants from learning. The wealthy-class in the past knew the same thing that the wealthy-class knows in the present: that is that stupid working-class people make better slaves and servants. The high cost of running for office is just a cog in the machine of money being passed around between wealthy-class knaves and the working-class dupes who are striving to become members of the wealthy-class. The wealthy-class's ploy of purposely trying to keep working-class people stupid is as old as the pharaohs, much older than people running for office.
The deplorable public education system is a prime example of what happens when government runs something, yet Wolff persistently endorses socialism which is the government in control of people.
The separation of church and state promised in Americas' constitution has never really taken hold. Education and religion are intertwined, basic being literacy. The gospels of all religions invite the people to come forth and learn. The witholding of knowledge has been an issue since Eve.
I had to stop this video, before it ended, to implore the producers of Democracy At Work to provide and make accessible transcriptions of particularly insightful conversations, as indicative of this one. Of the many remarkable POVs offered up, always by Professor Wolff, himself, but in this instance, by his special guest, Marcello Mustothe, was the question of who started WW1? it struck my sensibilities most profoundly, particularly, as it relates to relationships the Left has had and has now with war and the making thereof. As an amendment to the subject at hand, I like to add FDRs preface leading up to WW2. As much as I admire his applied regulatory socialism and as much as I am disheartened by the dems deliberate abandonment of those policy achievements, the speculations that Pearl Harbor was a false flag and all that it implies, takes the edge off of his legacy for me.I also can't avoid the realization that he created the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) when he conjoined the captains of industry with the generals of the military high command to create a war machine that could confront the Axis powers. This unholy alliance became a permanent fixture and inexorable black box presence, over which we have absolutely no control. In closing, an important point was agreed upon that a particular war didn't (necessarily) start on a particular date in history, but well before -- just like a volcanic eruption or an earthquake is only the end product of the powerful forces that preceded it. The West deliberately taunted and provoked Russia by violating a series of non aggression treaties that it was co-signatory to. The US went ballistic when Khrushchev was positioning strategic nukes just 90 miles off the coast of Florida in Cuba. Americans were unanimous in their concern for the first strike threat potential. But now, when the US wants to install NATO in the Ukraine with tactical nukes, a likely part of the armament, Americans and the West are incapable of empathizing with Russia's concerns for the first strike potential on their country.
Thank you for your heartfelt and concerning platform for American people that share common thinking,interest for the truth your knowledge and wisdom,your expertise and of course your humor stands out...more power Godbless...We Thank You.
Im no big fan of simple diagrams like the "Pendulum" one, but its probably best to say, the forces of reaction are strong, and have the support of millions, and without any form of unity, we have little to do against it.
The damage resulting from debt forgiveness will be that very rich people--who loan money because they don't need as much as they have--may not end up with more. Being mostly cheats, liars and thieves, rich people don't tolerate this very well.
Quote from Jesus ' a camel would have an easier time going through an eye of a needle than a rich man entering the kingdom of heaven.' Tip-over the tables of the money takers.
But the debt forgivess money comes from the government, which taxes all classes of people, honey! I have a much better idea than studant forgiveness: when YOU get a degree, YOU pay for it, not me... How about that?
@@juniorgod321 give the creditors ten cents on the dollar, more than they would have gotten if we hadn't created a special exception in the bankruptcy laws. As for impecunious students paying their own way, it's been tried. Tends to limit educational opportunity to rich people's spawn, not exactly the cream of the academic crop, despite their good looks. If you want dentists who don't know a molar from an incisor, it's a perfect strategy.
@@guytouquet yeah, except that back in the day, BEFORE the government got envolved, degrees used to be a lot cheaper and the vast majority os people could afford to go to college, even if they didn't come from rich families! Just try asking anyone older, wh got a degree before the student loans came into play if they had to pay an arm or a leg for it!
We are limited by our options. If we choose student debt, we can increase our status if we find a good job, but we are wage slaves. If we don't choose student debt, we can't move up in the hierarchy as readily, our status is lacking, and we are further from reaching the American Dream than otherwise. Either way we come to regret whatever choice we made. The other debts (car, home) act further to lock you in to the system. And the forces of conformity, which get stronger as you age, push people in the direction of more debt, not less. And the forces of entertainment take the edge off enough that you don't have to think too hard about your situation.
@@paladinsorcerer67 College isn’t the only option for an education. I chose to learn a trade. Blue collar trades pay very well, and you don’t have to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for trade schools. In some cases you don’t even need to go to school if you are fortunate enough to find an employer who will train you. Point is, debt is not inevitable, but you have to be purposeful in your pursuit of getting ahead without it. It doesn’t happen by accident.
There is such a thing as good debt. For instance, if you make a finite debt (like for buying a house or starting a co-op) in order to get rid of eternal debt (rent or surplus extraction by you employer). Sure, in capitalism, there’s a risk associated with that, but that’s just a reason to get creative and start co-op banks or maybe even co-op insurances that help you if for external reasons, you can’t pay your debts anymore. Mutual aid is not something that you wait for the government to deliver, it’s something that you build in your community.
It's actually the 15th chapter of deuteronomy: "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the Lord's release."
Economy's like a stage 4 cancer patient after years of chemo, or in the economy's case years of offshoring and outsourcing, to the point it's hollowed out and matatasized to the point it needs endless around the clock IV drip of freshly borrowed (printed ) dollars to keep from goin in cardiac arrest........permanently!
I have already paid off my student loans, and I must say that I have no ill will towards those who would benefit from student loan forgiveness. Student loans are pretty ubiquitous, so most people who need loans can get them. College used to not be so expensive, so people of my generation are less well off because of that, but I don't complain. You deal with the situation with which you are presented. Other people who are in debt due to other reasons, like from buying tools and equipment to take up a trade, should get some kind of tax break to offset their costs. I mean, like the professor said, corporations and the rich have huge tax breaks, while the rest of us get nothing, at a time when corporations don't even need it. I'd say that it's about time that the other 99% of Americans were prioritized.
I agree that war should be avoided, and I regret that the Ukraine war is taking place. I protested against the Vietnam War in my youth, and I felt leftist student protests and the media, which was far different at that time, much more honest and professional than it is today, did much good and gave an outlet to anti war people on the left. However, Mr. Wolfe, you have done was everyone in the west does. You ask a westerner to comment on the Ukraine war, and he brought up the issue of self-determination. If self-determination had anything to do with Ukraine’s position, then his argument might hold. However, the people of Mariupol and the Donbass are Russian. They supported a Russian President from the Donbass, Yanokovich, whom the US ousted in 2014. After that, and even under the puppet Zelensky, the ethnic Russians of Ukraine were denied the right to speak and teach Russian in schools, and they were unable to celebrate Russian independence from the Nazis on May 9th. So the issue of self determination rests with the Russian Ukrainians, and they want to be independent of Ukraine’s far right politics and the Ukrainian bombing of the Donbass that has gone on for 8;years and which Russia seeks to end. This is what is wrong with every one of these podcasts from westerners. The analysis is always flawed as is this analysis. That is in part because westerners do not consider the lives of Ukrainian Russians to be important, a sad fact. It’s a shame you don’t know any Russians. You might have arrived at a more logical, less flawed discussion had you consulted a Russian who understand discrimination against all Russians in the west. As for your philosophical discussion, that is a cold analysis of a hot topic and hardly relevant.
Russia needs all you Ukrainian Russians to go home and then enlist in the military and come back and fight. You may be Russian but Ukraine is not, Russian. No part of Ukraine is Russian; Crimea is Ukrainian.
Easy solution for debt forgiveness cutting for the rich is just to base it on income background and debt weight. This can easily be calculated. A "progressive" forgiveness if you will.
Jesus Christ preached forgiveness of debt also! In his Sermon on the Mount. Read Matthew chapters 5 through 7! " Do not turn away from your brother who wants to borrow from you without interest "
Most secular religions call usury a sin. Charging interest is a sin. This is why Jewish people have such a bad rep as “loan sharks” because they were the only people who, morally, were allowed to loan money.
I'm not sure of the scripture but I watched a documentary on money and it stated how for a long time it was practice to not charge interest on loans based on the bible and that was changed when some man found his way around this and charge fees for loans and interest followed later too
Ironically, and sadly, much of contemporary discourse involves socio-economic issues wedded to military and political considerations - while the entire planet is in jeopardy! Regardless of national origin, political inclinations, party affiliations, and religious beliefs - the Earth we ALL depend on is in serious jeopardy! Can we not get REAL?
There is a difference between condemning and explaining Russia's action. I believe the non-western left has had the best position on the Ukraine-Russia war and Vijay Prashad has voiced it best. Westerners should definitely listen to the rest of the World. After all, non-westerners are the majority of humanity.
@@josephgrosso2943 And he is correct. If you read Lenin and other marxist thinkers, Russia did act in what it considered self-interest, but not for imperial reasons. Again, one has to actually read.
@@leroitiaks Actually no need to read Lenin. You can just read Putin's anti-Lenin speech that kicked off the invasion- the where he described Ukraine as an artificial creation of Lenin. That sums it up well enough...but congrats on being the first Marxist I've seen to defend Putin with a reference to Lenin. Shows initiative at least
@@josephgrosso2943 That is exactly why one should read, otherwise one will not be able to separate propaganda and goals. Sadly, many so-called leftists, mainly of the imperial core (western countries) have drank the kool-aid of post-modernism and do not read anymore.
It's totally annoying. To understand what's going on in the country, or to try to predict where things are headed, you have to be able to think like a crook. Another way to say the same thing is that you have to be able to think like a politician.
What minimalist strategy and who is we? The 11 GOP Senators by and large occupy the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe. It is reckless and naive to think that there is any meaningful crossover being right-wing nativist "isolationism" (i.e. a reconfiguration of US imperialism) and anti-imperialism.
@@janosmarothy5409 I think it becomes "meaningful" when we just spent 60 billion in the last 3 months to promote Nazis in Ukraine and WW3. Who else is there to minimally and critically support but people opposing this?
@@discogodfather22 That's a horrible, unprincipled and historically proven as a losing strategy -- and here I'm thinking specifically of the KPD's politically debased collaboration with the NSDAP simply to undermine the SPD, but there are plenty other examples I can provide. The fascist-friendly wing of the GOP is not opposed to WW3, it just wants WW3 _on its terms_ i.e. with China, who they are perfectly fine being hawkish against. The working class has no strategic interest in myopic "enemy of my enemy" politics, least of all with the right wing of capital.
@@janosmarothy5409 Well then tail the Dems and enter WW3, I am sure you'll be perfectly principled after the blinding light. And this bullshit about NSDAP is hilarious, did the realize yet that the recipients of the 40 billion are actual, real Nazis? Not even the "neo" variety, the OG Nazis. So sell this garbage elsewhere midwit.
The stereotype of the renter in this episode is not only offensive but false. Especially with so few options, a renter is going to stick around wherever he finds an available home. I have always rented, and I shop, volunteer, pay taxes, donate time and money to those local organizations I use, and VOTE as much (in some cases, more) as any home owner. Two-thirds of San Franciscans are renters, I hear. Clearly, fewer and fewer Americans can buy their residences. Perhaps it is time for renters to protest being so mis-characterized as in this broadcast. Thank you. Harriet in San Francisco
I very much appreciate dem at work, but I would like an answer to the history of ww1, that russia and france aligned to gain access to the black sea for russia, and recovery of alsace lorraine for france. They both aligned against turkey which was aligned with germany to foment war for the above gains to be made. Older history books propose this and I never hear of these in the discourse.
Interesting thoughts, war should always be a last resort, and if possible avoided, the question is, what would have happened to Ukrainians, if they had just layed down their arms, would Putin armies have committed the atrocities and distraction of Ukraine infrastructure as has been occurring, seems the only people who have benefited are the manufacturers of weapons, the cost of human lives,homes etc have been catastrophic…
It's possible for war to be _both_ a continuation of politics by other means _and_ a failure of politics: it's political activity you get when you find yourselves unwilling or unable to conduct group affairs without unrestricted mass violence. It's among the worst possible varieties of politics. (The only rival that occurs to me is sheer totalitarian dictatorships for the exclusive benefit of a very small class, which amounts to a one-sided perpetual internal war anyway.) That's not going to compromise an anti-war stance - it motivates one.
Can someone summarize Professor Musto’s last statement? The one where he gives the three positions one can take? I had trouble understanding what they are. I know the first is failing to condemn the war.
me too. Only got 1st two. Didn't really understand what they are though. Subtitling is what you'd expect from a machine. Ex: 'closer' for 'Clausewitz' is pretty naff and quite unhelpful..
The US as the most powerful country in the world should help their students. I hope China can also learning from the west European countries in this aspect.
Damn I wish that had been on 3 weeks ago when Australia was going through its annual celebration of nationhood created in the furnace of WW1. We used to think it'd die out with the death of the last soldiers from them but oh no, their children and grand children are now encouraged to take their place marching down the street to the War Memorial. In WW1 there was a strong union supported anti war and anti conscription movement, became very bitter, divided some families forever, but it was there and not forgotten.
Too bad war isn't as important as an institution as having a future, or Australia would be right on track with what its people just voted for. Instead it's war.
So, if they don't want to do a blanket student debt forgiveness because they might forgive some wealthy kid's debt, then I suggest they forgive only the student debt of all those that went to public state colleges and junior colleges. Do not forgive any of the so-called "Ivy League" or private colleges like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.
That's the problem...it doesn't:) Or you think that people who went to college and paid their debt and the people who never went to college really want to pay for someone else's degree?
@@juniorgod321 My understanding is that socialism is all about providing jobs to everyone and solving social problems by the state. Those who don't have a debt problem now, may have some other problems, like health insurance, housing, etc. Capitalism creates social problems for everyone and it doesn't have interest in solving them. I don't like to pay for wars and gov. bailing out big businesses, but I got no choice.
@@xiaoyanzhang56 If you don’t like paying for wars and to bail out big business, then you should hate socialism, because socialism is when the government does stuff with your money!
@@juniorgod321 Your definition of socialism is exactly the same as that given by the oligarchy rulers who use my money for wars and other crimes against my interest! I don't trust them!
@@juniorgod321 Right, so I should only pay _just_ the taxes for the roads I drive on and everyone can kick rocks? Practicality aside, that's not how society functions, and for all of human history, life is unlivable without public goods that are free or near-free at the point of access. Plenty of other industrialized economies treat higher education in this manner and there's no reason we should either. I should also add that more social spending isn't the same as socialism, but that's a different, albeit related, topic.
Disagree with the guest strongly. He proclaims the importance of self determination yet the east of Ukraine has reiterated again and again, over a long period of time that they do not wish to be ruled over by west Ukraine. Self determination is clearly not being observed, only when it suits USA.
I don't think it's possible to abstract this topic from global imperialism as we find ourselves confronted with, and the specific apparatus of global imperialism constituted by the USA acting through NATO as well as directly interfering in most other countries via the State Department, CIA, NED and so on, and their drive in a literal sense to take over the world and exterpate all independence and sovereignty of other countries. That's not only the framing context, historically and geographically, surrounding Ukraine, but also the particular instigating process which has driven and provoked Russia into preparing for and ultimately resorting to military action against Washington's proxy in Ukraine, created by a Washington-instigated fascist coup. In the present form of world imperialism, it seems to me that opposition to war is conterminus with opposition to US foreign policy, opposition to US militarism, opposition to the continuing existence of NATO, and opposition to the militarism and fascism exported by Washington.
sadly, most of the western left doesn't seem to know what imperialism is and how it configures itself concretely. it hardly knows any facts around what's been happening on the ground since 2014 at all. the western right actually seems to be much more aware of geopolitical matters these days, but the left won't listen to the other side, it's become lost in cancel culture and unable to think critically, thus falling prey to propaganda and idealism.
@@joana8502 Cancel culture is liberalism rather than socialism as far as I'm concerned, therefore centrism rather than leftism. Censoriousness is a professional-managerial class reflex which is about policing class boundaries by enforcement of etiquette and superfical morality, nothing to do with class struggle or anti-capitalism, let alone anti-imperialism. IMO. It's a significant part of the growing seperation between a middle class, university educated left and the actual working class which that left believes in serving.
@@patrickholt2270 agreed. but the left isn't immune to influence from liberalism, this is what i was trying to point out. one can say that it is not the real left, but the fact is that there are many self-professed socialist organizations around the world that are backed by CIA, NED, etc, which incorporate liberal identity politics and defend imperialist interests. i know a few in my country.
@@joana8502 AWL (Alliance for Workers' Liberty) in the UK is a very clear MI5 operation, consistently backing the EU, NATO, Israel, every US regime change war, now warmongering against Russia. They dress it up in pseudo socialist language, talking about workers and opposing fascism, but when you look at their policy positions, it's obvious.
This did make me think. In some respect I agree with Professor Musto that war is a failure of politics. But if my memory serves me well, I seem to remember that the left tried to convince people to stay out of WWII also and the faction of the left that finally won that argument was that some wars are worth fighting. Indeed some wars must be fought. Some of my childhood heroes were the men who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. I learned to sing all those songs from that war and much later in my life when I escorted a group of very old Spanish Civil War Lincoln Brigade veterans to a peace rally we sang those and all the union songs in the bus all the way to the peace rally. The stories I heard! I believe some wars are necessary. They are not "good wars" but necessary. They must be fought after all else fails but they must be fought. My Uncle who was at the liberation of a concentration camp couldn't even talk about what he saw and experienced but never once did he say that he was not proud to fight Nazis. This war in Ukraine is a sad and heart wrenching affair because there is no really good reason for it. This war isn't about denazification or NATO. Indeed there are plenty of Russian fascists and Russia is hardly a place devoid of antisemitism, nor is Ukraine. In fact antisemitism is alive and well and fascism thrives right here. Just this weekend there were trucks driving around with antisemitic slogans all over West Hollywood, California. Outrageous! Authoritarianism and fascism are everywhere. That's not Putin's reason for invading Ukraine. I believe, and I think there is plenty of evidence for this belief, that Putin is just doing what authoritarian dictators do. He's trying to grab land and power. He's trying to reconstruct the hegemony of the former Soviet Union. He has said so lots of times. It doesn't matter what you think of the Soviet Union at any point in its history or what anyone thinks of socialism. The USSR broke up. It's a fact. Ukraine is recognized as an independent nation and Putin snuck into Crimea and wasn't stopped. So he went for more. He did what dictators and authiritarian rulers do. It was a particularly good time for Putin, in his estimation, to do this war thing. He messed up our 2020 election ( please don't tell me none of that interference happened) and helped give us 4 years of Trump. What could be better for Putin? Chaos and stupidity everywhere and now we are a very divided country and racism is rampant. Our economy is a mess. Inflation is eating our people alive. Our current President is a bit, shall we say mixed up sometimes? Everything lined up for Putin so he started a war. I just can't condone that! How can people look away from all the death and destruction and unequal power? I have no love for the history of Ukraine in WWII. I hold grudges! But nobody deserves what has rained down on that country and it is my sincere hope that Putin stops this war. He won't! I wish he would but he won't. He will throw silverware and pots and pans if he runs out of bombs, rockets and bullets. Putin painted himself into a corner. I hope this war stops but it won't unless someone stops Putin. So, NATO is a giant pain in the...well you know where but that's the only way of stopping Putin.. I don't think the USA has the economic stability to fight this proxy war and I resent the money being spent on it because we so badly need it here at home. This war isn't worth fighting. Well, it isn't worth US spending all that money on it. I still think that at the end of all of this, Ukraine is going to end up under Putin's thumb and we will have gained nothing. I hate that! This is messy and I want us OUT of it unless we intend to fight and win. We aren't prepared to do that and we shouldn't do that. So I want this war and all the materials we are sending there to stop now because this is so hurtful to everyone concerned and the conclusion is clear either now or Iater. If Putin stays in power and he holds it for some time, Ukraine is a lost cause. Gee, I hope I'm wrong.
All the WWII countries put millions of conscious objectors in the grave or into camps to even start WWII. They had to kill their own left to get a world war.
I'm 53 I learned 30yrs ago you never really own anything in America. My mother purchased a home in 1949 during the first great white flight and paid off the home in 1989. She passed away in 2003 giving the home to my sister who failed to pay property tax and the home 2 acres 3 level went to the city for auction and sold for cheap at $27k a lower middle class home work $72k sold for $-50k loss. My $12,700 home in Atlanta I was renting to own was redeemed as condemn and torn down for gerification highrises apartments in 2007 before realistate bubble happened to me in Michigan my home 2003.ive been living in extended hotels since 2007.used cars I paid off day 1 since 1996 and cut all credit card's up and paid off in 1999 and my 2 student loans 1988-1990 paid in full 1992. Things to survive and be comfortable can be done on mere budgets.basic food water shelter can be achieved on small pockets but not as healthy in the richest country on earth. Racism and GREED is the blockades I face because of my drifting living.my car is a honda odyssey trump supporters won't fix it because it's Asian made driven by me a Mexican. I'm a dark Cuban and the racist Indians owner's of the hotel jacked up the rent by a extra $500 a month to keep us out his suburban location. But works with poor whites from trailer park's who get ssi benefits off his taxes and sits around with cigarettes beer drug's and the police calling on 2-4 times a week but still hate dark over whites who cause most of the drama. I've been making $11,450 a year net since 2011.No debt sure I'll rent a house and be calling the landlord blowing up the phone with lawsuits for every blade of crab grass I see.
The whole thing started with the Maidan revolt in 2014, which had the effect of removing the democratically-elected President who did not want to sever ties with Russia from power. The narrative that "Russia invaded Ukraine" ignores the eight years of civil war there and the fact that there are large populations of ethnic Russians who identify with Russia in Ukraine.
He means that: while the western media is brainwashing the masses into believing that the war started in feb 2022, by Russia and thus justifying the disgusting russophobia, by banning athletes, ballet, even cats & trees, those with more then 2 functioning neurons understand that this war started long ago. Following the US backed coup in 2014, the DPR & LPR declared autonomy, as soon as they saw those swastikas waving lobotomized macaques (that the west has been arming) tearing down WW2 monuments, fellating Nazi collaborators, like S. Bandera, and banning the Russian language*, spoken in Eastern Ukraine. Putin refused to recognize the 2 republics and instead supported the Minsk accords to reintegrate them in Ukraine, but the ceasefire never materialized, the UkraiNazis kept harrasing the Russian ethnicities living in those republics, shelling them cutting their water, power, natural gas, killing 15,000 people. It took 8 years for Putin to recognize DPR & LPR, after everything else failed and the civil war was only escalating. Now the questions: >Should Putin have abandoned the folks in Donetsk & Luhansk, allowing Ukrainazis to keep murdering them for another 8 years? Or, >Should he had just sent forces in LPR & DPR to return fire, and die in a US backed proxiwar where the nazi macaques remain well funded & supplied ? *The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in May 2014, were not referendums of “independence” (независимость), as some unscrupulous journalists have claimed, but referendums of “self-determination” or “autonomy” (самостоятельность). The qualifier “pro-Russian” suggests that Russia was a party to the conflict, which was not the case, and the term “Russian speakers” would have been more honest. Moreover, these referendums were conducted against the advice of Vladimir Putin. In fact, these Republics were not seeking to separate from Ukraine, but to have a status of autonomy, guaranteeing them the use of the Russian language as an official language. For the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the overthrow of President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 that made Russian an official language. A bit like if putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland. This decision caused a storm in the Russian-speaking population. The result was a fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which was carried out beginning in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and some massacres (in Odessa and Marioupol, for the most notable). At the end of summer 2014, only the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk remained.
It is relatively irrelevant who started the war. We know the oligarchs of the world do it. And a profit motive is always behind it. That is what matters when trying to explain the reasons and agents of war. More in the present stage of capitalism when war is fundamentally the indispensable and most powerful booster for the accumulation of capital in a period of crisis and depression as they call The excessive concentration of wealth in few hands. The gargantuan military budget is the expression of the role that war plays in the cycle of accumulation of capital and the world market sustainability. War is the present determinant form of imperial capitalism. Capitalism collapses without wars. It doesn't matter if it takes a rearrangement of the world market. They'll go to any extent in order to help the survival of accumulation of capital . War is the main source of it.
@@josephgrosso2943 I don't condone war by any reason. Putin invaded Ukraine. Let the European people deal with it. Is not a threat against the USA. If you fall in the trap of war you'll spend eternity in it. Like the USA had made of this world. Look at the military budget. Is gargantuan parasitic burden on your back. 60% of the whole USA taxpayers budget money . Why?? Do you know why is that much invested in the military corporations?? Because all of it goes to the MIC corporations. At the cost of american lives permanently since ww1. Arlington is a giant memory statement to the stupidity of war for profit.
In Debs and Lenins time, socialists traversed borders. Internationalism was possible. I don't see how to operationalize it today. That's the problem. I don't see how capitulation to Russian or Chinese autocracy has any benefits
If I can rightfully conclude are very much full fledged members of the United States oligarchy, now also internationally. Since that oligarchy has always been also our government, and that government being their construct under a two party system, it's difficult to assume there's any difference between the two party's when it comes to the profiteering off war and the destruction of other countries, both in infrastructure and human life and the lives of those human victims who survive death. The constructive ideology of the United States oligarchs is that they care not the individuals who appear to govern a country so long as they control the countrys finances/money. Republican or Democrat, no difference. If the United States is to come to the American people's Dream of it, it will require the establishment of a third national political party that represents the current, future, and retired labor of America, the 98 plus percent of the eligible voters in America.
Student loan debt...... This is all to simple. Fro the ones who have paid in full need to be given admiration meaning if they are able to hire 1 or more people they will be discounted 75% write off on income taxes. the others would be given a 30% write off on whatever taxes are owed. Only then can full forgiveness be given to those who want to write it off. Why no one thinks of the greed on both side want to debate.
@@RussCR5187 Hello Russ I am just giving an idea as you have read. The thing is so much greed and no one trying to solve a simple problem. The ones who have paid should be rewarded. The ones that could not need to be like the auto industry was. With what I had mentioned the ones who paid off their debt. Am I saying tax refund for only one year. The answer is no. Maybe for 2 decades or 3 but it should be considered. AS I can tell I did get your attention and I am happy for that. Kindly to a person that know how to think.
@@jamesmana5247 Let me pose my difficulty as a question. Of those who have already paid off their student loans, would it only be the ones able to hire one or more people as employees who get a 75% tax break? What about those who have paid off their student loans and are not entrepreneurs, so they're not in a position to hire employees? I think it's the concept of "hiring" that has me confused.
@@RussCR5187 Remember mine is just an idea. maybe give all of the ones who paid their debt by 30% off a year. We need to start somewhere to please everyone.
The war in Ukraine is best seen as a turf war between competing Mafias; the Upstart Putin Mafia vs the more powerful Western Oligarch Mafia consortium with the US at the head and Ukraine is the Turf. Oh, and they have nuclear weapons.
I totally agree with 'the year of Jubilee' that you refer to, Prof Wolff. Too bad we kicked God out of our country a long time ago. The restrainer has been taken away, we are no longer a blessed nation. Sorry peeps, that boat sailed a long time ago...
Yes, it’s always amusing though to see a secular leftist who opposes anything spiritual try and use scripture to support their anti Christian ideology. Marxism is a political religion that tolerates no ideology but it’s own, but that doesn’t stop Marxists from pulling a scripture out of context every now and then to suit their own purposes.
Isaiah 61:1-8: "The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news [gospel] to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for those in bondage and release the oppressed from darkness, to proclaim the restoration of the Jubilee of the Lord [Hebrew, 'deror']. ... They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. ... Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your legacy. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours. “For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. " Luke 4:16-19: " ... He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news [gospel] to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for those in bondage and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the restoration of the Jubilee of the Lord [Hebrew, deror].” " Leviticus 25:8 ... The Year of Jubilee [ie, the Year of Reset of the Lord] 8 “In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all. 9 Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year,[a] blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land. 10 Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan. 11 This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. 12 It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own. 13 In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors. 14 “When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other. 15 When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee. 16 The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests. 17 Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God. 18 “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations. 19 Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it. 20 But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ 21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. 22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year. Redemption of Property 23 “The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me. 24 “With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. 25 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. 26 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back, 27 he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land. 28 But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land. 29 “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back. 30 But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. 31 But a house in a village-a settlement without fortified walls-will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. 32 “The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them. 33 And any property that is sold by the Levites-all houses within the Levitical towns-must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel. 34 The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession. Redemption of the Poor and Enslaved 35 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you. 36 Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative. 37 Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. 39 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself to you, do not treat him as a slave. 40 Treat him instead as a hired worker or as a temporary resident who lives with you, and he will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee. 41 At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors. 42 The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves. 43 Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly. 44 “However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. 45 You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, 46 passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way. 47 “Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family, 48 they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother, 49 an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered. 50 They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee-whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time. 51 If many years still remain until the jubilee, they will repay the proper proportion of what they received when they sold themselves. 52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption. 53 The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly. 54 If any Israelites have not been bought back by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, they and their children must be set free at that time. 55 For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. "
We shouldnt seek a socialist alternative. The word is dirty and ised out of context, its lost its meaning and has become the bogey man. We should all just seek to become sociologists. Things will get better.
What about the people who already paid of their loans? Are they just screwed? What about people who didn't go to school because they didn't or couldn't get loans? Will these people get some money? What about people who didn't go to school but are in debt from buying tools and equipment involved in taking up a trade?
Talk is cheap. "Left" "Right" are meaningless terms, pre-1789 they didn't even exist. This talk winds up being acadanemic. Reading a LOT OF BOOKs and WRITING THEM is nothing compared to one drop of Russian blood. The U.S./U.K. Capitalists, indeed, are killing us all.
PS: Spare me the lecture on your supposed understanding of the Christian view on debt. You are as clueless about that as you are about the free market, Professor Wolff.
Prof. Musto sounds fascinating. I certainly learned a lot from this interview. Thanks for having him in your show, Prof. Wolff.
He's fantastic, his youtube channel collects his talks and interviews, most recently regarding his latest book on Marx's last few years.
That's how a real Italian accent sounds like.
Love the newsboy hat.
"Socialists in Congress"
Yeah, as much as I love Bernie, he would be viewed as a centrist in most European countries.
Fascist always blame everything on "socialism" or "communism" which have never been truly practiced. Ever wonder why that is? B/c the fascists can't be honest about being to blame for what's truly going on.
Quit being duped. This is feudalism. It's right wing. Follow the money, b/c the only ones who aren't being inconvienced (as always) are rich white silly f*ckers.
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Bernie is and has always been a right wing warmonger.
McConnell is just as much a socialist as Bernie and Prof. Wolf. He's just a socialist for the rich. Let's never forget the biggest upward bailout of wealth in human history occurred under his party's reign. So I'm well within my right to call McConnell and Republicans socialists, just socialists for the rich at the tax payer's expense.
@@G--qq2bo I mean, OKAY, but that's kind of a stupid take. Why sully the meaning of socialism by applying it so badly to the corporate bailout?
Micheal Hudson wrote a book about the history of debt forgiveness!
“War is the failure of politics. “
Yes!
The end of war is so scary to the Americans-. It must be key to humans.
Yep. Have at least three books by Mr. Hudson, have shared them with a few people. Very informative!
We'll have peace when someone figures out how to make money out of it.
Amazing. I never thought about the voting implications of home ownership. I was focused on the economic devastation. Thank you so much, Dr. Wolf, for your insights work on behalf of the workers of the World.
Finally, mercifully, I was recently able to find a home. The voter info packet just arrived in the mail, and it's true. Suddenly I DO care a lot more about local zoning measures etc. It's actually pretty profound.
"[the students are simply the first ones, line up with them, line up behind them, get for yourself (as a debtor) what the students are fighting for themselves." Whoah! I felt the power behind that statement. I would hope that people (not people in congress) could understand that they too are suffering from debts and that the corporations are not on their side.
It’s simply extraordinary that voters in Kentucky ( ? ) find a bizarre, brain-meltingly boring dullard like McConnell someone they see fit to perennially return to Washington.
Kentucky is one of the most ill-educated states in the country that the University prefer to reward sports over academic accomplishments.
The Democrats never run anyone good against him.
Let us not pretend, anyway, brother. There's really only one big party in Washington.
One big 'property party,' with two names.
Generations of incest, underfunded schools and drinking water fouled by coal ash, lead, arsenic and mercury explain Mitch McConnell. The entire Appalachian crescent has been a sink of cognitive dissonance since the civil war.
All the USA is pro war and anti nature. War as an institution is sacred to the Americans.
Amazing! To me, one of the most interesting guests on the show so far. He exposes based both on experience (history) and theory (I love it when the works are mentioned, gives me more to read!). Thanks as always for your work!
A great episode
The deplorable state of American "education" should be recognized as a harbinger of things to come, as well as an indelible "Black Spot" on American history itself. Is it unreasonable to expect that a nation TRULY devoted to the well-being of its citizenry would do all that it possibly could to uplift those individuals in any way it could? The American government has done just the opposite! More than any other factor, our emasculated education system should be a shocking indicator of how little respect the American Government has for its own citizens.
Which came first, the deplorable state of education or the high cost of running for office?
@@ssamd263 I can't tell if this is a trick question, but I'll bite. The deplorable state of education came first.
The wealthy-class in "American" territory has been trying to prevent the working-class from learning since before there was an American-country in which to run for office.
Then, once the country was formed, the wealthy-class continued to prevent the working-class slaves and indentured-servants from learning.
The wealthy-class in the past knew the same thing that the wealthy-class knows in the present: that is that stupid working-class people make better slaves and servants.
The high cost of running for office is just a cog in the machine of money being passed around between wealthy-class knaves and the working-class dupes who are striving to become members of the wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class's ploy of purposely trying to keep working-class people stupid is as old as the pharaohs, much older than people running for office.
The deplorable public education system is a prime example of what happens when government runs something, yet Wolff persistently endorses socialism which is the government in control of people.
The separation of church and state promised in Americas' constitution has never really taken hold. Education and religion are intertwined, basic being literacy. The gospels of all religions invite the people to come forth and learn. The witholding of knowledge has been an issue since Eve.
Love your Hat Dr.Wolff!
That is a dunce cap.
I had to stop this video, before it ended, to implore the producers of Democracy At Work to provide and make accessible transcriptions of particularly insightful conversations, as indicative of this one. Of the many remarkable POVs offered up, always by Professor Wolff, himself, but in this instance, by his special guest, Marcello Mustothe, was the question of who started WW1? it struck my sensibilities most profoundly, particularly, as it relates to relationships the Left has had and has now with war and the making thereof. As an amendment to the subject at hand, I like to add FDRs preface leading up to WW2. As much as I admire his applied regulatory socialism and as much as I am disheartened by the dems deliberate abandonment of those policy achievements, the speculations that Pearl Harbor was a false flag and all that it implies, takes the edge off of his legacy for me.I also can't avoid the realization that he created the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) when he conjoined the captains of industry with the generals of the military high command to create a war machine that could confront the Axis powers. This unholy alliance became a permanent fixture and inexorable black box presence, over which we have absolutely no control. In closing, an important point was agreed upon that a particular war didn't (necessarily) start on a particular date in history, but well before -- just like a volcanic eruption or an earthquake is only the end product of the powerful forces that preceded it. The West deliberately taunted and provoked Russia by violating a series of non aggression treaties that it was co-signatory to. The US went ballistic when Khrushchev was positioning strategic nukes just 90 miles off the coast of Florida in Cuba. Americans were unanimous in their concern for the first strike threat potential. But now, when the US wants to install NATO in the Ukraine with tactical nukes, a likely part of the armament, Americans and the West are incapable of empathizing with Russia's concerns for the first strike potential on their country.
Brilliant.
i gotta say democracy at work has one of the freshest intro songs in the game
Great analysis, a big solute
Isaiah ch. 2 v. 4: "And they will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning shears, and they will not learn war anymore"
Thank you for your heartfelt and concerning platform for American people that share common thinking,interest for the truth your knowledge and wisdom,your expertise and of course your humor stands out...more power Godbless...We Thank You.
Im no big fan of simple diagrams like the "Pendulum" one, but its probably best to say, the forces of reaction are strong, and have the support of millions, and without any form of unity, we have little to do against it.
Thank you. Very interesting.
27:00 "The weak is very left"
Lol that's one way to put it.
Excellent interview!
The damage resulting from debt forgiveness will be that very rich people--who loan money because they don't need as much as they have--may not end up with more. Being mostly cheats, liars and thieves, rich people don't tolerate this very well.
Quote from Jesus ' a camel would have an easier time going through an eye of a needle than a rich man entering the kingdom of heaven.' Tip-over the tables of the money takers.
All those interest payments go to the idle parasitic rich.
But the debt forgivess money comes from the government, which taxes all classes of people, honey! I have a much better idea than studant forgiveness: when YOU get a degree, YOU pay for it, not me... How about that?
@@juniorgod321 give the creditors ten cents on the dollar, more than they would have gotten if we hadn't created a special exception in the bankruptcy laws. As for impecunious students paying their own way, it's been tried. Tends to limit educational opportunity to rich people's spawn, not exactly the cream of the academic crop, despite their good looks. If you want dentists who don't know a molar from an incisor, it's a perfect strategy.
@@guytouquet yeah, except that back in the day, BEFORE the government got envolved, degrees used to be a lot cheaper and the vast majority os people could afford to go to college, even if they didn't come from rich families! Just try asking anyone older, wh got a degree before the student loans came into play if they had to pay an arm or a leg for it!
Debt is a form of slavery. As long as you are in debt, you are bound to your employer so you don’t default on your debt.
Smartest comment under this video(besides mine). Not used to seeing that in a Wolff comment section.
We are limited by our options. If we choose student debt, we can increase our status if we find a good job, but we are wage slaves. If we don't choose student debt, we can't move up in the hierarchy as readily, our status is lacking, and we are further from reaching the American Dream than otherwise. Either way we come to regret whatever choice we made. The other debts (car, home) act further to lock you in to the system. And the forces of conformity, which get stronger as you age, push people in the direction of more debt, not less. And the forces of entertainment take the edge off enough that you don't have to think too hard about your situation.
@@paladinsorcerer67 College isn’t the only option for an education. I chose to learn a trade. Blue collar trades pay very well, and you don’t have to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for trade schools. In some cases you don’t even need to go to school if you are fortunate enough to find an employer who will train you. Point is, debt is not inevitable, but you have to be purposeful in your pursuit of getting ahead without it. It doesn’t happen by accident.
There is such a thing as good debt. For instance, if you make a finite debt (like for buying a house or starting a co-op) in order to get rid of eternal debt (rent or surplus extraction by you employer). Sure, in capitalism, there’s a risk associated with that, but that’s just a reason to get creative and start co-op banks or maybe even co-op insurances that help you if for external reasons, you can’t pay your debts anymore. Mutual aid is not something that you wait for the government to deliver, it’s something that you build in your community.
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It's actually the 15th chapter of deuteronomy: "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the Lord's release."
As long as it's defined as who qualifies as "brother".
Economy's like a stage 4 cancer patient after years of chemo, or in the economy's case years of offshoring and outsourcing, to the point it's hollowed out and matatasized to the point it needs endless around the clock IV drip of freshly borrowed (printed ) dollars to keep from goin in cardiac arrest........permanently!
a neat metaphor. But. It must die eventually. cardiac arrest. starvation. poisoned or nuked. dead. RIP.
I have already paid off my student loans, and I must say that I have no ill will towards those who would benefit from student loan forgiveness. Student loans are pretty ubiquitous, so most people who need loans can get them. College used to not be so expensive, so people of my generation are less well off because of that, but I don't complain. You deal with the situation with which you are presented. Other people who are in debt due to other reasons, like from buying tools and equipment to take up a trade, should get some kind of tax break to offset their costs. I mean, like the professor said, corporations and the rich have huge tax breaks, while the rest of us get nothing, at a time when corporations don't even need it. I'd say that it's about time that the other 99% of Americans were prioritized.
There is no such thing as debt forgiveness. It is debt re-distribution.
This is making many homeless camping in city parks. Tent cities are being erected in our area at a fast rate.
Where I'm from, the city is sanctioning them. The US government should be ashamed.
thanks for covering this. also i like the hat, major grandpa vibes.
I agree that war should be avoided, and I regret that the Ukraine war is taking place. I protested against the Vietnam War in my youth, and I felt leftist student protests and the media, which was far different at that time, much more honest and professional than it is today, did much good and gave an outlet to anti war people on the left. However, Mr. Wolfe, you have done was everyone in the west does. You ask a westerner to comment on the Ukraine war, and he brought up the issue of self-determination. If self-determination had anything to do with Ukraine’s position, then his argument might hold. However, the people of Mariupol and the Donbass are Russian. They supported a Russian President from the Donbass, Yanokovich, whom the US ousted in 2014. After that, and even under the puppet Zelensky, the ethnic Russians of Ukraine were denied the right to speak and teach Russian in schools, and they were unable to celebrate Russian independence from the Nazis on May 9th. So the issue of self determination rests with the Russian Ukrainians, and they want to be independent of Ukraine’s far right politics and the Ukrainian bombing of the Donbass that has gone on for 8;years and which Russia seeks to end. This is what is wrong with every one of these podcasts from westerners. The analysis is always flawed as is this analysis. That is in part because westerners do not consider the lives of Ukrainian Russians to be important, a sad fact. It’s a shame you don’t know any Russians. You might have arrived at a more logical, less flawed discussion had you consulted a Russian who understand discrimination against all Russians in the west. As for your philosophical discussion, that is a cold analysis of a hot topic and hardly relevant.
Russia needs all you Ukrainian Russians to go home and then enlist in the military and come back and fight. You may be Russian but Ukraine is not, Russian. No part of Ukraine is Russian; Crimea is Ukrainian.
Easy solution for debt forgiveness cutting for the rich is just to base it on income background and debt weight. This can easily be calculated. A "progressive" forgiveness if you will.
Jesus Christ preached forgiveness of debt also! In his Sermon on the Mount. Read Matthew chapters 5 through 7! " Do not turn away from your brother who wants to borrow from you without interest "
Hearsay
Most secular religions call usury a sin. Charging interest is a sin. This is why Jewish people have such a bad rep as “loan sharks” because they were the only people who, morally, were allowed to loan money.
I'm not sure of the scripture but I watched a documentary on money and it stated how for a long time it was practice to not charge interest on loans based on the bible and that was changed when some man found his way around this and charge fees for loans and interest followed later too
@@DJWESG1 do your own research; read read ...
Sorry. Jesus was not talking about finances. You seem to be about as qualified to comment on the Christian view of debt as professor Wolff.
Excellent anti-war ideas. Great guest!
We need to overthrow capitalism. Now. Yesterday! The stakes are absolutely existential, and it’s getting worse and worse
What is your solution to capitalism ?
@@TC-eo5eb Democratic Socialism.
Ironically, and sadly, much of contemporary discourse involves socio-economic issues wedded to military and political considerations - while the entire planet is in jeopardy! Regardless of national origin, political inclinations, party affiliations, and religious beliefs - the Earth we ALL depend on is in serious jeopardy! Can we not get REAL?
Agreed. Tribal bickering dominates when we should be discussing the threats we ALL have in common.
Debt perpetuates structures of social dominance, and war perpetuates debt.
well said
There is a difference between condemning and explaining Russia's action. I believe the non-western left has had the best position on the Ukraine-Russia war and Vijay Prashad has voiced it best. Westerners should definitely listen to the rest of the World. After all, non-westerners are the majority of humanity.
In an interview I heard Prashad was calling Russia a 'defensive power not an imperial.' Ugh!
@@josephgrosso2943 And he is correct. If you read Lenin and other marxist thinkers, Russia did act in what it considered self-interest, but not for imperial reasons. Again, one has to actually read.
@@leroitiaks Actually no need to read Lenin. You can just read Putin's anti-Lenin speech that kicked off the invasion- the where he described Ukraine as an artificial creation of Lenin. That sums it up well enough...but congrats on being the first Marxist I've seen to defend Putin with a reference to Lenin. Shows initiative at least
@@josephgrosso2943 That is exactly why one should read, otherwise one will not be able to separate propaganda and goals. Sadly, many so-called leftists, mainly of the imperial core (western countries) have drank the kool-aid of post-modernism and do not read anymore.
It's totally annoying. To understand what's going on in the country, or to try to predict where things are headed, you have to be able to think like a crook. Another way to say the same thing is that you have to be able to think like a politician.
60 Republicans voted against 40 billion for war. Zero Democrats. Zero "squad". When do we change our minimalist strategy if not now?
What minimalist strategy and who is we? The 11 GOP Senators by and large occupy the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe. It is reckless and naive to think that there is any meaningful crossover being right-wing nativist "isolationism" (i.e. a reconfiguration of US imperialism) and anti-imperialism.
@@janosmarothy5409 I think it becomes "meaningful" when we just spent 60 billion in the last 3 months to promote Nazis in Ukraine and WW3. Who else is there to minimally and critically support but people opposing this?
@@discogodfather22 That's a horrible, unprincipled and historically proven as a losing strategy -- and here I'm thinking specifically of the KPD's politically debased collaboration with the NSDAP simply to undermine the SPD, but there are plenty other examples I can provide.
The fascist-friendly wing of the GOP is not opposed to WW3, it just wants WW3 _on its terms_ i.e. with China, who they are perfectly fine being hawkish against. The working class has no strategic interest in myopic "enemy of my enemy" politics, least of all with the right wing of capital.
@@janosmarothy5409 Well then tail the Dems and enter WW3, I am sure you'll be perfectly principled after the blinding light. And this bullshit about NSDAP is hilarious, did the realize yet that the recipients of the 40 billion are actual, real Nazis? Not even the "neo" variety, the OG Nazis. So sell this garbage elsewhere midwit.
Oh! Thanks Prof for enlightening viewers with Old Testament. 🙏🇮🇳
The stereotype of the renter in this episode is not only offensive but false. Especially with so few options, a renter is going to stick around wherever he finds an available home. I have always rented, and I shop, volunteer, pay taxes, donate time and money to those local organizations I use, and VOTE as much (in some cases, more) as any home owner.
Two-thirds of San Franciscans are renters, I hear. Clearly, fewer and fewer Americans can buy their residences. Perhaps it is time for renters to protest being so mis-characterized as in this broadcast.
Thank you. Harriet in San Francisco
Maybe the Poor People's Campaign is a sign of hope.
I always say to laymen, Socialism: democracy in OUR economy
Capitalism: undemocratic economy, hierarchy without OUR say
I very much appreciate dem at work, but I would like an answer to the history of ww1, that russia and france aligned to gain access to the black sea for russia, and recovery of alsace lorraine for france. They both aligned against turkey which was aligned with germany to foment war for the above gains to be made. Older history books propose this and I never hear of these in the discourse.
Interesting thoughts, war should always be a last resort, and if possible avoided, the question is, what would have happened to Ukrainians, if they had just layed down their arms, would Putin armies have committed the atrocities and distraction of Ukraine infrastructure as has been occurring, seems the only people who have benefited are the manufacturers of weapons, the cost of human lives,homes etc have been catastrophic…
shout out Thomas Sankara debt forgiveness revolution
Today everyone should know better about war. It is downstream from greed.
Greed is the essence of war.
It's possible for war to be _both_ a continuation of politics by other means _and_ a failure of politics: it's political activity you get when you find yourselves unwilling or unable to conduct group affairs without unrestricted mass violence. It's among the worst possible varieties of politics. (The only rival that occurs to me is sheer totalitarian dictatorships for the exclusive benefit of a very small class, which amounts to a one-sided perpetual internal war anyway.) That's not going to compromise an anti-war stance - it motivates one.
Can someone summarize Professor Musto’s last statement? The one where he gives the three positions one can take? I had trouble understanding what they are. I know the first is failing to condemn the war.
me too. Only got 1st two. Didn't really understand what they are though. Subtitling is what you'd expect from a machine. Ex: 'closer' for 'Clausewitz' is pretty naff and quite unhelpful..
An anti debt movement would be relatively simple to promulgate. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors--the Lords Praye
Free education should be looked at as an investment. An educated person
will earn more and pay more income tax.
The US as the most powerful country in the world should help their students. I hope China can also learning from the west European countries in this aspect.
The opening theme sounds like Eminem is going to start rapping to it....I like it.
Tano estás mandando fruta con la cita de Clausewitz
Damn I wish that had been on 3 weeks ago when Australia was going through its annual celebration of nationhood created in the furnace of WW1. We used to think it'd die out with the death of the last soldiers from them but oh no, their children and grand children are now encouraged to take their place marching down the street to the War Memorial. In WW1 there was a strong union supported anti war and anti conscription movement, became very bitter, divided some families forever, but it was there and not forgotten.
Too bad war isn't as important as an institution as having a future, or Australia would be right on track with what its people just voted for. Instead it's war.
Bye Republicans. Bye Democrats. Adios!
AM NO LONGER A BLINDLY LOYAL CUSTOMER!
So, if they don't want to do a blanket student debt forgiveness because they might forgive some wealthy kid's debt, then I suggest they forgive only the student debt of all those that went to public state colleges and junior colleges. Do not forgive any of the so-called "Ivy League" or private colleges like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.
I have a much better idea: Do not forgive anyone's debt! I have a car debt too. Do you think it would be fair to make someone else pay for it?
all wars are class wars.
Shaking in their high priced boots 😂😂😂
If socialism gives people what they need, then, why not?
That's the problem...it doesn't:) Or you think that people who went to college and paid their debt and the people who never went to college really want to pay for someone else's degree?
@@juniorgod321 My understanding is that socialism is all about providing jobs to everyone and solving social problems by the state. Those who don't have a debt problem now, may have some other problems, like health insurance, housing, etc. Capitalism creates social problems for everyone and it doesn't have interest in solving them. I don't like to pay for wars and gov. bailing out big businesses, but I got no choice.
@@xiaoyanzhang56 If you don’t like paying for wars and to bail out big business, then you should hate socialism, because socialism is when the government does stuff with your money!
@@juniorgod321 Your definition of socialism is exactly the same as that given by the oligarchy rulers who use my money for wars and other crimes against my interest! I don't trust them!
@@juniorgod321 Right, so I should only pay _just_ the taxes for the roads I drive on and everyone can kick rocks? Practicality aside, that's not how society functions, and for all of human history, life is unlivable without public goods that are free or near-free at the point of access. Plenty of other industrialized economies treat higher education in this manner and there's no reason we should either. I should also add that more social spending isn't the same as socialism, but that's a different, albeit related, topic.
Disagree with the guest strongly.
He proclaims the importance of self determination yet the east of Ukraine has reiterated again and again, over a long period of time that they do not wish to be ruled over by west Ukraine. Self determination is clearly not being observed, only when it suits USA.
I don't think it's possible to abstract this topic from global imperialism as we find ourselves confronted with, and the specific apparatus of global imperialism constituted by the USA acting through NATO as well as directly interfering in most other countries via the State Department, CIA, NED and so on, and their drive in a literal sense to take over the world and exterpate all independence and sovereignty of other countries. That's not only the framing context, historically and geographically, surrounding Ukraine, but also the particular instigating process which has driven and provoked Russia into preparing for and ultimately resorting to military action against Washington's proxy in Ukraine, created by a Washington-instigated fascist coup. In the present form of world imperialism, it seems to me that opposition to war is conterminus with opposition to US foreign policy, opposition to US militarism, opposition to the continuing existence of NATO, and opposition to the militarism and fascism exported by Washington.
sadly, most of the western left doesn't seem to know what imperialism is and how it configures itself concretely. it hardly knows any facts around what's been happening on the ground since 2014 at all. the western right actually seems to be much more aware of geopolitical matters these days, but the left won't listen to the other side, it's become lost in cancel culture and unable to think critically, thus falling prey to propaganda and idealism.
@@joana8502 Cancel culture is liberalism rather than socialism as far as I'm concerned, therefore centrism rather than leftism. Censoriousness is a professional-managerial class reflex which is about policing class boundaries by enforcement of etiquette and superfical morality, nothing to do with class struggle or anti-capitalism, let alone anti-imperialism. IMO. It's a significant part of the growing seperation between a middle class, university educated left and the actual working class which that left believes in serving.
@@patrickholt2270 agreed. but the left isn't immune to influence from liberalism, this is what i was trying to point out. one can say that it is not the real left, but the fact is that there are many self-professed socialist organizations around the world that are backed by CIA, NED, etc, which incorporate liberal identity politics and defend imperialist interests. i know a few in my country.
@@joana8502 AWL (Alliance for Workers' Liberty) in the UK is a very clear MI5 operation, consistently backing the EU, NATO, Israel, every US regime change war, now warmongering against Russia. They dress it up in pseudo socialist language, talking about workers and opposing fascism, but when you look at their policy positions, it's obvious.
PE has been buying over asking and in cash, so they don’t care..
This did make me think. In some respect I agree with Professor Musto that war is a failure of politics. But if my memory serves me well, I seem to remember that the left tried to convince people to stay out of WWII also and the faction of the left that finally won that argument was that some wars are worth fighting. Indeed some wars must be fought.
Some of my childhood heroes were the men who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. I learned to sing all those songs from that war and much later in my life when I escorted a group of very old Spanish Civil War Lincoln Brigade veterans to a peace rally we sang those and all the union songs in the bus all the way to the peace rally. The stories I heard! I believe some wars are necessary. They are not "good wars" but necessary. They must be fought after all else fails but they must be fought.
My Uncle who was at the liberation of a concentration camp couldn't even talk about what he saw and experienced but never once did he say that he was not proud to fight Nazis.
This war in Ukraine is a sad and heart wrenching affair because there is no really good reason for it. This war isn't about denazification or NATO. Indeed there are plenty of Russian fascists and Russia is hardly a place devoid of antisemitism, nor is Ukraine. In fact antisemitism is alive and well and fascism thrives right here. Just this weekend there were trucks driving around with antisemitic slogans all over West Hollywood, California. Outrageous! Authoritarianism and fascism are everywhere. That's not Putin's reason for invading Ukraine.
I believe, and I think there is plenty of evidence for this belief, that Putin is just doing what authoritarian dictators do. He's trying to grab land and power. He's trying to reconstruct the hegemony of the former Soviet Union. He has said so lots of times. It doesn't matter what you think of the Soviet Union at any point in its history or what anyone thinks of socialism. The USSR broke up. It's a fact. Ukraine is recognized as an independent nation and Putin snuck into Crimea and wasn't stopped. So he went for more. He did what dictators and authiritarian rulers do.
It was a particularly good time for Putin, in his estimation, to do this war thing. He messed up our 2020 election ( please don't tell me none of that interference happened) and helped give us 4 years of Trump. What could be better for Putin? Chaos and stupidity everywhere and now we are a very divided country and racism is rampant. Our economy is a mess. Inflation is eating our people alive. Our current President is a bit, shall we say mixed up sometimes? Everything lined up for Putin so he started a war. I just can't condone that! How can people look away from all the death and destruction and unequal power?
I have no love for the history of Ukraine in WWII. I hold grudges! But nobody deserves what has rained down on that country and it is my sincere hope that Putin stops this war. He won't! I wish he would but he won't. He will throw silverware and pots and pans if he runs out of bombs, rockets and bullets. Putin painted himself into a corner. I hope this war stops but it won't unless someone stops Putin. So, NATO is a giant pain in the...well you know where but that's the only way of stopping Putin.. I don't think the USA has the economic stability to fight this proxy war and I resent the money being spent on it because we so badly need it here at home.
This war isn't worth fighting. Well, it isn't worth US spending all that money on it. I still think that at the end of all of this, Ukraine is going to end up under Putin's thumb and we will have gained nothing. I hate that! This is messy and I want us OUT of it unless we intend to fight and win. We aren't prepared to do that and we shouldn't do that. So I want this war and all the materials we are sending there to stop now because this is so hurtful to everyone concerned and the conclusion is clear either now or Iater. If Putin stays in power and he holds it for some time, Ukraine is a lost cause. Gee, I hope I'm wrong.
All the WWII countries put millions of conscious objectors in the grave or into camps to even start WWII. They had to kill their own left to get a world war.
Summary: puttttin bad, US good. Typical american mindset.
I'm 53 I learned 30yrs ago you never really own anything in America. My mother purchased a home in 1949 during the first great white flight and paid off the home in 1989. She passed away in 2003 giving the home to my sister who failed to pay property tax and the home 2 acres 3 level went to the city for auction and sold for cheap at $27k a lower middle class home work $72k sold for $-50k loss. My $12,700 home in Atlanta I was renting to own was redeemed as condemn and torn down for gerification highrises apartments in 2007 before realistate bubble happened to me in Michigan my home 2003.ive been living in extended hotels since 2007.used cars I paid off day 1 since 1996 and cut all credit card's up and paid off in 1999 and my 2 student loans 1988-1990 paid in full 1992. Things to survive and be comfortable can be done on mere budgets.basic food water shelter can be achieved on small pockets but not as healthy in the richest country on earth. Racism and GREED is the blockades I face because of my drifting living.my car is a honda odyssey trump supporters won't fix it because it's Asian made driven by me a Mexican. I'm a dark Cuban and the racist Indians owner's of the hotel jacked up the rent by a extra $500 a month to keep us out his suburban location. But works with poor whites from trailer park's who get ssi benefits off his taxes and sits around with cigarettes beer drug's and the police calling on 2-4 times a week but still hate dark over whites who cause most of the drama.
I've been making $11,450 a year net since 2011.No debt sure I'll rent a house and be calling the landlord blowing up the phone with lawsuits for every blade of crab grass I see.
"🎶The Land of Opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls." Don Henley The Garden of Allah
Be in DC on June 18th 2022 to inform the criminal politicians and CEOs that the working poor have plenty to say
Will you be there ?
Debt forgiveness is a jubilee, maybe cuz it makes the peoples jubilant.
He sounded confused
Anti debt movement? We can do that by refusing to use it.
Or refusing to pay...
Debt Jubileee!
'It is not easy to say who really started the war...'. Really? Would this guy have been saying that back in 2003 when the U.S. invaded Iraq?
The whole thing started with the Maidan revolt in 2014, which had the effect of removing the democratically-elected President who did not want to sever ties with Russia from power. The narrative that "Russia invaded Ukraine" ignores the eight years of civil war there and the fact that there are large populations of ethnic Russians who identify with Russia in Ukraine.
He means that: while the western media is brainwashing the masses into believing that the war started in feb 2022, by Russia and thus justifying the disgusting russophobia, by banning athletes, ballet, even cats & trees, those with more then 2 functioning neurons understand that this war started long ago.
Following the US backed coup in 2014, the DPR & LPR declared autonomy, as soon as they saw those swastikas waving lobotomized macaques (that the west has been arming) tearing down WW2 monuments, fellating Nazi collaborators, like S. Bandera, and banning the Russian language*, spoken in Eastern Ukraine.
Putin refused to recognize the 2 republics and instead supported the Minsk accords to reintegrate them in Ukraine, but the ceasefire never materialized, the UkraiNazis kept harrasing the Russian ethnicities living in those republics, shelling them cutting their water, power, natural gas, killing 15,000 people.
It took 8 years for Putin to recognize DPR & LPR, after everything else failed and the civil war was only escalating.
Now the questions:
>Should Putin have abandoned the folks in Donetsk & Luhansk, allowing Ukrainazis to keep murdering them for another 8 years?
Or,
>Should he had just sent forces in LPR & DPR to return fire, and die in a US backed proxiwar where the nazi macaques remain well funded & supplied ?
*The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in May 2014, were not referendums of “independence” (независимость), as some unscrupulous journalists have claimed, but referendums of “self-determination” or “autonomy” (самостоятельность). The qualifier “pro-Russian” suggests that Russia was a party to the conflict, which was not the case, and the term “Russian speakers” would have been more honest. Moreover, these referendums were conducted against the advice of Vladimir Putin.
In fact, these Republics were not seeking to separate from Ukraine, but to have a status of autonomy, guaranteeing them the use of the Russian language as an official language. For the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the overthrow of President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 that made Russian an official language. A bit like if putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland.
This decision caused a storm in the Russian-speaking population. The result was a fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which was carried out beginning in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and some massacres (in Odessa and Marioupol, for the most notable). At the end of summer 2014, only the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk remained.
It is relatively irrelevant who started the war. We know the oligarchs of the world do it. And a profit motive is always behind it. That is what matters when trying to explain the reasons and agents of war. More in the present stage of capitalism when war is fundamentally the indispensable and most powerful booster for the accumulation of capital in a period of crisis and depression as they call The excessive concentration of wealth in few hands. The gargantuan military budget is the expression of the role that war plays in the cycle of accumulation of capital and the world market sustainability. War is the present determinant form of imperial capitalism. Capitalism collapses without wars. It doesn't matter if it takes a rearrangement of the world market. They'll go to any extent in order to help the survival of accumulation of capital . War is the main source of it.
@@georgefurman4371 So...in that case the Ukrainians should just let Putin take over their country?
@@josephgrosso2943 I don't condone war by any reason. Putin invaded Ukraine. Let the European people deal with it. Is not a threat against the USA. If you fall in the trap of war you'll spend eternity in it. Like the USA had made of this world. Look at the military budget. Is gargantuan parasitic burden on your back. 60% of the whole USA taxpayers budget money . Why?? Do you know why is that much invested in the military corporations?? Because all of it goes to the MIC corporations. At the cost of american lives permanently since ww1. Arlington is a giant memory statement to the stupidity of war for profit.
This non violence sounds like a bunch of horse manure
In Debs and Lenins time, socialists traversed borders. Internationalism was possible. I don't see how to operationalize it today. That's the problem. I don't see how capitulation to Russian or Chinese autocracy has any benefits
If I can rightfully conclude are very much full fledged members of the United States oligarchy, now also internationally. Since that oligarchy has always been also our government, and that government being their construct under a two party system, it's difficult to assume there's any difference between the two party's when it comes to the profiteering off war and the destruction of other countries, both in infrastructure and human life and the lives of those human victims who survive death.
The constructive ideology of the United States oligarchs is that they care not the individuals who appear to govern a country so long as they control the countrys finances/money. Republican or Democrat, no difference. If the United States is to come to the American people's Dream of it, it will require the establishment of a third national political party that represents the current, future, and retired labor of America, the 98 plus percent of the eligible voters in America.
Student loan debt...... This is all to simple. Fro the ones who have paid in full need to be given admiration meaning if they are able to hire 1 or more people they will be discounted 75% write off on income taxes. the others would be given a 30% write off on whatever taxes are owed. Only then can full forgiveness be given to those who want to write it off. Why no one thinks of the greed on both side want to debate.
I'm not sure I understand. There is still favoritism in your plan, which is one of the main objections.
@@RussCR5187 Hello Russ I am just giving an idea as you have read. The thing is so much greed and no one trying to solve a simple problem. The ones who have paid should be rewarded. The ones that could not need to be like the auto industry was. With what I had mentioned the ones who paid off their debt. Am I saying tax refund for only one year. The answer is no. Maybe for 2 decades or 3 but it should be considered. AS I can tell I did get your attention and I am happy for that. Kindly to a person that know how to think.
@@jamesmana5247 Let me pose my difficulty as a question. Of those who have already paid off their student loans, would it only be the ones able to hire one or more people as employees who get a 75% tax break? What about those who have paid off their student loans and are not entrepreneurs, so they're not in a position to hire employees? I think it's the concept of "hiring" that has me confused.
@@RussCR5187 Remember mine is just an idea. maybe give all of the ones who paid their debt by 30% off a year. We need to start somewhere to please everyone.
@@jamesmana5247 OK, I see. Thanks for the conversation.
Richard, Democrats and Republicans are the same party.
The war in Ukraine is best seen as a turf war between competing Mafias; the Upstart Putin Mafia vs the more powerful Western Oligarch Mafia consortium with the US at the head and Ukraine is the Turf. Oh, and they have nuclear weapons.
Naaah, it's best seen as the western mob trying to bully their way.
I totally agree with 'the year of Jubilee' that you refer to, Prof Wolff. Too bad we kicked God out of our country a long time ago. The restrainer has been taken away, we are no longer a blessed nation. Sorry peeps, that boat sailed a long time ago...
Yes, it’s always amusing though to see a secular leftist who opposes anything spiritual try and use scripture to support their anti Christian ideology. Marxism is a political religion that tolerates no ideology but it’s own, but that doesn’t stop Marxists from pulling a scripture out of context every now and then to suit their own purposes.
Isaiah 61:1-8:
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news [gospel] to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for those in bondage
and release the oppressed from darkness,
to proclaim the restoration of the Jubilee of the Lord [Hebrew, 'deror'].
...
They will rebuild the ancient ruins
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
Strangers will shepherd your flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
...
Instead of your shame
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your legacy.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.
“For I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery and wrongdoing. "
Luke 4:16-19:
" ... He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news [gospel] to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for those in bondage
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the restoration of the Jubilee of the Lord [Hebrew, deror].” "
Leviticus 25:8 ...
The Year of Jubilee [ie, the Year of Reset of the Lord]
8 “In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all. 9 Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year,[a] blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land. 10 Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan. 11 This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. 12 It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own. 13 In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors.
14 “When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other. 15 When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee. 16 The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests. 17 Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God.
18 “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations. 19 Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it. 20 But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ 21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. 22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.
Redemption of Property
23 “The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.
24 “With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. 25 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. 26 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back, 27 he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land. 28 But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.
29 “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back. 30 But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. 31 But a house in a village-a settlement without fortified walls-will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.
32 “The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them. 33 And any property that is sold by the Levites-all houses within the Levitical towns-must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel. 34 The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.
Redemption of the Poor and Enslaved
35 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you. 36 Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative. 37 Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself to you, do not treat him as a slave. 40 Treat him instead as a hired worker or as a temporary resident who lives with you, and he will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee. 41 At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors. 42 The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves. 43 Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.
44 “However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. 45 You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, 46 passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.
47 “Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family, 48 they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother, 49 an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered. 50 They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee-whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time. 51 If many years still remain until the jubilee, they will repay the proper proportion of what they received when they sold themselves. 52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption. 53 The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly. 54 If any Israelites have not been bought back by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, they and their children must be set free at that time. 55 For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. "
I thought that libtards were atheists. Maybe that changes when they become deadbeats?
Mitch McConnell needs to retire.
We shouldnt seek a socialist alternative. The word is dirty and ised out of context, its lost its meaning and has become the bogey man.
We should all just seek to become sociologists. Things will get better.
First!
@Account NumberEight Que?
🤔You're prettier without the hat😍😘
USA United States of Ame-RICO
What about the people who already paid of their loans? Are they just screwed? What about people who didn't go to school because they didn't or couldn't get loans? Will these people get some money? What about people who didn't go to school but are in debt from buying tools and equipment involved in taking up a trade?
Your children are going to squeal
Left? 😂😂😂😂 What left?
Democrap
Repubilcunt 😆
Unfortunately I still can’t figure out what position he says the left should take on Ukraine.
Talk is cheap. "Left" "Right" are meaningless terms, pre-1789 they didn't even exist.
This talk winds up being acadanemic.
Reading a LOT OF BOOKs and WRITING THEM is nothing compared to one drop of Russian blood.
The U.S./U.K. Capitalists, indeed, are killing us all.
Excuse me, McConnel and "The Bible" in the same sentence is an oxymoron. In secret, he subscribes to the other place.
You must have never read the Bible
@@spanky9676 Actually I have and the Book of Mormon. Pearl of Great Price too....You on the otherhand.
Banks aren’t the problem with student loans. The universities are the problem.
Debt forgiveness is not the solution. Government hand outs never are.
PS:
Spare me the lecture on your supposed understanding of the Christian view on debt. You are as clueless about that as you are about the free market, Professor Wolff.
You mean debt forgiveness is not enough. I agree. We also need to kill the rich.
the banks only exist because of government handouts
@@ofoghladha2110 Now try an intelligent comment.
@@bluewater454 take your'e own advice