Economic Update: Cornel West on "Black Prophetic Fire"

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  • [S11 E39] Cornel West on "Black Prophetic Fire"
    On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the strengths of socialism in German elections, British and US public opinion; and the US policies that are impoverishing its Puerto Rican colony. The second half of the show features an interview with Dr. Cornel West, with special attention to the contradictory realities of Harvard University, the public health failure of US policy toward Covid, the hostility toward Haiti and Haitians, and China.
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    About our guest: Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
    He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
    Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He made his film debut in the Matrix - and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand.
    He has produced three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes are featured on productions by Terence Blanchard, The Cornel West Theory, Raheem DeVaughn, and Bootsy Collins.
    In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
    Links: www.cornelwest.com
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    SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS:
    1. British blame/ reject capitalism in favor of socialism: iea.org.uk/htt...
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    2. Puerto Rico raises minimum wage: www.nbcnews.com
    3. Biden and Dems fade on “stepped up basis” when inheriting wealth: www.nytimes.com/

Комментарии • 513

  • @treefrog3349
    @treefrog3349 2 года назад +118

    It is so GOOD to hear Dr. West's voice of wisdom and truth again!

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      What does a 16 year old know?

    • @grapentine739
      @grapentine739 2 года назад +3

      Man this place is full of right wing trolls like Gary Jones

    • @grapentine739
      @grapentine739 2 года назад +3

      Ya i was missing Dr. West too. He is spot on and has a lot heart

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      @@grapentine739 Two Socialist gubers.

    • @naturallaw1733
      @naturallaw1733 2 года назад

      @@garyjones3142
      enjoyy your Covidz, Morans!🤪

  • @wendyhill8230
    @wendyhill8230 2 года назад +129

    Dr. Cornell West is such a gem- It's so nice seeing him bring Dr. Wolff a smile

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад +1

      Build back Broke !

    • @fellowcitizen
      @fellowcitizen 2 года назад +4

      He is both invigorating and soothing, even as he speaks the grim truth ❤💛💙

    • @awesomeojoe123
      @awesomeojoe123 2 года назад +3

      @@garyjones3142 It's probably hard for you to grasp that the people here are not really Biden supporters.

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад +1

      @@awesomeojoe123 It's always good for a few laughs and to see the bitch and moan idiots. Go Brandon !

    • @awesomeojoe123
      @awesomeojoe123 2 года назад +3

      @@garyjones3142 inflammatory statements. 2 month old account. You do this for passion or for pay?

  • @juliahenriques210
    @juliahenriques210 2 года назад +72

    These enterviews are so short. We know Cornell can talk for hours, and it's always a pleasure to listen.

  • @Harry-zc8rg
    @Harry-zc8rg 2 года назад +42

    I love the way Cornel West is forcing Prof Wolff to toot his own horn a bit!

  • @ginnyinma1580
    @ginnyinma1580 2 года назад +64

    Two of our most important voices, always educating & serving the greater good. TY to you both!

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      Your living in a dream world if you follow these two snake oil salesmen! Good luck.

  • @jean6453
    @jean6453 2 года назад +84

    Dr Cornel West, Thank you so much for what you said about the Haitian people.

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад +1

      Then why don't you just move there if it's just so nice !

    • @arabcadabra8863
      @arabcadabra8863 2 года назад +2

      @@garyjones3142 You know there is a difference between saying nice things and a place being nice, right? I guess that would require critical thinking, though. Propaganda sure is strange, isn't it?

    • @nolitetebastardescarborund9761
      @nolitetebastardescarborund9761 2 года назад

      @@garyjones3142 France is nice & I moved here some years ago. Sure am glad I have all medical care paid for by French Social Security, now that I'm older & have health problems.

  • @matthew7306
    @matthew7306 2 года назад +18

    My 2 favorite people in 1 video

  • @matthewcondie4052
    @matthewcondie4052 2 года назад +125

    Two brilliant professors for the price of none.

    • @TennesseeJed
      @TennesseeJed 2 года назад +5

      Amen!

    • @oldfan1963
      @oldfan1963 2 года назад +2

      Except the $10/month I pay for RUclips ad-free Premium! Hahahah!

    • @PoliticalEconomy101
      @PoliticalEconomy101 2 года назад

      I used to respect that West guy until he now teaches at a private religious college. Rather than exploiting peoples labor for money he is helping the college exploit peoples minds offering salvation for money. This is why you can never never never trust a liberal. For marxists: why does human labor have such a privileged position in your framework. Why isnt a person's mind just as valuable as their labor? We have a service/knowledge economy now, not a manufacturing economy.

    • @ginojones5857
      @ginojones5857 2 года назад

      The SPD party won in Germany, the S standing for Socialist. Wow. The NAZI party won in Germany also; which stood for National Socialist Workers Party, how did that work out for everybody.

    • @matthewcondie4052
      @matthewcondie4052 2 года назад +3

      @@ginojones5857 Socialists are on the front line fighting nazis for centuries. Do your part and lend a hand. Join the fight.

  • @treefrog3349
    @treefrog3349 2 года назад +85

    I wish that most struggling Americans could see, understand and believe, that the indifference and injustice that has been perpetrated on Black and Native Americans over the CENTURIES by rich white guys is currently heading for a neighborhood near YOU! It is "politely" referred to as Neo-liberalism. It doesn't matter if you are black, brown, red, white or green. If you are a wage-earner, a "working stiff", a laborer, or whatever pejorative you can imagine, if you are in the bottom half of the socio-economic spectrum in America your future is in jeopardy! America is no longer a Democracy. It is a Plutocracy where our elected representatives behave like privileged Royalty and not REPRESENTATIVES of We the People.

    • @grapentine739
      @grapentine739 2 года назад +18

      You nailed it on the head. Perfect. This damn class warfare coming down on us. 80% work pay check to pay check and 1 in 5 children are homeless. This can't last forever. More and more ppl are seeing the light.

    • @owesteen-hansen2152
      @owesteen-hansen2152 2 года назад +15

      Neo-feudalism is the correct word.

    • @jimmytimmy3680
      @jimmytimmy3680 2 года назад +14

      Lol. It has never been a democracy. It has always been a plutocracy with slaves in the 18th-20th century and now a plutocracy with miserable-wage, stressed workers.

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      Where are the green people? Get out of your parents basement !

    • @dipthongthathongthongthong9691
      @dipthongthathongthongthong9691 2 года назад +5

      What Athens had done to the world it eventually brought home to its citizen. Thucydides basically said this in the "Pelopennesian War". It was an assessment of declining empires. All the "others" feel the violence of the empire until there is are few places that have felt the brutality. So empire brings empire home. Tie what you said to the crushing criminal justice system and the 24/7 surveillance mechanisms in the US. It is bleak for the avg person.

  • @giritharjeevasuba5206
    @giritharjeevasuba5206 2 года назад +10

    Dear Mr.Richard D. Wolff your great🚩✊

  • @grapentine739
    @grapentine739 2 года назад +53

    Cornell West is so uplifting and exciting. He is never dull. He is the perfect preacher

    • @gfujigo
      @gfujigo 2 года назад +4

      He really is the perfect preacher.

    • @tripvic7629
      @tripvic7629 2 года назад +2

      More of a teacher than a preacher IMO

    • @twntwrs
      @twntwrs 2 года назад

      He would look a lot less the buffoon if he would dispense with the god bothering.

    • @grapentine739
      @grapentine739 2 года назад

      @@tripvic7629 great point ✊

    • @grapentine739
      @grapentine739 2 года назад

      @@twntwrs he still is right about all the right things. And has always had more guts than anyone around him. He is a diamond in the rough. He wants healthcare and its a right to believe in what religion you want. Hell if a Republican gave us M4A i would join them. Nixon is the most progressive president we have had since LBJ, sadly

  • @7andeducated
    @7andeducated 2 года назад +62

    This video will be a legacy of the start of true economic freedom when looked back on. L E G E N D S

  • @themikekren5564
    @themikekren5564 2 года назад +9

    Dr West in the last 5 minutes eloquently sums up the root of problems in America today, putting into words what I've felt for a long time... thank you!

    • @naturallaw1733
      @naturallaw1733 2 года назад

      indeed! 👏 I call it the 'Me, Me, Me' syndrome. it's one of Capitalism's most detrimental affects on people.

  • @PL22-JudgeDredd
    @PL22-JudgeDredd 2 года назад +31

    American public cannot differentiate between freedom and self centredness. Individualism is not freedom but an expression of characteristic, that may or may not be egocentric. Freedom also comes with a responsibility, without it, there would be chaos, hence defies the moral code of conduct.

    • @stevesharik331
      @stevesharik331 2 года назад

      We're not all like that, PL.

    • @PL22-JudgeDredd
      @PL22-JudgeDredd 2 года назад +4

      @@stevesharik331 at least half are. Your govt is worse, disgrace to humanity, period.

    • @siriuslyspeaking9720
      @siriuslyspeaking9720 2 года назад

      Freedom is the most overrated word in the English language. We exist within an ecosystem, where any act by anyone or anything in it, can have an impact on all within in. If this pandemic and climate/weather-change doesn't remind us or inform us of this, what could make us, not just understand, but also to act in accordance with this knowledge?

  • @brandonqarana8277
    @brandonqarana8277 2 года назад +5

    thank you prof wolf!

  • @flakeyjay
    @flakeyjay 2 года назад +16

    Two of my favorite voices in America today!

  • @lisakukla459
    @lisakukla459 2 года назад +3

    This is the best combo I've seen in a long time!

  • @kitscheugy7739
    @kitscheugy7739 2 года назад +60

    Cornell West is one of the most important academics currently. And Wolff is a G.

    • @magnus9165
      @magnus9165 2 года назад +2

      What is a G?

    • @macewenart
      @macewenart 2 года назад +2

      Only a college student would think like that, we all know college students today can't find their ass with both hands!

    • @arabcadabra8863
      @arabcadabra8863 2 года назад +2

      @@macewenart All college students? You can't be serious. What makes you say that?

    • @bobbanana568
      @bobbanana568 2 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @sheldonscott4037
      @sheldonscott4037 2 года назад +1

      A "G" as in O.G. "old(ole) gangsta".

  • @aishahb8336
    @aishahb8336 2 года назад +9

    What an awesome video! Y'all are legendary

  • @lucastilou
    @lucastilou 2 года назад +7

    What a great video!

  • @exsilencio
    @exsilencio 2 года назад +18

    Always a treat to hear from Prof West. Thank your for the excellent interview.

  • @bkbland1626
    @bkbland1626 2 года назад +11

    The way Puerto Rico has been treated is criminal.

    • @twntwrs
      @twntwrs 2 года назад +1

      Including but not limited to by its own "leaders".

  • @DjWellDressedMan
    @DjWellDressedMan 2 года назад +22

    Set your Watch, Prof. Wolff knows what time it is!

  • @massivecumshot
    @massivecumshot 2 года назад +22

    It warms my heart to see and hear Dr. West again. One of America's great thinkers, activists and role models for youth, his passion, love and commitment to fighting injustice inspire generations. He most emulates the spirit of Jesus' teachings and make him, along with Jimmy Carter, one of the few Christians that walk the walk.

    • @twntwrs
      @twntwrs 2 года назад

      He would sound a lot less the buffoon if he would lay off the god bothering.

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      These people that are on the site have nothing but hate for America, if you don't like this country just leave!

    • @massivecumshot
      @massivecumshot 2 года назад +4

      @@garyjones3142 I DID, douchenozzle. Met a lot of people who smelled the coffee and did same-same. Love America as a place but detest the murdering criminals who run it.

    • @matthewingerson
      @matthewingerson 2 года назад +2

      If you don't like the way that the majority of the people of this country have decided and voted to operate national monetary and fiscal policy, just leave.
      If you don't like the way that the majority of the people of this country have decided to tax the currency, just leave.
      If you don't like living in a majority-rules system -- if you would rather live under minority-rule and mob-rule -- just leave.
      If you don't like equity and equality -- but prefer ignorance, fear, anger, hate, violence, murder, genocide, and addictions to materialism, pillaging, hoarding, manipulation, exploitation, social status, substance abuse, promiscuous pursuits -- just leave.
      I don't hate America.
      I hate lazy wealthy-class people, and lazy working-class class-traitors, like you.
      I don't hate America.
      I hate class-traitors who help to uphold the wealthy-class system of inequality and inequity in hopes that someday the wealthy-class will welcome you into their club.
      I don't hate America.
      I hate that the wealthy-class works to dumb-down the working-class and succeeds.
      I don't hate America.
      I hate that the wealthy-class
      has co-opted the worst & dumbest working-class people, having tricked the worst & dumbest working-class people into blaming their troubles on the better & smarter working-class people.
      Instead of blaming the wealthy-class people who are responsible for the system of inequality and inequity under which we all live, the worst & dumbest working-class people blame each other.
      I don't hate America.
      I hate that the wealthy-class has corrupted EVERYTHING.
      I hate that the wealthy-class has corrupted national governments, international markets, and entire groups of working-class humans, including you.
      I hate that I have working-class friends and family members, like you, who are so stupid that they would murder their own working-class friends and family, or other working-class humans in foreign countries, if some wealthy-class addict or jarhead addict in a uniform told them to.
      I don't hate America -- I don't even hate you -- I pity you.
      At the very least, shut the fuk up while better and smarter people try to clean up after you and the rest of the addicts.

    • @thejquinn
      @thejquinn 2 года назад +2

      I guess in terms of foreign policy yes with Carter (I think he's the only President in the last 50 years to not have a war during his time in office), but just ask Prof.Harvey J. Kaye, Carter was pretty disastrous especially his deregulation of trucking we're feeling now with our supply chain

  • @sabinocorona9957
    @sabinocorona9957 2 года назад +5

    A FACT THAT NO ONE CAN DISPUTE. EVERY DECENT, CARING HUMAN BEING LOVES DR. C. WEST. ( SIMPLY THE BEST ) SIMPLE AS THAT. AMEN TO THAT.

    • @arabcadabra8863
      @arabcadabra8863 2 года назад

      That statement is false simply because every decent, caring human being has not heard of Dr. West.

  • @ocean1233
    @ocean1233 2 года назад +21

    It is a GREAT PLEASURE to hear you both speak and, educate. I could listen to you all day. Thank you so much for your honesty and, views.

  • @BriannaMemis_Breezy1
    @BriannaMemis_Breezy1 2 года назад +6

    Both of you are gifts to us all :)

  • @kathleenhillock9366
    @kathleenhillock9366 2 года назад +17

    Another dynamic duo bringing us information and hope in these very trying times.

  • @Sinleqeunnini
    @Sinleqeunnini 2 года назад +1

    Brother West and Wolff in dialogue is so precious and inspiring!

  • @magz875
    @magz875 2 года назад +26

    These two academics summed up my career experience at a "prestigious" CA research university between 2007-2011. Barely learned anything useful in life, to-be-honest. They beat critical-thinking to death but not one actually practiced it.

    • @cartermclaughlin2908
      @cartermclaughlin2908 2 года назад +8

      Nobody wants critical thinking. Not the schools. Not the employers. And definitely not the spoon fed masses. Nerd lost it's pejorative meaning around the time specialization in STEM became useful to the owning class. But you're only supposed to hyperfocus on a narrow area of expertise. Having a wide knowledge base is not an employable skill so it is not advertised as beneficial.

    • @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl
      @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl 2 года назад +5

      Being, at least a bit of, a sceptic and have the skills to do so is crucial for a society who wants not to lean on what's said they should do but being constantly in progress to improve their own advantages in life. If not, people become sheeps, willing to swallow and do all what's required by those who rule.

    • @peterstafford4426
      @peterstafford4426 2 года назад +1

      @@cartermclaughlin2908 Everyone believes they are critical thinkers.

    • @naturallaw1733
      @naturallaw1733 2 года назад

      @@peterstafford4426
      it's called Self-Delusion.

  • @robertrstevens
    @robertrstevens 2 года назад +4

    Cornell West is a trust-inspiring Adult. He has kept a childlike innocence coupled with a very mature wisdom. We are in great company with him - even, or especially, in a RUclips video.

    • @twntwrs
      @twntwrs 2 года назад

      He would sound a lot less the buffoon if he would lay off the god bothering.

  • @sarafentiu1673
    @sarafentiu1673 2 года назад +2

    Thank you professor for the sharing.

  • @zia_kat
    @zia_kat 2 года назад +2

    thank you both, you are 2 of my favorite people! i wish there could be an extended version of this conversation.

  • @LeonardoCossio
    @LeonardoCossio 2 года назад +3

    soooooooooo gooooooooood , thank you both of you. Greetings from south america.

  • @chrishart2493
    @chrishart2493 2 года назад +1

    It is always a great pleasure to see such positivity and hopefulness displayed by Dr.West. and as always, substantive and constructive analysis from Dr.Wolf and Dr.West is something we need more of on the left.

  • @dannowman5761
    @dannowman5761 2 года назад +5

    Fantastic content and relevant connection of the past to what is happening here and now during this crazy insane pandemic.

  • @begging4music
    @begging4music 2 года назад +4

    Good Day Brother Richard, Good Day Brother West.

  • @user-sc8ek9qj5o
    @user-sc8ek9qj5o 2 года назад +4

    What a delight 🌞

  • @stevenwilliams9359
    @stevenwilliams9359 2 года назад +2

    An amazing interview with Cornel and Wolff

  • @jasonlehfeldt1577
    @jasonlehfeldt1577 2 года назад +2

    Brother West. Living the Sermon on the Mount.

  • @patriciafichter4790
    @patriciafichter4790 2 года назад +8

    Cornel West❤

  • @toniat8278
    @toniat8278 2 года назад +13

    What a sight to see! I’ve wondered if I would ever see these two together! This is so great❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 2 года назад +2

      You should learn to use a search engine and you would find a video of Wolff, West and Hedges
      for more than an hour.

  • @sgturner59
    @sgturner59 2 года назад +4

    Thanks for this.

  • @brendandennis5868
    @brendandennis5868 2 года назад +1

    More! Thanks so much RW and CW.

  • @robjewell1223
    @robjewell1223 2 года назад +3

    Wonderful to hear.

  • @judymanning2538
    @judymanning2538 2 года назад +4

    Thank you 🍀

  • @gfujigo
    @gfujigo 2 года назад +11

    Thank God for these two men. Important voices in the struggle for equality and justice for all.

  • @tiamarie1226
    @tiamarie1226 2 года назад +9

    I would love to hear more about your Kenya experience and more about your civil rights experiences some of the things Dr. West said I never knew about you those events from your life have to have rich gems of wisdom for others. West and Hedges are my favorite guests. Would you consider the young lady India from Buffalo who is a socialist on the show.

  • @wilfrank3580
    @wilfrank3580 2 года назад +27

    Wow should have had more coffee. What a great conversation between two of the most important intellectuals of our time....WOW

  • @singingway
    @singingway 2 года назад

    Dr. West and Dr. Wolff -- what a special joy to hear them together!

  • @TennesseeJed
    @TennesseeJed 2 года назад +3

    Always great content! Thanks y'all!

  • @GehresWeed
    @GehresWeed 2 года назад +8

    My only complaint of this video is that it was too short! Everybody should share this

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      Get real, these people are truly deceitful!

  • @n.r.2258
    @n.r.2258 2 года назад +1

    That was a wonderful half hour and I enjoyed word by word.

  • @jamesowuor6572
    @jamesowuor6572 2 года назад +2

    Asante sana Daktari Wolff💯🤘

  • @NameName-lv4lu
    @NameName-lv4lu 2 года назад +2

    I can hardly believe Wolff is 79 years old! He looks very healthy and I am glad to say it looks he will be with us for a long time to come!

  • @paulgallagher5889
    @paulgallagher5889 2 года назад +1

    Dr. West just makes you feel like family. We need to do that for eachother so much more in this world!!!

  • @YEPLIZZ
    @YEPLIZZ 2 года назад +15

    Prof Richard smiled . Thanks Dr. West.

  • @tanujSE
    @tanujSE 2 года назад +6

    Red salute to Cornel West
    Wish him good health

  • @karlfitzmaurice946
    @karlfitzmaurice946 2 года назад +3

    Excellent discussion Gentlemen

  • @rgzhaffie
    @rgzhaffie 2 года назад +14

    Reactionaries have come up with a brand new strategy against "socialism": rave on and on about how "it doesn't work"! They are full of innovative debating ideas. I've NEVER heard anything like that before! With creativity like this, what can possibly go wrong??

    • @amyadmirer
      @amyadmirer 2 года назад +2

      Unfortunately to build up a generation and culture that can understand the truth you are saying, it takes years, and some level of security and democratic rights.. lots of teaching of critical analysis too. We havent had enough of those two factors together, and the power structures that have always planned ahead, are now playing their cards at every turn, mobilizing the most uninformed part of the population to support a growing fascist regime, while buying off or indoctrinating politicians to not see whats happening before their eyes.

  • @Notecrusher
    @Notecrusher 2 года назад

    Oh this needed to be longer! Dr. Wolff and Dr. West were just warming up! Grateful for what is here of course.

  • @jamescc2010
    @jamescc2010 2 года назад +2

    It’s been a lot of fun and Informativelistening to both of you professors.

  • @KznnyL
    @KznnyL 2 года назад +4

    Just wonderful.

  • @suzanneharris8339
    @suzanneharris8339 2 года назад

    Truth tellers, par excellence 👏
    Always a pleasure in this world of unspeakable chaos.
    Thank you, Prof. Wolff & Dr. West.

  • @orangebetsy
    @orangebetsy 2 года назад

    Really great talk. Democracy at Work is so totally worthwhile.

  • @loiswilcken1758
    @loiswilcken1758 2 года назад

    Thank you, Prof. Wolff for having Prof. West, and thank you Prof. West for reminding us of the power of Haiti.

  • @samp9418
    @samp9418 2 года назад +2

    Richard Wolff and Cornel West - name a more iconic duo, I’ll wait

  • @DjWellDressedMan
    @DjWellDressedMan 2 года назад +19

    In 1991 in the USA, I was making $6.00 an hour, which was okay money then for a summer university job.
    30 years later $8.00 an a hour is slave labour.

    • @matthew7306
      @matthew7306 2 года назад +6

      My favorite George Carlin joke is that you have to be asleep to believe in the American Dream

    • @grapentine739
      @grapentine739 2 года назад +1

      And everything has become so much more expensive than it used to be. Instead of wanting to raise the minimum wage they want to get rid of it. A few years ago i would of never dreamed they would say that and everyone around them is ok with it. 🤯

  • @Cid2065
    @Cid2065 2 года назад +14

    wait how do I get an invite to coffee in a living room with these folks?! Talk about an amazing evening!
    such important conversations.

  • @Insightts
    @Insightts 2 года назад

    It just doesn't get any better than this, thank you both.

  • @pattirockgarden4423
    @pattirockgarden4423 2 года назад +23

    So much to be learned from these giants. Fascinating! True about the failure of America's public life & responses to crisis.

  • @dr_orient4782
    @dr_orient4782 2 года назад +3

    ...my favorite economist talks with a true intellectual titan - it just doesn't get better than this...

    • @twntwrs
      @twntwrs 2 года назад

      More like a Titanic with all the god bothering.

    • @dr_orient4782
      @dr_orient4782 2 года назад +1

      @@twntwrs, Dr. West (and Chris Hedges, for that matter) speaks from his values - if you can't deal with the notion of a "god" (full disclosure: as a Zen Buddhist, I'm a non-theist myself), then listen to the substance of what he is saying - if someone gets genuine ethics from a belief in a god (or a disbelief in one), they can rock on, in my book - not to mention that the vast majority of people DO believe in a god, and thus their message will reach way more people than this comment...

    • @twntwrs
      @twntwrs 2 года назад

      @@dr_orient4782 If your reputation hinges on your stature as an intellectual, emitting myth and superstition based babble does not fortify that reputation. Intellectual reputations are judged by fellow intellectuals, the leading ones among which godbothering is decidedly not celebrated. The notion that "genuine" ethics are to be gotten from belief in non-genuine entities (gods) is absurd prima facie.
      West especially should know better how his people are held captive by this cult and should be leading them away from it instead of legitimising and pandering to it. Perhaps he didn't understand or even read the part where Marx mentions "the opium of the people."

    • @dr_orient4782
      @dr_orient4782 2 года назад +1

      @@twntwrs, your chauvinism is showing - your point of view appears to be that those not totally with us are against us; mine is the converse: those not totally against us are with us. Then again, I'm an anarchist, and you apparently are a tankie. I don't worry about reputation, that is for others to concern themselves with; my only interest is how to safeguard a decent future (at the very least) for the next generation of human beings, not to mention giving the ecosystem in which they will live a fighting chance. Whomever can assist those ends is someone I wish to talk to - that list might include the bourgeois, even some of the wealthy, as well - no revolution can succeed without backing within the military, so I'll be looking there too. Does that mean I'll sell out the working people I fight for (like a Bernie), or abandon the Socialism I see as the way to achieve real human progress (like anyone in the Democratic Party)? Certainly not: my price is too high, since it is the complete surrender of power by the oligarchy, an the breaking up of the corporate state. But that's where I'm coming from. I need no one's approval...

  • @Bisquick
    @Bisquick 2 года назад +21

    You gotta love the whole "socialism doesn't work" line, as if "work" is some sort of objective self-contained metric and not...completely contentless really. Not to mention the implication that capitalism _does_ "work", in spite of, well literally every problem we see around us. It's the kind of rhetoric that itself only "works" if one doesn't think about it for more than 0 seconds.

    • @5508Vanderdekken
      @5508Vanderdekken 2 года назад +3

      There's also no problem continuing to try shit that doesn't work, like the f35 program, nation-building in afghanistan, etc. But "try" socialism? No way we could possibly do that

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      Show me where it's worked !

    • @dipthongthathongthongthong9691
      @dipthongthathongthongthong9691 2 года назад +2

      Seeing it FAIL has been the core objective of US foreign policy for decades. Its the circular conversation the US loves. We can't let socialism take hold, its evil... free people elect socialists... they begin their mandate... they have some success... the US imposes sanctions... attacks the economic system... right wing zealots backed by the CIA stage a coup... right wing puppet corporate lapdogs that open the country to US business are put in office... "Look, we told you, socialism doesn't work."

    • @dipthongthathongthongthong9691
      @dipthongthathongthongthong9691 2 года назад +1

      @@garyjones3142 Uruguay. Now you and your Fox News brain can crawl back under your rock

    • @garyjones3142
      @garyjones3142 2 года назад

      @@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 Don't get your panties in a wad. Only you and your CNN News pea brain will swelter and shrivel in the desert heat, LOL !

  • @YellowstoneCommie
    @YellowstoneCommie 2 года назад

    Where would I be without these 2 special people... Thank you Thank you Thank you🖖

  • @jericheatum9474
    @jericheatum9474 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for this important information and discussion!

  •  2 года назад +2

    Long live the revolutionary spirit of the Haitian people 🇭🇹

  • @FirstRisingSouI
    @FirstRisingSouI 2 года назад

    Every time I hear Dr. West speak, I feel a great hope.

  • @janedoe5048
    @janedoe5048 2 года назад

    Dr. Cornell always brings with him positivity ad the message of hope by telling people to not be discouraged and to not give up. A remarkable feat considering the subject matter and the uphill battle on our hands.

  • @iv2sab512
    @iv2sab512 2 года назад

    What a pleasure to hear these two professors speak.

  • @jhflores8826
    @jhflores8826 2 года назад +1

    Great interview! So illuminating!

  • @redblitzridden9021
    @redblitzridden9021 2 года назад

    Nothing but mad love and respect for Uncle West and Uncle Wolff for keeping the beacon of knowledge aflame in these trying times. What a period in time to be alive! Both scary and exciting!!

  • @rustylidrazzah5170
    @rustylidrazzah5170 2 года назад +4

    Puerto Rico, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guam, it seems the list is endless. I mean when the list runs out, new countries are created to exploit. South Sudan comes to mind.

  • @ThePiedra777
    @ThePiedra777 2 года назад +5

    Love watching these two guys speak.

  • @anhedonic-voting
    @anhedonic-voting 2 года назад +2

    Thank you🌎✊🌹🗽

  • @Domi_2204
    @Domi_2204 2 года назад +9

    I love you, Richard Wolff. We all make mistakes and say uninformed or underinformed things.
    The SPD is called "Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland" or Social Democratic Party of Germany. Sadly the SPD is not even social democratic in theory, not in practice. They weren't in the past (see WW1, Weimar) and are not in this century (see Kosovo, Hartz4).
    Now they make a coalition with the Greens and the Liberals, which meens deconstruction of the crumbling social state, paying the green transformation by taxing the poor and having no answer to the growing AfD, a proto-fascist party.
    Keep up the good work.

    • @killiet.6945
      @killiet.6945 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/rOLmdBP38y8/видео.html - Yanis Varoufakis on Angela Merkel’s Legacy, European Politics & the “Sordid Arms Race” on the Seas

    • @owesteen-hansen2152
      @owesteen-hansen2152 2 года назад +1

      The same can be said of the Arbeiderpartiet, the Labour Party in Norway. It was first in introducing neo-liberal politics here, in electricity supply and health care and in . The liberal (in the European sense of the word) conservatives and libertarians, who have governed the last 8 years, have continued the same kind of politics.

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 2 года назад +1

      But the " S " stands for socialist...that was Wolff's point...what it means, was not
      his point...just as what "capitalism" means is not his point...or democracy.
      All that matters is...everything bad = capitalism....the solution to bad is therefor
      socialism and democracy. ( this has been sufficient to secure $10, 000 /mo from
      about 2500 people who will pay to hear it....which for Wolff = "success beyond
      his wildest dreams."

    • @owesteen-hansen2152
      @owesteen-hansen2152 2 года назад +4

      J GALT
      People that have listened to Wollf some times know very well that the statement
      ""All that matters is...everything bad = capitalism" is far from the truth, because they know that W, over and over again, has said that all systems have weaknesses and strenghts. They also know very well that W also has said many times that both feudalism and slavery are bad systems, so how can everything bad be capitalism? Galt reveals his own lack of rationality. As libertarians and neo-liberals he beleives that the market is a divine construction. They are believing in the fiction of the invisible hand and the tautology that the market is everywhere and allways right. Everything good = capitalism and that's the reason he must say everything is wrong with soscialism. So that's the way he is demonstrating to the audience here his totalitarian and authoritarian attitudes. It was not the capitalists or the slaveowners ot the church or the landlords that fought for universal suffrage, for Democracy, it was those people in the 19th century that called themself socialist and they also fought for the liberation of women. Conclusion: Mr. Galt is an enemy of Democracy, liberation of slaves, women and working class. The class war in 19th century against the liberation mentioned above also used God, the invisible hand, the Bible, Aristotle etc. etc., but lost. Now, we have to wait for the invectives , which Galt normally uses when he is empty of arguments.

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 2 года назад

      @@owesteen-hansen2152 Wolff's self-contradictions are known to all who listen carefully...
      and verify the "facts" involved...and why would any sane person, who knew
      what the word meant NOT be an enemy of "democracy"???
      One need not argue against that which is NOT an argument...and the words have no meaning...
      so this is the rest of today's critique that is posted elsewhere, since this comment is directed
      at the person who initiated this thread...and our "functional illiterate" who wouldn't know what a
      relevant response is or capable of an actual argument.
      One has to marvel at the shock and surprise and belief ...regarding the "opinions"
      of the "functionally illiterate"...when no one knows what the words mean.
      Today people are interested in living in a "socialist country"...yet there is no
      definition of "socialism"? ( or there are many, so for todays exercise in "willful ignorance"
      we mean the one's that haven't failed yet. )
      They blame "capitalism" for the housing problems in Britain, but this is the "rentier"
      economy Marx believed would be undone by "capitalism". ( see Michael Hudson )
      And this exercise is all about government and law, as well as fiat/inflation which
      began in 1933, and yet, this is implied as being "capitalism", again.
      Finally, blaming capitalism for climate change, when it is clearly the result of
      the available energy in "fossils fuels" and its ability to do "work"...is another
      misdirection...or does anyone think that this source of energy would not
      have been used regardless of the economic description after having
      been discovered????
      As long as no one knows what the words mean, you can use "rhetoric" for anything...
      you simply have to fool enough people to support your efforts.
      You gotta love Wolff, and his fractured fairy tales...with todays "altered history... in that the amount of deaths from
      (or with) Covid has exceeded that of the Spanish Flu in the US. ( as well a the great depression of 1920/21 which
      he keeps "omitting" because that would mess up his "we have never faced a pandemic and depression before" lie.)
      What did the US do to mitigate either...absolutely NOTHING, and both ended quickly...with the "great
      depression" not even noted as being significant.
      IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, it's just not the strength of the ignorant or the willfully ignorant.

  • @LONEWOLF..314-S-T-L
    @LONEWOLF..314-S-T-L 2 года назад +1

    GREAT TALKING POINTS PROFESSOR WOLFF ... AS USUAL .. 💯💪🏾❤👍🏾

  • @jaimelabbe7445
    @jaimelabbe7445 2 года назад

    Thanks for posting Dr. Wolff, a pleasure to listen to a very didactic dialogue between two of the most progressive minds in the US. Brother West, as always, so elocuent and entertaining.

  • @NSVMitakda
    @NSVMitakda 2 года назад

    Always lotsa love & utmost respect from Indonesia to both you Saints...
    Rock on!

  • @jeremy2958
    @jeremy2958 2 года назад +15

    The love fest at the beginning of the interview lol

  • @PortlandsTransport
    @PortlandsTransport 2 года назад

    Indeed! It’s great to see Richard Wolfe smile like this. 🙂

  • @ibrahematta4218
    @ibrahematta4218 2 года назад

    It is always a blessing to set my eyes on the greatest public intellectual of our time Doc West. I hope you will have Doc Gerald Horne in your show one day.

  • @sanderdegroot6628
    @sanderdegroot6628 2 года назад

    What a marvellous chemistry between these two wonderful professors in this enlightning interview! Thank you so much :-D

  • @GhostOnTheHalfShell
    @GhostOnTheHalfShell 2 года назад +4

    Cornell made Wolff blush. lol

  • @JayVBear45
    @JayVBear45 2 года назад

    Mazel Tov and l'chaim to you both! Much goodness and life to you for all you do and teach!

  • @sarahbyrne8501
    @sarahbyrne8501 2 года назад

    I could listen to Dr. West all day….

  • @dennislabbe2538
    @dennislabbe2538 2 года назад +1

    Two of the best.

  • @thecatsbackyard4833
    @thecatsbackyard4833 2 года назад +8

    Wonderful news. I think even more people will be in favor of socialism when they realize that socialism doesn't mean the end of private property. On the contrary. It means the bottom 9/10 (wealth wise) of humanity can actually have some.

  • @astrorad2000
    @astrorad2000 2 года назад +4

    That was wonderful! Thank you Professor Wolff.

  • @adwilkin7975
    @adwilkin7975 2 года назад +5

    fantastic show - thank you Dr. Wolff and Dr. West for all of your energy and hard work

  • @seanm.1813
    @seanm.1813 2 года назад +7

    This is an unexpected treat