Richard Wolff: Is Labour The Answer To Capital’s Decline? (TMBS 114)
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- Labour gears up for an election & the capitalist decline in the US and Europe.
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The British press is absolutely horrible.
Listening to the British press is like being condescended to by someone with an IQ of 25.
Lmao American MSM is worse
The -British- press is absolutely horrible. Probably stating the obvious to most, but self-selecting horribleness/sensationalist nonsense rises to the top and the top is profitable. As Michael might say, it is "overdetermined". Spoiler: capitalism sucks.
I totally agree. The fact that I can obtain more factual information by coming to US independent media channels like this one, Rational National and Jamarl Thomas', than I could by watch a week of the corporate propagandist media here in the UK, tells you all you need to know about how bad the press are here.
Thank you Micheal and Richard for all your fantastic work, much love from the UK.
@@biggerson51 I guess it really depends on what part of the media you are talking about. I am from the UK but have family in the states and have been many times. I have no doubt that based on my observations your televised news media are much worst than ours. Here in the UK, there are stronger regulations on the televised news media. As a result it is never obviously that they are displaying partisanship and they ALWAYS try to appear professional and impartial. In the US it is VERY obvious that ALL of the big players in the televised news media have clearly nailed their flags to the ships masts and all display their partisanship like peacocks. In the US the media in general seems to be perceived by the vast majority of the public as consisting mainly of "left" leaning media companies (although that is certainly not how I would describe them). The complete opposite is true over here, ALL of the televised news media are right-wing and the overwhelming majority of the the printed media is very right-wing, very partisan and much like the televised media news companies in the US, they are VERY clear about who they support. There are only 3 mainstream newspapers that are referred to as left, one is a tabloid newspaper (not worth wiping your arse with) and the other two are moderate liberal papers at best.
I think the biggest difference and where we have you beat on how bad our press is, (nothing to be proud of for sure) is the fact that our newspaper media dominate what is shown by the televised news media. The newspapers here lie constantly every day and quite deliberately too. They act like a massive pack of starving wild Hyenas. They collective pounce on their pray and will not stop until they pick the carcass clean and eaten the remaining bones. For example they have smeared Jeremy Corbyn (The leader of the biggest opposition party in Europe) with the most outrageous lies every single day for four years now and they are free to just get away with it. This would not be accepted in the US. Even your fellow American, Megan who married one of the princes from the Royal Family has described how "devastating" the UK press has been to her mental health and she was warned about them by her friends prior to coming here. She stated that she couldn't imagine that they could be as bad as they had been described to her. Many people have taken their own lives as a result of being terrorised my the UK press.
i wish someone looked at me the way michael looks at richard wolff
Daddy Richard Wolff LOL
Zadday Wolf
That's that Papa Wolff right there lol
🤣
Spot on, Prof. Wolff. From the cold, wet island we salute you. (Some of us are redeemable).
Some of us were already 'redeemed'!
We know and we ❤ you! Solidarity!
you have lovely gardens !
Let's find a way forward together. The same old same old doesn't cut it and hasn't in a couple two or three generations now.
Nah fuck him. I'm a fan and everything but he can't even get the name of the country right. The States is a fucking shithole, depresses me that the tories are going to drag us even lower than them.. but as bad as it is now, he can't slag us off when they are just as much in denial and their country is worse than ours to live in.
Plus the island of Britain.. from the highlands of Scotland to God's Country (Northern England), even shandy drinking south England.. is actually a beautiful place.
and yes I am fucking triggered. When Labour/SNP win the election I'll calm down.
Free Broadband connection in the UK is a game changer. If you are in the main land Britain vote Labour party Corbyn4Christmas Sanders4Summer
The policies Labour are rolling out are inspiring.
I am registering people to vote the cut off date is Tuesday 26.11.19.
I am stealth campaigning, not a Labour Party member because people have been let down by our government for too long.
It's going well so far, we're going to do it. 😄✊
I wish corbyn would win but the polling is not going well at all boris is likely to get a majiority
@@tadhgbenson1081 the polls said the same thing in 2017.
Corbyn is a brilliant campaigner. He pulled a 30pt tory lead last time round. Despite ALL THE SMEARS from right-wing media owned by Rupert fucking murdoch.
Scotland will overwhelmingly vote snp
Rich O no they didn’t same thing because by the end it was within the margin of error he’s not gained enough at the rate to end up anywhere near a majiority
The same "othering" that Prof Wolff talks about is happening in India as well (by hindu extremists led by Modi against muslims). Wish he took more examples from our part of the world
Nice to see a fellow Indian!
Hear hear
Reason #12 to not support Tulsi Gabbard. She's closely aligned with Modi.
@@Anskurshaikh hey. Same here comrade
@@darkrider962 definitely. Thankfully Michael does call out her fascist leanings and platitudes. Another reason why I respect and admire him greatly 🙏
As a brit I'll take "cold damp offshore island" as a sincere compliment..we say worse everyday
Lol it is actually a nice island though. I'm the first to slag it off. On a daily basis.
True! Lol.
That Corbyn plan sounds mindblownly awesome.
Check out John McDonnell on Novara Media tonight. He's incredible.
chokinonashes61 Labour has really stepped up after kicking Tory Blair out.
co-ops are still ran by capitalists, that must be dealt with
Actually the I remember the day Corbyn said this to the press and I wished the US had a candidate who would say the same thing and Bernie came quite close. I hope the the 2 of them get elected cause both countries have had enough of these selfish politicians
@@Bonginspector69 Coops are run by the workers, who then operate within a capitalist system. The end goal is very different.
Workers co-op is revolutionary.
The beauty of worker coops is that we don't have to abandon the capitalist system that people are so fond of. Instead we make it work for us, the ones creating all that wealth, and not for the filthy rich. The amount of wealth disappearing into the pockets of the 1% is far larger than the amount that is spent on their workers, so if we cut that out of the equation, society will see its budget to maintain itself go up tremendously. We're talking about 4 day workweeks with a better income, free childcare, free education, free healthcare, great pensions at a lower age, great wages for everybody, including nurses, doctors, teachers, scholars, policemen, firemen, everything that's important for society to survive and thrive. Wealth for society would reach unprecedented levels, never thought to be possible.
@@TheBushdoctor68 Technically worker cooperatives are getting rid of capitalism as they're a form of market socialism, but what we're not getting rid of is already established markets and the market system in general. Capitalism is strictly the business organization with employers at the top and employees at the bottom, capitalism is the authoritarian petty fiefdom system of business management, worker cooperatives are a democratic socialist form, and both can coexist within a market system. Its the best way to soft-transition our economy toward a more equitable and sustainable future. We will need to do more afterwards, but they're an amazing first step.
You think that's new? It does not work. Fact.
@@galleon1968 A: he didn't say it was new, he said it was revolutionary. Learn to react to the actual statement, not what your mind turns it into.
B: Worker-coops are thriving world-wide, with the largest of them being the 2nd largest manufacturer of goods in Spain, employing tens of thousands of people.
- Back to you Bob.
@@TheBushdoctor68 Teach me something new Bub
no joke, professor wolff for congress. can you imagine a real marxist dragging the overton window to the left? i would also be happy with a 2024 run for president. #draftprofwolff
Candidates for Chief Economic Adviser?
Wolff at the top of the list. With Yanis Varoufakis.
And Robert Reich for DoL, since he seems to have seen the light since 2009, when I heard him on PBS with Paulson & Rubin saying "Everyone in America wants to be rich!" Yeah, that's why we become teachers & nurses... not out of a sense of vocation, but because we're too "stupid" (naive, honest & compassionate) to make it at Goldman.
I think watching the "recovery" up close finally got it through Reich's head that class warfare exists and the capitalist class is hellbent on winning. Perhaps it helped that Buffet said so... don't believe it when the socialists tell you, but, if the capitalists admit it, it must be so.
I'd be interested in Sanders declaring his entire Cabinet before the primaries... it could make all the difference. With the right people, he could really fire people up.
If I'd known who Obama's picks would be, I never would have voted for him. Before he was ever inaugurated, I knew he had sold us out. It was pure Clinton Redux.
You must be joking
I usually hang on Professor Wolf’s every word, but his explanation completely sidestepped Jeremy Corbyn’s compassion towards the Palestinian cause being twisted into loaded charges of anti-semitism.
Ariel Reich I love your pic! Is that you? I loved Joker btw.
terriej123 yes - the movie was a scary wake up call and yes, it’s me...
Google: Ed Miliband Israel. Ed faced the same backlash in 2014/15 (prior to the general election). With headlines such as, Jewish donors drop "toxic Miliband"
Agreed
Well said
I live in the UK and Mr Wolff is correct on every point imo.
yellowpinko yep
Except that antisemitism is a problem of any significance whatsoever!!
@@dirtylittleowl With the questionable lack of solid evidence, I'd have to agree.
Do you think most Brits are in denial about the nation's declining power on the global stage, like Richard implies?
I live in the UK and do not get this sense from the average person. People might complain about the economy but it's a small minority that still pine for the empire.
@@yellowpinko 87% of Jews think Corbyn is Antisemitic. Jews are the most oppressed race in recorded history - if you are not sensitive to it then you are part of the problem. Corbyn may or may not be antisemitic in your eyes, but shame on you for pretending that it isn't a problem. It always has been and always will be a problem while people like you exist.
I wish every family member and friend of mine from the UK would listen to this dialogue. There is so much here that the general public is missing due to the massive conservative propaganda campaign going on.
And btw - 'Britain' does not = 'England', despite what current Westminster likes to think
Westminster's worse, they think Great Britain = the City of London
It includes Scotland and Wales, no?
@@SoSoMikaelaYou wouldn't know this by the way they fund/look after the Rest of the UK
@@SoSoMikaela
...and Northern Ireland. But the average brexit voter in England doesn't know it care about that.
There's this strange conception that a lot of people have that British people regard Britain in the same way they did when the empire existed. They don't.
Of course some older people do, but the vast majority view Britain as a medium sized wealthy country, with the ability to defend its interests against all but the superpowers of the world. In other words, there's a reasonably accurate perception of Britain's place in the global order.
I should also add that such a role isn't much different to Britain's pre-empire days. While Richard's comment on Brexit is broadly correct in the Conservative's characterisation of the topic, the fact is that there are substantial reasons why Britain has not quite meshed as well with the EU as other countries. From basic stuff like the lack of the Napoleonic code in Britain, to different democratic structures and philosophies, to the very substantial fact that Britain has borders which haven't been disputed since the Medieval period unlike while other European nations which have torn each other to shreds attempting to regain land considered 'theirs'.
Boiling the issue down to the bog standard 'othering' argument doesn't really cut it.
Having said that, vote Labour.
Napoleonic Law isn't ubiquitous throughout the EU.
@@jaredgarbo3679 yeah but it's a factor. I'd say it's very unlikely that it hasn't contributed to the ease off establishing the EU generally. So the reverse is true for the case of Britain.
@@YearRoundHibernater and a wine for ladies.
Did I remember that wrong? Lol
Watched Richard on ReasonTV. Good job. Lot's of bad assertions in the comments.
I just came from there. He was awesome back there. Specially his closing speech. Powerful stuff
Link?
@@zombiesingularity just go to reason's channel. It is very recent.
A couple years ago I used to read "Reason." Now I'm a communist.
David Moreno isn’t Reason right wing?
Thanks to Michael Wolffe I'm going to become a Patreon of this show.
The retired "Order" guy had an amazingly good faith answer to the question of Antisemitism in Labour
Michael.. bring Prof. Wolff more often please
As a brit I am feel so despondent about the future of our country. I can only hope that Corbyn wins the election (or, more accurately, the Conservatives lose).
What a great mind set that is. Inbred anger
is pretty cold and damp here
Well said Richard Wolff - and shared
John Bercow remembers who said that to him. His answer to that interviewer says to me that folks (in Britain, at least) would know who it was if Bercow outed them.
Thank you so much for bringing Professor Wolf. We learn so much.
Great Interview,Richard Wolff always kicks ass.
Richard Wolff suggesting England is returning to being a cold, damp, off shore island of Europe is bang on the money.
Wow, Wolff described the state of my country perfectly. What a phenomenally accurate analysis - such an intelligent man.
Massive respect to Bercow in that interview. May not agree with him 100% but he has integrity
Elizabeth Taylor. How about a glance as Britain passes on, to the fact that they were the ONLY ONES, other than Poland who was crushed immediately, who stood up and stood up and stoop up to the Nazis. The magnificent RAF. Being bombed for years. I will always love Britain for this no matter all their bad behaviors. Furthermore, After WW 2, they acquiesced and QUIT INDIA, they left instead of trying to hang on which would have taken huge repression on their part which it was thought the general British would be unwilling to countenance.
Hi, I do not mean to burst your bubble but Gandhi campaigned for decades to get the British to leave India during which my fellow Brits committed massacres and brutal repressions most of which were never reported in the UK until many years later, something which we did across many of our colonies in the years leading up to us finally accepting that we no longer had the military and economic resources needed to hold on to them.
As for the Poles, they were some of our best pilots during the battle of Britain flying for the RAF, we also had Ukrainians and Germans.
@@Nine-Signs and Indians, muslims and a whole host of other people
Actually facts says also shed a diffrent light, and they are: first two years of ww2 in Britain was called a phony war, Chamberlain agreed with Hitler in Munchen agreement that if it comes to a war they will not attack each other, 80% of the war was fought in Eastern front including Yugoslavian where partisans fought like lions against 25 German divisions, 11 Italian, and 13 of home traitors (how many fascist/third reich divisions UK had on their soil?). The greatest battles were fought in Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kiev... But "west" thanks to a propaganda machinery like to think that they are the ones that liberated Europe from Hitler. Just mentioning.
Does anyone have a clip of thw John McDonnell interview that Richard Wolff is refering to?
So right about the Conservatives, Peter Hitchens put it best, their policy is to secure office for the sons of gentlemen.
I joined Labour to support Corbyn's political policies which I still support. Unfortunately his leadership of Labour has been dire. He could have killed the antisemitism issue with a strong principled response. He thought he could somehow evade the difficult choices on this but also on Brexit and it is killing Labour in the polls. He has failed totally. The terrible consequence is that the policies we need are becoming less and less likely to be supported and achieved.
I live in England and it’s even more dire than what you guys speak of. It’s that the U.K. is at breaking point. England is a country the least prepared for U.K. break up. England has no functioning parliament of its own and needs to rediscover its national identity.
England needs to build up strong political institutions and scrap FFP.
English Parliament that is fit for the 21 century like the Scottish Parliament.
I also believe it is more a time of when the U.K. breaks up not if regardless of any economic changes.
In my opinion it’s Time to first create a federal Union for a time to get each country to mentality prepare our citizens for the transition.
As well as creating the vital governing institutions in England and rUK.
If Scottish independence happens before this then Scotland is going to have a neighbour in a dangerous situation and I am by no means saying that the Scottish people must therefore stay until
This is sorted but I think for them it would be better to have England stable than in Constant political and economic turmoil.
I don't think Mr Wolff has appreciated the complexities of the reasons people voted for Brexit and also the reason why people are calling out 'anti-semitism' in the Labour party. Yes there was an element of isolationism and xenophobia but there was also a desire to be economically independent of the EU which is not necessarily democtratic in its manner of passing laws and standards. There are many arguments for a left wing Brexit (I'm not a brexiter but i can see some of the motivations). Also I think the main trigger for the anti semitism claim is that Corbyn supporters tend to be quite anti Israeli or anti Zionist and it is the issue of Israel's legitimacy which is the touchpaper for tensions. I experienced that myself when Zionists would come to free Palestine meetings and shout down everybody. Again I see there are nuances to all of this; i don't doubt there are antisemites everywhere but there is also hypersensitivity too. Also, one final point. Please refer to the UK's people as the British not the English. Scots (me), Irish people and the Welsh are willing to be part of the UK so long as you don't call the island England.
Brilliant analysis, and locating the problem where it really sits.
terrible analysis of what Britain thinks, Brits love Europe (we are European) but a lot of us don't like the EU
Lewis Taylor, I would agree, but it isn't presented as an analysis of what we think about Europe. It's an analysis of attitudes and events which explains the role of racism in society, followed by an analysis of the movement in Britain for social change. However, I voted to leave at the last referendum because I saw the elite of Europe enjoying their own power and collaborating in the measures of austerity imposed on the majority of ordinary people for lining the pockets of the rich. But I now see the potential for change, and I'm sure this has come about because of the disruption to business as usual resulting from the referendum. Neither do I trust Johnson or Trump to speak the truth about their real plans for a post-brexit Britain, but I do trust Corbyn in his plan to use our membership, if Labour wins the largest number of seats in the next parliament by a significant amount, to negotiate a new style of EU which aims to tackle the climate emergency seriously, along with addressing world peace and global economic equity, along the lines of the description of how Labour plans to transform the British economy. This will put Britain back on the map as the first western power to make fundamental changes necessary for the avoidance of total climate breakdown while redressing issues of exploitation and poverty worldwide.
At the next opportunity I'll vote to remain, and there are friends of mine who'll do the same thing. When transforming Europe becomes a goal in common with transforming the UK and the rest of the world to make everywhere safer and more inclusive for people and the environment, I'm convinced by conversations I've had so far, that people's view of Europe will be bound to be different. After all, we don't have to continue looking at the present as we looked at the past, if it's substantively different from the past we knew. With the feeling of hope so many people have as we approach election day, if we get a government of openness and change, the surge of optimism will bring communities together to make our new world happen - not through imposition from above, but through collaboration at local level.
That is indeed revolutionary! Workers get to buy a “liquidated” company by workers using public money? Better and more decent than Friedman’s proposal to use public money for the benefit of the private sector!
Burcow had the position to represent everyone and he did the greatest job one could do at it
I thought that was poor. Wolff went on a a rambling speech that wasn't really necessary and when it came to the issue of antisemitism and the Labour, completely missed the point that forces are aligned against anyone who challenges the position of Israel. Those who most vehemently attack Corbyn are friends of Israel and we have have video evidence that the Israel government is behind some of the attacks. This has nothing to do with antisemtism, its a power struggle between Russia/Syria/Iran and Israel/Egypt/USA.
Then singling out John McDonnell does not do justice to Jeremy Corbyn who has played 3D chess with the British establishmment and those in the Labour Party who don't want to see him as Prime Minister. The Labour Party manifesto will be incredibly radical and Corbyn will stand up to Trump and Israel and the establishment in a way that makes Bernie Sanders look like a centrist.
Nuance is necessary. Wolff isn't your puppet.
As mainstream politicians go, Bercow is (was) a good person. He seemed to have genuine integrity, even if we're politically very different. Admittedly that's much easier to do when you're the speaker, but nevertheless...
Great interview.
I prefer Labour co op policy but Bernie said in a speech 20% ownership by workers of any company valued above $100m which seems less slick than the mechanism proposed by labour but let’s see how it evolves after negotiations are settled
Point one and point two...and the rest of the commentary 😮 the person
Who made the derogatory comment I would at were Tory or conservative.
spot on . inequality is the factor that divides people , funny how the rich tabloid press never mentions this
Having watched a few minutes I think I can see why the content here is free.
Cold, small, damp, delusions of former grandeur, confused identity....all true. Despite the clown show of our politics and the 17.4m that voted against our collective best interests, there are still practical, warm hearted and intelligent people residing here and trying to push back the wave of hate and fear
That was great listening to an American take on the British situation
What a brilliant idea British Labor has! When SAIC was a real employee owned company it was outstanding. This is the way forward; the workers who are the doers own the company, not the hip buzzword maniac MBAs.
I'm trying to think of something I heard Richard Wolf say or write that was incorrect. Can anyone help?
Zachary Lemon England 500 years ago - he never heard of Henry VIII
Richard Wolff is so on point.
What's up with all the commercials?
Well, Bercow is a changed man from when he wore t-shirts saying "Hang Nelson Mandela"
A cold, damp offshore island - granted, but, on the upside, we make great music and comedy. Well, some british people do, I don't but I'll take credit by loose association, that's how it works, right?
I never want to go to war because I'd rather live without violence. That said, I would follow Prof. Wolff into 'battle'. He seems to understand humanity's economic struggles from a global perspective.
Both are awesome
Still is a "cold, damp, island off [mainland] Europe" even if it stays in the EU.
Hey! IT IS 1936 ALL OVER AGAIN.. 'Find a champion?" ADOLF emerged as the capitalist protector!
Dudes if you're going to talk about the UK please DO SOME FLIPPING RESEARCH!! We have less of an antisemitism problem than the US, and the Labour party contains a lower percentage of antisemites than the population at large!!
The EU is quintessentially neoliberal. He's wrong on this one
True, but the way to fix it is not by running away and turning our country into a tax haven for the rich. We need to reform the EU from within, like the DiEM25 is trying to do.
That’s true. I have lived in Germany. There is neoliberal propaganda for a while. But in Germany the ideas of various different types of socialism are very much alive.
For example I lived at an artists residency as a three month guest. The artist residents voted on general maintenance of the building, what public events they would produce in their gallery, what to do with money from public events etc.
The building in this Situation was privately owned by a landlord with a public subsidy for the arts which reduced rent to 220€ per apartment.
In another situation artists took over a historic building complex, wrote out a cooperative business proposal that the city accepted. They get income from public events like movie screenings and performances, gallery events, a bike shop, and a cafe. Plus the gallery and theater can receive public funds.
Because the idea of cooperatives are in people’s minds as an alternative solution it happens frequently.
There is also codetermination policy for industries.
A larger welfare state including tuition free college etc. aka social democracy.
And subsidies to incentivize small businesses.
The British Empire didn't dramatically and painfully "disappear". The Americans took control of it and the British were absorbed into the new order with remarkably few problems. Also, the post-war increase in wages and living conditions started later for people in the UK. The masses in the US have been in "decline" for a longer time, not less, just from a higher starting point. Sometimes I wonder about Wolff and how reliable he is.
So, given that Bercow's never experienced antisemitism from a Labour MP, which party do we think his rather shocking example at the end came from?
I'll leave that question open. But there's a Wikipedia page called 'Conservative Antisemitism,' which, in the light of all this, makes for very instructive reading.
Good on Prof RW. The issue here is more fundamental and it is about human equality and what do we do with our life? All man made systems are divisive as these are driven by human emotions.. period. We in the world have become too economic. Which is fine upto an extent. However we all have a self and very little is being done at that level. So all these identity problems.. whereas we need to think like a human being who owns nothing on this planet including his own body.. we die and leave behind all that is material.. only I goes forward... reflect!!!
John Bercow is a really interesting character and i recommend anyone interested read up on him
Problem for Labour, recessions inevitably hit and scupper its good work, allowing back in the Tories.
This happened in the post war period with war debt; happened in the late
70s with the Oil Shock - And happened in 2011 with the Great Recession
Social Democracy is still capitalism at the end of the day, still vulnerable to the shocks and scares of the markets
Workers co op.
I’m all in!
It's not cold all year round, its a seasonal climate.
Master Campbell - the guy who devised the 'pigs might fly' anti- campaign poster about Michael Howard; a Jew. And told the tabloids to 'f*** off and focus on something important' when challenged about it
can someone please ask the professor how we keep capitalists from being the managers and CEO's of co-ops because i work at a union co-op and its great to have benefits but my working conditions are still the same. management still wants to cut hours ASAP, how do we make these things socialist.
Former member of the Conservative party*
They are forced to resign when elected as Speaker. And, btw, he was not a moderate tory back then.
Also, Campbell is a Labour supporter but he's the kinda guy who goes like: "oh, centrism, Blair, blah blah blah"
Gracias Messi. Me gustan muchos tus videos de politica y futbol
John McDonnell threw the little red book at a tory during parliament once, he fuckin knows what the problem is alright.
Richard quite clearly doesn't understand Brexit if he is suggesting that 17.4m people who voted in the majority of the highest voter turnout in British politics just 'want to kick the Polish out' as he put it....
No, they also wanted to kick all the other colored people "who eat their bread and take their jobs" of course... And maybe some of them wanted to kick the Conservatives out of power and the Globalists, their financiers and their bureaucrats as well, that's true.
@@bubblefroggy1 Oh did 'they'..... and who are 'they' exactly? Do you happen to have a pager to ALL 17.4 million Britons? And does this bigotry encompass myself as well?
@@PelletJamie One thing that is pretty obvious anyway is that "Brexit" was never defined in a clear way so people voted only "to get the hell out" without knowing exactly what they were voting for. It has been from the start a kind of Rorschach test on which anyone could project her own frustrations (and one cannot deny the frustration about feeling you lose your job to "cheaper" foreign labour was undeniably a strong feeling among sectors of the UK population for some time). That much is very true, and the three years of political mess that followed only proved there was really a problem of definition and procedure from the start, whether people wanted or not to adhere to the neolib, undemocratic, globalist and bureaucratic EU (you get my own feeling there). Finally, the whole thing of the referendum was conceived by David Cameron as a "populist" ploy he thought he could win easily. He was proved very wrong, and brought total mess to the UK for the three following years.
@@bubblefroggy1 Thanks for your platitudes and conjecture.... still on this projection of 'What was going through the minds of 17.4m people' please explain how you know this?
Brexit was as clearly defined as this A. Do you want to Leave the EU or B. Do you want to Remain in the EU.... Did you read the ballot paper?
@@PelletJamie If facts are "platitudes and conjectures"... Well there you stand I guess.
But the simple concept of "leaving/remaining in the EU" was not enough as the last three years of political mess have shown us. The whole problem remained: 'How?" That question, which is the most important part of the problem, was never clearly defined in Cameron's opportunistic referendum.
I'm not a remainer nor a brexiter... The question needed to be treated much more seriously than what Cameron(and the Conservatives that followed him) did with it.
Dammit! i REALLY want to vote for labour now! workers co-ops WILL be amazing! Kim Stanley Robinson's mars trilogy explores this concept
order order , when you emphasize something , actrually , generally , it means that you are in lack of it , in the other way of saying , you are in chaos
There's absolutely no reason that the UK shouldn't be independent of any other nation.
If only UK was so understanding toward countries UK attacked in history (wanted to be "great").
What happens when $30 trillion (wealth of the 1%) is seeking a 5% rate of return in a $20 trillion annual GDP economy?
No mention of Isr...?
British Telecom was privatised in 1984. 35 years ago. Prior to that it was in public hands. One of the largest share holders is Deutsche Telekom. A former state owned company that was privatised in 1996.
On the announcement of labour proposals (so not come into fruition) to provide free broadband, share value in the company dropped. Market indicating that a utility being free is bad for business?
Finally, 2019 EU ranking of fibre broadband had U.K at bottom of the pile.
Many chapters of an ongoing tale!
My answer to the share price in BT dropping is "Thankyou very much idiot captilists, you have just made BT Openreach much easier for the Labour Party to buy when they get into government"
@@jatkinson85 😂
We've been bottom of the pile for some time.
IN CAPITALISM, WHEN IN POLITICAL 'DOUBT' USE THE HOLOCAUST AND ANY-SEMITISM to reach the naive!
That really is the most radical promise ive heard in 30 years.Expect attacks from every conceivable angle.
Our establishment/media has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Corbyn it appears the Antisemitic accusation is sticking :(
6:07 and lets be clear here isnt not that obama was black... that just ..well happens to be a very useful trait in this case... if he hasn't been black... it would have been something else.. his religion.. his nationality... the shape of his nose...his eye colour... the proximity of his eyes to each other... his fashion sense... it doesn't really matter what .. because thats not the point ... the point is to make it his fault or to make it "their" fault .. just so long as it isn't yours... when you get right down to it we are pattern seeking creatures and when shit starts happening we look for reasons and if we cant find them ..then we make them up...
8:29 and lets not even get started on the papists :P
Its not always cold and damp here ..sounds like the cold war labeling of the Soviet Union ..cold and bleak .
Workers co-ops are the way to go ✊✊✊ and by the way its not always cold and damp here in the UK 😒🤔😂
Much of labor's program can't be enacted as long as the UK is in the EU.
Most of it can actually. Most post offices in the EU haven't been privatised, or like in Germany, the State is the major shareholder. So, please do your research before commenting.
@@BigHenFor you can't prevent companies moving around Europe freely though, I imagine it would go against Competition laws.
a god damn ad every 2 seconds...really?
7:26 tl:dr it's some one else's fault that you're in the mess you're in not your fault because you are good and kind and nice ergo it must be someone else's fault ... and then spin the wheel of targets and see who to blame...
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I am always irritated by US commentators failing to understand the UK and Richard Wolff is part of a long tradition. The loss of empire is not an issue for the people of the UK. It has only been an issue for a small proportion of people at the head of the Conservative Party and a small number of rapidly dying out Tory Party members . The issue of empire has not been an issue for the vast majority of the British since the 1950's when the UK was divesting itself of its empire as quickly as possible. It was never an issue for the Scots or the Welsh.By the 1960's its demise was almost complete. The empire was an immensely complex entity enormously diverse in how it operated in different parts of the planet. Simplistic statements about the empire are almost always wrong. The root problem of the UK has been class and that remains the central thing to understand. The upper class in the UK holds tenaciously to all the levers of power. Brexit, raising the issue of sovereignty, nostalgia for a mythical past are all part of a game which is focused on keeping power in the hands of a group of people who see themselves as the entitled elite.
What about Culture
American Labor is the answer to all our problems that the GOP and these Democrat Neo-Librals have brought down on American Labor over the past 30+ years. Labors answer is to all out vote for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 elections. We are all of one American Labor, the American Working Class, and we need the most dramatic changes to our ills of government NOW! BERNIE SANDERS 2020!!!
The Labour party may have a leader with a socialist reputation but also one wit a reputation for ditching his principes to gain power. Like being a lifetime member of CND who nowleads a party seeking government who supports the retention and use of nuclear weapons despite having campaigned for scrapping them for decades. His party also has far more neoconsrvative ministers than it has ever had socialists. And his party in Scotland does not have any socialists.
As facist nostalgia goes even more back in time, they will find more enemies. Brits will be saying "those danish bastards" if things go on like this haha
It's been downhill ever since the celts showed up
STOP HITTING THE TABLE!!!!
"That is revolutionary" no it literally isnt
Hats off to John Bercow for being so honest about Jeremy Corbyn. It is interesting as well to note that, in the particular case of Zionism, the state of Israel owes its very existence to Europeans' anti-Semitism in the early 20th century. Before the destruction of the Jews of Europe during the Nazi period, moving to Palestine was not really interesting at all for most of the Jewish people in Europe and the world. Plus the British anti-Semite elite was more than happy to support (Lord Balfour etc.) an enterprise that would entice the Jewish people into leaving the UK for colonizing/populating ... a British colony. To the greater benefit finally of the US from 1967 on (as an ally against the Arab nationalism). I think as well the Zionists were the only Jewish movement recognized by the Nazi regime, for the same reason. In fact, Zionism equals anti-Semitism; without anti-Semitism, Zionism would no longer exist today.
It is interesting to note as well that Israel's best allies in the world today are STILL the anti-Semites: the Christian far-right in the US (the Christian Zionists, who influenced Theodor Hertzl in the first place: history goes full circle) and all the various far-right movements in Europe, from France to Hungary etc. Strangely enough, nobody in the mainstream media ever seems to notice that fact. Here again the common enemy is "the Arab". Even if, a few decades before, the enemy was "the Jew" for those very same far-right people who revered Nazism not so long ago. And it may very well turn the other way round with the next tide.
In a talk between Chris Hedges and George Galloway, I read one member of the Israeli Cabinet once told Hedges (or is it Galloway?) bluntly that it was "a scam", that, by default, the Zionist's or Israeli's first defense against critiques of Israel is always accusing them of anti-Semitism, without any basis at all for the accusation of course.
@Oners82 Of course I'm not mistaking anti-Semitism with Zionism. It is usual also for Zionist zealots to treat their opponents as idiotic, immature and ill-informed. Or... anti-Semite, of course.
And I don't confuse anti-Semitism with Zionism. I just consider the horrible use of anti-Semitism made on a daily basis by the Zionists. I only say that Zionists (those that created Israel at least) have always been criminals without much faith who have never hesitated in working with the worse anti-Semites to further their cause that never had much to do with the interests of the Jewish people anywhere in the world. In fact Israel and Zionism are today simply now the main reason some people are anti-Semite. And it is not without reason that the Jewish people in the US and elsewhere want to clearly distance themselves from Israel, the Israeli daily crimes, Israeli warmongering and the Israeli alliances with the anti-Semite far-right.
One fact is clear as far as the history of Zionism is concerned: next to nobody among the Jewish people were interested in emigrating to the Zionist paradise in Mandate Palestine before the 1940s. The Zionist idea of emigrating to Palestine was a total failure at the time. And after ww2, nothing else but Zionism suddenly seemed to exist in the Jewish world. While it is a fact that most of the Jewish people who died under Nazism were not interested in the Zionist plan of physically emigrating to Palestine. At best, the idea of Israel was at the time a myth which wanted to symbolize the unity of the Jewish people of the world. Not an actual necessity to leave the country the many different Jewish people were living in and had their roots, in order to go and live in a Middle East region that had nothing to do with their daily life, except for a pretended Zionist myth harking back to two thousand years before.
After ww2, what was constantly hidden to the western population was that the creation of Israel was a terrorist enterprise which had first to violently clean ethnically the inhabitants of Palestine in order to realize the Zionist dream of Eretz Israel.
Whether you like the idea of not.
You should consult serious modern Israeli historians such as Ilan Pappé and not listen to the Zionist omnipresent propaganda.
As for the source of the "scam" quote, in fact it was a Chris Hedges article in Truthdig: ttps://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-world-according-to-george-galloway/
@Oners82 Ouch!! It must obviously be a slip, dear Dr. Freud... I meant of course "I don't mistake anti-Semitism for anti-Zionism". And I maintain that today Zionism and Israel are the mains sources of anti-Semitism in the world.
Thanks for the figures but that still doesn't amount to the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled their home and their country for dear life in 1948 under terror acts and series of killings on the part of the Zionists terror squads. Add to that figure that of the Palestinians who remained in Palestine.
If one has to make the inevitably sordid comparison with the figure of victims of the Nazi destruction in Europe (plus those who could escape it and flee out of Europe elsewhere than to Palestine: US etc.) even the figures you quote (up to ww2) remain small compared to that of the Jewish communities around Europe at the time.
Above all one has to take into account those who chose to move to Palestine thought they were going to some Jewish "homeland", not to an armed ethnic cleansing of the Arabs coupled with an anti-colonial war against the British. There was a branch of progressive Zionism (that of Martin Buber), which has been obliterated for a long time now, which dreamed of a peaceful settlement in Palestine along with a peaceful cohabitation with the original population of the region, and took into account the Palestinians had also rights to that land. Most of those who moved to Palestine imagined they went to some kind of a Jewish socialist paradise, a new virgin world to build and start a new life in it.
Most did not know they were meant to destroy the Arab people's Palestine in order to build their dreamed homeland. (Those who knew it were no better than the German Nazis!)
Then when you analyze the figures you give and I don't dipute, that makes about 85,000 in about 40 years, counting from 1882 to 1917 (and taking into account the sufferings of ww1 in Europe,and the many pogroms before that in Russia mainly).
Then came the Balfour Declaration which gave a serious boost to the Zionist enterprise, and the terrible world economic crisis of the 20s-30s and the persecutions due to the rise of Nazim in Germany and fascism elsewhere which together may explain the 250,000 figure up to 1939.
After ww2, one cannot deny that the Zionists "laid claim" of the Holocaust to a point that is described by Norman Finkelstein as a sordid scam, a denunciation confirmed by no other than Raul Hilberg, who even added Finkelstein was very conservative in his figures and that the abusive use of the Holocaust by the Zionists was even worse than what Finkelstein described.
Sorry also if I mistook you for some hasbara zealot...This is no doubt due to the fatigue of having to counter the ceaseless egregious Zionist propaganda "farms" and their idiotic lies about "peaceful" "harmonious" "democratic" Israel and how the Israelis are "too good" with the Palestinians (which must mean somehow they are killed, cleansed or discriminated against ... "humanely"?!), and their denial of the Zionist's criminal policies against the Palestinian population at large.
For Richard to explain 'Identity Politics' and attribute it to right wing politics is disgusting. Is there a word which is stronger than hypocrisy in terms of false accusations?
Hmm... You know about the famous Socialist international hit called "The International", with in its refrain "The Internationale unites the human race" or "Chains of hatred, greed and fear"?
Not exactly the Globalists's vision... While Nazi meant "national socialism", on the other hand.
The International (Eugène Pottier, Paris, June 1871)
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Refrain:
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E’er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.
@@bubblefroggy1 What on 'God's Green Earth' has a poem got to do with 'Identity Politics' ?
@@PelletJamie I guess there was a time social idealism, in terms of social progress, was on side of the working class. But it is true that people presenting themselves as "on the left" (New Labour and such, or "radical" leftists) use ID politics tropes and ideas as well. They show on which side they belong, or only reinforce the enemy, the (some call it "center") globalist far-right. I was just quoting a text (more than a poem, it still is the international socialist's hymn) from the beginning of the international socialism era to remind one of the real origins of socialism, which is definitely not Tony Blair's or the City of London's, and exactly the opposite of ID politics."Workers of the world unite" was their slogan, not: "Workers of the world shoot at one another", which was the 1914 far-right elite's slogan, and remain their slogan at any time.
@@bubblefroggy1 OK...Black Lives Matter, Feminism, Antifa, Cancel Culture, Multiculturalism as a political ideal, Gender politics and lgbtq, Momentum, Extinction Rebellion... the list goes on and on and on
... how many of these groups that do just as Richard was accusing which is causing an 'Us vs Them argument based on race, sex or religion' do you think are Republican or Conservative voters?
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Ohhhhh jeremy corbyn!!!! JC4PM. GTTO. Socialism for christmas.
Too many ads, impossible to watch n enjoy.
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