Global Capitalism: Challenging Capitalism [March 2023]
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Challenging Capitalism [March 2023]
In this month's Global Capitalism lecture, Prof. Wolff discusses the following topics:
- France’s General Strike March 7, 2023
- Women, Unions and Strikes in the US
- Inflation, Profits, Inequality in the US
- State versus Private Capitalism: China
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At 62 I could no longer meet the physical demands of my job and was to old to change careers . I support the striking French workers 100 % .
Same here from Italy. I am supposed to retire at 67. I am 64 and only thanks to the Norwegian state owned company I work for, I had my work duties lightened up, my paid vacation time increased to 6 weeks, my daily working hours reduced to 6 (from Monday to Friday), at same salary level. So I am just lucky. A lot of friends and relatives of mine not so much, they are exhausted, easy to get sick or injured, getting depressed, having their salaries reduced if their exploiters are so gracious to concede a reduced working schedule etc etc
I'm 32 from the US and I totally agree.
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
And one day, the drops will no longer be able to convince the ocean that they are more valuable than it.
Is it me or is Dr. Wolff getting bolder with each Global Capitalism update? I’m here for it.
I love it!
Yes he is out of necessity. He's naming names and talking of mobilisation, getting out on the streets. It's because civilisation is at the cusp, the very nexus of change now, and your children might survive, or die slowly and painfully over several decades. The physics of climate wait for no one, it's inexorable. The global north(?), whatever there's no escape even for billionaires.
The world is changing, his attitude is matching that intensity :D
He's getting older. Less to lose.
If they kill him now, the message is out there.
The solution is not Co ops.
It's revolution.
And he's been very careful to avoid saying that.
Solidarity and love to workers everywhere
Democracy at work is like democracy in the Army. LOL
@@reasonerenlightened2456Yes. it is a lot like that. See if you measure an army by its ability to keep the peace not its ability to cause death than a democracy is reasonable. If you measure work by its ability to provide for human need not its ability to extract profit than democracy is reasonable.
@@thomaspollack7451 but why would anyone refuse profit ? It takes only one to crave Profit and then the entire system, you proposed, falls apart.
@@reasonerenlightened2456 why would anyone refuse child labor? We could abolish child labor but it would only take one person using child slaves to ruin the whole system 🙄
@@thomaspollack7451 There isn't a law against making Profit, is there?.
A fascinating explanation of class-war and how it dominates our lives. The general public can all too easily be manipulated by those seeking to profit from them and influence them so Prof Wolff's work is a valuable countermeasure, long may it continue.
You cannot grow or sustain employee compensation if your company is not profitable. You will be forced to downsize labor force and burden the remaining employees with the work that the laid off workers we’re accomplishing and unable to compensate them for the added demands and stress. Profitability = capability to reinvest in growth which leads to the creation of more labor opportunities
@@ScottyE515 profit sharing between workers and eliminating the executive positions protects the company from the need to “downsize” I.e. ruin people’s lives by firing them.
Workers cooperatives solved this problem long ago. People over profits
@@ScottyE515 you’re stuck in that profit mindset. Rethink it and try to be open minded.
@@ramentraveler7099 No one (practically) in America knows what "Soviet" means. The essence of this concept lies in the fact that after the revolution, Lenin's nationwide decree announced the creation of ELECTIONS of PEOPLE's DELEGATES. Represented by workers, employees, employees and the peasantry in any commercial, public, state-owned enterprises and collective farms (joint farms), were represented in the management bodies of the enterprise. By choosing (voting) delegates representing these collectives and artels (that is, workers and employees of this enterprise). These delegates were chosen for representation in the management bodies of enterprises (board of directors), administration (management) and other management bodies of this enterprise - they were chosen by COUNCILS, that is, meetings of these collectives ("councils of workers' collectives and peasant artels", that is, collective meetings of any enterprise, representatives of employees of this enterprise). And these councils of employees of all departments and cells of the enterprise elected delegates, and these delegates had exactly the same rights as representatives of the management of the organization, the same as the owners of the enterprise (this was, for example, during the NEP and cooperative farms and enterprises, when this form of ownership was in the USSR). And without the consent or "rational proposal" of the workers' and peasants' "Soviet" delegates elected by the soviets/assemblies/ NO OWNERS AND MANAGERS OF these enterprises COULD DECIDE ANYTHING/PASS LAWS/. No administrative, commercial, industrial, organizational or any other decisions could be taken without the consent of these delegates. At the same time, if the delegates were suspected of collusion with the leadership and refusal - sabotage, distortion of the meaning, the opinion of the working collective - this delegate was instantly re-elected! In addition, the delegate, before making a decision agreed with the management, had to approve this decision by all (majority) employees at the collective "council" by a simple direct vote. And also at a meeting with the management and owners of the company - a direct vote of all representatives was a legitimate legal practice! And now tell me - isn't this a direct and fair DEMOCRACY, that is, democracy of the people! So there is nothing in the word and the concept of "Soviet" that capitalists, oligarchs and other gentlemen who oppress the American people would put into it. And they did it not in the interests of the majority, but in order to distort the socialist meaning of this concept (i.e. equality, national and representative right of working people). The meaning of "socialist" is the observance of the common people and the unity of the rule of law, justice, electability, openness and universal equality - as well as equal justice for all. And the richest power elite did it in their own fraudulent dirty interests, contrary to the democratic values of the American people. This is such a huge large-scale deception and falsification, dear comrades! 👉☺️🧐😎🤝
@@user_-_vse_kak_u_ludey_0011 This is great to know, thank you.
Thank you for this brilliant presentation Professor Wolff, from Western Australia.
Yay!!!! The weekly show is great to catch but the monthly program is like going to the opera. What a treat!
But the Good Wolff looks and sounds as if he's addressing a deaf junior school class. 🤨
Democracy at work is like democracy in the Army. LOL
@@geoffreynhill2833 He's addressing Americans. We clearly need remedial help.
Always authentic and informative...
Say hello to Paul for me
Not sure the world will be grateful, but I definitely am grateful for you work. Very much 🙏🏼
We who are about to watch his next video (Gladiator reference) SALUTE YOU! So... I am grateful for these types of people, It is like they are the only ones that I can understand and could probably have a normal conversation. So long live all the people that search for truth and live it. Peace!
The universe will gaurd you and will keep your obvious peace of mind all the way.
You make our evel life bearable Sir.
My love and respect.
You forgot to mention the youth in this french struggle, they realise that if punters have to work 2 years more it means 2 years less opportunity for them to enter the jobs market.
and add to the old generation that doesnt want to retire from their cushy positions stifling innovation with their old mentality thus creating no opportunities for the younger generation
Understanding Socialism is fantastic. I got it in audiobook form and I'm listening to it for the second time now.
No one (practically) in America knows what "Soviet" means. The essence of this concept lies in the fact that after the revolution, Lenin's nationwide decree announced the creation of ELECTIONS of PEOPLE's DELEGATES. Represented by workers, employees, employees and the peasantry in any commercial, public, state-owned enterprises and collective farms (joint farms), were represented in the management bodies of the enterprise. By choosing (voting) delegates representing these collectives and artels (that is, workers and employees of this enterprise). These delegates were chosen for representation in the management bodies of enterprises (board of directors), administration (management) and other management bodies of this enterprise - they were chosen by COUNCILS, that is, meetings of these collectives ("councils of workers' collectives and peasant artels", that is, collective meetings of any enterprise, representatives of employees of this enterprise). And these councils of employees of all departments and cells of the enterprise elected delegates, and these delegates had exactly the same rights as representatives of the management of the organization, the same as the owners of the enterprise (this was, for example, during the NEP and cooperative farms and enterprises, when this form of ownership was in the USSR). And without the consent or "rational proposal" of the workers' and peasants' "Soviet" delegates elected by the soviets/assemblies/ NO OWNERS AND MANAGERS OF these enterprises COULD DECIDE ANYTHING/PASS LAWS/. No administrative, commercial, industrial, organizational or any other decisions could be taken without the consent of these delegates. At the same time, if the delegates were suspected of collusion with the leadership and refusal - sabotage, distortion of the meaning, the opinion of the working collective - this delegate was instantly re-elected! In addition, the delegate, before making a decision agreed with the management, had to approve this decision by all (majority) employees at the collective "council" by a simple direct vote. And also at a meeting with the management and owners of the company - a direct vote of all representatives was a legitimate legal practice! And now tell me - isn't this a direct and fair DEMOCRACY, that is, democracy of the people! So there is nothing in the word and the concept of "Soviet" that capitalists, oligarchs and other gentlemen who oppress the American people would put into it. And they did it not in the interests of the majority, but in order to distort the socialist meaning of this concept (i.e. equality, national and representative right of working people). The meaning of "socialist" is the observance of the common people and the unity of the rule of law, justice, electability, openness and universal equality - as well as equal justice for all. And the richest power elite did it in their own fraudulent dirty interests, contrary to the democratic values of the American people. This is such a huge large-scale deception and falsification, dear comrades! 👉☺️🧐😎🤝
Thank you Prof Wolff!
Thank you D@W!!!
Dear Richard Wolff - thank you very much Richard for this very clear and eyeopening lecture from me and 10 other coworkers in Denmark. We have learnt a lot and had very good discussions. Keep up the good work.
Democracy at work is like democracy in the Army. LOL
49 likes? They must throttle you so hard Love you brother
Idk if it's that or that the corporate perspective is just so artificially boosted it drowns out people like Wolff and Harvey.
I am on his email list and this just came up on my email. I saw that the video was 3 days old. You and the 17 people who liked your comment must have seen it right away because there are already over 1000 likes know. I wish they would keep up the dislikes on videos. Just scanning through this I don't see many negative comments. Not everyone can like everything he says. I find this on other videos I watch. I would guess thought that there probably not a lot of people who would disagree would watch
I didn't pay attention to split in Green Party. I wouldn't have known without your info thank you very much.
Thanks you Mr. Wolff for helping formulate my understanding of this messed up system.
I'll give you a broad outlook on my countries system.
( this is a prewriten coment from my reply to another person, so it will have some speach like qualities, excuse me for that)
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
Every small bit counts.
If you are a person afraid or think you arent ready for revolution and reform for whatever reason, you will still be vary valuable to thease changes if you at leasr educate yourself and talk about some of thease thinks to people to whom you think are safe to talk to.
Dont devalue yourself because of your present or past!
We all can do better !
Something is better than nothing!
Love you Dr. Wolf ! Thank you for all you DO for Our Dear Shared Planet!!!🌍
I fully aguree with you.
I'm always glad to see coments like this as I am as of late in the coment section more in order to see what people think and what's the general feeling of the people around the world, and umong the hard-headed ignorance which is sometimes present online, there is never an exception in which a person like you and me and others will spread the discourse which Richard vary concisely articulates.
I'll give you now a general outlook on my countries system in the reguard of pensions, so that you have some idea of the macedonian climate for change.
( beyond what I will say in the next things, I will say that there are also many like me in the country which are slowly but surely moving in a positive direction, but it's still nothing too substantial from what I can tell)
( this next part is a prewriten coment from my reply to another person, so it will have some speach like qualities, excuse me for that)
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
Every small bit counts.
If you are a person afraid or think you arent ready for revolution and reform for whatever reason, you will still be vary valuable to thease changes if you at leasr educate yourself and talk about some of thease thinks to people to whom you think are safe to talk to.
Dont devalue yourself because of your present or past!
We all can do better !
Something is better than nothing!
what a superb broadcast! I am particularly impressed by Wolff's exposition of the shrewd calculus of the French labor unions. Imagine, compensating the working class for poor health produced by decades of overwork by early retirement! Ingenious!
I'll give you a general outlook on my countries system in this reguard:
( this is a prewriten coment from my reply to another person, so it will have some speach like qualities, excuse me for that)
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
Every small bit counts.
If you are a person afraid or think you arent ready for revolution and reform for whatever reason, you will still be vary valuable to thease changes if you at leasr educate yourself and talk about some of thease thinks to people to whom you think are safe to talk to.
Dont devalue yourself because of your present or past!
We all can do better !
Something is better than nothing!
Man Dr wolff I admire your determination and Ives learned a lot thank you
Absolutely excellent Professor Wolff! Thank you!!
The professor that I respect Richard Wolff. Because he loves right with duty. We always eat food for responsibility
I enjoyed your lesson. Portugal. Thank you
I love this Lecture.
Incredible stuff Richard! Thank you.
Inspires hope to hear this
Great insight, listened every word. Remarkable work.
Do not forget the labor movement in France on springtime1968. They were joined and supported by (first time in history) the vast majority of University and high school students, they deserted schools and Unis by the millions, helped the working class to achieve the goals of that time, and gave an example to the rest of Europe, which followed suit to what we today call the French May
“A big laughter will bury you” (addressed to the elite then in power)
“CE N’EST QU’UN DEBUT, CONTINUONS LE COMBAT!” (This is just the beginning, let’s keep on fighting!)
two observations after watching this video- The other day,my cheerful checkout lady at our busy Krogers here in Lexington was a whitehared woman who appeared to be fighting oncoming fatigue ,she also appeared to be at least Prof Wolff's age.This is a woman who is compelled to do difficult work well into her 70's,a state of affairs which would not occur in France,or any other nation where workers are organized-My other observation involves watching a long ago US teevee interview with the legendary Chinese revolutionary and foreign minister of the Peoples' Republic of China.The erudite old man was asked his opinion of the bourgeois revolution which overthrew French Feudalism.He crisply replied ,"too soon to tell."Looking forward to the professor's next "update"-they are ALWAYS thought provoking.
Workers of the World, organize and unite✊
Awesome
The one good thing about capitalism is it’s inherent contradictions. As the system becomes more unstable it can’t help but do the most self destructive things to keep what they have. Vive la France!!!
eye opening and inspiring through these hopeless times
Only Unity🤯 makes us strong💪!
"Sub prime mortgages" is much worse than people being unable to pay their debts, Prof. Wolff. It was mortgage lenders KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY granting mortgages to people they KNEW would never be able to repay them, sometimes not even the first month's payment! I know someone who worked for one of those lenders before the crash and HE KNEW that the people he was foisting these nightmares on didn't have the resources to make good on the debt. And if he knew, you can bet the bigwigs at all those lenders knew damned well that they were selling fraudulent mortgages to vulnerable and at risk people, who went on to suffer mightily and still do, to this day. The ones that are still alive, anyway.
They knew exactly what they were doing and laughed all the way to the bank. They swindled the poor so they can rip off the elderly pension funds by selling them as AAA securities which is the only thing pensions funds will purchase.
I just don’t see how this changes given our current system.
that's right. now we've moved on to pay day loans and the greater nuttiness of something called after pay, relying on the fool consumers to pay after they'd got the goods. See what an insulting assessment these characters have of the working stiff who's supposed to pay and pay. Finally went too far.
The purpose was to make new construction homes as cheap foreclosed resale commodities available for purchase by larger capitalist investors like Black Rock. The acquisition of land from borrowers who would eventually be foreclosed creates a monopoly landowning class is the point I believe you are not getting. How a social class is formed is being told in that tale. This whole process and effect is useful to know when in power and you want to prevent such economic formations from occurring is the lesson of political economy.
Gem of a lecture .....Thank you Prof Wolff
I am honored to call Professor Wolff, my friend. Not sure I deserve it.
Clair challenge to the global capitalism. Bravo professor!
It is like having time to start a daydream during the pauses in each sentence, but then getting jerked back awake to check for progress.
Thanks!
Thanks Richard. I consider this the most important presentation you've given to date. Whereto from here is the key question. I'm certain that democratisation of the workplace has to come soon, and further that democratisation of the political, financialised economic system and associated bureaucracy must be included. This infers worker coops, and deliberative democracy of the key functions and infrastructure of the community, village, city and state. I'm convinced at this point we must move beyond the present politics of all G20 countries. If we fail to do so before this decade is out, it is considered the human race is unlikely to continue in any societal aggregation beyond 2060, or so. Either war, or the climate and environmental crisis will put paid to life as it now exists on earth. The latter is no idle threat. This is the conservative science of the UNFCCC (IPCC) AR6 published 2021. This is the 'Brave New World' we are handing to our children. As the present Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Adrian Orr) wrote in response to an email of mine:
"As they saying goes,
What has the future generation ever done for us?" April 19, 2019
I fully aguree with you.
I'm always glad to see coments like this as I am as of late in the coment section more in order to see what people think and what's the general feeling of the people around the world, and umong the hard-headed ignorance which is sometimes present online, there is never an exception in which a person like you and me and others will spread the discourse which Richard vary concisely articulates.
The quote was great btw, and I will add " what have the current children on this planet ever done to us"
I'll give you now a general outlook on my countries system in the reguard of pensions, so that you have some idea of the macedonian climate for change.
( beyond what I will say in the next things, I will say that there are also many like me in the country which are slowly but surely moving in a positive direction, but it's still nothing too substantial from what I can tell)
( this is a prewriten coment from my reply to another person, so it will have some speach like qualities, excuse me for that)
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
Every small bit counts.
If you are a person afraid or think you arent ready for revolution and reform for whatever reason, you will still be vary valuable to thease changes if you at leasr educate yourself and talk about some of thease thinks to people to whom you think are safe to talk to.
Dont devalue yourself because of your present or past!
We all can do better !
Something is better than nothing!
Great program!!!❤
Good job 👍
In the US the youth are told they won't be allowed to retire until age 78!
The presentation leaves me with more questions than answers
Hi Mr. Wolff and audience,
I'm starting a channel your audience may be interested with. It's focus will be about decentralization and how we take steps towards the working class reclaiming ownership of means of production.
Thanks!
Thank you DaW!!!
This was very imformative
Amazing lecture! Thanks, Prof Wolff
I'll give you a broad outlook on my countries system.
( this is a prewriten coment from my reply to another person, so it will have some speach like qualities, excuse me for that)
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
Every small bit counts.
If you are a person afraid or think you arent ready for revolution and reform for whatever reason, you will still be vary valuable to thease changes if you at leasr educate yourself and talk about some of thease thinks to people to whom you think are safe to talk to.
Dont devalue yourself because of your present or past!
We all can do better !
Something is better than nothing!
"How many capitalisms are in the room with us right now?"
Richard: "Yes"
you should do a material like this on romania. In romania we have 5 years less life expentancy, still we retire at 65 and they want to malke it higher. And we have exceptions: military, secret services, police and judges or persecutors, they are special: they can retire at 47-49 with luxury pensins like 4000 euros in a country where the average pensions is 400 euros.
Exceptionally good video. A must see and hear.
How reasonable democracy it is. Wish to be listening only one professor Richard Wolff who won the first talk same amount of all situation in around world
Merits of mixed economy: 1-equal share of private, govt and corporates 2- protect the rights of all 3- a healthy competition on min: pricing 4- govt can easily formulate policy in favor of poor. 5 - easily implement the best solution.
The Annalena Baerbock topic is interesting. For one, if she's in a coalition government with the German chancellor from the social democrats, then Annalena must represent his goals also...? Secondly, at least some socialists in France were arguing against a green success of Macron's to ground airplanes for short trips that could be as easily taken by train (which honestly made me favor Greens over socialists, personally, although I consider myself both).
yeah good stuff
I always said The System is the Problem as the Prof gave my lecture .
This is a great lecture. I liked the way China, Usa and SU are compared with advaces and setbacks.
It’s only the beginning
Very, very interesting. Do you think some form of workers control snd ownership is the only way to de-capitalise and really socialise production?
You tell 'em Mr. Wolff! 👍
God Bless Hegel supporting Marx family for him to think critically to write his works.
We've tried trickle down economics. I say lets try trickle UP economics!!! HELLO!
It would be interesting if a in Spanish version could be available!
Right Left are coming together hoping I shall see before I die.
""privatize everything"" capitalism is an extreme system ...extremes are never good
My question is why limit anti authoritarianism to the workplace? Isn't one of our main problems the layers of authority that remove our ability to effect the policy that controls our lives?
Can we have insights like this one made available for download plse?
SBV bank closed on Friday by FDIC
Such an honest unbiased analysis of soccer issues
What do you mean?
Chad Prof. Wolff hours
Those people who are not honest with citizens are in the position of Katastrophe. Consequences of being ignorant of actions.
Come together for "every workers"!
dr.Wolff forgot to quick mention in this lecture about fabrics in USSR, that had people\party unions with interesting supportive policy to the workers (Though he already spoke about them before in other topics). As always a great lecture. If only Democracy At Work can collaborate with Popov from LenRu channel that would be epic to listen.
Do not support russia or russians
Is a transcript available?
Thank you SO MUCH for mentioning that the Green Party in Germany is *not* like the Green Parties in the rest of the world, which are anti-capitalist and anti-war.
The monoprix in my Paris neighborhoods (and others )has replaced on floor personal ...except guards and very sparse number of maintenance wotkers...i do not go there now.
I realized Capitalism would eat itself then collapse as Rome unable to pay the army.
at 10:07 i just had to stop and comment on him saying "people, often women, who are determined to make capitalism a key part of what they think needs to be challenged to make a better world" as an antimoneyism woman myself i have to state that i personally do not "think" moneyism needs to be "challenged" to make a better world! no!! instead i KNOW moneyism needs to be realistically understood for what it actually is then REJECTED/ELIMINATED/STOPPED!! it will become just another sad dismal paragraph in the history of the human race only to be taught/discussed/learned about only so that we NEVER repeat this horrid earth destroying/species eliminating/war creating/anti peace/etc mistake again!!!
i'll gladly explain...we have all been lied to about our current underlying fundamental system which i have to refer to it as "moneyism". so we are all being FORCED(by collective ignorance) to live with/deal with moneyism even if we disagree and even if we don't understand! which honestly/realistically this system has simply made money the MOST important thing!! sure other things are still important BUT nothing else is AS important or MORE important nor EQUAL to money. so this means money is more important than me/you/all human life/all life on earth/obviously the earth itself/all governments/all corporations/gates/musk/free markets/families/history/knowledge education/peace on earth/health/cures for diseases/religion/morals/justice/etc/you name it if it's not a word meaning money(dollars/dinero/lettuce/capital/assets/subsidies/profits/etc) it's going to rank somewhere BELOW money in importance...if ANYthing else was currently equal to or better than money we would NOT call the system "moneyism" would we!! the word MONEY is literally THE SYSTEM'S NAME!!?? the word capital is just another word for money!! so there's zero reason why we can't refer to capitalism as "moneyism" instead, except this would help the general public to understand it better and since MOST people(99+%) would never want money to be more important than they/their loved ones/their religion/our ONLY home/etc if people actually understood that this is the system, this is what "capitalism" means(moneyism a system that makes money NUMBER 1/above all else/MOST important even more important than humans) if we all understood this then we'd ultimately reject this system because it's completely insane!! especially terrible we're ALL being FORCED to live with/participate in a system that goes against 99+% of humans' personal beliefs/values!! almost zero humans want money to be more important than humans/god/etc and even the 1% who might not be able to empathize enough hardly ANY of them would admit out loud that they thought money should be more important than their OWN LIFE(maybe they could think money could be more important than strangers/other humans but they're only 1% of the population)!! and they're not dumb!!...ntm it's completely bizarre when you realize it all, once you have this epiphany and you then realize how we humans MADE money!! yet we're making money MORE important than WE are without even understanding this is what we are doing!!??
once you realize this is what's happening, well it sure does seem to be a perfect description of how our current world functions/dysfunctions!! it starts to make ALL the "problems" we have seem not only completely/easily "solvable" but you realize these "problems" are happening BECAUSE of moneyism!! moneyism is CAUSING so many of our "problems"!!?? so the ONLY way we get rid of the "problem" is to GET RID of moneyism!! ie so we will NEVER be able to have peace on earth while we have moneyism! there will ALWAYS be war because war will ALWAYS be MORE profitable than peace. The ONLY way we might be able to achieve peace on earth is if we ditched moneyism for something better(sure some will say "just incentivize peace/whoever makes a war has to give up all their money so then peace will be more profitable than war" but this won't work because that is not PREVENTING war then!? war will still happen!! and whoever the war criminals have to turn their money over to are STILL going to be profiting off of the war and there will be provocation to try to get the other side to start war to try to hurt them financially it's just NEVER going to work we HAVE to replace moneyism with something better!...another example we are confused by all of our governments inability to "Fix" our problems or control things and all govs are so corrupt because "government" is not another word for "money" gov is NOT equal to nor ABOVE money so since money is ABOVE gov we will NEVER be able to have a "good/competent" gov "by the people for the people" as long as we have moneyism will we?! moneyism is why we have a for profit criminal punishment system instead of a justice system like we're supposed to/like many people incorrectly think we do! it's why we have a for profit sickcare system instead of a disease preventive healthcare system!! this is why we could never have "free markets" because markets are NOT money markets are not better than/above money...so what would we replace it with? if capitalism=moneyism meaning money is number 1/controls all/above all else/MOST important...should we make humans/life most important? 'humanism"? "lifeism"? "(is this basically what) socialism(is?)" what about the markets? "freemarketism"?(probably wouldn't need "free" just marketism lol) what about the earth tho? "earthism"?
professor richard wolff advocates for "democracy at work" which while i agree it would be better than moneyism it's just not going to work(be the best it could be) while/if we still have moneyism since it couldn't be more important than money nothing else can/will be able to "compete" with the thing that is always NUMBER 1 there's NO way to compete with that!! nothing will ever win over/above money and nothing can ever tie(be equal with it). this is also why when he is saying "we need to 'transition' out of moneyism(capitalism) to something better" he just doesn't realize that CAN NEVER happen there is NO "transitioning" away/out of a system that will ALWAYS make money number 1 above all else!! money(capital) IS THE SYSTEM'S NAME if humans were more important then we wouldn't call the system moneyism we'd call it humanism or peopleism if governments were the MOST important thing we call it "governmentism" if god/religion was MOST important we'd have "Godism" or 'religionism"...personally i think everything/lots of things seem pretty important and do we "have" to make ONE thing MORE important than ALL else?? there doesn't seem to be a "rulebook" so if everything/many things are important "everythingism" or "allism"...sure not "every"thing is equally important, some things are not as important as other things, BUT it seems to me that we need to not only have humans or the earth or xyz but definitely some combination of several things...maybe we have to include money in there? maybe we have to include religions in there? seems obvious to me all life/the earth/science/justice/peace/etc needs to be included! and while i also agree that democracy(majority rule) is better than capitalism/moneyism(money rule) there are still some major unjust problems with majority rule especially when you're in the minority!!!
the best alternative that i've come across so far(def open to anything better that might exist tho) is peter joseph(author of the new human rights movement, filmmaker the zeitgeist series(if you watch the 1st one use some other site not youtube because they've censored/blurred it but the other 2 are good on yt) and interreflections movies) when he's interviewing the people from the venus project and how that jaque?(sorry i'm bad at spelling) fresco guy says we will never be able to make a perfect system but we sure can do better and will do better than capitalism(moneyism)!! hope you are at least curious and research into the topic yourself further! hope you can help the masses understand moneyism better at least by referring to it AS moneyism instead of "capitalism"...it's just not what we usually call money, we don't say "i need to get my capital out of my purse/wallet" we technically could but we don't, so why call it capitalism when moneyism is more understandable?? i think "they" "we"? have made "capitalism" overly complicated!! there are zero people who would say that we DO NOT currently have capitalism SOO we DEFINITELY DO have capitalism sooo just take a look at the current reality of our world, of our lives it's SOOO obvious that we've made money MORE important than even we humans are even(even more obvious we've made money more important than our ONLY home!?) even tho none of us believe that nor do we want that to be happening BUT that's our world isn't it!!?? that's moneyism aka capitalism dollarism just another name for our current reality...
again at 23:32 he's saying people are beginning to understand that moneyism(aka capitalism) is "part of the problem" NO it's not "part" of the problem it is THE problem!!!!! well i guess part of the problem is that we do not understand what capitalism is and hence that it is THE problem, so ya our ignorance is a problem too...can't really solve the problem if you don't know/understand what the problem even is...but I do understand moneyism isn't "part" of the problem it IS the problem!!! hopefully everyone else starts realizing/learning/understanding this also that way we can change to something better hopefully sooner rather than later seeing how if we don't figure it out soon there will be no humans left/no livable earth left BECAUSE OF MONEYISM(aka capitalism)(or out lack of understanding it)!! js...certainly it's not complicated to understand what moneyism/capitalism actually is...[[[[it's the system we're all being forced(by our collective ignorance) to live with that makes money more important than EVERYthing else, so money is more important than humans/governments/obviously even the earth/religion/knowledge/justice/peace on earth/etc/you name it if it's not a word meaning money(cash,lettuce,dinero,capital,assets,subsidies,profits,etc) it's going to rank somewhere BELOW money in importance(other things are still important just never equal to or above money). and almost 100% of humans do not want money to be more important than themselves/their loved ones/their religion/our only home/etc and humans do not realize this is what is happening even tho once you point it out it's so blatantly obvious]]]] that yep "money rules all" money (even tho we don't want this to be true) is more important than human lives, more important than a habitable earth and this is why we haven't been able to stop global warming because we don't realize we are NEVER going to be able to make the earth more important than money as long as we have moneyism...it's NOT "earthism" we don't have "earth rules/earth is MOST important" aka earthism no we currently have "money rules/money is MOST important" aka moneyism aka capitalism...MONEY IS THE SYSTEM'S NAME if anything else was more important than money the word money would NOT be the system's name...are we understanding yet???? it's NOT that complicated try to forget any/all notion of what you might have been taught or might have learned or heard about what "capitalism" is/might be and critically think about HOW our world is, what happens here...do we have competent governments or does MONEY RULE??? is our earth MOST IMPORTANT?? or are we somehow???? failing at keeping it habitable??? maybe because we have a system that is making money more important than ALL EVERYTHING else????gee what system might that be??? one that has money as its NAME!!!???
Nobody should be allowed to make any profit on other person work.
We, the people, don’t need capitalism but capitalism needs us only where robots can’t (yet) replace us
I don't necessairly agree with you here I am not sure how business can succeed with out making a profit. I doubt this has ever happened since the first people started business or come close. I am not a student of Marx, but I am not sure he would have advocated what you are saying.
@@sanford943 That's because profit in itself is wrong but we are brainwashed in believing that is the only way. There can be only so much profit as there are available resources, and in modern capitalist systems all profits (resources) end up in hands of few. Ordinary people don't make profit but rather are being profited on... There is enough of everything for everyone on this planet if there was no greedy few who wanted everything for themselves. For example, I get to do a service for someone but can not do it myself, I charge them say $200 and call you to help me and pay you $50... Get it?
@@FlatTire if you can do the service without having to pay for any supplies then maybe you should pay your helper more than 50 dollars. But in most businesses it would seem that you would need to make some kind if profit to keep your business going. My father was a liquor distributor. We bought liquor and wine from distillerys and wine and sold those products to bars, restaurants and stores. We needed sales people to go out and do that, truck drivers to deliver the goods. Seems to me you would have to make some kind of profit to make the business keep going. Kind of like a supply chain. I guess the question is how much profit is enough.
We should really start producing legislation that requires businesses to pay for climate change.
We'd have to elect people who actually care about that. I mean more than one or two.
My Critical Thinking Prof was now the Director of Project Censored.
👍
Sorry I didn't know Green Party Split thank you is DeLinka now.
Financial relief coins fRC with double the face value would be a good solution in high inflation with recycling from the pool.
You can't call this new system communism because that's already kind of defined as "state-owned enterprises." Enterprises in which the employees have a stake however has not really been tried, except here and there. Where it has been tried it has shown to work very well. When the people have a stake in their company, even a small stake they struggle a lot harder..
Analenna is insane and I didn't know this crazy.
In which order should the videos on marxism be seen?
WHEN GLOBAL CAPITALISM MAY EDITION BEING RELEASE, SIR ...???
Whille retirement does not impact me in the current time as I am 20,
Here in Macedonia the pensions have for many years the retirement age has been 62 for woman and 64 for men.
And not to mention that most commonly the pensions here are almost half of what the minimum salary is, which is already on the brink of berrally passing a month, so a lot of people continue to work after retirement, oftain uninsured at workplaces who don't officially register them as workers in order to avoid taxes and such things.
Almost a few weeks ago, the Macedonian parliament passed a law which allowed for a 60 hour work week , exclusively for a company by the name of "Bechtel and ENKA" with which they made a deal to build a single highway which the macedonian people have no need for.
The reason that they had passed this law for is also because the construction of this highway is to be worked on by migrant workers whom they intend to overexploit.
And whille this doesent impact the rest of the macedonian population , we can be sure what is coming to us.
I will add however that whille we do have a 40 hour work week law, it is indeed not followed in reality, in virtually any workplace, and there has always been a culture of overworking for a little extra pay, whille the employees are so afraid of their coworkers whom they think will betray them for a higher position at their workplace if they try to complain to the boss.
And in many cases they are right, because after complaining, many do get fired from their jobs.
And what happens after that?
Well, they look for another job, and that's the end of the story.
However, just like in many countries around the world, the anger of the people is misdirected at politicians, who sincerely steal as much as they can, but I say misdirected, because those same politicians are bought by foreign corporations and private individuals, namely those of the US , through their Albanian partners .
Here, the people have become passive, afraid and unwilling to do anything to challenge the status quo in any way.
Not even in music or art do artists and musicians challenge the status quo.
I myself am a musician and painter , along side whatever catches my interest, like marxism has in the past several months when I realised how delusional I was for subscribing to the capitalist idiology which in every single way works against mine, my families, friends and the interests of everyone else in the world who just like me does not control the means of production that the employers control.
My conclusion to this is. That I think that the climate is furtile all over the world for a change in the systems on the world, and all of us around the world have to join forces in big and small ways and support eachothers movements forward towards a more equal society, because we who want this change, have and will continue to realise that it's not enough to reach equality only in a few countries, because whare ever inequality lives, there also lives the cancer who can someday once again spread in order to destroy what we and our ansestors have fought to create and preserve.
We need worker co-ops!
We need labour unions!
We need to educate ourselves and others !
We need to organise!
We need to mobilise!
Every small bit counts.
If you are a person afraid or think you arent ready for revolution and reform for whatever reason, you will still be vary valuable to thease changes if you at leasr educate yourself and talk about some of thease thinks to people to whom you think are safe to talk to.
Dont devalue yourself because of your present or past!
We all can do better !
Something is better than nothing!
State capitalism is Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Malaysia whilst state socialism is China.
You’re the best!! Thanks for giving me hope!
The worker shall not die before retirement.
We did this is called a SIT IN on every road to every workers. Allies .
Yanis has new book at publishers
What are you going to CHALLENGE capital's isms with exactly ? ⌚...
It's special people; everyone thinknow there are special people who don't suffer the consequences of their actions. Cops can kill, usually without penalty. Toxic trains, sportin' understaffed crews without representation, derail and spew incredible amounts and then as 'appropriate measure' management ignites the toxic effluent to empty the cars and clear the tracks. Never conceding that profit, not safety is the bottom line. Management don't live where trains derail.
Were definitely at the precipice of a new age. Almost anything couldve did it, but this war in Ukraine will be the last nail. If they go after Taiwan, the consequences will be so catastrophic you may as well leave the country. Its literally impossible to stop other countries from abandoning the dollar and its impossible to pay off the debt without massive sacrifices in welfare or massive tax hikes on the rich. This decade will decide whether the US can take losing its supremacy on the world and usher in a new age, or we all get wiped off the planet from a nuclear war. This really is it.
You make me realize how oligarchs replaced the monarchs and the People hardly benefited
You're the GOAT
Social security/ pension fund?