Marxism (with Dr. Richard Wolff)

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Published 2023-03-01
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Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. His latest book is The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, which can be found along with his other books Understanding Socialism and Understanding Marxism at www.democracyatwork.info.

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All Comments (21)
  • There are very few humans alive today that can explain Marxist ideas in such an easy to understand way. Absolutely love Wolff!
  • @ACybermonkey
    When you thought Sisyphus couldn't possibly get any more based
  • This is one of the best, most convincing, most thorough, yet simple explanations of Marxism I’ve seen.
  • @ivan55599
    I think that video title should be "Marxism (by Richard Wolff)". Because this was more like a lecture than a dialogue or interview.
  • @fuad000100
    Professor Wolff communicates so clearly. Love his talks
  • When I saw this pop up in my feed I went insane. I was so excited to watch this podcast! Richard Wolff is such a brilliant Marxist educator.
  • @Calmdownpaco
    This was a great listen. I had no idea how Marxism philosophy actually worked, and I learned a lot.
  • @bowers8242
    Noticing in this how funny Wolff can be - the delivery of "you are, to use a technical term, screwed" utterly creased me 🤣
  • @martinez8826
    I once again urge y'all to familiarize with Dr. Wolff work if you're still interested in Marx's ideas and want to know more. He is knowledgeable and has this gift to explain topics of his expertise with awesome ease and humor. Me personally started studying Marx with him and never found anyone else who explains these ideas to newbies, and people who didn't (somehow) heard about Marx, better. Stuff what Dr. Wolff is talking about is very eye-opening, especially in broad daylight of propaganda and simple naivness of people in our very interesting times.
  • gotta love the concise introduction of contradictions in systems by Dr. Wolff
  • This Richard Wolff guy has really been getting a lot of notice recently. I bet his channel will blow up soon. One of my favorite content creators... Lol
  • I remember him speaking at my community college a few years ago. Such an outstanding brilliant speaking, but too many people asking basic cookie cutter questions, I wish I didn’t have terrible anxiety back then to meet and talk with him.
  • Wolff does a good job explaining marxism. I do wish he actually engaged with the idea of capitalist realism and the commercialization of anti-capitalism rather than dismissing them as just contradictions that will eventually go away.
  • I felt the red coming up in you for a while ahahah Keep up the good work, Wolff is such a great guest
  • I can’t believe I was actually able to understand the conversation this time! I feel like one of the grown-ups today! Sisyphus and Dr Wolff, thank you so much for this one!
  • I enjoy Dr. Wolff. Every time I listen to him or read his content he teaches me new and useful things. I lump Dr. Wolff together with Noam Chomsky, and Michael Parenti as intellectuals who are incredibly useful for critiquing the USA's sociological, political, and economic hegemony. I must read and listen to much more of their content, but the three combined offer lifetimes worth of very useful content.
  • @nasanka7428
    I like Wolff, but for anyone interested in a stronger, updated, account of the transition to capitalism (also Marxian) these have been really helpful for me! The Origins of Capitalism: Ellen Meiksins Wood Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism: Post, Lafrance et.al And some further complications on Capitalism's relation to slavery, A Theory of Capitalist Slavery: John Clegg If anyone wants help finding a link to any of the texts I can help :)
  • @keanuxu5435
    It's an interesting pattern that educated people find Marxism/Socialism/Communism eventually.
  • @allyjoyce5798
    This was very enlightening! He's explained contradiction better than anyone I've seen cover it!