Episode 186 - Executive Producer feat. Richard Wolff (2/18/18) by Chapo Trap House published on 2018-02-19T05:38:43Z Will, Amber, and Matt sit down with Professor Richard Wolff to talk Boss Baby and Marx in the 21st Century Tix for West Coast Tour available at http://chapotraphouse.com/ Pre Order The Chapo Guide to Revolution: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-chapo-guide-to-revolution-chapo-trap-house/1127949899#/ https://www.amazon.com/Chapo-Guide-Revolution-Manifesto-Against-ebook/dp/B079RLXFYB Comment by Ohmua @h-ng-v-579488410: gross 2019-06-03T11:58:31Z Comment by Spritejunkee YO IT'S RICHARD WOLFF! THIS IS ONE OF THE GUYS WHO HELPED ME LEARN WHAT POLITICAL WORDS MEANT! 2019-03-15T06:27:17Z Comment by Hưng Vũ Amber's voice is sexy af 2019-02-23T13:34:49Z Comment by 1312 RevLeft Bro what about that anarchist-communism? Ⓐ☭ 2018-09-24T17:58:06Z Comment by John Lopez "Socialism will not come through legalism." The government will follow the citizens, not the other way around. That's where the USSR went wrong -- socialism will come from the workers democratizing the workplace, not from the state instituting policy. 2018-09-04T20:44:18Z Comment by Akasha yea where's chomsky 2018-04-02T18:37:01Z Comment by efortune357 @efortune357: We got rid of monarchies because we didn’t want the political decisions to be made by a tiny number of people sitting far away in the palace and we created something else. Why do we permit a tiny number of people sitting in a fancy office that looks like a palace to make those decisions for the workplace? If we believe in democracy let’s democratize the enterprise. For me, that’s what socialism in the 21st-century is going to be all about.”~Richard Wolff 2018-03-22T01:37:29Z Comment by efortune357 "understand that we can go from capitalism to socialism in ways that have nothing to do with the government, that don’t require the government to step in, that don’t create the opportunity for the government, but that make the change at a different level, mainly at the level that we mostly live our lives, in our homes and in our workplaces. You may know, we are advocates for worker co-ops, for changing the organization of businesses so they stop being top down, hierarchical arrangements where a tiny number of people, the major shareholders and the Boards of Directors they elect, make all the decisions, what to produce, how to produce, where to produce, what to do with the profits, and to change all that and say no, let’s make the work place, here we go, here’s the idea, democratic. The work place, one person one vote, we make the decisions together." 2018-03-22T01:36:51Z Comment by Assandro Journey @user-126967909: MMT is just enhancement of Keynesian economics. MMT would create inflation as Keynesianism did in 1970s. You can't just throw printed money into capitalist economy. 2018-03-17T20:25:58Z Comment by Assandro Journey @user-126967909: MMT is Keynesianism on steroids 2018-03-17T20:23:19Z Comment by Nexusforce @nexusforce: This development of a markets, the tendency to consolidate into monopolies through competition, in a cooperative based system would effectively end market competition and the problems associated with markets in general. The only remaining entities would be producing/services based cooperative conglomerates and a consumer cooperative conglomerate. Who would at the various levels (regional, local, state/province, federal) negotiate supply & demand. 2018-03-07T20:18:07Z Comment by Nexusforce @peter-lim-554429937: Or Co-op A & Co-op B merge into a single Co-op. Just like private enterprises in a free market merge (through mutual agreement or hostile take over). Free markets tend to produce monopolies because competition creates losers and winners, however its not just weaker firms being driven out of business but also weaker firms merging with larger/more successful firms. Such an outcome would not be negative for cooperative based market economy as under the capitalist regime of private enterprises because for one the enterprises (i.e. the thousands of worker-owners for large co-ops) are democratic and two much like co-op sector in Japan, consumer co-ops can be formed to act as counter balance the producer monopoly co-ops, essentially the two would reach a dynamic equilibrium in terms of the pricing of goods & services. 2018-03-07T20:12:57Z Comment by Cristina Báncora bravo! 2018-02-28T20:47:40Z Comment by Cristina Báncora this is brilliant! 2018-02-28T20:44:35Z Comment by JestDub @ed-kurz: Nobody understands FIAT money creation, it's backed by unicorns and Santa Clause. It's a scam to justify the continued perpetuation of #crapitalism. He understands that! 2018-02-26T20:10:58Z Comment by JestDub @citrusfish: democracyatwork.info, rdwolff.com 2018-02-26T09:20:38Z Comment by JestDub @pwlsax: He just had oral surgery. His Economic Update this week was hilarious! 2018-02-26T09:19:59Z Comment by Roddy Balthazar this is it. this disconnect 2018-02-25T06:59:57Z Comment by pwlsax @parkimedes: Carlin didn't spit this much when he talked in his entire life. 2018-02-24T22:52:50Z Comment by Edithean I loved this episode so much. Please include the links to Wolff's podcast and other endeavors, however. 2018-02-24T09:22:00Z Comment by blvck mass best episode in a while!!! 2018-02-23T17:26:29Z Comment by blvck mass this is so fucking good 2018-02-23T17:00:13Z Comment by Machodada @peter-lim-554429937: Well, you kinda lost me there... all I can say is thank fucking christie it won't be you leading the charge. 2018-02-23T11:52:23Z Comment by Xminus1 @tim-sharp-5: +1 where does all that money go??? 2018-02-23T05:20:42Z Comment by Tide & Time @citrusfish: Came to say this 2018-02-23T02:35:08Z Comment by Corbin Ching this is great 2018-02-22T22:16:20Z Comment by Peter Lim @machodada: Your lack of imagination is your inability to think beyond the existence of a market. A market with co-opts instead of hierarchical corporations is still bound by the exact same logic of the market, just like putting body camera on police officers only leads to them being able to replay the greatest hit of "beatin' on the darkies". Each worker is still part of a firm, albeit a democratically controlled firm, and that firm is out to make a profit (and thence, the owners/workers profit), meaning the working class will now still be fractured, and no amount of waving away the problem and saying "it would surely be different because we are in a new world where the old laws don't apply" is going to transcend that problem. 2018-02-22T21:11:39Z Comment by Peter Lim @machodada: Just because I think something is an improvement, does not mean that I believe it to be the end goal we should all strive for. And just because I don't think it should be an end goal of Socialism, as Prof Wolff is suggesting, doesn't mean I don't think it is worth fighting for. 2018-02-22T21:01:25Z Comment by elQuanto Ripped-offedness~ 2018-02-22T13:49:31Z Comment by Machodada @peter-lim-554429937: Btw, your major mistake is your lack of vision: you're trying to gerrymander your already paltry notion of co-ops into current society, under the market as socially bereft as it is today. You never thought to imagine what social and market landscapes might look like with preponderance of co-ops? Of course not, cuz you're just working backwards from "co-op just ain't the way to go". The fact of the matter is that a society rife with co-ops is bound to have all manner of social safety nets, sensible continuing education, flexible career paths, workers holding equity in the company rather than fucking starvation wages; I could list a thousand ways things, the broader implications of workers running their own ships are better morale, less waste, fewer inane bullshit consumer products and competition doesn't have to be life and death anymore cuz the whole paradigm has shifted in the interest of the greatest number... maybe you try doing some hallucinogenics in the woods or something. 2018-02-22T11:53:25Z
