Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff
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Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl Marx, remains extremely relevant today. The Empire’s recent rigged presidential election has been disrupted by the support of an avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders, by millions of voters. To find out why Marx’s popularity has stood the test of time, Abby Martin interviews renowned Marxist economist Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at UMass - Amherst, and visiting professor at the New School in New York. Prof. Wolff gives an introduction suited for both beginners and seasoned Marxists, with comprehensive explanations of key tenets of Marxism including dialectical and historical materialism, surplus value, crises of overproduction, capitalism's internal contradictions, and more. Watch teleSUR's The Empire Files every Friday. FOLLOW // @EmpireFiles // @AbbyMartin // @telesurenglish LIKE // https://www.facebook.com/TheEmpireFiles Music by Fluorescent Grey
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To advocate capitalism is to assume responsibility for the outcomes of your life. "Externalities" are mere excuses for all those that want to avoid such responsibility.
Many hard working citizens have gone from rugs to riches by tackling their inner problems namely the subsequent misery from attributing everything to external factors is a major hurdle in the course of psychological maturing of the individual.
Communists are predominantly lazy, irresponsible human beings (young individuals tend to be so) that were led by an equally lazy irresponsible human being by the name of Karl Marx.
Just looking into his life is enough to distill that he's no good. Especially when it comes to moral advocations and the "common good" (who knows what is "common good" anyway? How do one defines the term?).
For crying out loud the man lost 4 of 7 of his children from neglect, fathered a son with his maid (who he never paid as a worker) and never recognised it, never paid his dues from receiving goods and services that sustained him, never returned borrowed money (at some point he was forced by his loaners to sell the beds in his house to pay them back - at the time he was receiving a substantial yearly amount - yet he was incapable to manage his economics, a failure in every aspect).
I give it to him he was quite photogenic just like the butcher Che Guevara - one could say "their only real success in life".
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I stopped watching when she said: "Marx is considered the most influential philosopher ever lived" that's seconds in the video.
This is so provocatively propagandistic! Marx was a deeply immoral person, who himself exploited anyone around him and advocated societal morality? Who in hell believes in such BS?
What happened to Aristotle? Kant? Spinoza? Descartes? Heraclitus? Epicurus?
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He's right that there's problems, he wrong with his solution
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Something about this guy doesn't sit well with me. He reminds me of something... I can't put my finger on it. Has anyone here read "The Gulag Arcipelago"? For some reason he feels familiar.
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God i want this old man to shut up. Its impossible to try and educate yourself without having to put up with snobby people.
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Marxism is, without a doubt, the most dangerous and pernicious ideology ever to play parasite to human minds. Its agents across the globe have murdered many, many times more than the Nazis were ever capable of. Every Marxist revolution begins and ends in the same way, and this deadly script has been followed time and again in each nation where this cancerous belief system takes root and blooms into full-blown movements of destruction and mayhem. Marxist revolutions, like those of the Soviets; the Maoists; the Cubans and the Koreans, have left tens of millions of bodies in their wake.
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Cultural Marxism is destroying capitalism. A deliberate and insidious leftist strategy.
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Marx died miserably... how someone die tells sumething.
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My controbution to that conversation are the principles of nature. every one knows the main element that keeps the engine of nature going and thats the tendency to equalize extremes. every chemical reaction bases on that and its even visible ina greater scale: Montains erode, vallies fill up with water, uranium breaks down in less energetic elements etc. And the same force also forms societies. The concentration of power by the few but also by the many will always be corrected on the longterm. and as more radical the extremes as more radical the correcture will be. We have seen this both in the frenc revolution and the downfall of the sowjetunion. So neither neoliberalism nor communism will ever work. Humans have clean, clear ideas that cannot be translated ina world of such complexity and diversity as ours. And as topping schillers view on that:
(...)This is possible in two kinds of ways. Either actually, when man opposes violence with violence, when he as nature rules over nature; or ideally, when he steps out of nature and so, in regard to himself, annihilates the concept of violence. What helps him to the first, is called physical culture. Man cultivates his understanding and his sensuous forces, in order to make the forces of nature according to their own laws either into instruments of his will or to secure himself before their effects, which he can not control. But the forces of nature can be ruled or be warded off only up to a certain point; beyond this point they withdraw from the power of man and subject him to theirs.(...) the sublime, schiller -
Socialism discourages invocation and kills jobs
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"Marx is considered the most influential philosopher to ever live"... come on... I'd be down to listen to your ideas but when you present it with garbage statements like this right off the bat the rest just doesn't seem worthwhile to listen to.
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I understand this is a polemical documentary, but you should have pushed this guy to explain the correlation between capitalism infiltrating a region and GDP and standard of living of that region. He provides no data or argumentation to support his claim that the rest of the world has been "savaged" by capitalism and that capitalism has caused wages to be very low. In fact the opposite relation may be true: a lack of capitalism causes low standard of living.
Why does infiltration of capitalism into the developing world correlate with rising standard of living? Because capitalism gives rise to increased productivity. Whether an increased standard of living correlates with existential satisfaction is a more interesting question. However this professor seems to be fundamentally mistaken. -
no system will work and even if that works that will be a temporarily switch anyhow
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When communism/socialism finally conquers America and the government led by Abby comes to take everything I ever worked for. I hope they leave me a receipt so I can claim on my 1040 as a charitable contribution
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Capitalism is the greatest economic system in the world, it's lifted billions of people out of poverty. The government intervention is what caused the corruption. Socialism will only increase government regulations and involvement.
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Bad Bad Capitalism it gave yyou Youtube....
what has Socialism produced besides Milions of Dead people?
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good thing about capitalism is the worker can find a different job or start his or here own factory or company no one is forced to produce anything don't see why we need a socialist government to help workers move up or get played anymore
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