“Socialism is when the government does stuff. And it's more socialism the more stuff it does. And if it does a real lot of stuff, it's communism.”

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Richard D. Wolff, born on this day in 1942, is a Marxist economist and author known for co-founding Democracy at Work and hosting Economic Update, a weekly series which discusses political and economic issues from a Marxist perspective.

Wolff is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amhers and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York.

In 1988, Wolff co-founded "Rethinking Marxism", a still running academic journal dedicated to Marxist analyses of economics, culture, and society. Among his other works are "Capitalism Hits the Fan" (2009) and "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism".

The New York Times dubbed Wolff "America's most prominent Marxist economist", and he is featured regularly in television, print, and internet media.


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    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Seriously where's out generation's Ernst Busch?

      We need more bops like that.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      gotta be recuperated with a balance of edgy enough to sell rebellion to the alienated but not too far to really start spreading actual anti-capitalist sentiment.

    • tim [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      And then all of the stuff that is explicitly communist is Americana folk music or remixes of the Internationale. A lot of metal almost gets there but it takes a hard right turn and ends up in conspiracyville about the Illuminati alien reptilians or whatever