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

    Does talking about the Cuomo nursing home scandal annoy anyone else? It's gotten to the point where if anyone brings it up with me, my immediate thought is that the person is a chud. Like, fuck Cuomo, but the only people who ever bring it up with me are people who also just want to open back up. So, you're not okay with these people in nursing homes dieing, but you're also okay with condemning even more than the almost 50,000 people in New York who have already died because of our shitty response, to death? Maybe I'm being a lib but it's getting really hard for me to separate the scandal from the constant chud talking point.

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

      The timing is just weird to me, too. Like, I was yelling (and a lot of leftists in NYC) about Cuomo's nursing home order in March of 2020. Like, we all knew it was bad then, and said as much. It's very strange that it's only gaining traction now, and amongst distinctly not left people as you've pointed out.

      • quartz242 [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Its as transparent as the cannabis legalization... a smokescreen

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

        Yeah very true the timing is also weird. As you say, this is start of the pandemic shit. Not that that makes it any less fucked up, but now it's being picked up to seemingly support policies that are the opposite of what a common sense reaction to the scandal would be.

        And then when the conversation turns to sexual assault, of course these same people turn around and say it's actually bullshit the left wants to kick out Cuomo because of the sexual assault allegations.