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The Dialectic At WorkProfessor Wolff meets Louis AlthusserIn the 1960s, Louis Althusser imported the concept of 'overdetermination' from Sigmund Freud into the domain of Marxian analysis. In the 1980s, Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick developed this idea into a Marxian Critique of Political Economy in their seminal book Knowledge and Class. Yet, many of the premises of the concept and its applications remain fuzzy to people, even students of Marxian theory. This week, the dialectic goes to work with Professor Richard Wolff to explore this important idea. What is overdetermination? How does it liberate analyses from determinism and essentialism? How can we use this i...
2025-11-2238 minThe Dialectic At WorkA Socialist Win in NYC: How, Why, & What it MeansZohran Mamdani was declared the winner of the New York City mayoral election on November 4th, 2025. He ran as a Democratic Socialist. He ran as an immigrant. He ran as a Muslim. He ran on a platform of affordability, and he ran without taking a dime from corporations. He defeated a member of a political dynasty and the billionaires who backed him, and he did so with a resounding majority of the vote. He has set an example for others to follow and given hope to many in a tumultuous political era. In this episode, the dialectic g...
2025-11-0843 minThe Dialectic At WorkKeynesian vs Marxian EconomicsState intervention or private interest? Public investment or private? More taxation or less? More regulation or less regulation? We are often asked to comment on these questions because, in popular perception at least, they are the 'central' concerns of left-leaning economists. But, as we will discover in this episode, while these may be essential concerns (particularly for Keynesian economists), Marxian economists and thinkers have provided an alternative way of thinking about the project that goes beyond these naive binaries. In this episode, the dialectic goes to work with the world's leading Marxian economist, Professor Richard Wolff, to m...
2025-10-2630 minThe Dialectic At WorkWhat is Money? Bitcoins and CryptocurrencyMost things in life--- automobiles, lovers, cancer --- are essential only to those who have them. Money, in contrast, is equally important to those who have it and those who don't. Both accordingly have a concern for understanding it. Both should proceed in the complete confidence that they can.", so writes John Kenneth Galbraith in his famous book "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went." But what is money? This question may seem obvious at first glance; however, as we discover in this episode, there is more to it than meets the eye. Some claim that we a...
2025-10-1143 minThe Dialectic At WorkNo Risk, No Return: Capital VS LaborA popular myth propagated ad nauseam may begin to sound like the truth to some. It is no different for the "risk" theory of profit: the claim that capitalists "create" profits by assuming risk to capital. This theory was born out of the rise of the financial bourgeoisie as a dominant class; from the standpoint of this class, as Marx points out, "production is just an unavoidable middle". For the financial bourgeoisie, it is a pure case of M to M", the attempt to convert money into more money by buying and selling financial assets. But the "modern...
2025-09-2624 minThe Dialectic At WorkIdeology and Economics: Bourgeois Theories of ValueIt is often argued, naively in our view, that "economics" is a science. Yet, it is easy to see that while discredited and unscientific theories, such as the Phlogiston theory in chemistry, can easily get replaced by better ideas, there has always been resistance to the development of revolutionary thought in Economics. This has earned the discipline the title of the "dismal science". In this episode, we argue that economics is "ideological" in the precise sense that different groups in society conceptualize economic value (and hence profit) from their respective standpoints: the merchant in the perspective of...
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FREE with Clara MatteiRichard Wolff: Why Capitalism Can’t Give Us EqualityEconomists Clara Mattei and Richard D. Wolff break down why capitalism has failed to deliver on its promises of liberty, equality, and democracy. From the hidden coercion of the labor market to the politics of inflation and unemployment, they expose how the system sustains inequality — and explore how worker cooperatives could offer a real path to economic emancipation.📚 Richard Wolff’s latest book: Understanding CapitalismCheck out: @democracyatwrk & https://www.democracyatwork.info/🎙️ Learn more about FREE at: https://freefreeforum.org#richardwolff #democracyatwork #capitalism #marxism #inflation
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Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadEpstein — A Marriage of Capitalist Corruption and MisogynyJeffrey Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in New York in 2019, was also accused of sexually assaulting underage girls for nearly two decades. Because he died in jail while awaiting trial, we may never know the extent of his sex trafficking ring or exactly who else may have participated in those heinous acts. Instead, we are left wondering whether or not he also provided blackmail opportunities for the U.S. and Israeli governments, as it appears he likely did precisely that. It also seems as if...
2025-08-0833 minThe Dialectic At WorkMarx: the Business AnalystMarx, an analyst of real businesses? You must be crazy. Well, before you arrive at that conclusion, consider the following: Procurement time, lead time, inventory management, freight costs, and supply chain management: these are terms commonly encountered by business analysts and participants alike on an everyday basis. Contemporary corporations, such as Amazon and Walmart, have developed elaborate interconnected networks of warehouses and logistics management systems that reduce the 'turnover time' (the two-day delivery method) and facilitate the circulation of capital. Any analyst of the world capitalist system cannot help but notice how geopolitical tensions over...
2025-08-0155 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadSocial Reproduction Theory Illuminates the Issues of Our Time There has been an extensive study of workers and the commodities they produce. When it comes to who produces those workers, or who produces people, gives birth to them, raises them, and socializes them, there is a lot less material that examines that type of work. Social Reproduction Theory examines the aspects of capitalism and bridges the gap between feminism and Marxism by incorporating variables such as race and gender. In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad provides her insights on the latter, as part of Social Reproduction Theory. Learn more ab...
2025-07-2521 minThe Dialectic At WorkValue & Prices: The Transformation ProblemThis week, the dialectic sat down with Professor Richard Wolff again to discuss the relational interplay between value and prices. About The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to exploring Marxian theory. It utilizes the dialectical mode of reasoning, that is the method developed over the millennia by Plato and Aristotle, and continues to explore new dimensions of theory and praxis via a dialogue. The Marxist dialectic is a revolutionary dialectic that not only seeks to understand the world but rather t...
2025-07-181h 06Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadOut With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani's Win is for AllZohran Mamdani's recent victory in the Democratic primary for New York City's mayor has shaken up the old establishment and is becoming a symbol of progress and real, meaningful change for younger generations, and everyone else, whether or not they like it. With over 40k volunteers and a meter $1.7 million raised, Mamdani's margin of victory against Andrew Cuomo, the establishment candidate who amassed over $25 million, is a message to the core establishment that change is coming, and it's coming soon. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ad...
2025-07-1118 minThe Dialectic At WorkMarx's Capital Volumes 2 & 3This week, the dialectic sat down with Professor Richard Wolff again to discuss Karl Marx's Capital, Volumes 2 and 3. The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to exploring Marxist theory. It employs the dialectical mode of reasoning, a method developed over millennia by Plato and Aristotle, and continues to explore new dimensions of theory and praxis through dialogue. The Marxist dialectic is a revolutionary dialectic that not only seeks to understand the world but rather to change it. In our discussions, the dialectic goes to work...
2025-07-0450 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadSocial Reproduction Theory: A Tool for Changing U.S. SocietyIt examines the types of labor that shape human beings outside of waged work, both before and after they enter the waged workforce. Social Reproduction Theory complements Marxist theories of labor at the workplace by introducing the labor that shapes human beings outside of waged work. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Bec...
2025-06-2719 minThe Dialectic At WorkKarl Marx In America With Andrew HartmanTo read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx's ideas have inspired a wide range of individuals to formulate a more nuanced understanding of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith, John Locke, and Thomas Paine, but Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures. Yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism's centrality to American life. In "Karl Marx in America", h...
2025-06-2058 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadHow Economic Transformations Impact America's Mental Health In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad examines the impact of recent global economic losses on the personal lives of Americans, from marriage and family to mental health. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly donor: http://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork
2025-06-1334 minThe Dialectic At WorkThe Mystery of Marx's Capital Volume 2In the last episode, we discussed the importance of Capital Volume 2 to the project of Das Kapital. In this episode, we delve deeper into the first four chapters of the book, starting with the three circuits. We observe how the world of finance is interconnected with production and retail, and how these three circuits, in turn, interact to form the totality known as the world capitalist system. The capitalist system comprises financiers, managers, bankers, and a host of non-producing members who benefit from the exploitation of productive workers, as they receive a share of their surplus value. W...
2025-06-0650 minThe Dialectic At WorkBut Marx Didn't Account For...Most professionally trained neoclassical economists have never bothered to read Capital Volume 1—let alone know about the existence of its two companion theoretical volumes (2 and 3) and three historical volumes. While it's generally advisable to refrain from speaking on topics one hasn't deeply studied, bourgeois economics remains full of lively debates peppered with claims that begin: "But Marx didn't account for [fill in the blank]." This week on The Dialectic At Work, we examine these alleged "absences" in Marx's Capital with Professor Richard Wolff. Since most such omissions stem from ignorance of Volumes 2 and 3, we'll dedicate the next two...
2025-05-2357 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadCan The Left Deal With America's Mental Health Crisis?In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad examines loneliness as a major driver of America's mental health crisis. We explore how socialist and leftist organizing in the past has tackled this issue—and how present-day "12-Step" programs might offer the Left new strategies for reaching and mobilizing Americans. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www...
2025-05-1628 min
Global CapitalismOn This May DayWe are thrilled to share the replay of Democracy at Work and The Left Forum's special live, in-person Global Capitalism event, held last Wednesday at Women Building Up (WBU). Professor Wolff gave a special "May Day" Global Capitalism Lecture on the impact of President Trump’s economic policies and how they are ultimately an attack on working people We would like to thank Susan Shah, Kim Westcott and all the remarkable people at Women Building Up for hosting Democracy At Work and The Left Forum. Presented by Democracy at Work and the Left Forum...
2025-05-091h 12Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhy Some Americans Still Support TrumpIn this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad explores how the Frankfurt School of Marxian Theory and the Marxist Philosopher Louis Althusser can help us understand Americans' adherence to Trump even after the chaos and cuts of Trump's first 100 days in office. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly don...
2025-05-0227 minThe Dialectic At WorkThe Late Marx's Revolutionary RoadsWas Marx a Eurocentric thinker? Is his work only pertinent to Western societies? What were his views on colonized societies? What about the question of gender? How did Marx's views on non-Western societies change over his lifetime? In this episode, Shahram meets Prof Kevin Anderson, author of "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads", a new book by Verso that analyzes Marx's late works (1869-1882), some of which have only recently been published. These notebooks provide a new way of thinking about the Marxian project. Professor Anderson explains that in his late writings, Marx went beyond the b...
2025-04-2558 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadThe Love Lost by the LeftIn this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad points out how the Left has turned away from the love of community that helped fuel the movements behind leaders like MLK and Che and explains why this has turned out to be a huge mistake. She then explains the importance of love of community, connection, and justice in building a unified Left. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to...
2025-04-1816 min
Robinson's Podcast248 - Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American EmpireRichard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s eighth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In his last appearance, episode #243, he and Robinson discussed 2025 and the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, as well as what’s to come. More particularly, they discuss the irrelevance of Donald Trump, his domestic and global policies, China, narratives on the right and left, and the future of the United States. In this episode, they continue the discussion by divin...
2025-04-133h 11The Dialectic At WorkThe Working Day and the Production of Surplus ValueDo you feel tired, alienated, bored, and powerless at work? Do you feel exploited? This episode of Dialectic at Work provides an economic theory that could explain your daily experiences at the workplace. It builds on the discussion with Professor Richard Wolff in the previous episode and dives into the first volume of Capital, which deals with the Production of Surplus Value. Prof. Wolff explains the conceptual apparatus of Volume 1: necessary and surplus labor. These twin concepts explain the precise process via which the work performed by workers becomes the "profits" of the capitalist class. Ab...
2025-04-111h 02Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadHow Capitalism Breeds Sociopathic Mental IllnessThis week on Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad discusses how the profit motive that defines capitalism is that no one hires you unless they make more money from your work than they pay you. That is simply considered good business, and Dr. Fraad explains how compassion and empathy remain variables that are absent from "good business." Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so...
2025-04-0404 minThe Dialectic At WorkMarx's Capital: Reading and Teaching the Three VolumesProfessor Richard Wolff's co-author, colleague, and friend, the late Stephen Resnick, would tell his students about his discussion, as a student at MIT, with Paul Samuelson. He asked Samuelson: "What is there in Marx that is both valid and absent in neoclassical theory"? To this, Samuelson responded: "Class analysis." In this episode, Shahram and Professor Wolff use the dialectic to explore how Marx's magnum opus, Das Kapital, is understood and its connection to class and class analysis. It begins by examining the overall project of Capital and discussing why beginners should read this essential text. Professor Wolff explains the...
2025-03-2836 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadNature vs Nurture: The History of The FamilyIn this week's installment of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad delves into the historical evolution of the concept of family. She challenges the common misconception that parenthood is an innate or naturally inherent trait in humans. Additionally, she explores how marriage and partnerships intersect with and shape this dynamic, shedding light on the complex interplay between societal structures and familial relationships. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate on...
2025-03-2120 minGlobal CapitalismThe Old Cold War Fades, A New One ExpandsProfessor Wolff will present four key points that reveal the emergence of a new Cold War the U.S. has embarked upon in response to the rise of global alliances from which it is being excluded and that challenge the near century-old American economic dominance. I. The Old Cold War Targeted Communism in the West and the USSR as its Source II. The New Cold War Targets China and the BRICS III. Trump/Musk Target the US Working Class and its Allies IV. Europe’s Decline Deepens Presented by Democracy at Work an...
2025-03-1456 minThe Dialectic At WorkCapitalism, Class Consciousness, and Ecology: Towards a Dialectical SynthesisIn this episode, the dialectic goes to work with a professor of sociology and environmental historian, Professor Jason Moore, to explore the following question: can the issues of climate change and class consciousness be isolated from one another? How did Marx conceptualize Nature, and where do human beings fit into the web of life? How does the notion of a 'climate emergency' benefit the ruling classes? What are the various approaches to thinking about the environment within the web of life? Is "man" (in the abstract) responsible for the planet's destruction? Or is it capital? Prof Moore and Prof...
2025-03-141h 11Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhat's In Store For Women Under Trump?In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad delves into the striking parallels between the Trump administration's strategies and the tactics outlined in the Nazi playbook. The podcast also examines actionable ways to counter and halt this dangerous agenda. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly donor: http://www...
2025-03-0718 minThe Dialectic At WorkMarxism, Trade Wars, and the Working ClassThis week, the dialectic goes to explore the question of 'free trade, trade wars, and protectionism'. What did Marx think about the question? Is it something of concern to the working-classes? How should they respond to a situation in which the capitalists of one country engage in trade wars with capitalists of another country? To help us understand how Marxian economists and activists view this debate, especially in the present context, we have Prof. Richard Wolff. Amidst all the noise about 'bringing jobs back' and all the rest of it, and the rhetoric of protectionism, h...
2025-02-2859 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhat's Love Got to Do With It?In this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad delves into the concept of "Love," coming just a few days after Valentine's Day. She examines how America has undergone a significant revolution in recent history—a transformation in the meanings and practices of love. Love and marriage no longer "go together like a horse and carriage," as Frank Sinatra's 1955 song once claimed. Today, most Americans are single, and the majority of marriages end in separation or divorce. This podcast explores the reasons behind this profound shift. Learn more about CHH: We make it a poin...
2025-02-2119 minThe Dialectic At WorkCapitalism hits the fan 2.0?Welcome to another season, and the first episode of Season 2, of the dialectic at work: a podcast dedicated to understanding Marxian theory. Thank you all for your continued support. About The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to exploring Marxian theory. It utilizes the dialectical mode of reasoning, that is the method developed over the millennia by Plato and Aristotle, and continues to explore new dimensions of theory and praxis via a dialogue. The Marxist dialectic is a revolutionary dialectic that not only s...
2025-02-141h 03Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadMarriage and CapitalismIn this week's episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad explores the global shift in household structures, which stands in stark contrast to traditional marriage norms. As the fundamental unit for creating and sustaining human life, the family is undergoing profound transformations. Just as the nuclear family once replaced the feudal family, new and diverse family structures are now emerging in place of the nuclear model, as marriage declines and new patterns of child-rearing and family formation take root. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Yo...
2025-02-1121 minRobinson's Podcast243 - Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the Decline of the United StatesRichard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s seventh appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In his last appearance, episode #230, he and Robinson discussed Richard’s arguments against electing Donald Trump for president, as well as his analysis of the election. In this episode, Richard and Robinson talk about 2025 and the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, as well as what’s to come. More particularly, they discuss the irrelevance of Donald Trump, his domestic a...
2025-02-103h 40Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadProlific Rapists Exposed and Prosecuted: Why Do These Men Rape?In this week's episode, Dr. Fraad reflects on 2024, a year in which there were several high-profile sexual assault cases featured in mainstream media. Dr. Fraad will highlight four cases of brutal sexual assault allegations by men against women that gained significant media attention. This week's podcast delves into the underlying reasons for these assaults, the increased media coverage surrounding them, and explores actionable steps to prevent future incidents of sexual violence. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep th...
2025-01-2426 minGlobal CapitalismWhat Trump 2.0 MeansWe are thrilled to share the replay of Democracy at Work and The Left Forum's special live, in-person Global Capitalism event, held this past Saturday at Women Building Up (WBU). Professor Wolff gave his thoughts and analysis on what the new Trump Presidency means and how we may react. Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube. Ou...
2025-01-231h 02Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadOut of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Trump and his SupportersIn this week's episode, Dr. Fraad discusses what the Trump administration means for the American people. All but the wealthiest American men, women, and children will suffer while billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the proposed agency, DOGE( the Department of Governmental Efficiency). They plan to cut government jobs, job protections, and aid for poor and working-class people, especially the most vulnerable members of our society. The cuts will protect the wealthiest from interference with their profits. However, we can fight back! Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to...
2025-01-1022 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadPatriarchy and Capitalism: Joint Partners in Sexual AbuseIn this week's episode, Dr. Fraad discusses the prevalence of sexual assault allegations and crimes committed by powerful and wealthy men. The news is filled with the names of famously accused rapists: Donald Trump, Puff Daddy, Weinstein, Cosby, Epstein, etc. The #MeToo movement allows them to be exposed. This podcast explores the question of why widespread rape is a perk of monied powerful men. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you wo...
2024-12-1323 minThe Dialectic At WorkClass & Class Analysis Part 2In this episode, Professors Shahram Azhar and Richard Wolff continue their discussion and analysis of the seminal book Knowledge and Class. Professor Wolff reflects on how he and his friend and co-author Steve Resnick developed their own language and theories around class. About The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to exploring Marxian theory. It utilizes the dialectical mode of reasoning, that is the method developed over the millennia by Plato and Aristotle, and continues to explore new dimensions of theory an...
2024-12-061h 13The Dialectic At WorkClass & Class AnalysisIn this episode, the dialectic goes to work to explore one of the most fundamental concepts in Marxism: class and class analysis. What is class? What do Marxists mean when they deploy this term? In this episode we discover, via the seminal book Knowledge and Class, how the concept of surplus is used to develop a theory of classes in society. The fundamental and subsumed class framework, first developed by Resnick and Wolff, provides a non-essentialist approach to classes. Prof Wolff and Prof Azhar discuss how multiplicities of class processes can coexist at any point in time and pull...
2024-11-221h 05Global CapitalismThe U.S. Election and Trump 2.0 in Historical Perspective [November 2024]The U.S. Election and Trump 2.0 in Historical Perspective Topics Include: The overdetermination of the vote The new government Persistent problems of a declining empire Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work and Left Forum Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube. Our four Democracy at Work books, three by Richard Wolff (Understanding Mar...
2024-11-211h 17Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhy Did Trump Win?In this week's episode, Dr. Fraad explores why and how a convicted felon who was found liable for sexual assault was chosen to lead America. Americans and particularly white American men are frightened. They have lost family wages and their wives as well. White women have lost the lifetime financial support of their domestic labor and child care. Americans have no Left Party to explain their lesser lives. Why not? This podcast begins to explain it. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your co...
2024-11-1537 minThe Dialectic At WorkKnowledge and ClassThis week, and in the next few weeks, the Dialectic goes to explore one of the most important texts in Marxian political economy in modern history: Knowledge and Class. The book, written in 1987 by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff after decades of research and critical analysis, developed a new "non essentialist" Marxism. The Fundamental and Subsumed Framework, developed in this book, has been used to examine a host of economic settings and situations, including economic analyses of countries, and businesses. It is the method Prof Wolff uses to do economics. About The Dialectic a...
2024-11-081h 03Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadHistory of ChildhoodIn this episode, Dr. Fraad discusses the history of childhood. To quote the most well-known historian of childhood, Lloyd deMause, "The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only begun to awaken." We all begin life as children. Our history must be claimed. Feudalism and capitalism cast children as private property to use, abuse, exploit, or love. This podcast explores our common history through a Marxist lens. In case we need the footnote it follows: Lloyd deMause The History of Childhood. Psychohistory Press, New York. 1974 Learn more about CHH: We ma...
2024-11-0121 minThe Dialectic At WorkNobel Laureates, Settler Colonialism and HypocrisyThis week the dialectic explores the Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson for their "contribution to Institutional Analyses" of long-run economic development. We critically examine the claim that "settler colonialism" results in progress and development. Professors Wolff and Azhar discuss how the real economic history of colonized and indigenous peoples rebelled against the "whitewashing" in Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's work. The dialectic revisits the work and contributions of Paul Baran, including his analysis of the historical tendencies within capitalist development, and how it leads to under-development in the Global South. ...
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Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s fifth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode #127, he and Robinson discussed some of the most profound criticisms of capitalism; in #154, they focused on the myths surrounding Marxism and Marx himself; in #190 they covered the Israel-Palestine conflict from a Marxist perspective; and in...
2024-10-202h 00Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhole Societies Can Be In Denial, Ours Certainly Is...In this episode Dr. Fraad discusses how the American Empire is Falling. That truth which is recognized throughout the rest of the world and in U.S. financial circles, is denied across America. However, the evidence cannot be denied. Where the denial expresses itself most is in "Spirit Level Afflictions". Glaring economic and social inequality, distrust between people, addiction, mental illness, lowered life expectancy, birth rate decline, suicide, homicide, imprisonment rates, and much more. All signs of a society in deep turmoil. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide th...
2024-10-1824 minThe Dialectic At WorkWhy Does Dialectics Matter for Climate Politics?In this episode, the dialectic discusses the rising temperatures, melting glaciers, droughts, and famines as we have never seen in history; this week the Dialectic at Work explores the position of Capitalism, our dominant economic system, in the Web of Life. Prof. Shahram Azhar discusses the issue with leading environmental historian and historical geographer, Professor Jason W. Moore. Professor Moore is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject, including "Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital", "Anthropocene or Capitalocene", and "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things".
2024-10-111h 02Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadA Crime of Domination, Denial of Need & Dis-Connection from Other Human BeingsIn this episode, Dr. Fraad juxtaposes our capitalist system with sexual assault. Capitalist exploitation, like rape, requires a lack of connection and empathy for the workers one exploits. Capitalism encourages domination and disconnection from workers' human needs and wants. The rapist does the same. Rapists refuse to see their victim as a fellow human but only as an object to be exploited and dominated. While the majority of rape victims are women 10 percent are men yet another remnant of patriarchy. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show fr...
2024-10-0421 minThe Dialectic At WorkCrisis of Democracy: Revisiting Hegel, Rethinking Political Practice In this episode, the dialectic goes on to explore how Hegel's idea of historical transformation and change in the world of consciousness and thinking can be used to understand the political and economic situation around the world. Drawing upon a host of examples from the past, and the present, from England, France, and the United States, as well as thinking about future possibilities and trajectories, Prof. Wolff and Prof. Shahram Azhar analyze how Hegel's idea of dialectical change can be used to understand and change the world for the better. About The Di...
2024-09-271h 06Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadBirth Strike in the USAAmerican women are on a birth strike. The U.S. leads the developed world in reducing the global birth rate. Only well-funded government programs for families and children will change this phenomenon. U.S. women cannot be the national safety net. This week's episode explains why U.S. women are on a birth strike and what we can do to correct that. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to...
2024-09-2027 minThe Dialectic At WorkCrisis of Democracy: Marxism as a Critique of TINAWe live at a time when multiple crises surround us. Moreover, we are told that there is no alternative (TINA) so we must all accept the 'lesser of the two evils logic'. This week the dialectic goes to work to critically examine this claim. In particular, we dive into the political situation in France, Germany, and the United States in the context of the electoral process. As always, we connect the story with key concepts within Marxist theory. Specifically, we ask why Marxists INSIST that 1) The abolition of wage-labor and its replacement with economic democracy, ie workers' s...
2024-09-131h 01Global CapitalismWest in Turmoil 2024: Big Elections, Big Social ChangesWest in Turmoil 2024: Big Elections, Big Social Changes Topics Include: Harris vs Trump: civil and class struggles converge Western Europe: UK elections = collapse of conservative votes, French elections = death of political center Germany elections = rise of fascist Right and of “Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht” Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube. Our four Democracy at Work...
2024-09-1357 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadThe Spirit Level of the United StatesIn 2009 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett wrote their best-selling book, "The Spirit Level" which showed how economic inequality spawned extensive social suffering. Recently those authors revisited the United States 15 years later, and every aspect of the social problems referenced in their work has increased with the increase of inequality. They elide capitalism's leading role in delivering misery. I do not evade it. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you woul...
2024-09-0628 minThe Dialectic At WorkCrisis of Democracy: Marxism and Dialectical Thought Part 2On this week's episode of the Dialectic at Work, Professor Shahram Azhar and Professor Wolff continue to discuss the crisis of democracy globally, the rise of far-right authoritarianism, the climate crisis, and finally how Marxism can address these issues. This discussion took place at the recent No War but Class War Forum on May 31st at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus Sponsored by Historical Materialism and Institute for the Radical Imagination Conference About The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is d...
2024-08-3053 min
Robinson's Podcast222 - Richard Wolff: Israel, Ukraine, China, and the End of the American EmpirePatreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7
Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s fourth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode #127, he and Robinson discussed some of the most profound criticisms of capitalism; in #154, they focused on the myths surrounding Marxism and Marx himself; and in #190 they covered the Israel-Palestine conflict from a Marxist perspective. In this wide-ranging episode, Richard and Robinson talk about the end of the...
2024-08-253h 03Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhither Family-Withered FamiliesFamily was a mainstay of child development and emotional sustenance for both adults and children. US families are now falling apart. Today's episode asks the question: "What can be done to replace their sustaining power?" Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly donor: http://www.patreon.com...
2024-08-2323 minThe Dialectic At WorkCrisis of Democracy: Marxism and Dialectical Thought Part 1On this week's episode of the Dialectic at Work, Professor Shahram Azhar and Professor Wolff discuss the crisis of democracy globally, the rise of far-right authoritarianism, the climate crisis, and finally how Marxism can address these issues. This discussion took place at the recent No War but Class War Forum on May 31st at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus Sponsored by Historical Materialism and Institute for the Radical Imagination Conference About The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to ex...
2024-08-1643 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadMarriage Is No Longer A Rite of Passage in American AdulthoodIn Today's times, most marriages end in legal or extra-legal separation or divorce. Why is this happening? What are its social political and personal causes and effects? Today's show explores this phenomenon Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly donor: http://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork
2024-08-0921 minThe Dialectic At WorkAre You Guilty of Reading Capital?In this episode, "Are you Guilty of Reading Capital?", the Dialectic goes to work to begin a series of discussions on Marx's magnum opus, Capital. This episode and the next few will build the foundations for an analysis of Capital and Marx's theory of surplus-value. Building on our discussion on Althusser and overdetermination in Episodes 2 and 3, we now turn to how this new way of thinking about dialectics will impact our reading of Capital. We begin with the following idea: "There is no neutral reading of Capital. We are all guilty of a reading of Ca...
2024-08-021h 11Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadA Revolution in the Family Is Already HappeningThere is a worldwide revolution that is already happening. It's in the family, the primary site of creating and sustaining human life. Just as the nuclear family replaced the feudal family, new family forms are replacing the nuclear family as marriage breaks apart and children are born. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.dem...
2024-07-2618 minThe Dialectic At WorkOn Making Sense: Let Everyone Tell Their 'Story'In this episode, "On Making Sense: Let Everyone Tell Their Story", the Dialectic goes to work to further explore the Marxist idea of dialectics and 'overdetermination'. Specifically, we deal with the following question: if indeed (as Prof. Wolff has argued in the previous episode) reality is 'overdetermined' by a complex interaction between a host of over-determinants then how can we say anything analytical about the real world? How can we still 'tell a story'? We argue that the only solution to the mess is to examine the 'conditions of existence' that mutually shape a given object of a...
2024-07-1952 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadTrump As Totem Donald Trump has morphed from a transgressive man into a "Totem", a symbol and embodiment of the rage of Americans at the erosion of white male privilege, and the economic and social devaluation of the their lives. He embodies the retribution for the ravages of capitalism. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www...
2024-07-1217 minGlobal CapitalismThe Decline of the US Empire [July 2024]The Decline of the US Empire Topics: Military Losses: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine Economic Losses: The Rise of BRICS Political Losses: Israel, Sanctions The Decline of US Capitalism: What Next? Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube. Our four Democracy at Work books, three by Richard Wolff (Understanding Marxism, Understanding Socialism, and The Sic...
2024-07-111h 08
The Dialectic At WorkA Theoretical Rupture: OverdeterminationIn this episode, "A Theoretical Rupture: Overdetermination", the Dialectic goes to work to explore the Marxist idea of dialectics and 'overdetermination'. We begin by asking Prof. Wolff about the theoretical problems and conundrums he faced as a young Marxist thinker and how he, alongside Stephen Resnick, decided that a theoretical rupture was necessary within Marxian thought. We learn about the problem of economic "essentialism", and the fact that the complexities of reality cannot be reduced in a simplistic way to the economic dimension of lives. Rather, there is a complex interplay between multiple 'conditions of existence'. We learn that Marx...
2024-07-0549 min
The Dialectic At WorkDialectic At Work: For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma[Season 1 Episode 1] For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma In this episode, "For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma", the Dialectic goes to work to explore the following question: Why Marx? Why Marxian Theory? We begin with this, our inaugural episode, with a deep dive into Professor Richard Wolff's life. His upbringing, education and what led him to dedicate his life to the Marxian project. We argue that among the diverse reasons why people choose to study Marxism is that it p...
2024-06-211h 02Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadVoluntary Childlessness Is A Worldwide Trend. Why?[S07 E12] Women with access to birth control are increasingly opting out of bearing children worldwide. Women are now economically forced into labor outside of the home. Thanks to persistent male chauvinism women are then expected to perform a "second shift" of housework and childcare. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/dona...
2024-06-1524 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWomen's Traditional Labor, Skills and Strengths Are Learned Behaviors[S07 E11] What are the Skills and Strengths Learned In Performing Women's Traditional Labor of Caring and Creating Order and Cleanliness? Why Are These Knowledges Unknown, No Less Uncelebrated? Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at http://www.democracyatwork.info/donate. Become a monthly donor: http://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork
2024-06-0312 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadThe Family - Does It Work? Did It Ever?[S07 E10] The Family Does It Work? Did It Ever? The family is a sacred cow, It is presented as instinctual, and eternal. It isn't. Family is breaking down. It's time to study it, question it, and create new alternatives and study the successful alternatives whose stories have been repressed. If we do, we can find ways to empower and free each other on every level. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to...
2024-06-0324 minGlobal CapitalismA Marxist Critique of Capitalism for 2024 [May 2024]A Marxist Critique of Capitalism for 2024 - Core Issues: Labor, Surplus, Exploitation - Inequality and Injustice - Instability: Cycles and Crises - Alternatives to Capitalism Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work and Left Forum Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on X (Twitter) and YouTube....
2024-05-0959 minGlobal CapitalismA May Day 2024 Special [May 1st, 2024] Today we offer a very special Global Capitalism special in honor of “May Day” Today's May Day Special, a collaborative effort with long-time contributor Charles Fabian, opens with the major causes for why May Day 2024 is so special. These include the fact that the great crash of global capitalism in 2008-2009 shook the world in ways that include shocking a declining US labor movement back to life and growth. We saw that in 2011 when the Occupy Wall Street movement shook the US and beyond again. Then the "Fight for $15" swept across low-wage America as it still...
2024-05-0358 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad"The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand?[S07 E09] "The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand and How Do We Raise Our Satisfaction With Our Lives? The United States has lost its position in the top 10 happiest nations? We have lost on every marker of life satisfaction. How do we regain our joy and hope? Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by vi...
2024-04-2224 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadHow Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America?[S07 E08] How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America? We need to add to the powerful emerging union movement and unite it with all of our progressive movements whether Climate Justice, Black Lives Matter, the Feminist Movement, or the Sexual Rights Movement. We need one big multifaceted union and a political party that expresses that unity. In solidarity. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to s...
2024-04-2220 min
Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 04-08-2024In today's "Ask Prof. Wolff Live," the discussion will cover the potential Marxist themes in Shakespeare's works, the distinctions between employee stock ownership programs (ESOP) and work cooperatives, and the concerning practices of investors buying up tangible assets and private equity firms acquiring starter homes. Professor Wolff will then take live questions from the audience on these and other economic and social topics. Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to you free of ads. Please consider supporting us on Patreon.com/democracyatwork. Become a part of the growing Patreon co...
2024-04-1747 min
Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 03-20-2024This week on Ask Prof Wolff Live, we explore anti-inflationary measures implemented by central banks, the rationale behind income caps subject to social security tax, and the potential implications of transitioning from a socialist or communist economy to a wartime footing. Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to you free of ads. Please consider supporting us on Patreon.com/democracyatwork. Become a part of the growing Patreon community and gain access to exclusive patron-only content, along with the ability to ask Prof. Wolff questions like this one! Your support als...
2024-03-2759 minAsk Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 03-06-2024Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up In this installment, Prof. Wolff discusses the impact on children's autonomy, explores the intersections of class struggle with other forms of oppression, and unravels the intriguing concept of "Scientific Socialism." Following the insightful discussion, Prof. Wolff addresses a range of questions from the audience, providing deeper understanding and perspectives on these critical topics. Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to you free of ads. Please consider supporting us...
2024-03-0739 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWorld Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard[S07 E07] World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard The time for colonialism and settler colonialism is over! Whether it's in South Africa, America, Europe or Israel. The world is transforming. With the rise of China and the other BRICS nations, the United States have less power. The remaining US wealth is racing towards the billionaire class leaving the rest of us behind. What can we do about it? Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and ac...
2024-03-0125 minAsk Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 02-21-2024 Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to yo...
2024-02-281h 00Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 01-17-2024 Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to yo...
2024-02-2846 min
Global CapitalismEurope 2024: Disunity, Decline, Despair (Jan/Feb 2024)February's Lecture Outline: Europe 2024: Disunity, Decline, Despair Ukraine + Sanctions = European De-industrialization Fascism’s Resurgence/Immigration Caught Between: China Up, US Down Euro-farmers’ Protest: Europe’s Future UK: Conservative and Labor Collapses Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work and Left Forum Thank you for being an integral part of our community. Your engagement and support fuel our mission to foster critical discussions and insights. Together, we're building a more informed, equitable, and united world. Stay connected, and let's continue this journey towards understanding and change. Special messages to our audience: Please...
2024-02-151h 00Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadPositive Changes: Connections & Community Development[S07 E06] Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development Despite the sometimes depressing and unnerving problematic state of affairs we are seeing a growing number of people finding new connections and support systems amongst themselves, binding together and forming supporting systems to help them through these challenging times. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH: We make i...
2024-02-0926 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadDefinitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism[S07 E05] Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism What exactly do these terms mean- White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy and Capitalism? These are social divisions that function together. They separate us. They prevent us from uniting for a just socialist society that works for all of us. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH:
2024-01-1927 minAsk Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 12-13-2023Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to yo...
2023-12-2048 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadAddiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 2 of 2America's changing global posiAmerica's Big Picture and Its Impact on Individual lives and escaping sadness in ways that are tragic and also ways that are hopeful and strong. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capi... We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this...
2023-12-1532 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadAddiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 1 of 2Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs are all heavily marketed. Opioid medications like Oxycontin induce addiction, guns facilitate suicide, and pills numb justified anxiety and depression. Why are they now epidemics? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capi... We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help...
2023-12-0927 min
Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 11/8/2023Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to you...
2023-11-1342 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadIs the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life? The nuclear family form we recognize as the "traditional family" began with the rise of capitalism in the late 1700s. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capi... We make it a point to provide the show free of...
2023-11-1028 min
Global CapitalismSocialism in Today's World: The 4 KindsDemocracy at Work in conjunction with The Left Forum Presents: Global Capitalism Live Economic Update with Professor Richard D. Wolff Socialism in Today’s World: the 4 Kinds - 3 Kinds of State Role in Economy - 1 Kind of Workplace Revolution - Saving Capitalism from Itself - Socialism, Fascism and Capitalism’s Decline Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work and Left Forum Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our w...
2023-11-0959 min
Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 11/1/2023Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to you...
2023-11-0254 min
Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 10/25/2023Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to you...
2023-10-2635 min
Ask Prof WolffASK PROF WOLFF LIVE (RECAP) - 10/11/2023Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up Join this special iteration of "Ask Prof Wolff" Every Wednesday at 2PM (Eastern) Live on D@W YouTube Page. Professor Wolff will respond to your questions live! This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response. Submit your own question to be considered for a video response by Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwo.... Ask Prof Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We are committed to providing these videos to...
2023-10-1342 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadWhat Are Some Life Supports for America's Failing Isolated Nuclear Families?We can support our failing families. We can learn from attempts abroad and from our own history. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capi... We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would...
2023-09-2124 minCapitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadUS Empire Falls. Families Fail? Why?All Empires rise and fall. America's Empire is no exception. We need to admit it, cut the military budget and make a good life for Americans. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capi... We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free...
2023-09-2124 minGlobal CapitalismCapitalism Turns to the Authoritarian State [July 2023]Capitalism Turns to the Authoritarian State · Why Private Capitalism Makes That Turn · Why State Capitalism Makes That Turn · Will the Authoritarian State Save or End Capitalism? (United States vs. China) · Socialism and the Authoritarian State. Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work and Left Forum Special messages to our audience: Please help sponsor Global Capitalism by becoming a monthly donor to Democracy at Work. Go to our website to learn more (www.democracyatwork.info/donate). Follow Democracy at Work on...
2023-07-2058 min
Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadAlternative Family Structures are Not NewSocialist visions of communal shared domestic labor and child rearing have existed in the past and exist in the present. In 1917 following the Russian Revolution the government changed the rules and created a domestic revolution. At the turn of the century in the United States over 200 large and established socialist communes existed. Domestic revolution was then considered a valuable means of revolutionary change. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm a...
2023-07-1128 min
民主有事嗎？#103 建立福利國家模式然後呢 瑞典陷入新自由主義陷阱的現況社會福利制度一旦建立，人民便從此過著幸福快樂的生活嗎？政府治理不是童話，瑞典這個20世紀早期便有退休制度的國家，進入21世紀之時仍閃耀著性別平權、經濟平等等亮光。無奈自1980年代起進行金融自由化，受到新自由主義的吸引，陸續將公部門私有化，發展至今已變本加厲，舉凡居家照護、養老機構、醫療部門、電信、郵局、鐵路、學校皆私有化，上市公司也來跨足經營私立學校，國家的角色退居在私人公司之後，結果就是傷害了平等，貧富差距擴大。 台灣12月下旬發布2021年薪資中位數統計，結果指出，68.31%受薪階層的薪資不到平均數，比例創下歷年新高，反映出薪資差距擴大。貧富差距是警訊，政府的政策和行動是否致力降低不平等，值得全民共同監督。瑞典的例子也提醒我們，新自由主義是包裹著自由糖衣的毒藥，要制止貧富差距持續擴大，一定要警覺避免新自由主義的滲透。 參考資料： 瑞典社會福利被拆解沒收(Richard Wolff & Eleanor Goldfield)：https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_swedish_socialism_undone 瑞典從最不平等的歐洲國家變為最平等的歐洲國家，如今卻又… https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_swedish_socialism_undone 瑞典不再獨特：https://www.socialeurope.eu/sweden-less-special-than-it-was 黑錢--跨國企業主宰與顛覆全球經濟的手段：https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010838537 #瑞典 #樂施會 #Oxfam #平等 #平權 #新自由主義 #私有化 #公會 #社會福利 #richardwolff #eleanorgoldfield #教育卷 #稅改 #減稅 #富人稅 #遺產稅 #亞桑傑 #NATO #軍工複合體 #去森林化 #貧富不均 #極右 #納粹 #第三條路 #紀登斯 #布萊爾 #克林頓 #歐盟 Powered by Firstory Hosting
2023-01-0135 min
It's Not Just In Your HeadAnswering Patron QuestionsWe answer four questions from our Patreon community
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2020-09-1540 min
It's Not Just In Your Head#016: Therapists React To W.A.P. By Cardi B (SHOCKING!)(Note from the future: thanks to helpfully critical feedback we received for this episode, we recorded a follow up one with sex worker Gemma Paradise and feminist studies scholar Dr. Heather Berg, who helped us better understand the world of sex work and the various societal nuances within that world. Go here to listen to that follow up episode:
https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/episodes/018-Interviewing-Sex-Worker-Gemma-Paradise-and-Feminist-Studies-Scholar-Dr--Heather-Berg-ekid33)
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Harriet points out that despite pop feminism's celebration of W.A.P. being some kind of symbol of peak female empowerment, that it signals the now widely acce...
2020-09-041h 05