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Richard Wolff, "Taboo Broken: New Critical Writing About Capitalism" (Original Post)
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2015
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The last few minutes of this talk put out a "common sense" thought to ponder...
MrMickeysMom
Apr 2015
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)1. The good thing about Wolff is
His speeches could easily pass as common sense if you didn't tell someone he's a Marxist........
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)2. The last few minutes of this talk put out a "common sense" thought to ponder...
which I paraphrase - The Soviet Union didn't fall apart from forces on the outside
It unraveled (by what could no longer be sustained) from within.
The daily viewpoint I see is a more narrow view of this. But when you travel as he does talking to as many persons as he does and are as well versed in history as he is, you see a much broader unraveling of threads in our crazy ass economic quilt.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)3. Not unravelling fast enough, IMO
But the rate is accelerating as we type...