d@w produces media & live events to expose capitalism’s systemic problems & to show how democratizing our workplaces solves them. Co-founded by @Profwolff
#OnThisDay in 1894, José Carlos Mariátegui was born in Peru. A journalist, organizer, and Marxist thinker, he became one of the pioneers of Latin American socialism, arguing that socialist politics must be rooted in local realities, not imported models.
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The Dialectic is back!
Season 3 is devoted to debates in economics; why do economists disagree? How can we distinguish between different economic theories?
This episode begins with an overview of the major debates.
#WolffBites: Pope Leo XIV had a memo for ICE on June 11: "Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border."
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No Congressperson asked Bill Gates how Epstein "came to be aware of Gates' infidelities and used them to pressure Gates?" A true answer would clarify Gates-Epstein link and the endless horrors of the Epstein class.
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In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Walter Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
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#WolffBites: 100 billionaires and their spouses contributed nearly $10 million to Susan Collins. Collins voted for Trump's huge 2017 tax cut that favored billionaires. We get the best gov't money tries to buy.
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“A minimum wage natural experiment has been running for over a decade” by Prof @arindube. Must read thread to understand the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment.
#WolffBites: Trump says "I love the inflation." Because it is great for his employer buddies. By prices rising faster than wages, wealth gets redistributed upwards from employees to employers. The MAGA hero.
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#WolffBites: Since Trump's election in 2024, first the working class, now also small business face economic decline. Endless US wars plus tax cuts for big business are costing the rest of us.
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Join me LIVE today June 7th 12pm eastern 6pm CET w/ economist Richard Wolff (@profwolff )!
We talk political economy of the Iran war and whether the US empire is whistling past the graveyard of economic catastrophe, and what that will look like.
WATCH:
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#WolffBites: US economy not so great now: highest credit card debt in history PLUS highest rate of credit card delinquency ever. Households are desperate: "There's too much month at the end of the money..."
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