nbc is corporate propaganda.

Too bad he doesn't really understand what it means...since it's not the people paying protection that have the power...and yet he keeps stating that it is the corporations paying it that do. If there is anything consistent about Wolff, it is his constant self-contradictions...but as you are all "exploited victims", this is the only thing that resonates, and in the process, you miss everything else.

It's just a glorified mafia that looks "professional"... they're not much different.

😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Name one willful contradiction.

So who displays willful ug iran e?

Funny how he avoids the topic of the FED. He just talks about the demon “capitalism”.

​@@raymondkey1952ask him about the FED. What is your question?

@geraldmantel4955 Well, it's run by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), so that should tell you all that you need to know. (IE., it's federal government propaganda)

And I'm sure it's the same (or worse) if you visit the FDR presidential library. On the other hand, if you go to the Ronald Reagan library.....

@@paulkesler1744 Good point, I'll bet you're right.

@micro-organism-pv5gd Elvis didn't die, although Nixon did.

Have we slipped into full frontal fascism?

and framed in most peculiar terms. elliptical explanations on MSM to say the least.

The 'news' our corporate overlords allow us to hear...

the quality of the government's lies declines? good news if it means their criminality is more transparent.

Very hard to be a genuine people leader on the top under capitalism.

REPUBLICANS ARE MOST TO BLAME FOR CAPITALISM BUT NOW DEMOCRATS HAVE JOINED THE PARTY.

@@anneliu3816 Too bad there isn't any "capitalism" left...and the tyranny that now exists doesn't care how blatant the lies are...since after a century of brainwashing none of you know what any of the words mean anymore.

The US government was setup from the beginning to be for the rich not "we the people".

Best government money can buy!

and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States",

Not just American life

Oof Dystopia

Unlike Marx, he doesn't really know what "money" is...nor it's history, so he isn't going to do that...and he neither reads these comments, nor answers questions posed here.

Why is that?

@@moji8405 Why is what?

Referring to QE and how they have created asset inflation, funded fuedal technocrats and rise of billionaires? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osianJum2baalIk.html

So just encourage him to make his statement of it and then criticize it point by point. That would mean much more than a judgment in advance, and it would encourage a substantial exchange with others.@@jgalt308

and slaves ...

True

@@fena1931 Wage slavery

@@williamblack4097 Really? You do know the difference between an agrarian economy and an industrial one? You do know that "slavery" in the U.S. was largely a function of the agrarian economy, centered in the South? Neither "industrial europe nor industrial U.S." had any need for slaves, and both ended the practice? You do what the word "slavery" means??????

​​@@jgalt308OHH galty,, salty galty lol,, yeah I know the difference between an agrarian economy and an industrial one, do you want to tell me what moving thousands of tons of huge boulders and working on them IS other than heavy construction INDUSTRY? Yeah the ancient Egyptians were basically about as smart as cattle, working for enough grain to feed themselves and their families but they were people,, not just slaves... And your usual contention that slaves built the American economy but capitalism freed them, yes I do know what slavery is and wage slavery is only a little better than chattel slavery... Chattel slavery ended but the corporation wasn't done exploiting black people, and now we have insane cries for reparations when it isn't average white people holding black people back but the corporation holding ALL OF US BACK... WHO do you think controls legal domestic policy in the united states, these idiot lawyers who infest Congress and Senate and the lackey judges on the corrupt supreme court, ALL OF THEM are involved in the destruction of societal peace and the rampant corruption and violence in American and other cities because of the idiocy of prohibition..... The de- industrialization that creates a lot of unemployed people, and in steps prohibition with the desire for illicit substances creating a huge black market so gangs can arm themselves and stake out their own territories and all this stupidity... ALL DESIGNED BY COINTELPRO,, the domestic CIA NSA program designed to keep black people and white people fighting into forever......

Read about monetary creation at the FED. His ideals are dangerously incomplete. These types just want to use ignorant people as canon fodder. I don’t trust him. Not that he doesn’t make good “points”

Yes, it always was a democracy in theory more than in fact. As Wolff has pointed out, we escaped the tyranny of medieval feudalism and Renaissance monarchy, only to degenerate into corporate oligarchy. Democracy worked in America --- to some extent --- as long as the country had a predominantly agricultural economy and corporations were small in scale. But with the rise of industrialization and the first wave of Robber Barons, it started to go downhill. Meanwhile, a series of Supreme Court decisions gave corporations the rights of human beings under Constitutional law (predominantly, the 14th Amendment). It's all described in Adam Winkler's book, WE THE CORPORATIONS.

😂🤣😂🤔😂 That anyone thinks America is either a Democracy or a Republic shows how ignorant and brainwashed y'all are. You live in a Capitalist Oligarchy. The same as all the other western 'Democracies'.

Believe it or not, quite a bit of what you say was, and could be again, mitigated in favor of the working class with something called laws and regulations. It worked pretty well after WW2, but needed some adjustments. Basically, it's reasonable taxes on the wealthy (and reasonable investment incentives) and keeping banks well controlled. The primary adjustment would be adding 'For all'. Capitalism today has virtually no competitive markets and the bankers (whether public or private capital) put the screws to everybody they can.

Market capitalism is unsustainable on all levels. That’s the bottom line. We need system change. But how? Try One Small Town Contributionism. If not, what else?

@@breft3416 That was an illusion, killed by fiat and the 300% inflation that occurred between 1939 and 1970. ( according to government calculations ) That doubled in the 70's to 600% and in terms of "lawful money" which still exists actual inflation now exceeds 5000%. ( see Constitution ) Sadly, people don't know the difference between "lawful money" and "legal tender", nor what "income" is...and as it pertains to "income" what an "employee" is. Then there rights vs privileges...and you no longer have the former having traded them for the latter, without any clue about how this was done. So while the "exploited victim" narrative is attractive because it absolves responsibility for what exists, it is ignorance that brought you here and will keep you here until you start asking the right questions, and you're not even close to even beginning to do that.

Powers are very relative term. But if we’re talking about social, economic, and political domination….Capitalism seeks to expand its range of exploitation, therefore it relies on its current conquest to spread itself further. Think about the influence the east India company had on the British Empire. Power existed before capitalism came to rise, and the influence of capitalism spread itself with the assistance of power it had conquered. So capitalism is a system replace the power structure of feudalism with itself within those societies, and those societies spread capitalist, influence, and conquest through imperialism. capitalism absolutely realize on a state to give it rise and to ensure it doesn’t collapse on itself. But it is the economic engine that drives most of the world today.

​@@sojourner4726 Do you recognize that monetary-market economics is structurally unsustainable? We need system change. That's the bottom line. And social system change needs to come from the bottom-up, community level cooperation. If we aren't working on that, then what sort of future are we looking towards?

Private company authoritarian vs governmental authoritarian - is he really so dumb to compare them to each other?

It never was.

get your hands on all the gold you can.

Buy low. Sell high.

You think the people who pay taxes are represented?

@@jgalt308 haha yeah that's a good one.

No but still younger people need the right to vote regardless. Younger people don’t have nearly enough rights tbh.

@@piku5637 What rights do you think you have? What is their source? It's a fuzzy concept...and most haven't thought it through, nor do they bother to seek any evidence to support what they claim or believe.

Yes, but who's paying the costs versus who's getting the benefits? If it costs a CEO less to pollute the environment than to clean it up, he'll pollute the environment. To him, that's just an "externality" --- he'll be charitable enough to let the public suffer the consequences.

Trust me, you're still in the dark.

Said the silly troll.

In the dark, like how he failed to mention the forced labor of children in communist societies, vs volunteer labor in capitalist societies? Seems like a lack of context from our professor.

No I think they want you to work till you die

No, that would be the government...or haven't you been paying attention.

So you're saying what? That all human systems are hierarchical and therefore involve class struggle? But if we go back to medieval Europe, the "struggle" was either nonexistent or impractical. The ideological paradigm called the "Great Chain of Being" meant that people born into a socioeconomic class had to stay in their place because God had ordained it. And since most medieval people were illiterate, they rarely could see beyond the paradigm that clerical authorities laid out for them. What changed with the Enlightenment was that populations no longer had to accept the "God-ordained" system, but could challenge it. Science and exploratory mercantilism revealed a world where people at least theoretically could "leverage" their circumstances and, through class struggle, move up the social hierarchy. Despite this, the ability to rise in the system was always more theoretical than actual, simply because most wealth and power remained at the top. All I'm saying is that in order to view human society in terms of "class," we first had to move to a historical period where class mobility was a *theoretical* possibility, even if the promise was only fitfully fulfilled. We can flatter ourselves with "mind over matter" reductionism, but as fatcats remake the world, the future looks more and more dystopian.

Some do because they dont know what else to do with themselves.

@@jillfryer6699 I have to stand my ground unions have driven the cost we want we want so price goes up so now the next group wants more and on and on the price of everything go's up it seems to me that we are living on fake money 💰.

Yeah, I hear the hunter/gatherer retirement plan was the bees knees.

Hunter/gatherer tribes took care of the whole tribe, including their elderly.

@@ronstephen-wy4ib And you acquired this knowledge from what source? Who are your favorite hunter/gatherer authors?

😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Idiotic talking point

@@ExPwner says the idiotic talker

@@yogikarlnope says the person who actually read Steinbeck’s actual writing on the topic which was mocking communists for their delusions and not capitalists. “Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property. "I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew - at least they claimed to be Communists - couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves." If there is an idiot in this conversation it’s you bud.