Conservative donors: You can have the social issues we don't care about as long as you let us control all the economic issues.

THANK YOU DR. WOLFF!!

Tucker Carlson is just acting. He is absolutely right about capitalism failing the people.

3:45 Se;f awareness is a curse that, in my experience, nearly all conservatives have manged to avoid.

Capitalism and common sense religious beliefs are mutually exclusive. A Christian-capitalist is an oxymoron (a square peg in a round hole). Christian-socialist is more logical and workable without neurosis and cognitive dissonance. If we look at Mondragon corp., we see it was founded by a priest who was interpreting the scriptures more according to the actual values. If we were to ask whether Jesus would promote capitalism or socialism, it would be be socialism - a socialism that treats everyone as equals and with dignity. Be aware that the perceived idea that "socialism" is what Stalin and Hitler espoused is flawed which should lead most to reconsider exactly what socialism could be in a non-hierarchical structure.

Awesome response.

Good show, thanks

You Mr Wolff are literally the only Voice OUT THERE who has clearly outlined a Viable Economic Future For Mankind ... I"m a HUGE fan and I'm DELIGHTED that you popped up on my KZfaq feed. ... SUBSCRIBED!

Amazing vid

For anyone not familiar with Tucker Carlson, don't think he is a good guy for accidentally saying some true things. After he correctly identifies these real problems, his "solutions" are always to stop the flood of brown immigrants entering the country (I've never seen him with anything bad to say about Norwegian immigrants) and recently that women should get back to marrying and keeping homes like they used to. Don't confuse him for a good guy.

Brilliant!

I say "full steam ahead". The bad thing is the old establishment will try to hang on to what they have and make it worse before it gets better.

I love when Dr. Wolff does these response videos.

Dear Mr. Wolff, You have light a fire inside so many people including myself. I consider myself you student and avid follower. You have taught me so much and continue to teach me everytime I watch/listen to you. You make me proud to be your fellow countrymen. I would Love to see you debate or critique Peter Schiff or his pod cast episode(s). I watch him for his analysis on markets, current financial conditions, economics, and politics. He is very opinionated and always talk like a bigot about socialism as if he never listened to you before and always calls the socialism of the past what's coming when you have already explained that prior attempts at socialism were truly "state run capitalism." *ALSO* If you could debate/critique Ben Shapiro. This man is even worse in my opinion. He slams socialism and speaks about it in "Absolutes" as if it has a cut and dry outline that ultimately ends in disaster. I know that your analysis on their logic would crush their following and help awaken more Americans to learn from you. You are one of the Great Americans of our lifetime and I would follow you in any struggle to bring balance back to our country. Thank you for everything Mr. Wolff! You are a hero in my book

Powerful words stated so eloquently. . . .

Go off, King!

Even unconvincing actors like Tucker Carlson can speak the truth accidentally sometimes. He's by no means a serious or persuasive figure, with his silly mannerisms and goofy facial expressions, but he has a helpful habit of inadvertently saying out loud the kinds of things conservatives prefer not to discuss openly.

great point, clearly made, thanks for this cool vid, amigo

The core of any institution to survive is good people without them institutions fail.

Just speaking the naked truth.

comrade wolff

the reality is we all need to work together on this planet, companies need workers just as much as we need their jobs.

Everybody should subscribed

Make the government a public utility again.

When they say to abolish property, what is meant? Personal belongings? Real Estate? Ultimate underlying property ownership by the public??

richard i read a paper that said that the optimum tax rate on corporate profit is negative, and it had a bunch of calculus in it, and I'm thinking to myself, "optimal for whom?" and It seems like the implication is that the govt should actually reward businesses for capital gains and corporate profits and that will help everyone. But I can't imagine how that would help wage earners get what they deserve...in any case, I'm worried about how difficult it is to get tax revenue from corporate profits and i need some reassurance that we can maybe change the system from the inside out....more cooperatives, maybe? idk. i'd love to learn economics

The elites have been waging a slow war on the lower classes since forever but really effectively recently since the end of the 1950’s until now there has not been enough awareness or pushback

Well put, but I still feel like saying Tell me something I don't know.

thumbs-up for the anti-Brexit cup ;-)

In other words Tucker Carlson shits his pants a little every time Bernie Sanders speaks the truth.

The truth of the matter is... the concentration of wealth is actually good for the environment. Less middle classers mean a lot less consumption.

There is always martial law to secure their power and wealth.

Fascism is elastic... left solidarity cant match it unless we all fundamentally have empathy

Oh yea yea

Killing the goose(s) that lays the golden eggs. It's called dumb and blind greed, the cornerstone of capitalism.

does anyone have the tucker carlson link

I used to say that the time for unions has come and gone because laws now protect workers and the layer of union management was just another of enormous waste of money that could have gone to better things. Now, I'm rethinking it because wages (including the minimum wage) are being kept artificially low and benefits are being slashed at almost every company. Every company is using the "peer company analysis" model to slash benefits of its employees. Well of course if a few companies slash benefits, every other similar company in their peer group can justify slashing benefits as well, so it's just a vicious cycle. A union can help employees get benefits and may be the path that employees have to take to fight back. But instead of unions, how about companies being better than the other companies in the same peer group by adding benefits? You'll get better and more loyal employees in the long run, rather than employees who will leave at the first chance of a better opportunity.

The problem we have now is that the common worker is being/has been turned into an asset by capitalism. How does a business/corporation treat an asset? Well they try to purchase the asset as cheaply as possible, they try and figure out way to get the maximum output from the asset while putting the very least amount of money into it they possibly can. How does this translate into the way corporations treat their workers? Just step back and look at what has been happening over the past several years. Pensions are pretty much non existent today, benefits are reduced to the bare minimums if they are offered at all, they expect people to work longer hours for the same pay.... How many companies used the billions of dollars they got in tax breaks to increase workers wages or benefits instead of using it to buy back their own stock or give their top executives massive pay increases or millions of dollars in bonuses?

Every ism has the same single problem: greed. "Absolute power..." This is a spiritual problem that cannot be glossed over by platitudes. It will change when conditioned consciousness has ripened to that point. The changeful is the changeful, and the Unchanging is beyond all this. In the meantime I like voluntaryism best.

Good insight and this is why the conservative progressive approach is needed that does not go to war against religious communities and that is not against moral norms. There is nothing that is progressive about not supporting marriage and personal commitments. Too many liberals are into "means testing" that gives preference for unmarried families to the extreme over families that stay together. The stupid policies we have now discourage commitment, create a punitive system of child support and means testing that destroys the incentive to work, and that do not support having disadvantaged people, to include minorities, start their own businesses. Cooperatives are a good idea but too many progressives are into a nanny state over changes that would give the common person control over their own life. So called progressives in too many cases want to enslave people by making them too dependent on the government and by allowing public schools to deteriorate. Bernie Sanders has good points on wanting more education for all and in universal health care that would actually help businesses since that would get all business out of the health care business and would free them to focus on thier core mission and thrive. American Businesses are shouldering the burden of the overpriced US Healthcare system. FACT American employers spend nearly $1.2 trillion annually on healthcare for their employees and their families, and this equals the $1.2 trillion spent annually by the federal government on Medicare and Medicaid combined. The nonsense of the healthcare lobbyist of the cost of universal healthcare being so expensive is exposed in this fact. If everyone was taxed, progressively, to cover the 1.2 Trillion, then the result would be a big boon for business and be an actual tax cut for them. Further, the government could be in a powerful negotiating position to bargain with the pharmaceutical industry and every other health care provider so as to contain costs. This is the single biggest fear of the vast majority of US people and poll after poll tells you that. Progressives need to develop a strategy so that you can sell this and many other progressive ideas to conservative religious people. Real progressives are for letting everyone have what ever personal religious belief they want. If you get religious organizations out of the healthcare business with all the baggage that entails, you will be able to easily put in place many progressive benefits for the masses, especially women. You then side step all the objections about women's health care options since you get all these outside interest out of the responsibility of providing health care. This all is relevant here because these are examples of how progressives continually fail to frame the argument in smart terms that could garner 80% of public support that would be so overwhelming that nothing could withstand the change. I say 80% because I am liberally estimating that no one working in healthcare or in the pharmaceutical industries would want the change and neither would the top 1% of the society plus I add in people that also vote against their own interests no matter what just to be contrarians.

The Republican (Likud) Party...

Richard Wolff agreeing with / supporting statements made by Mr Tucker Carlson on Fox News... crazy!

I just wish the the left and right would start working together. Both sides have good points. If we could just to the points.

Except the reaction (its called reactionism for a reason) isn't supposed to be a more equitable economic system. It's supposed to be rewards for key demographics, in this case middle-educated (Trade-skilled/associates/bachelors/masters-degree) nativist (ie European White) men.

Richard, take on Chomsky's criticism of Marx.

Problem is the capitalist don't really care at this point. It is in the nature of capitalist to make their money now and deal with the fall out when it comes.

Killing the goose that's laid a lot of golden eggs for THEM!

Our state has nothing to do with capitalism. It has to do with the morals of those with their hands on the levers of power. Nothing in socialism in concept nor in practice will inherently do better.

Finally, Tucker Carlson got some sense...his motives may be dubious, but facts are facts.

We live in societies. We're social animals. So, it makes sense to have some sort of a socialist society.

we need a new economic system. not capitalist not scocialist something in the middle.

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If Dick Cheney were a Marxist... 😂🤣 jkjk solidarity!

go off king, eviscerate him with facts and logic

Prosperity Bible Push by Oprah Winfrey doesn't keep you warm at night and pay those gas bills. And therein lies the problem.

Tucker is by far the most insightful gop pundit, pretty much ever. But I think it says a lot about his character that he realized all this stuff, some of it from even a left wing perspective, and yet he still supports these guys and their xenophobia. Really, it blows my mind. It feels kinda like he's one epiphany away from becoming a decent human being. But tbh, I think he had that epiphany and he just missed the point entirely. He's basically saying, give the working people some of what they want to put them back to sleep so us, the elite, can maintain control.

You forget about the Racists

I am surprised Wolff does not have a better handle on how unhelpful it is to speak in terms of the false dichotomy of socialism vs capitalism. To 99% of people these terms represent a simplistic and mythical extremes, and in reality no human society can or will ever function without using both private and collective ownership, and markets guided by government rules and planning. Where and how to draw the boundaries will never be clear or easy or have perfect results, but as long as we speak of economics using the terms from past tribal conflict, the primitive parts of our brains will derail any chance for reasonable conversation. Wolff has so many good ideas, but they won't go far in America until economic thinkers like him help people outgrow the tribal myth that one must decide between "socialism" or "capitalism".

Maybe some divine intervention made speak 'Good oll 'tucker the Truth…:)).

choice between two evils, 1. cosmopolitan rich capitalists or 2. evil marxist/socialists. what a sad state

Must have missed the memo, in my neck of the woods capitalism is alive and doing well...

Funny how you say capitalism has been failing the peole over the past few decades. Right about the time we started introducing and implementing "new deals," social programs and entitlements; that you support and want more of. The government growing in size, and authority. The people getting smaller and more subservient.

Its kind of like kindergarten. Capitalism works of we can play nice. But if we can't then we must have ridiculous rules (Socialism).

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So in all reality he's saying that the democrats are right. There's one more equation to this study no solved and that's their Racial Hatred Of Others. No matter how bad the legislation, executive orders, policies, laws, and rules or how much it's going to hurt them, they seek the pleasure of knowing that it'll hurt Huemans.

But what is Capitalism about if not the flow of money. That flow of money is what facilitates prosperity. These people at the top, the millionaires and billionaires have choked off the flow of money. They are anathema to capitalism. The free flow of money is not anathema to Socialism and there is no reason to believe that Socialism is or should be at odds with Capitalism so long as Capitalism doesn't put itself at odds with Socialism. Job losses due to automation should not come at the cost of people's being able to afford the products of automation. That's killing the goose that laid the golden egg. People should have a guaranteed income, not necessarily a guaranteed job. If you need jobs to facilitate the illusion of productivity but don't have jobs to pass around because of automation then you have to redefine what constitutes a job. For instance, pay people to go to school. Who knows? Maybe the world will be able to come up with solutions to the seemingly intractable problems it now faces.

Foxinthesnowsaid "All workers, conservative and liberal, are sick of capitalism's shit" Capitalism is an excellent way to allot resources and fulfill needs but it needs a Socialist underpinning of some kind. Either its use in Denmark or Norway or the Worker`s cooperatives in Spain and Italy. I am sick of Republicans pointing out failed states such as USSR, Cuba and others as good examples. State Capitalism or poor government is a dishonest way of arguing the point.

The socialists also have the religious to fail to fit in with capitalism. Jesus was rather obviously a socialist, and thought little of the money lenders.

But Professor WOLFF, do the enterprises run cooperatively and profitably by members of the Cooperatives in Northern Spain and in Italy and other places not ALSO use the Capitalist system. There is nothing wrong with Capitalism, Sir, as a way of allocating resources, IT IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER.. THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH CAPITALISM. Up to the time before the 70s when the so-called Neoliberals messed around with the system in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us, the system worked quite well. Being so rich with all that spare money enabled them to support legislatures to change the system and the tax regimes. It is now money that counts more than democracy. This perhaps should be the thrust of your lectures. The Neoliberals constant propagandizing, and the wrongful association of social legislation with the system in the Soviet Union (which they called Marxism or Socialism) terrified people. The social legisation at various levels in most of the democratic, developed nations has successfully made enormous changes. That is what terrifies the small wealthy elites that pay to run the system in the USA and who by various undemocratic means seek to preserve the system that enriches them at the expense of many others. Please talk more about that PROFESSOR WOLFF

Marx will hold your Christian and family values????

Christians were the first socialists. Acts chapter 4 verses 34 and 35: "Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold (35), and laid them down at the apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man as he had need." Look at the example of love and compassion Jesus demonstrated in the four gospels. Christians had better wake up, start reading their bibles, and get out of Republican politics. Politicised Christianity, focused on hating groups of people, and playing up to the rich, is absolute heresy.

Wolff, you are wrong. Corporatism is the obstacle you are both up against and that is what is deconstructing and replacing the family, which Tucker Carlson appears to be so concerned about. The problem with socialism is that it goes against human nature. Machiavelli was neither socialist nor capitalist, but understood what motivated man. I suggest reacquainting yourself with The Prince and The Discourses for insights as to how a government actually rules.

Response? More like a paraphrasis. Boring!

What Capitalistic system is Mr Wolff referring too? America? We haven't practiced Capitalism for awhile now.

I respect Richard but he's wrong in this instance. Rational thought will never enter the equation with the evangelical base. Hence the sobriquet 'Evangelical". Magical thinking(?) is their baseline. There is no reasoning with religious fanatics. And now they dominate the supreme court for the forseeable future. Happy new year?

This guy may have the best intentions but the truth is....he's playing int Tucker Carlson field.....the Tucker meister is an intellectual zero who milks attention fm the audience, w/his nonsense....he has no message....only empty diatribe.

Who's afraid of the big bad Wolff? Henry George isn't.

Tucker Carlson gets a lot of flak, but he is often on point and doesn’t fear ruffling the feathers of his own republican colleagues. I can dig that. He’s not given enough credit for his nuance.

You're still confusing Mercantilism with Capitalism. You're not solely responsible for this though. They Keyenesians and Chicago-schoolers are not just complicit in this, but are in fact primarily responsible for setting up the Mercantilist system under the guise of Laissez Faire Capitalism. When the state and its bankers have a monopoly on legal money enforced by men with guns, you don't have a free market by any stretch of the imagination.

This is the first time I’m hearing this man talk and I can tell he is an ideologue. Ridiculous.