Conservatism in Action (or Inaction) in Alberta Posted on 2020-11-21 I want to talk about the ideology that permeates the life of Albertans today. The signs are everywhere and have been present from time immemorial. The reining power today in Alberta is the UCP. The basic tenet of conservative ideology here in Alberta, as well Read more…
The Pandemic’s Lessons About Capitalism Posted on 2020-11-21, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work The coronavirus pandemic is teaching us a lesson about capitalism. We know that there was inadequate preparation for, and inadequate coping with, that pandemic. It wasn’t profitable for private enterprises to prepare adequately for, and contain, this crisis. The US government might Read more…
No “Tradeoff” Between Fighting COVID-19 and the Economy Posted on 2020-11-12, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work I want to talk about a so-called trade-off between dealing with the pandemic on the one hand and sustaining or maintaining the economy on the other. We have been told by a vast array of quote-unquote leaders that there Read more…
Capitalism’s Anxiety About the State Published on 2020-11-01, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work I am going to look into what is the relationship between capitalism and the state, the government. What is the relationship, if you like, between economics and politics, if politics is focused on the state. And I want to answer it, because Read more…
Why do Prices Rise in Capitalism? Posted on 2020-10-22, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work Why, if there’s constant economies of scale, if producing over time and for bigger and bigger demand allows you to get lower costs per unit because you can build or construct or produce at scale at a large scale, why, then Read more…
How We Get Beyond Capitalism Posted on 2020-09-25, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work Many of you have asked me, how transitions happen, how we can understand, imagine, plan for and organize a transition from capitalism to a better system. This has been an issue that has interested people for a long time, as you can Read more…
The Sickness is the System When Capitalism Fails to Save Us From Pandemics or Itself Published 2020-09-17, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself by Prof Wolff is a unique collection of over 50 essays, that argues “returning to normal” no longer responds adequately Read more…
Capitalism’s Definition is NOT Innocent Posted 2020-09-01, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work The program I’ve designed for today, is one I have long wanted to do and it comes out of a lifetime of teaching and writing in which it became clearer and clearer to me that the very definition of the economic system we Read more…
Systemic Racism and Defunding The Police in Canada Posted 2020-08-08 Today I want to talk about not just economics but politics as well. Racism is entirely a social construct. There are no races in the biology of the homo sapience. In-group genetic variations are larger than between-group variations. That is that. Racism is a sort Read more…
Reality and Conservatives Posted on 2020-07-26, Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work Recent news reports have exposed a certain scandal surrounding the Payroll Protection Program that the government rolled out, now that capitalism has crashed here in the United States, at the same time that the failures to prepare for or to contain the coronavirus have Read more…