Dr. Wolff’s Socialist Thread Room.


Wolff is even seeing it too. Biden, and they system are going to have to solve the conditions or they’ll be back.

You just can’t keep arresting them! They’ll come back stronger !! More determined ready to go as martyrs.

As he says the Neo liberals have let it get this way.
 

Please watch. 1 hour & 12 mins.

Pay attention while your watching at the 7:40 mark onward about what James Madison does and believe in, about the Senate, property owners, wealthy etc. Pay attention to that carefully, please. "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority of the democratic free, of the poor. Therefore we must set up our system to prevent the mass of the poor, form having democracy from taking our wealth and position away form us etc.

And, pay attention to the 9:05 mark onward concerning Aristotle's version of this problem; Aristotle had a different solution which was more democratic, which was to attack the "Inequality" to alleviate the situation vs. James Madison's taking away and limiting democracy from the people.

26:55 Shift The Burden and the term Precariat. The unfair tax structure.

33:00 Social Security

35:00 GI Bill, tuition students, Big debts

37:00 The regulators The business being regulated takes over the regulators

40:00 Reagan starts massive bank bailouts, and de-regulations...

Each time the tax payer is called upon to bail out the ones who created a crisis; however in a capitalist economy you wouldn't do that normally. That would wipe out the capitalist investors who made bad investments and risky moves etc. But, the Rich and Powerful don't want a Capitalist system! They want a nanny state that they can run to and get bailed out as soon as their in trouble, when they foul up!

The 14th Amendment. Corporations are people ? Money is free speech ?

Corporations buying elections, political parties.

48:00 -- Keep the rabble in line... THE UNIONS.... ( go to hell Taft-Hartley, and you too Reagan )

55:00 -- Manufacturing Consent. Keep them in their place. Consumerism, Control everyone, shopping clothes, make you think you need things etc. make them vote a certain way, vote against their own interest, Obama didn't really promise anything! It was all about selling products. Chomsky says, the businesses said he sold the best of any products ever of any president.
 
Thank you for this video. I have't seen it all but what's captured my attention is that the Senate was appointed at first. I had not realized this. Much like the House of Lords in England then with appointed peerage.
I'm a bit excited as a family member had consistently trashed "the house of lord as a non-elected group of appointed wealthy, nothing like America would ever do." :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Yea, Chomsky has always tried to keep things at the intellectual level.

I watched it all.

He slams the Neoliberals when he talks about the bank bailouts, with Ruebin and Summers etc.

I like the part about how you could afford a new car, a house, vacation, sending the kids to college, and other things etc.
Now, you cannot do that anymore, at all; the whole system has simply collapsed! It doesn’t work anymore!

Union membership was about 40% approximately, but now private sector unions are about only 7%.

So, Joe has to deliver big to the unions, for there to be any hope.

Yea, I’ve watched Noam before.
 
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