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Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff

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Political Economy Contradictions As We Lurch Into 2025 – OpEd

The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport

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Eurasia Review

Richard D. Wolff

A Reformist Program on Immigration (Or What Harris Might Have Said)

The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and...

26.11.2024 10

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Richard D. Wolff

A Reformist Program On Immigration (Or What Harris Might Have Said) – OpEd

The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and...

26.11.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Richard D. Wolff

U.S. and China Why Not a Deal?

An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total...

21.10.2024 10

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Richard D. Wolff

The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,...

09.09.2024 70

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Richard D. Wolff

The Decline Of The US Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All? – OpEd

The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,...

07.09.2024 30

Eurasia Review

Richard D. Wolff

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is A Myth – OpEd

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt

29.08.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Richard D. Wolff

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism is a Myth

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where...

27.08.2024 7

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Richard D. Wolff

Capitalism, Mass Anger, And 2024 Elections – OpEd

In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President

14.08.2024 5

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Richard D. Wolff

Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs: Don’t Be Fooled – OpEd

Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and departed from the...

11.07.2024 8

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Richard D. Wolff

A Professor On ‘Authorities’ Who Order Police To Crush Student Protests – OpEd

The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent...

30.05.2024 20

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Richard D. Wolff

Empire Decline And Costly Delusions – OpEd

When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried the same, the...

07.03.2024 10

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Richard D. Wolff

What Is To Be Done? – OpEd

In 1863, the Russian social critic, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, published a novel entitled “What Is to Be Done?” Its story revolves around a central...

09.01.2024 4

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Richard D. Wolff

Socialism’s Self-Criticism And Real Democracy – OpEd

Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever...

06.12.2023 2

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Richard D. Wolff

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