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Wolff: Capitalism Becomes Questionable
Znet Article, February, 23 2013
Richard D. Wolff
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The threats and risks of capitalist-driven decline and severe capitalist cycles in western Europe and the US put the system into question in ways not seen for many decades
Wolff: The Political Economy Of Obama's Re-Election
Znet Article, November, 16 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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Many conditions for resurgence of OWS or its reincarnation are in place
Wolff: Five Reasons Why Crisis Persists
Znet Article, August, 16 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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a discussion of five major reasons for the economic crisis's persistence
Wolff: Lost Elections' Strategic Lessons for Workers' Movements Everywhere
Znet Article, June, 19 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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American history teaches that it requires building a robust alliance between labor unions and movements seriously committed to an anti-capitalist agenda for social change
Wolff: Economic Democracy, Not Austerity or Keynesian "Growth"
Znet Article, May, 12 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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Recent defeats of Dutch, Greek and French governing parties show rising opposition to austerity policies
Wolff: What Capitalism Delivers
Znet Article, April, 17 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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The personal, family, and economic costs of the failure to deal with capitalist crises are staggering
Wolff: This is No Bailout for Main Street America
Znet Article, February, 11 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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In reality, a $25 billion mortgage deal with banks is a drop in the ocean – given US homeowners' $700 billion of negative equity
Wolff: Who REALLY Pays Taxes?
Znet Article, February, 01 2012
Richard D. Wolff
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The US federal tax system enabled greater inequality
Wolff: A Marxian Interpretation Of The Economic Crisis
Znet Article, December, 25 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The time has come to acknowledge and debate whether the best solution to capitalist crises might not be the abolition of capitalism itself
Wolff: Occupy the Corporation
Znet Article, December, 24 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The lesson of America's painful struggles with capitalism's instability is this: Occupy the corporations and democratize them
Wolff: Occupy Production
Znet Article, December, 03 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The common solution these activists propose is to change both systems' production arrangements from the ground up
Wolff: Criticism, Violence and Roosting Chickens
Znet Article, November, 18 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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As in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, having failed to win hearts and minds, US government agencies cover their failure by resorting to violence
Wolff: Harvard Students Join the Movement
Znet Article, November, 14 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Whether consciously or not, the 70 Harvard students were protesting the failures of their education as well as of the larger society
Wolff: How the 1% got Richer, while the 99% got Poorer
Znet Article, October, 28 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Deep economic inequality is corrupting politics, culture and American society as a whole
Wolff: Capitalism and Poverty
Znet Article, October, 13 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The real number of US citizens living in poverty -- more reasonably defined -- is much larger than the 46.2 million reported by the Census Bureau
Wolff: Occupy Wall Street Ends Capitalism's Alibi
Znet Article, October, 06 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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If we want a mass and deep-rooted social movement of the left transform the United States, we must welcome the many different streams, needs, desires, goals, energies and enthusiasms
Wolff: The Truth About "Class War" in America
Znet Article, September, 28 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Big business and conservatives have worked to undo the regulations and taxes imposed on them in the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s
Wolff: Austerity Politics Descends on US States
Znet Article, August, 25 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The two governors were forcing a very painful either/or onto the mass of people who elected them
Wolff: Deficits, Debts, and Deepening Crisis
Znet Article, August, 20 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Ever more of this crisis's victims are recognizing the historical roots and systemic contradictions
Wolff: "Living within Our Means" and Standard and Poor's Downgrade
Znet Article, August, 10 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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"Living within our means," as a rule for the US government's budget, is dishonest, shameful, and hypocritical
Wolff: A Double Looting of the State and the Working Class
Znet Article, August, 06 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Neither party dares to return taxes on corporations and the rich to what they were
Wolff: Debt Showdown is "Political Theater" Burdening Society’s Most Vulnerable
Znet Article, July, 29 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The number of times the government has raised the debt ceiling since 1940? Ninety, almost twice a year
Wolff: Debt Showdown is "Political Theater" Burdening Society’s Most Vulnerable
Znet Article, July, 29 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The number of times the government has raised the debt ceiling since 1940? Ninety, almost twice a year
Wolff: From Economic to Social Crisis: Deficits, Debt, and a Little Class History
Znet Article, July, 23 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Throughout its history, capitalism never succeeded in preventing recurring economic cycles or crises.
Wolff: Ongoing Crisis and Liberal Blindness
Znet Article, June, 08 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The double dip of this crisis is upon us
Wolff: The Crisis Enters Year Five
Znet Article, May, 28 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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The largest corporations and richest citizens long ago learned that if you want to sustain an extremely unequal distribution of wealth and income, you need an equally unequal distribution of political power
Wolff: The Threats of Business and the Business of Threats
Znet Article, May, 14 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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In plain English, major corporations are threatening us
Wolff: Standard and Poor on Riskiness of US Debt
Znet Article, April, 22 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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Fast rising US debt is a direct consequence of the current global economic crisis and the US government's decision to borrow the money it used to bail out the major banks, brokerage firms, AIG, GM, and so on.
Wolff: What's left of the American left?
Znet Article, March, 16 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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"In contradiction" best describes the American left today. On the one hand, it is fragmented and dispirited, feeling itself distant from the tumble of daily US politics and acutely disgusted by its many-layered corruptions.
Wolff: Public Sector Squeeze
Znet Article, February, 08 2011
Richard D. Wolff
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A national campaign is now fully launched to make local public sector employees pick up a major share of the costs of economic crisis.
