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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts) Tue Apr 28, 2015, 07:08 AM Apr 2015

Richard Wolff, "Taboo Broken: New Critical Writing About Capitalism"

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Richard Wolff, "Taboo Broken: New Critical Writing About Capitalism" (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Apr 2015 OP

The good thing about Wolff is Ichingcarpenter Apr 2015 #1

The last few minutes of this talk put out a "common sense" thought to ponder... MrMickeysMom Apr 2015 #2

Not unravelling fast enough, IMO Demeter Apr 2015 #3

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

1. The good thing about Wolff is

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 08:38 AM

Apr 2015

His speeches could easily pass as common sense if you didn't tell someone he's a Marxist........

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)

2. The last few minutes of this talk put out a "common sense" thought to ponder...

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:21 PM

Apr 2015

… which I paraphrase - The Soviet Union didn't fall apart from forces on the outside… It unraveled (by what could no longer be sustained) from within.

The daily viewpoint I see is a more narrow view of this. But when you travel as he does talking to as many persons as he does and are as well versed in history as he is, you see a much broader unraveling of threads in our crazy ass economic quilt.

Demeter

(85,373 posts)

3. Not unravelling fast enough, IMO

Reply to MrMickeysMom (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 08:00 PM

Apr 2015

But the rate is accelerating as we type...

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