The World According to Jesse: Road to Economic Recovery
In this segment on the World According to Jesse, Professor Richard Wolff talks about inflation and the road to economic recovery.
Read moreBoom Bust: Oil, Bitcoin Rally on Optimism & Kamala Harris Visits Vietnam
Boom Bust covers Southeast Asia, where U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is touring the region. Professor Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss her latest stop in Vietnam and analyzes the state of vaccine diplomacy around the world.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: Hunger Stalks America as Capitalists Cash in: Food, Farming and Capitalism (Part 3)
Prof. Wolff joins Brian Becker on The Socialist Program to continue a series on agriculture under capitalism with a focus on the hunger crisis in the United States. How is it possible that in the richest country ever tens of millions are deprived of something as basic as food?
Read moreTRANSFORM PODCAST: Transforming Capitalism, Part 1
Prof Wolff has a discussion with Marianne Williamson on TRANSFORM PODCAST for part 1 of Transforming Capitalism.
Read moreEconomic Update: Liberating Technology from Capitalism
[S11 E31] New
Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
Article by Richard D. Wolff
"Every other economic system in human history was born, evolved, and ceased to exist at some point. The most reasonable expectation is that capitalism, having been born and evolved, will also cease to exist one day."
Read moreThom Hartmann: What's the Debt & Deficit & Is it Concerning?
Republicans and "conservative" democrats are freaking out about the national debt, particularly WRT the $3.5 TN infrastructure bill. What's the deficit, the debt, and why should we care or not care? What do you think of the MMT theory that we can just issue $1 TN platinum coins to reduce the debt? Prof Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann program.
Read moreBoom Bust: US Freezes Afghan Funds
Just days after the Taliban seized full control of Afghanistan, the United States has frozen billions of dollars in Afghan wealth. Professor Richard Wolff joins Boom Bust to lend his analysis of the government's measures to counter the new Afghan leadership.
Read moreSocialist Program: Food, Farming & Capitalism Pt 2
Prof. Wolff joins Brian Becker on the Socialist Program to continue a multi-part series on agriculture under capitalism. This week, they focus on the evolution of the system of factory farming and the effect it has on workers and nature.
Read moreThe Hill: Biden SNAP Program PROVIDES $1/Day To Nation’s POOREST, Child Tax Credit NECESSARY
Prof Wolff joins Rising on the Hill TV to discuss the Biden administration's permanent increase in the levels of food stamps available to families in need.
Read moreact.tv: How The Fed Could Stop The Climate Catastrophe
Environmental Activists are working to get the Federal Reserve to stop funding the climate change-related death of us all! And just in time, as the new IPCC report released this week suggests things are not looking good. Prof Wolff joins Julianna Forlano on act.tv.
Read moreEconomic Update: Chile's Feminist Social Revolution
[S11 E30] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the election of a socialist, African-American woman as new mayor in Buffalo, NY; US unemployment insurance's meager support for jobless; Teamsters target Amazon workers...READ MORE
George Gammon: Marxism Deep Dive, Socialism vs. Capitalism, A Solution To Corporatism
Prof Wolff joins George Gammon to discuss Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, and a Solution To Corporatism.
Read moreMarianne Williamson: Capitalism Run Amok
Prof Wolff joins Marianne Williamson on her podcast in analyzing the deficiencies of modern capitalism, articulating the benefits of a socialist system and the road to a more equitable society.
Read moreZero Hour: For New Infrastructure, a New System
Professor Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss new infrastructure.
Read moreRolling Stone: Julian Casablancas Breaks Down Capitalism and Marxism With Economist Richard Wolff on ‘S.O.S.’
Prof. Wolff sits down virtually with Julian Casablancas in the Strokes singer’s Rolling Stone interview series S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess. Casablancas and Wolff talk about Marxism, capitalism, wealth inequality, the current state of America, and more.
Read moreBreaking Points: The Working Class is WAKING UP
Professor Wolff joins Krystal Ball and guest host Kyle Kulinski on Breaking Points to break down the Biden economy and the awakening of the working class.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: Food, Farming & Capitalism
Prof. Wolff joins Brian Becker on The Socialist Program to begin a multi-part series on agriculture under capitalism. Under this system, the most basic necessity of life -- food -- is turned into a source of profit dominated by a smaller and smaller number of agribusiness corporations. Environmental destruction and enormous waste are built into the capitalist agriculture system while hundreds of millions around the globe still go hungry.
Read moreProf Wolff on The West Wing Thing
Professor Richard D. Wolff joins The West Wing Thing for the Season 5 wrap up to discuss Talking Points, the West Wing's NAFTA episode.
Read moreEconomic Update: A US Left Rises to Remake the World
[S11 E29] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on "The Friends" reunion and what it teaches, how China outmaneuvers US tariffs, etc., and how Yellow Vests plus French unions defeated...READ MORE
Boom Bust: NLRB finds Amazon labor law violations
Could Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama facility soon see a re-vote on its labor union drive? Professor Richard Wolff joins Boom Bust to lend his analysis of the process and the potential for a mulligan.
Read moreProf. Wolff on Tavis Smiley
Prof. Wolff joins Tavis Smiley on KBLA to lay out the 200-plus-year history of capitalism and explain how we got to this point.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: Capitalist Media Monopolies Are the Enemy of Democracy
On The Socialist Program with Brain Becker, Prof Wolff continues a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism, focusing today on the corporate-owned media. The majority of the media in the United States is owned by six giant corporations -- What does this tell us about the so-called “free press”?
Read moreThe Real News Network: Capitalism is holding "all of us hostage"
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the nature of work and the lives of working people in drastic ways. Millions of workers lost their jobs over the past year and a half, millions more saw their in-person jobs reoriented to remote work, possibly for good. While there is a lot of discussion right now about what the future of work will look like after COVID-19, it's important to understand how the pandemic accelerated existing trends in the economy that have been remapping the terrain of work and the makeup of the working class over the past half century. In this special video edition of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with Prof. Wolff about what these trends tell us about the global evolution of capitalism and how we can forge a diverse working-class political coalition in the 21st century that is capable of building a political and economic system that works for all of us.
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