Richard D. Wolff

Prof Wolff joins the H3 podcast to talk about US isolationism, the ever-growing defense budget, issues with stock buyback and more.

Prof Wolff speaks with LA Progressive all about Capitalism, joining Dick Price and Sharon Kyle to give an explanation of his theory that capitalists use certain people as a buffer during economic downturns.

Prof Wolff joins the Kim Iversen show to discuss the system on the brink of economic collapse, and the path forward. 

[S13 E13] New

In this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the US banking crisis, plant closing injustice, growing child labor in the US, Biden's budget's tax "proposals," and a new book that shows US homelessness is an economic problem. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Prof. Robert Ovetz... READ MORE

Prof Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss: Can economics measure beauty, or love?

Prof Wolff joins KPFA Evening News to discuss the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and more. 

Prof Wolff joins Sputnik News to talk about the pattern and structure of the world's economy as it appears to be changing, with challenges crashing in on the US from different directions. 

On the Socialist Program, Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff break down what's going on with the collapse of several banks, including how to understand the intentionally complicated economic jargon and why it's vital that we do.

[S13 E12] New

In this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff interviews Prof. Clara Mattei on her new book "Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism"...READ MORE 

Prof Wolff joins acTVism Munich to discuss the economics behind the Cold War between the United States and China, recent socioeconomic developments related to the Ukraine war, and the economic factors behind inflation and working class protests across Europe.

Prof Wolff joins Status Coup News to discuss the Silicon Valley Bank bailout and potential financial contagion affecting the rest of the U.S. banking system.

Prof Wolff joins the Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway to discuss how banks can’t be trusted with the money that makes the world go round. 

Prof Wolff joins RT Spanish to discuss inflation and high interest rates. 

[S13 E11] New

In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff focuses on the struggle over Social Security- real versus false alternatives- and the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment tragedy. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Alexis Colon about the colonial status of Puerto Rico...READ MORE

On Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Prof Wolff joins to discuss the limits of regulations. 

Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the deadly greed of capitalists in the transportation industry, in light of the horrific train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.

[S13 E10] New

In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff  presents updates on dying empires and climate crisis; mass shootings; fast-food mega-corps fund referendum to slow California plan to raise fast food workers wages and working conditions, and why the debt ceiling debate in Congress is a phony GOP-Dem political theater. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Aaron Maté, independent US media critic with special expertise on Russia...READ MORE

Prof Wolff joins the Sisyphus 55 podcast to discuss Marxism. 

John Prysner and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how one year into the war in Ukraine, the U.S. government has committed $100 billion dollars to this bloody proxy conflict that is threatening the whole world with catastrophe. But while huge numbers of people suffer and die, some capitalists are focused on getting their share of this enormous sum of money. Who profits from war?

[S13 E09] New

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of monopoly and oligopoly; past efforts and success in popular control over mega-corporations - in US and abroad; the fight back by mega-corporations to nullify reforms and regulations. Finally, some real solutions...READ MORE

Prof Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss the global labor movement, the paradox of capitalism, Marx and Lincoln, and more. 

Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the decline of numbers of workers post-Covid and the capitalists' solution...the increasing use of child labor. Some states are even rolling back legal protections for children.

Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss why the Super Bowl happens, what else the owners of the Kansas City football team own, and what it shows about U.S. capitalism that the trophy is presented to the billionaire team owner after the team bleeds, sweats, and often receives or worsens injuries.

[S13 E08] New

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on India's extreme inequality and its lesson, employers squeeze employees with "non-compete" job contracts, and how the profit motive distorts the concept of insurance. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr Stephen Bezruchka...READ MORE

Article by Richard D. Wolff

"Capitalism’s defining class struggle has always been that between the employer and employee classes. And the victory of the latter ends that dichotomous organization of workplaces (factories, offices, and stores) that grounds and defines capitalism’s class structures and struggles. Indeed, the victory of the employee class could thus finally close the sequence of all those dichotomous class structures (master/slave and lord/serf)."