Episode 480: Heated Debate On Capitalism with America’s Most Prominent Marxist Economist

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/valuetainment/support

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0:00.0	30 seconds.
0:02.0	Did you ever think you were making?
0:04.0	I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory.
0:08.0	I know this life meant for me.
0:10.0	Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got bet David? Valutainment, giving values
0:15.8	is contagious. This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to hate us. I'm not.
0:19.3	I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm actually, we're host of a team and today we're sitting down with
0:24.7	Richard Wolff very very prominent professor Marxist professor who believes in
0:29.2	socialism devout socialists love socialists capitalism, and this one got very heated.
0:35.6	Richard, thanks for being a guest on valetainment.
0:38.0	My pleasure, thanks for inviting me.
0:40.0	So Richard, I mean, the short name for Richard is rich.
0:43.5	Why does rich hate rich people?
0:45.5	What is it with you, rich?
0:46.5	I'm trying to figure you out.
0:48.0	Actually, I don't hate rich people.
0:50.0	Some of my best friends are rich people.
0:52.0	If you know, if you go to Harvard in Yale, you're surrounded by... Some of my best friends are rich people.
0:52.5	If you know, if you go to Harvard and Yale,
0:54.3	you're surrounded by rich people,
0:55.8	even if I didn't want to have them as friends.
0:58.3	I would have had little choice in those places.
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