Sanctions & Dedollarization (+Cornel West chat) w/ Richard Wolff

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we continue our previous conversation with Professor Richard Wolff about the process of dedollarization and specifically focusing on how this process will impact the United States's ability to sanction anyone they see fit as they see fit, and a brief discussion of Cornel West's Presidential bid. We then follow up the conversation with an extended wrap-up conversation!

Richard Wolff is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at UMass-Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School. He is also the host of Economic Update and the founder of Democracy At Work. You can follow him on Twitter @profwolff. The websites to find his work are rdwolff.com and democracyatwork.info

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:22.9	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:37.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:39.0	Henry Huckimacki, joined unfortunately by only one of my usual co-hosts. Professor Ednan Hussein is
0:45.0	unfortunately unable to make it today, but we are joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea,
0:50.9	who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today? I'm doing very well. Great. Before we get into the introducing our guests and the topic at hand, I just want to remind the listeners that if you want to keep up with the show and see what we're putting out, you can follow us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A underscore pod. And you can help support the show and help
1:17.0	us keep doing what we do by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. Again,
1:22.1	Gorilla being spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. So today we have a very special guest, one of our old friends and somebody who were always
1:32.8	very happy to have on the show.
1:34.9	We have Professor Richard Wolp, who of course is a Professor Emeritus of Economics from
1:39.6	UMass Amherst and at the New School.
1:43.0	Hello, Professor.
1:43.8	It's nice to have you on the show again.
1:45.8	Thank you. I'm glad to be here. So the conversation that we're going to be having today is an
1:51.2	extension and continuation of the conversation that we had with you last time. So listeners,
1:56.5	if you haven't listened to the previous episode that we did with Professor Wolf, make sure to go back and do that now before we get into this conversation because this is going to continue on from that point.
2:07.2	What we talked about last time was de-dollarization, the processes of de-dollarization and some impacts of de-dollarization.
2:15.2	But we were only just starting to touch on sanctions as we had to wrap
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