Understanding Communism Pt. 1
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff offers a special episode discussing the unscary origins of the ideas of communism and socialism before the Cold War demonized them. We will discuss how socialism's history evolved into separating socialism from communism and creating multiple, different meanings of what is considered communism today.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.9 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm your host Richard Wolf. |
| 0:33.0 | As usual, I want to remind you that Charlie Fabian awaits your comments, suggestions, criticisms |
| 0:40.0 | that can help us make this program better. You can reach him via email best at Charlie. |
| 0:47.0 | info438 at gmail.com. Once again, Charlie, C-A-R-L-I-E- Charlie dot info 438 at gmail.com. And I also want to remind you and thank you for your interest in the |
| 1:07.6 | books that we publish and again we are now on the third of the series, |
| 1:13.8 | Understanding Marxism, then Understanding Socialism, |
| 1:18.7 | and now just released Understanding Capitalism. You can find out all about that. understanding capitalism |
| 1:23.0 | you can find out all about them and what's |
| 1:26.0 | the motivation behind producing these books |
| 1:29.0 | at our website, |
| 1:31.0 | Democracy at work. Work. |
| 1:32.5 | Info slash Books. |
| 1:36.5 | Okay, today's program is all on one topic |
| 1:41.1 | that you have been writing to me, all of you in my audience here but you want me to |
| 1:46.4 | deal with. You have rightly pointed out that if we did a book on understanding Marxism, which we did, and |
| 1:56.7 | understanding socialism, which we did, and now understanding capitalism, you would like us to do something about communism. |
| 2:08.0 | So here's the first response to your request, a discussion of communism for the program today. |
| 2:17.0 | Okay, the idea of communism is related to a word you're all familiar with. |
| 2:27.0 | Community. It is the same word. |
| 2:31.0 | It comes from the root commune, which has been used to mean things like community, village, association of people, one kind or another. |
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