What Is Socialism? Part 2, w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The anti-socialism that the U.S. elite have instilled is breaking down, especially among young people. As the Trump administration tears away our democratic rights, it’s becoming ever more clear that we need a new system where our rights can’t be taken away. What is socialism? What is communism? Prof. Richard Wolff & Brian discuss what socialism and communism are, democratizing the workplace and society, and why Elon Musk has enough of society’s resources to decide to develop a new spaceship instead of feeding people.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | What is socialism? What is communism? |
| 0:05.0 | Today we continue our discussion with Professor Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:10.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:14.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:18.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Richard Wolf joins us every week for a regular weekly segment where we talk about the biggest |
| 0:50.6 | stories related to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of |
| 0:54.6 | big business. I'm your host, Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you content several days |
| 1:00.7 | a week. Thanks to the support of our patrons at patreon.com forward slash the socialist program. |
| 1:08.1 | We appreciate all of your support and encourage you if you're not yet to |
| 1:11.8 | become a patron today. Professor Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization, Democracy at Work. |
| 1:18.2 | He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is available at |
| 1:23.8 | Democracy at Work.Info, Professor Wolf, welcome back. |
| 1:28.0 | Thank you very much, Brian. Glad to be here. |
| 1:30.9 | Well, this is an important discussion, Richard. |
| 1:33.8 | We wanted to have a serious conversation. |
| 1:37.4 | What is socialism? What is communism? |
| 1:40.1 | Again, what is capitalism? |
| 1:42.2 | All around the world, there are mass movements of working class people, |
| 1:46.7 | in some cases peasants, mainly young people around the world who have taken the lead over many, |
| 1:52.7 | many generations, people fighting for a better world, a new world, a democratic world. |
| 1:58.6 | And many of them say, well, it's a socialist world. Well, in the United States, |
| 2:02.7 | the unofficial religion of the United States since 1945 has been anti-socialism, anti-communism. |
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