What Socialism Needs to Succeed

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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[S13 E39] What Socialism Needs to Succeed

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"This week's episode features a discussion of (1) the crisis of today's real left; (2) the need to acknowledge, build upon, but also go well beyond the successful socialisms of the 19th and 20th centuries; (3) the macro focus on the state and the omission of a microfocus on the workplace; and (4) democratizing workplaces as 'what is to be done'.

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0:00.0	Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the
0:15.4	economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children.
0:19.5	I'm your host, Richard Wolf.
0:22.1	I want to remind everyone that a volunteer Charlie has agreed to process any suggestions
0:28.6	you have about topics to cover, segments to prepare, documents to review that can aid
0:35.4	and support this program.
0:37.6	In effect, we're inviting you to be partners.
0:40.9	Send anything that you have for us to look at to Charlie.info438 at gmail.com.
0:51.7	Today's program is going to be devoted to politics.
0:56.4	In particular, politics of the left.
1:00.2	It's not the caricature of the left that right wingers like to propose, in which all the
1:06.6	distinctions among socialists, Marxists, independents, left wing liberals are all smashed together
1:17.0	and made into an evil awful.
1:20.0	That's not serious, that's the kind of hatchet job that passes for politics
1:26.3	in some areas, but we're not going to bother with it.
1:29.7	And we're also not going to deal with the dismissal of the left that you get from leaders
1:34.1	of the Democratic Party, particularly its centrist wing, like the Biden folks or the Clinton
1:41.0	folks, who deal with the left as if it were an irritation, except of course during campaigns
1:48.7	when progressive ideas are all the rage until the election is over.
1:55.0	No, I'm talking about the real left.
1:58.8	That is something I need to define.
2:02.2	It's millions of people in the United States, and for that matter abroad, who have come
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