*UNLOCKED* TMBS - 66 - Full Postgame w/ Richard Wolff
Never heard of this show before, thanks for the link.
Okay, I think Michael Brooks is actually pretty ML. He had a call-in about Mao a few weeks ago, where he acknowledged that most principles of Mao are correct. Now, with Wollf, he tried to allude that Stalin did nothing wrong (which was brushed away by Wolff who rather wanted to talk about himself).
He doesn't come out as this, for optics, I assume (and because he is working for Sam Seder). But I get more and more suspicious that he is. Because he is exactly acting like I act when I try to talk about ML talking points to friends and family who are all liberals/anti-communist.
The more I listen to Wolff the more I come to the conclusion that he is full of shit. He doesn't seem to know much about Marxist theory besides Wikipedia quotes, he sounds exactly like I sounded in university when I had to BS my way through an oral exam.
To give an example, he thinks that dialectial materialism was an invention of Marx, when in fact, it was an invention of Josef Dietzgen, which was later synthezised by Plekhanov and Lenin, and then stratified by Stalin. He does not have any insight in Marx's theory about the falling rate of profit. He dodges actual interesting questions and insights and gives platitudes instead. None of this stuff inspires me to think of him more as the "muh co-op man" who wants socialized capitalism.
Not sure which part of the interview you got that from but I didn't hear it.
Dude, give him a break. How many people have you reached lately ? I doubt many, if any at all. He has to explain these complicated things in ways people will understand, so that's probably why it seems to you like "Wikipedia quotes." Anything that may appear simplistic is for the purposes of winning people to Marx, yet of course there's always a basement dweller who gets high and mighty and begins projecting his shit online like diarrhea
Wow
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Reminder that Sam Seder and everyone in his bubble is trying to rehabilitate the Democratic Party in the eyes of left-sliding Americans. Their objective is getting you to vote democrat and anything they say is in an effort to make you see the Dems in a better light, usually by wholesale phony association with their show of openness to relatively radical reformism.
It goes something like this.
Stop with the "proles are so dumb you need to talk to them like children" meme. It is not hard to understand the basic insights of Marx about the commodity form. Marx wasn't even concerned about exploitation that much yet Wolff builds his entire shtick arround that which makes him a literal revisionist. Also, even if he teaches at the heart of the empire, and dumbs down stuff for people, which is all fine, he was talking to Michael Brooks who (and his audience) is Marxist-leaning to say the least, so he wouldn't need to have to dumb down stuff like that.
I don't care about degrees is bourgeois economics.