Author Archive: Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly show, “Economic Update,” is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to 55 million TV receivers via Free Speech TV. His three recent books with Democracy at Work are The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us From Pandemics or Itself, Understanding Marxism, and Understanding Socialism.

Capitalism vs. Safety, Health: An Old Story Again

Released for Syndication: 05/20/2020

The U.S. president recently ordered meatpacking employees back into workplaces plagued by coronavirus. He did not order the employers to make their slaughterhouses safe....

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Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism

Tags: Economy, Labor
Released for Syndication: 05/08/2020

The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire...

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Capitalism Can’t Be Repaired—Coronavirus Shows Its Huge Weaknesses

Released for Syndication: 04/24/2020

Consider this absurdity: The U.S. government’s policy in the face of the current capitalist crash is to “return the economy to the pre-coronavirus normal.”...

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Capitalism Has Failed in Fighting Coronavirus

Released for Syndication: 04/03/2020

We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again.

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