Dialectic At Work: Crisis of Democracy: Marxism and Dialectical Thought Part 1 

My grandfather was a Jewish Socialist in the early 20th century. He taught me socialism and humanism. He was not well educated but he was very smart. I am still a socialist and until recently I had been disappointed in the recent generations' still too much accepting of the standard socio-economic arguments without questioning anything. Finally now the newest generations are beginning to question the inhumanity of a non-democratized employer - employee relationship that humanity has not yet experimented with.

Professor Wolff, thank you for helping me, even at age 71, to learn more about Marxism; to engage more. Intellect does not have to ossify.

Brilliantly moderated by Shahram

I'm so glad this series exist

The greatest philosopher who changed my vision to the world when I was 18

🥰 Both of you to educate the people.

Ive been telling people about Richard Wolff. Hoping they listen and start watching him. The way he describes everything is much more elegant than i can explain them.

This is why I'm studying philosophy, economics and political science together.

It’s common sense. In order to cut Fed must increase money supply. That spikes inflation. Bond holders then require higher yield on long term bonds which will cause long term rates to go up, while the fed is dropping short term rates. The fed obviously knows economics and knows this. But, their purpose is to save a dying economy at the expense of higher long term rates, until the collapse happens - in other words the rate cuts are designed to “kick the can down the road” at the expense of a worse collapse. The final conclusion can only be that this is a controlled collapse, engineered as the great economic reset with the participants being the fed, well for me tho Bitcoin is the ultimate defence against a tyrannical government.r.....I've been engaged in active trading and managed to grow a nest egg of around 2.3Bitcoin to a decent 24Bitcoin....I'm especially grateful to Linda Wilburn, whose deep expertise and traditional trading acumen have been invaluable in this challenging, ever-evolving financial landscape.

Always great to see Prof. Wolff, I just wish the host would look at the camera, at us the viewers.

Theory has its place but it is not available and understood by most people. Professor Wolff's genius is that he can explain philosophical ideas in common terms. I sometimes disagree with his conclusios but not always.

But I am so sad that the world going to go through a war for changes instead of diplomatic way

The intense focus on reminding us of our ‘partiality’, or involvement with *what* we see, reminds me of Cezanne’s life - work. Carried on almost as far is could go ( with oils & canvas ) by his heirs, the Analytical Cubists. Braque & Gris in particular. I’d love to see Marxists spend some more time on Heisenberg & Bohr,.as well as Mandelbroit’s fractal sets…

Excellant info amd éducation

8k views that's it? This should have a million views, but i guess it's too dangerous.... How can dialectic have so few views.

Great!

This is great❤ greetings from the Netherlands

Thank you Shahram and Wolff!

Preach Shahram Azhar

Thanks!

As an artist, a ballerina, an astronomer, and a Jew, I understand how the dialectical process is essential for experimentation, growth, evolution, all with the desire to improve and repair the ongoing destruction of our planet and our humanity.

An excellent intro! PL. provide the weblink to the next part

👍👍👌 professor RichardWolff ✌️👏👏

I think it was two years ago that I left off trying to get through Das Capital I. Still, I like that Dr. Wolff had once explained socialism as a family. You don't, at least I hope not, expect your children to pay for their dinner. I listen to him because he uses normal language to explain things, This show did a good job of explaining what theory is, but I hope you explain dialectic a little better in the future. Also, why was Dr. Wolff's water bottle blurred out?

"How the glass was ground affects what you see." The physical variability of telescope lenses is a great metaphor for the effect of theory on perception. No knowledge of the material world is theory-neutral or separable from the knower or his tools. This insight gets dismissed as "postmodern" by some people who never bother to answer the claim (let alone read what Marx-and Hegel-wrote that was analogous to it).

Do you think this war between good and bad going to take decades until people wins

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How do we square the circle of marxist industrialisation & agricultural environmentalism thru social inclusion / democracy rathrr than capitalist tacit consent? Environmentalism can't succeed until international debt is cancelled & there is land reform overthows our historical masters 😢

Shahram❤

Excellent discussion on the interplay between democracy, crisis, and Marxist theory! It’s crucial to explore how dialectical thought can offer solutions to the pressing global challenges we face today. The rise of far-right authoritarianism and the climate crisis are indeed urgent issues that require thoughtful analysis and innovative approaches.

For humans living with one another in a community or society, the most important theory is the theory of justice. Some individuals demand freedom of action, subject to almost no constraints. Others (most of us, I believe) accept that there must be a limit to our behavior, to our freedom. The philosopher Mortimer Adler wrote that liberty is freedom constrained by justice. Adler had his own theory of justice (persuasive to me, for one). He wrote that one can conclude a society is just IF all individuals have access to the goods of a decent human existence. Adler's list of such "goods" is long. By his measure, there are few societies existing society that he would describe as just.

29:58 when he talks about the puppy's DOO DOO is my favorite part

Wikipedia - Ricardo Semler - Ricardo Semler (born 1959) is the chief executive officer and majority owner of Semco Partners, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering.

What about part 2 !! :)

If anyone might have some basic suggestions on how to converse with a mainstream audiance about socialism in a way that doesn't trigger their engrained automatic reaction to attack any criticism of capitalism, pls let me know. Thank you all.

My Dear Shahram Azhar, you shouldn't take that long while making A Maverick of a body & soul beside. You could have made him sit among the audience. 8:20 not over yet.

investigate as anthropology the phenomenon of political parties.

Yes the brain acts as a filter of consciousness not matter. Reality is consciousness. If you like this is the basis for dialectical idealism. This does not impede class consciousness it strengthens it. The modern term for this is non-dual understanding which by definition is socialistic.

What was the question again?

Democracy is when those who make decisions on your behalf have the duty to ask for your consent first. Today's republics are actually modern oligarchies where the interest groups of the rich are arbitrated by the people, that is, you can choose from which table of the rich you will receive crumbs. The "fatigue" of democracy occurs when there is a big difference between the interests of the elected and the voters, thus people lose confidence in the way society functions. As a result, poor and desperate citizens will vote with whoever promises them a lifeline, i.e. populists or demagogues. The democratic aspect is a collateral effect in societies where the economy has a strong competitive aspect, that is, the interests of those who hold the economic power in society are divergent. Thus those whealty, and implicitly with political power in society, supervise each other so that none of them have undeserved advantages due to politics. For this reason, countries where mineral resources have an important weight in GDP are not democratic (Russia, Venezuela, etc.), because a small group of people can exploit these resources in their own interest. In poor countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc.) the main exploited resource may even be the state budget, as they have convergent interests in benefiting, in their own interest, from this resource. It is easy to see if it is an oligarchy because in a true democracy laws would not be passed that would not be in the interest of the many. The first modern oligarchy appeared in England at the end of the 17th century. After the bourgeois revolution led by Cromwell succeeded, the interest groups of the rich were unable to agree on how to divide their political power in order not to reach the dictatorship of one. The solution was to appoint a king to be the arbiter. In republics, the people are the arbiter, but let's not confuse the possibility of choosing which group will govern you with democracy, that is, with the possibility of citizens deciding which laws to pass and which not to. The solution is modern direct democracy in which every citizen can vote, whenever he wants, over the head of the parliamentarian who represents him. He can even dismiss him if the majority of his voters consider that he does not correctly represent their interests. It's like when you have to build a house and you choose the site manager and the architect, but they don't have the duty to consult with you. The house will certainly not look the way you want it, but the way they want it, and it is more certain that you will be left with the money given and without the house. It is strange that outside of the political sphere, nowhere, in any economic or sports activity, will you find someone elected to a leadership position and who has failure after failure and is fired only after 4 years. We, the voters, must be consulted about the decisions and if they have negative effects we can dismiss them at any time, let's not wait for the soroco to be fulfilled, because we pay, not them. In any company, the management team comes up with a plan approved by the shareholders. Any change in this plan must be re-approved by the shareholders and it is normal because the shareholders pay.

Just my copy of "Understanding Capitalism" and I'm really looking forward to reading it.

The question is: are you organized?

Start here: 8:29

Oh my goodness , Henry K was one of the greatest fascist , I am still confused which one is more evil Him or Natenyahu

You can call it whatever you like but lawyers ruling government yields the same results.

Yo, whoever is monitoring this should hit up Nick from revolutionary blackout network. Try to set up a show where Wolff came come on nicks show

In physics we have hypotheses - the first question, then theory which is the possible conclusion based on observables. But theory is never fact. Fact really does not exist in physics. What exists is observables. The point if physics is not to prove a theory but to disprove it in order to better understand our universe.

Astronomy is the study of what the telescope did. Or reported it "saw." 😏 Or really, of the observables that it was capable of observering and relating.

Or you see things that are familier to you

I'm sure it confuses people when Richard speaks because his platform is titled Democracy At Work, however, the Constitution for the united States "of" America states plainly that each states is supposed to be a REPUBLICAN form of government. So, what really does he stand for? 🤔 It's certainly not the Constitution! 🚫

Hegel was an amazing philosopher. I loved his works .

Sane me

Crisis? Have you studied the history of man? We live in a time, a blip of time with incredible prosperity and peace.

I am sorry, but what has 'dialectics' -- a 'theory'/'method' that has been refuted by history over and over again -- got to do with this? 'The dialectic' is far too vague and confused to be able make sense of _anything,_ let alone the crisis we are seeing in bourgeois democracy. Historical Materialism, that has had every trace of Hegel excised, _certainly can._ Which is why Marx abandoned this Hegelian aberration by the time he published the Second Edition of 'Capital', as my last reply to you amply demonstrated.

Astronomy is the study of what the telescope did.

Although Marxism have concrete criticism against capitalism but itself Marxism also failed to exist from various parts of planet & contemporary has serious challenges...

These all are the things which happens within capitalism and solved within it

It's more than clear to me that most people HAVEN'T read the Constitution FOR the united States of America. Why? A: because they continue to promote Democracy. that's not in the document people. Wake the hell up!

Should be called Marxian hypotheses. There is no theory to it not even in the colloquial sense. Professor Wolf almost got me years ago. Then I actually took the time to study how people want to live and that it necessarily requires elements of capitalism. Just look at the good professor, if he had to take the same wage as a person that mucks out horse stalls he wouldn't be showing the good word of Marxism he would be desperately engaging in speculation and capitalism just to enable him to live a quarter-way decent life. I don't think he would mind the non-use of deodorant by people when they go out into public spaces though. 😂

This will never happen in real life no sane person is going to make their money to give it all to someone else they don’t know. This is why most Americans don’t like paying taxes people like to keep the fruits of their labor.

This is some commie shit