Economic Update: Understanding Communism Part Two 

I’m a simple man. I want the workers to own the means of production, and I want the abolition of class.

I grew up in Italy at the time when the Italian communist party (PCI--partito comunista italiano) was the strongest in the west. I was born in Livorno, the city where in 1921 Gramsci split with the socialists to form the PCI. I went to a state school, and still I was never taught all this. So, it's not just the US. 🙌🏽❤

Thank you professor. I feel the class tensions rising in the nervousness of the wealthy and those who believe they are middle class. We’re reaching a point of no return.

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Dr. Wolff, Tks. much

Thanks!

I always enjoy listening to you. Your explanations are so clear and concrete. Bravo! Workers of all countries, unite!

Excellent presentstion and explanation.

Another good one Richard!

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As always I look forward learning something from you again

Thank you.

Thank you

What is Communism?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y0Ud71Unluo.htmlfeature=shared Understanding Communism PART 1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--L9rxsESNGU.htmlfeature=shared

Been checking out Caleb Maupin. He’s doing really good work.

Thanks as always 🙏

thanks for info

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Thank you. However, you failed to address the dictatorship aspect of the USSR and China. That issue is used by western capitalists to condemn socialism and communism via propaganda claiming that dictators are socialist/communist. Please address this huge misconception especially in the ideal goal of communism. Also, why were these countries so terribly totalitarian under Stalin and Mao?

Peaceful attempts until no other option than revolutionary attempts are available. Would this be a just way of approaching this issue or is revolution never ok? Interested in the everyone's opinion.

I think there is more promise in the Nordic than in the Chinese model becoming more socialistic , and in the process the former have democracy, freedom, clean air...

None of what happened in any socialist country. not in Russia, China, Cuba or anywhere else, was communism. It was supposed to become communism but that never actually happened. Only some tribal groups practiced or practice real communism. I don't like to use incorrect language because we Americans are so propagandized that socialism or communism are thought of as dirty words. But socialism would be more acceptable in this country where the real idea of a communist society using that word is a scary to Americans. The two ideas are not interchangeable and one thing we must do is to defuse the reaction to those two ideas. You, Professor Wolff, are good at explaining, and the words you use are important in our time. Your explanation of the split between the socialists and communists still does not make clear that there is no communism and it has not been tried in a big way. I find that a true communal society is a seductive idea. But it's necessary to include the concept of democracy as the glue that holds a communal society together. A synthesis of much of the good parts of all of left thinking is more interesting than dogmatic labeling. But to think that the mostly capitalist economy of China. with all its ills and deviations, is any kind of either socialist or communist society is false. China has capitalism with benefits, similar to what the Northern European "socialist" countries have, except the Chinese system is much more authoritarian. It does not need to be but it is. As long as there are bosses and employees I will never call what exists in China either socialist or communist. That is authoritarian capitalism with a strong dose pf propaganda and nationalism and even economic imperialism. Anything else is misuse of the words Communist and Socialist. Chinese social benefits are more like the benefits I used to get from my capitalist bosses in the 1960s. I got health insurance for myself and my family paid for by the company. As an office worker at Blue Cross, I got life insurance in those days. If I remember correctly, that was paid for by the company too. I got death and dismemberment insurance. My bosses got all the profit from my labor and I got wages. In those days my wages paid for shelter and food. Things have deteriorated since then. Please stop confusing people. If workers do not own the means of production and the profit therefrom, make decisions about their work and are free from excessive rules, regulations and threats from the state or privately-owned bosses you don't have socialism or communism. You have capitalism with benefits only. It is not communist in China it's not really socialist either. The Chinese people work long, hard, don't have autonomy and the state has tremendous power over their lives, is coercive and is threatening especially if anyone protests effectively. Private bosses are becoming a privileged class and have begun speculating without consideration of what's good for the whole people of the country. There isvcorruption. Profit making has taken hold. The state is oppressive and there is now a military industrial complex that are only subordinate to a single authoritarian in the person of Xi Jin Ping. He is what holds the country together with his tame politicians and the police. and if necessary the military. He rules, not represents. I don't like what has happened in China. I'm a working class person. I want more than what China offers under their capitalist system. There are still employers and employees. That's not what I'm hoping for.

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Why is it so hard to turn an economy socialist?

National galaxy work guarantee 😀

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It ain't going to get any better, no matter how much we talk about it, until it collapses horrifically.

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Unbearably antisocial

Women's servitude within marriage is an issue for me as a socialist. Maybe one day the right to freedom of association will matter and we'll have a universal basic income for everyone.

Funny and tragic how some people think the title, Understanding Communism actually means, Embracing Dictatorship.

Im not socialism my case im just poverty country coming to usa make my life better

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Part 3 when?

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thank you!