Economic Update: Understanding Marxism
- June 3, 2019
This special edition of “Economic Update” is devoted to “Understanding Marxism,” the title of a short new book just published by Democracy at Work.
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Today’s program, like the book, explains Marxism’s systemic insights into capitalism now. We discuss Marxism’s basic criticisms of capitalism and also its complex relationship to socialism. Finally, we offer a survey of the last century of Marxism’s huge, diverse influences on modern economics, politics and culture around the world.
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Read an excerpt of Professor Wolff’s book Understanding Marxism here:
Marx and the Democratization of Work
The solution for capitalism’s problems requires transforming the capitalist workplace into democratic institutions where everyone has an equal say on what happens there.
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