In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President Emmanuel Macron, he said he understood the French people’s anger. In the UK, Conservative loser Rishi Sunak said the same about the British people’s anger, as Labor leader Starmer now says as the anger explodes.
Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled
Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and departed from the previous half century’s policies favoring “free trade”
A Professor on “Authorities” Who Order Police to Crush Student Protests
The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent pressured university administrators and political leaders to use police and other means to crush peaceful student protests.
Empire Decline and Costly Delusions
10% Discount Coupon Code: POLITICSDONERIGHT By Richard D. Wolff When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried the same, the Soviet Union responded similarly, and the Germans lost. In World War 1 and its post-revolutionary civil war (1914-1922), first Russia and […]
Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government (including representative-electoral) coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other.
Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism, by Richard D. Wolff
10% Discount Coupon Code: POLITICSDONERIGHT Socialism is capitalism’s critical shadow. When lights shift, a shadow may seem to disappear, but sooner or later, with further shifts of light, it comes back. Capitalism’s ideologues have long fantasized that capitalism would finally outwit, outperform, and thereby overcome socialism: make the shadow vanish permanently. Like children, they bemoan […]
G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles, By Richard D. Wolff
10% Discount Coupon Code: POLITICSDONERIGHT Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles. Britain and France were absolute monarchies in late European feudalism fully engaged in power struggles. At the same time, […]
Why Capitalism Is Leaving the U.S., in Search of Profit: By Richard D. Wolff
Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the mid-Atlantic states.
U.S. Leaders Are Split on China Policy
10% Discount Coupon Code: POLITICSDONERIGHT By Richard D. Wolff On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has now become the United States’ chief economic competitor and thus enemy. On the other hand, U.S. policy seeks to secure the many benefits to the United States of […]
It’s Hard for Americans to Engage in China-Bashing Without Tripping on Contradictions
10% Discount Coupon Code: POLITICSDONERIGHT By Richard D. Wolff The contradictions of China-bashing in the United States begin with how often it is flat-out untrue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the “Chinese spy” balloon that President Joe Biden shot down with immense patriotic fanfare in February 2023 did not in fact transmit pictures or anything else […]