Ep. 78: Richard Wolff on Marxism, Trump, and Political and Economic Democracy

“The argument about the absence of democracy is powerful in one way at the workplace. But it is also powerful in another way, in the general community, where it ought to be pushed much, much harder.”This is my conversation with Richard D. Wolff, a longtime economics professor and host of Economic Update, one of the many programs affiliated with Democracy at Work. Richard and I discuss the lack of democracy in the United States, the need for a new constitution, and why the left should be talking more about both. We also discuss Wolff’s political development, Marxist economics, tariff policy, and the Trump administration’s continued killings in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.