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Richard Wolff: "The rising wages? It's over. .... The rising standard of living? It's over." (Original Post) marmar Jun 2014 OP
Yes - Richard Wolff cantbeserious Jun 2014 #1
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2014 #2
Capitalism IS obsolete. Marxism is not....... socialist_n_TN Jun 2014 #3
Doesn't sound like an answer to me. The rich own the machines and that will guarantee that there jwirr Jun 2014 #4
Ok so the rising standard of living is over. What now? mackerel Jun 2014 #5
"Workers of the WORLD Unite!" Is still a damned good idea. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #6
Du rec xchrom Jun 2014 #7

Response to marmar (Original post)

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
3. Capitalism IS obsolete. Marxism is not.......
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 12:44 PM
Jun 2014

Unless you're talking about that degenerated system that was Stalinism. REAL Marxism, classic Marxism, as Trotsky and Marx himself advocated, has not been tried since the early years of the Bolshevik revolution.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
4. Doesn't sound like an answer to me. The rich own the machines and that will guarantee that there
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 12:50 PM
Jun 2014

will be no end to economic shortages.

mackerel

(4,412 posts)
5. Ok so the rising standard of living is over. What now?
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 03:33 PM
Jun 2014

It's not a bad thing to return back to the way we once were.

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