YouTube has the video Richard Wolff: “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism” | Talks at Google.

Professor Wolff discusses the economic dimensions of our lives, our jobs, our incomes, our debts, those of our children, and those looming down the road in his unique mixture of deep insight and dry humor. He presents current events and draws connections to the past to highlight the machinations of our global economy. He helps us to understand political and corporate policy, organization of labor, the distribution of goods and services, and challenges us to question some of the deepest foundations of our society.

I have absorbed a lot of what Professor Wolff has talked about on the internet over the last few years. In this lecture he manages to answer many of the questions I still had.

He is not telling you what he thinks you should believe. He is telling you about things you ought to think about. You still have to do the thinking.

The Real News Network broadcast the show Economic Update: Rise and Fall of the USSR.

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff goes beyond the simplistic, sterile Cold War debates of demonizers vs celebrants of the USSR as he delivers an in depth analysis of the USSR’s strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures from its revolutionary beginnings in 1917 to its implosion in 1989. The first episode of a special 2-part series where Professor Wolff gives the same in-depth analysis for the People’s Republic of China in the second part.

A very interesting history lesson. I don’t attest the the truth of everything Prof. Wolff said. How could I? I wasn’t there. However, it is all worth considering along with all the other things you think you know, but cannot attest to either. I anxiously await the promised analysis of China. Of course, I have my own opinions, but I don’t think they are too far off what Wolff will say.

Jacobin Magazine has the very interesting article John Dewey’s Experiments in Democratic Socialism.

While the Vermont product became one of the twentieth century’s most well-known philosophers, widely considered the philosopher of American democracy itself, his idiosyncratic thought earned him enemies across the political spectrum. The Right saw him as a Communist, the Communist Party saw him as a philosopher of reaction. As for Dewey, the only “ism” he could attach his name to was “experimentalism.”

I have been using the term “what works ism” to describe my philosophy. Dewey’s term is easier to pronounce, but mine has a different set of nuances than Dewey’s. I actually like both sets of nuances.

There is much more to this article than the little excerpt I chose above. It is interesting to think about his philosophy and what Richard Wolff describes at his web site Democracy At Work.