{"id":27804,"date":"2019-07-23T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27804"},"modified":"2019-07-23T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:29:54","slug":"socialism-and-worker-co-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/07\/23\/socialism-and-worker-co-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Update: Socialism &#038; Worker Co-Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network <\/em>published the Richard Wolff video <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/third_party_content\/economic-update-socialism-worker-co-ops\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Update: Socialism &#038; Worker Co-Ops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives. The powerful appeal of worker co-ops as grounding a new 21st century socialism is presented.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fOqqRD1t47Y\" style=\"border: ridge thick #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Richard Wolff has his own sense of humor sometimes, but he doesn&#8217;t use it much during these talks. He is not pretending to be the cowboy economist. Still, you can&#8217;t learn everything from a comedian. The more from him that I hear, the more I understand (also true of the cowboy economist).<\/p>\n<p>The talk of how a new political party could grow is a new subject for me to hear from Richard Wolff. It is very intriguing. I hope I will hear more and more of this in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network published the Richard Wolff video Economic Update: Socialism &#038; Worker Co-Ops. 20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27807,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27804\/revisions\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}