{"id":29827,"date":"2022-11-28T22:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29827"},"modified":"2022-11-28T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:03:49","slug":"using-marxism-to-understand-the-ukraine-war-richard-wolff-david-harvey-democracy-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/11\/28\/using-marxism-to-understand-the-ukraine-war-richard-wolff-david-harvey-democracy-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Marxism to Understand the Ukraine War &#8211; Richard Wolff &#038; David Harvey Democracy At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NEZP_RzT2Dk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Using Marxism to Understand the Ukraine War &#8211; Richard Wolff &#038; David Harvey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf you read most mainstream media\u2019s explanations of the war in Ukraine, you hear a lot about freedom, decency, and equity. You hear personalized psychological profiles of Mr Putin or Mr Zelensky. But what is missing is an explanation of how the functions and contradictions of capitalism are driving and fueling this conflict in many interconnected ways.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NEZP_RzT2Dk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Whatever you think about Karl Marx&#8217;s contribution to understanding capitalism, this video could be something that you can consider with some objectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Using Marxism to Understand the Ukraine War &#8211; Richard Wolff &#038; David Harvey. If you read most mainstream media\u2019s explanations of the war in Ukraine, you hear a lot about freedom, decency, and equity. You hear personalized psychological profiles of Mr Putin or Mr Zelensky. But what is missing is an [&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-29827","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\/29827","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=29827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29829,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29827\/revisions\/29829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}