Richard D. Wolff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Cutting #Debate #Rich
If you lived with a roommate as unstable as capitalism...
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Roommate #Unstable #Capitalism
The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Self #Decision #Voting
In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Dark #America #Giving
Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the range of incomes from one worker to another. They would never do what is now a matter of normality: give one person millions, in some cases billions, while others have barely enough to make a living.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Giving #Income #Matter
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Cutting #Successful #Cost
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Moving #Distribution Of Wealth #Way
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Keys #Decision #Arriving
The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.
-- Richard D. Wolff

#Mean #Different #Workplace

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Richard D. Wolff famous quotes

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