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What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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We Don't Need a Master, No Master, and No Employer

The capitalist owns and operates a chair factory, makes chairs. He takes part of the surplus he gets from his workers and gives it to this fellow in the jeep. Mark says, look at that. That shows us that we haven't broken from the pattern of slavery and feudalism. We still have a mass of people doing the work, producing that surplus, but giving it to a tiny ority.

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