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What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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The Worker's Colony Is the Way to Do Better Than Capitalism

A worker coop is, for marks, the logical break away from capitalism. Marks points out that all through history, ancient greece, rome, mediaeval europe and in many other parts of the world, human beings have repeatedly tried to experiment with community production. In some societies, this was done for centuries. Native american tribes did that. They produced community whyn. The surplus was produced by people together. And then together they decided how to use it as a collective community resource. So this is a way of thinking that is both critical of capitalism in important ways.

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