16 Quotes by Richard D. Wolff

There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will save you a lot of grief if you are aware and expect to discover it about yourself.

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?

Our leaders keep saying phrases like, “Let the market decide.” or “The market will get to the efficient outcome.” Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.

this country has made a Fetish of democracy in the community, but in large part it's a guilty conscience because it's missing from the work life. And what possible excuse is there?

2,000 of the richest have more together than the bottom three and a half billion. That’s a level of inequality that any system should be deeply ashamed of.

Capitalism, Marx said, never went beyond those economic models where a few dominate a majority. Capitalism just replaced the dichotomies of master/slave and lord/serf with a new one. A dominating and exploiting minority was still there, but it had a new name: employers.

To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production.

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.

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.