The Case For Revolution
Richard Wolff on The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow
On The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Richard Wolff discusses the tension between reform and revolution, emphasizing the limits of surface-level change without deeper structural shifts. The conversation explores how language and historical narratives shape political discourse, using examples like the New Deal and reactions to Trump to highlight the fragility of reforms. It also considers the role of liberalism in maintaining the status quo and the need for a broader, more inclusive left.
"Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud."
------ As quoted from Mussolini's review of Keynes' new book in Universal Aspects of Fascism, James Strachey Barnes, Williams and Norgate, London: UK, (1928) pp. 113-114
Beware of the so-called liberal for they are rear-guarders and will move from class to class depending on their own individualism and needs and wants.
“It is a peculiarity of the bourgeoisie, distinguishing it from all other ruling classes, that there is a turning point in its development after which every increase in its means of power, that is in the first place every increase in its capital, only tends to make it more and more incapable of ruling politically.”
--- Fredrich Engels
“A foundational premise of historical materialism is that the class who own the means of material production also “has control at the time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it”
---- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology: Part One, trans. C.J. Arthur (New York: International Publishers, 1932/1970), 64.
Menticide is what is happening. In Latin America we have no 'reform' party: only left versus right.
Lot to learn from Latin America.
The lines here are drawn as they are being drawn in the US.