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… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce.… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
“All words that are important in history have been picked up and used by all kind of characters, for all kinds of reasons.” — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth. — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help. — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
“If Americans actually understood the structure of our taxes, they would not only become angry, they might also find our economic and political systems… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
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… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
“the market has been anthropomorphized. It is not created by us but creates us. That's what the market distates. If Jesus can talk to… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
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… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
