Professor Wolff gives a talk where he looks at capitalism from a moral perspective, highlighting the struggle between employers and employees. Wolff suggests that democracy within the workplace should become a priority at this critical time of economical crisis. In a true democracy, all employees would equally share the directorship of their enterprises - this being fundamentally different from private or state capitalism, where employees or workers are treated like commodities.
On Sunday, January 22nd, The Riverside Church hosted "Occupy the Mind: Progressive Moral Agenda for the 21st Century" featuring the "Shared Reflections and Conversations With": Dr. Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary President Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Editor of Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner, Prof. Richard D. Wolff (U Mass), Prof. James Vrettos (John Jay College) and Riverside's Interim Senior Minister, Rev. Stephen H. Phelps. Said Rev. Phelps, "In his 1967 speech "Beyond Vietnam," Martin Luther King Jr. pressed again and again upon his listeners how America must undergo a "true revolution of values." The Occupy movement is exactly about that kind of revolution. It tells us that only a change of heart can steer America onto the road of the future. Occupy the Mind on January 22nd aimed to give everyone space to think and feel after what is needed for a true revolution of values. Occupy the Mind was not an event. It was a learning lab."
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shagen454I really do wish people would start talking about labor movements, communism, socialism or whatever. Just whatever. I'm so sick of the main dividing political issues being abortion, gay rights and shit that matters but are mute points in getting a real system that works for the people... the fucking working class. If the working class were empowered again you know that it'd vote pro-choice and pro gay marriage. Fuck the media owned by billionares. They are in power and they control the message and they want their conservative fantasy vision to be beheld by everyone so they can plunder every last penny under these bible belters... and you I included in that downfall with them. Fuck Democracy Now... SOCIALISM NOW.
quantumushroomWhy don't some enterprising socialists get together and start a company based on Wolff's premises? That would go a long way toward proving his business model works.
Would people shop at a Walmart-type store where every worker was paid a "living wage" and got full medical and other benefits, but the prices were 30% higher than at the actual Wal-mart?
enoch>> ^quantumushroom:
Why don't some enterprising socialists get together and start a company based on Wolff's premises? That would go a long way toward proving his business model works.
Would people shop at a Walmart-type store where every worker was paid a "living wage" and got full medical and other benefits, but the prices were 30% higher than at the actual Wal-mart?
in regards to your first question:
they have my friend.worker owned companies are on the rise and not only have they become highly productive they have also become highly profitable without losing benefits nor living wages.
i am not going to respond to your second point because it is just a vapid regurgitation of corporatist propaganda and ignores the fact that the american corporate charter needs to be revised due to its venal and destructive nature.
i could site many examples that your analogy is retarded but i feel it more prudent to have you do your own leg-work.
dont believe the hype brother but rather look into who is feeding you that hype.
Trancecoachyou can hear Cornel West unmistakable laughter and comments in the audience off screen.
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