Economist Richard D. Wolff of the New School University in New York and formerly of Yale University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein last week, saying in a video that “if we want to break with the direction the U.S. is going, we must break with the two main parties and the monopoly they have exercised. My support for Jill Stein and the Green Party is part of my commitment to open up American politics — to bring new fresh and genuinely different voices into a place that has become old and stale and irrelevant to the growing concerns for change that are part of America today.”
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I don’t think Wolff has as much of a difference on issues with Stein as you do with Johnson, either.
Exactly!
Thanks for noticing Jill and paulie. I try to keep an eye on IPR even when I don’t have time to comment. cheers!
I think a good example of Wolff’s endorsement of Stein, is like me voting for Johnson in 2012. I ddon’t agree with his economics, but I am willing to support anyone who can make a serious effort at breaking the “Two Party’ monopoly. Although, admittedly, the Green’s neo-Keynesianism is closer to Wolff’s neo-Marxist economics, than Johnson’s economics are to my own. But still. I think the same reasoning for supporting/voting applies. The very real need for breaking the establishment parties stranglehold on politics in the US.
Wolff is clearly a trained professional economist. Whether Bondurant or anyone else thinks the type of economic theory he espouses is total nonsense is a separate question. Johnson was clearly a governor; whether you or someone else thinks he was any good at it is a separate question.
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Not as frequently as at some points in the past, and I do hope he sticks around more.
It’s nice to have you back, Deran! It’s been a while since you’ve commented here.
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Calling a Marxist an “economist” is like calling Jeffrey Dahmer a surgeon.
I think Richard Wolff has made it very clear that this is abt political revolution. Just a couple weeks ago he spent half of his show Economic Update critiquing a “Green New Deal”/New Deal/Keynesianism as compared to the supercession or abolition of capitalism.
Why didn’t he endorse Rand Paul or Donald Trump?
A Marxist “economist” is supporting Stein? Shocker.
Good stuff. There was some disinfo out there that Wolff had endorsed Sanders. But it seems he merely said some nice things about Sanders, and is now putting out this endorsement of Stein to clear things up.