And there is a danger that Wolff’s project, given its narrow economism, may dovetail with current left strategies that downplay race and gender relations in an effort to propel a left-populist agenda. Wolff is also unable to advance an emancipatory vision grounded in the independent movement and self-development of today’s multiracial and multiethnic working class. As we shall see, Wolff focuses intently on the appropriation and distribution of surplus-value, but he largely overlooks the sine qua non of capitalist society: the production of value and surplus-value. Wolff, however, is remarkably unable to advance an alternative to capital. today, contends that “we need to think bigger,” arguing that “socialists need to fight for economic change - not just another version of capitalism.” A specter haunts the Democratic Party: it takes the form of “socialism.” For the first time in a decade of measurement, a recent Gallup poll found that Democrats have a more positive view of “socialism” than they do of “capitalism.” In an opinion piece in the Huffington Post, Richard Wolff bemoans the focus on European-style social democracy that marks this latest resurrection of “socialism.” Wolff, perhaps the most well-known Marxist thinker in the U.S.
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