Richard David Wolff

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Richard David Wolff

Richard David Wolff in 2011.
Born
Richard David Wolff

April 1, 1942
Youngstown, Ohio, U.S
Nationality US American
Ideology Revisionism
Mutualism
Dengism

Richard David Wolff (April 1, 1942–) is a US American economist who is known for his revisionist views and nominal espousal of "Marxism". He is far more aligned with anarchism, namely anarcho-mutualism. Wolff advocates the gradual transformation of the capitalist system into socialism through the establishment of worker cooperatives.

Positions

Soviet Union

Wolff believes that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was only socialist during the early 1920s, and became state capitalist with collectivization under Joseph Stalin.[1]

China

Wolff endorses the revisionist ideology of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and considers the modern People's Republic of China to be socialist.[2]

References

  1. Daniel J. Fitzgibbons (October 11 , 2002). USSR strayed from communism, say Economics professors. The Campus Chronicle.
  2. AskProfWolff: "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics" (April 23, 2020). Democracy at Work. YouTube.