#1153 Richard Wolff: Economic Inequality and Why We Need to Tax the Rich
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Dissenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm joined again by Dr. Richard Wolf, and we're going to talk about economic inequality from a Marxist perspective and how and why we should tax the rich. So Dr. Wolf, welcome back to the show.
It's always a pleasure to have you one. Very glad to be here and I enjoyed my conversations with you very much. Thank you. So uh how do you approach the topic of economic inequality from a Marxist perspective and what drives economic inequality? Okay, uh the Marxist perspective makes this an easy question uh to answer.
Inequality which has haunted human communities for a long time. is a problem that has also always haunted capitalism. Whatever role it played in feudalism, slavery, or ancient economies, it has always been a problem of capitalism. If you are familiar with literature, you will know that most of the greatest literature, Charles Dickens, Emil Zola, Maxime Gorky, Jack London, I could go on, are magnificent studies of, among other things, the inequality produced and reproduced by capitalism.
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