A corporation has a tiny minority of people at the top, executives and the board of directors, who make all the decisions. Workers are forced to live… - Richard D. Wolff

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A corporation has a tiny minority of people at the top, executives and the board of directors, who make all the decisions. Workers are forced to live with their decisions, yet have no voice in such decisions. I say it is time to bring democracy to the workplace.

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About Richard D. Wolff

Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American , known for his work on and . He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the , and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, , , University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City. Not be confused with Richard Wolffe

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Alternative Names: Richard David Wolff Richard Wolff Economic Update democracyatwork.info Democracy at Work rdwolff.com
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A based economy—where workers democratically run enterprises, deciding what, how and where to produce, and what to do with any profits—could, and likely would, put social needs and goals (like proper preparation for pandemics) ahead of profits. Workers are the majority in all capitalist societies; their interests are those of the majority. Employers are always a small minority; theirs are the "special interests" of that minority. Capitalism gives that minority the position, profits and power to determine how the society as a whole lives or dies. That's why all employees now wonder and worry about how long our jobs, incomes, homes and bank accounts will last—if we still have them. A minority (employers) decides all those questions and excludes the majority (employees) from making those decisions, even though that majority must live with their results. Of course, the top priority now is to put public health and safety first. To that end, employees across the country are now thinking about refusing to obey orders to work in unsafe job conditions. U.S. capitalism has thus placed a general strike on today's social agenda. A close second priority is to learn from capitalism's failure in the face of the pandemic. We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. Thus system change is now also moving onto today's social agenda.

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