Richard Wolff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3590355 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Wolff |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Wolff |
| FIRMA | WOLFF R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5984-9418 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1915 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Presence of the Digital Word
This article compares users’ experiences with print and digital Bibles, examining how each impacts readers’ encounters with the Word. It uses semiotic phenomenology to study lived experience in participants from various denominations. It finds that print Bibles: provide the means to better trace relationships with others, a reader’s past selves, and God; are alternately valued for their pristine and tattered conditions, as different reflections o…
The ReSearching Identity Podcast Project
Jack Amariglio
David Ruccio
In expressing his appreciation for the work of David Ruccio’s blog, Occasional Links & Commentary, Richard Wolff discusses the common experiences of faculty members working from heterodox economics theories in the U.S. university system following the turn to neoclassical economics. After the marginalization and eventual removal of the notable heterodox economics department at the University of Notre Dame, Ruccio turned to blogging as a way of tra…
On Overdetermination and Althusser
We respond to critical comment directed at our understanding of overdetermination and our argument that Althusser fell into economic determinism despite also offering a way out of it. Our first response reviews what the concept of overdetermination is and what it implies. On that basis, we argue that the first critic's claim of “prediction” is logically impossible. Our second response explains why we still think that a tension arises in Althusser…
Persistance du marxisme traditionnel et pertinence du marxisme surdéterministe
This article assesses the relevance today of two different kinds of Marxism : (1) traditional, “classical” or determinist Marxism and (2) non-traditional or overdeterminist Marxism. These two Marxisms are compared and contrasted to show how and why they yield different notions of socialism and communism, class, the place of economics in Marxism, causation, and epistemology. The authors explain why the overdeterminist version is preferred to the d…
Lotteries as Disguised, Regressive, and Counterproductive Taxes
The Economic Crisis
Like most capitalist crises, today's challenges economists, journalists, and politicians to explain and to overcome it. The post-1930s struggles between neoclassical and Keynesian economics are rejoined. We show that both proved inadequate to preventing crises and served rather to enable and justify (as “solutions” for crises) what were merely oscillations between two forms of capitalism differentiated according to greater or lesser state economi…
In Capitalist Crisis, Rediscovering Marx
Marxian analyses are now resurfacing in public dialogues about economy and society. Thirty years of systematic and often successful anti-Marxism agitation are fading in politics, the media, academi
Economic Crisis from a Socialist Perspective
The crisis in capitalism today is not, or not yet, a crisis of capitalism. Whether it evolves into a crisis of capitalism – when the system itself is in question for significant numbers of people – depends on three factors. The first is the extent of the economic meltdown now underway, and the mass suffering, resentment, and opposition it provokes. The second factor comprises the policies undertaken to contain and reverse the crisis, their effect…
The Class Analysis of Households Extended
We continue our class-analytical work on the household and family life by extending its purview to include the lives of children, the interaction between household and capitalist value flows, and fathers’ household labor contribution. We show how and under what conditions parents’ rearing of children also can involve mothers’ class exploitation; the contradictory value relationship between feudal households and capitalist wages; and the class con…
Marxist epistemology
An unsettled and unsettling dilemma has beset the Marxist theoretical tradition: the problem of the relation between Marxism and economic determinism. The historically predominant tendencies within the tradition have affirmed and elaborated variations on the theme that economic aspects of the social totality determine its non-economic aspects. Words and concepts such as base-superstructure, forces-relations of production, objective-subjective soc…
Power, property, and class
We share with many a central focus upon class as an indispensable concept for analyzing society. Thus the multiplicity of concepts of class inside and outside the Marxist tradition poses problems. Are there some concepts of class that prevail over others within Marxist literature? Are there criteria for preferring theoretically one against another of such concepts? We think that these questions demand answers. Otherwise, class analyses will conti…
New Departures in Marxian Theory
Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations. In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of M…
Class Theory and History
Introduction Part I: Communism 1. A General Class Theory The Classical Tradition Our Basic Terms Utopia and Communism: A Brief Digression A Concrete Communism Communist Class Structures: Centralization versus Decentralization Culture, Politics and Economics of Communism Appendix: How Societies Differ: A Methodological Problem Endnotes 2. The Many Forms of Communism Class and Property Class and Markets Class and Power Classless Communism and Prole…
The point and purpose of Marx's notion of class
This response to comments made on Class and Its Others and Re/Presenting Class explains why class exploitation conceived in Marx's surplus labor terms is an outrage. The point of Marx's class analysis is to expose this outrage and its pernicious effects on our lives. The hope is that the resulting awareness will motivate us to eliminate it from our lives, much like any other socially recognized disease or crime. Working for that elimination is a …
The Categories of Class Analysis and the Soviet Experience
This response to comments on Class Theory and History explains why we focus on and how we use the concepts of class and class struggle to frame new conceptions of communisms and capitalisms, their multiple forms, and their pertinence to the rise and fall of the USSR. We address concerns about essentializing class as well as our specifications of how profit, industrialization, value, and collective surplus appropriation vary across the different f…
A Future For Marxism Or A Retreat From Marxism
Exploitation, Consumption, and the Uniqueness of US Capitalism
Colonialism in Africa and reparations
(2003). Colonialism in Africa and reparations: a class analysis. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 141-150
The Diversity of Class Analyses
Class analyses are both very old and quite new. This essay argues that Marx contributed a new class definition and analysis focused on the production, appropriation, and distribution of surplus labor. Yet, that innovative, new class analysis was lost by being dissolved into either pre-Marxian conceptualizations of class in terms of property and power or later social theories in which class was determined by people's consciousness and self-identif…
Long-Term Global War
Capitalist hegemony and contesting concepts of class
For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There's a Castle Waiting To Be Cleaned
Households and their profound influence upon modern society have been badly and unjustifiably neglected in Marxian social theory. However, that theory and particularly its class analytics can be applied to contemporary households to help remedy that neglect. Feminist theories of gender, of the social construction of what “male” and “female” are supposed to mean, can likewise yield original insights into the dynamics of households today. We propos…
Re/presenting Class
Re/presenting Class is a collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff—two of this volume’s editors—began in the late 1980s with their groundbreaking work Knowledge and Class, contributors aim to correct previous research that has largely failed to place class …
The Economic Crisis
Like most capitalist crises, today's challenges economists, journalists, and politicians to explain and to overcome it. The post-1930s struggles between neoclassical and Keynesian economics are rejoined. We show that both proved inadequate to preventing crises and served rather to enable and justify (as “solutions” for crises) what were merely oscillations between two forms of capitalism differentiated according to greater or lesser state economi…
Division and Difference in the 'Discipline' of Economics
State Capitalism in the USSR? A High-Stakes Debate
(1993). State Capitalism in the USSR? A High-Stakes Debate. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 46-68
Communism
(1988). Communism: Between Class and Classless. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 14-42
Between State and Private Capitalism
(1994). Between State and Private Capitalism: What Was Soviet “Socialism”? Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 9-30
Urbanization in Zurich; Headquarter Economy and City-Belt
The fundamental restructuring of the capitalist world system in the shift from Fordism towards flexible accumulation has produced remarkable changes in the process of urbanization. In this paper the spatial implications for Switzerland are examined. First, the way in which the Swiss economy, based on export-oriented industrial production, developed into a 'headquarter economy' specialized in controlling and organizing multinational production as …
For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There's a Castle Waiting To Be Cleaned
Households and their profound influence upon modern society have been badly and unjustifiably neglected in Marxian social theory. However, that theory and particularly its class analytics can be applied to contemporary households to help remedy that neglect. Feminist theories of gender, of the social construction of what “male” and “female” are supposed to mean, can likewise yield original insights into the dynamics of households today. We propos…
The Diversity of Class Analyses
Class analyses are both very old and quite new. This essay argues that Marx contributed a new class definition and analysis focused on the production, appropriation, and distribution of surplus labor. Yet, that innovative, new class analysis was lost by being dissolved into either pre-Marxian conceptualizations of class in terms of property and power or later social theories in which class was determined by people's consciousness and self-identif…
Marxism and democracy
A Phenomenological Study of In-Church and Televised Worship
This article develops a phenomenology of in-church worship and then compares how people experience worship in-church with worship via television. This research uses a semiotic phenomenological methodology to study in-depth the lived experience of in-church worship. It uses descriptions provided by participants to develop emergent themes and an interpretation of in-church worship. Finally, it uses these themes and interpretation to compare the exp…
Exploitation, Consumption, and the Uniqueness of US Capitalism
Empire and Class Analysis
In Capitalist Crisis, Rediscovering Marx
Marxian analyses are now resurfacing in public dialogues about economy and society. Thirty years of systematic and often successful anti-Marxism agitation are fading in politics, the media, academi
The point and purpose of Marx's notion of class
This response to comments made on Class and Its Others and Re/Presenting Class explains why class exploitation conceived in Marx's surplus labor terms is an outrage. The point of Marx's class analysis is to expose this outrage and its pernicious effects on our lives. The hope is that the resulting awareness will motivate us to eliminate it from our lives, much like any other socially recognized disease or crime. Working for that elimination is a …
The Class Analysis of Households Extended
We continue our class-analytical work on the household and family life by extending its purview to include the lives of children, the interaction between household and capitalist value flows, and fathers’ household labor contribution. We show how and under what conditions parents’ rearing of children also can involve mothers’ class exploitation; the contradictory value relationship between feudal households and capitalist wages; and the class con…
Althusser's Contribution
Class Beyond the Nation-State
Foreign exploitation has been a recurrent theme in radical analyses of centre periphery relations. We suggest a new, class-analytical way to analyse the relations between centre and periphery which involves specifying concepts of class (including the space and time dimensions of class processes) and, especially, foreign exploitation different from those that exist in current radical literature. We also discuss the potential role of this type of c…
The ReSearching Identity Podcast Project
David Ruccio
In expressing his appreciation for the work of David Ruccio’s blog, Occasional Links & Commentary, Richard Wolff discusses the common experiences of faculty members working from heterodox economics theories in the U.S. university system following the turn to neoclassical economics. After the marginalization and eventual removal of the notable heterodox economics department at the University of Notre Dame, Ruccio turned to blogging as a way of tra…
On Overdetermination and Althusser
We respond to critical comment directed at our understanding of overdetermination and our argument that Althusser fell into economic determinism despite also offering a way out of it. Our first response reviews what the concept of overdetermination is and what it implies. On that basis, we argue that the first critic's claim of “prediction” is logically impossible. Our second response explains why we still think that a tension arises in Althusser…
Economic Crisis from a Socialist Perspective
The crisis in capitalism today is not, or not yet, a crisis of capitalism. Whether it evolves into a crisis of capitalism – when the system itself is in question for significant numbers of people – depends on three factors. The first is the extent of the economic meltdown now underway, and the mass suffering, resentment, and opposition it provokes. The second factor comprises the policies undertaken to contain and reverse the crisis, their effect…
Class Theory and History
Introduction Part I: Communism 1. A General Class Theory The Classical Tradition Our Basic Terms Utopia and Communism: A Brief Digression A Concrete Communism Communist Class Structures: Centralization versus Decentralization Culture, Politics and Economics of Communism Appendix: How Societies Differ: A Methodological Problem Endnotes 2. The Many Forms of Communism Class and Property Class and Markets Class and Power Classless Communism and Prole…
Colonialism in Africa and reparations
(2003). Colonialism in Africa and reparations: a class analysis. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 141-150
Corniformes gravés du Sud marocain
Dix gravures de têtes bovines (« corniformes »), la plupart relevant du style de Tazina, s’échelonnent entre le sud de Smara et l’est de Foum Zguid. Très souvent des traits multiples, dont la réalité biologique est examinée, parcourent les cornages. Il pourrait s’agir pour six d’entre elles de têtes de Pelorovis. Dans l’Atlas saharien, autant qu’au Sahara central, les corniformes sont très rares. On y trouve plutôt des figurations de bovinés sauv…
Response to Aronson
Die Jute
Measured Intelligence and Estimates by Nursing Instructors and Nursing Students
Estimates of intelligence and other personality characteristics by experts have been shown to be rather inaccurate. Intelligence test scores were compared with several criteria including estimates of these scores by nursing instructors and the students themselves. None of the subjective estimates showed a high positive correlation with the test scores. The students were more accurate than their instructors
Physical Attributes of Tokens
The physical attributes of six types of tokens commonly used in token economies are discussed. The relative advantages and disadvantages of each are presented, and a token which would have several advantages and few disadvantages is suggested
Underdevelopment in Kenya
Trichotillamania
A Reformulation of Marxian Theory and Historical Analysis
The paper develops a Marxian approach to economic history utilizing some recent, far-reaching reformulations of Marxist theory. On the basis of a new specification of class structures, the approach permits a nondeterminist analysis of the interactions of class and nonclass aspects of social change
Radical Differences Among Radical Theories
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Communism
(1988). Communism: Between Class and Classless. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 14-42
A Theoretical Basis for Counseling the Retired Professional Athlete
Retirement of professional athletes is compared to the dying process since, by retiring, athletes lose their personal identity which is dependent upon their careers. Professional athletes may go through psychological stages similar to those described by Kubler-Ross for dying patients. A three-stage counseling process is proposed of listening/confrontation, cognitive therapy, and vocational guidance to help professional athletes cope with loss of …
For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There's a Castle Waiting To Be Cleaned
Households and their profound influence upon modern society have been badly and unjustifiably neglected in Marxian social theory. However, that theory and particularly its class analytics can be applied to contemporary households to help remedy that neglect. Feminist theories of gender, of the social construction of what “male” and “female” are supposed to mean, can likewise yield original insights into the dynamics of households today. We propos…
China Today and Class Analysis
Class, Patriarchy, and Power
(1990). Class, Patriarchy, and Power: A Reply. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 124-144
Davey and Goliath
Division and Difference in the 'Discipline' of Economics
For Louis Althusser
Althusser's Contribution
The Flying Nun and Post-Vatican II Catholicism
(1991). The Flying Nun and Post-Vatican II Catholicism. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 19, The Catholic Imagination in Popular Film and Television, pp. 72-80
Division and Difference in the 'Discipline' of Economics
The existence and unity of a discipline called economics reside in the eye and mind of the beholder. The perception of economics as unity and disciplinarity, itself, arises in some, but not all, of the different schools of thought that we would loosely categorize as economic. Indeed, as we hope to show, the presumption of unity and disciplinarity-the idea that there is a center or 'core' of propositions, procedures, and conclusions or a shared hi…
Class Beyond the Nation-State
Foreign exploitation has been a recurrent theme in radical analyses of centre periphery relations. We suggest a new, class-analytical way to analyse the relations between centre and periphery which involves specifying concepts of class (including the space and time dimensions of class processes) and, especially, foreign exploitation different from those that exist in current radical literature. We also discuss the potential role of this type of c…
Reply to Richard Peet
Everythingism, or Better Still, Overdetermination
While pleased to be associated with Ellen Meiksins Wood’s position against Alan Carling and ‘Rational Choice’ or ‘Analytical’ Marxism, we believe that Carling’s caricature of Wood’s Marxism and ours as ‘everythingism’ requires a rebuttal. Wood’s own reply to Carling does not confront all that is at stake here
State Capitalism in the USSR? A High-Stakes Debate
(1993). State Capitalism in the USSR? A High-Stakes Debate. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 46-68
Between State and Private Capitalism
(1994). Between State and Private Capitalism: What Was Soviet “Socialism”? Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 9-30
Urbanization in Zurich; Headquarter Economy and City-Belt
The fundamental restructuring of the capitalist world system in the shift from Fordism towards flexible accumulation has produced remarkable changes in the process of urbanization. In this paper the spatial implications for Switzerland are examined. First, the way in which the Swiss economy, based on export-oriented industrial production, developed into a 'headquarter economy' specialized in controlling and organizing multinational production as …
Magritte
(1995). Magritte: A Painter Brushes with Overdetermination. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 27-47
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