{"id":2642,"date":"2016-11-18T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:56","slug":"richard-wolff-election-mass-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/richard-wolff-election-mass-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Wolff: &#8220;Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Richard Wolff: &#8220;Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this video produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyatwork.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy at work<\/a>, Prof. Richard Wolff talks about the elections and why they served to the distract the population from issues that are of profound importance<strong>.<\/strong> The following questions are addressed in this video:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What fundamental topics were not discussed during the election cycle by candidates as well as the mainstream media?<\/li>\n<li>Which sector of our society is responsible for making the decisions about our society? What implications does this process have?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any alternatives available to the current system?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Richard Wolff: &#8220;Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EconoMinute: Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0XaiP5rTKL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To learn more about the roots of the economic crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/interviews\/video-yanis-varoufakis-the-origins-of-the-european-global-economic-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To watch Richard Wolff\u2019s monthy updates on capitalism<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/democracyatwrk\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Notable excerpt from the video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-offset-key=\"6i2a6-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Both major political parties never dare bring up the underlying reality behind all of the failures and problems that beset us. And that reality is this: A tiny number of people make all the basic economic decisions in our society. The largest thousand corporations do two thirds of the business in this country. They are led by tiny groups of majors shareholders and boards of directors that add up to a few thousand people in a population of 325 million. They are in control. They decide what gets produced, how it gets produced, where it gets produced and what is done with the profits that we all help to generate by our labour. And they serve themselves which is why we have inequality, instability, endless war to protect their privileges and so on.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>About Richard Wolff: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen_shot_2012-04-27_at_11.01.03_AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1827 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen_shot_2012-04-27_at_11.01.03_AM-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Wolff\" width=\"98\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><b>Richard D. Wolff<\/b> is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of many books, including <i>Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism<\/i>, and <i>Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate to support our Event with Edward Snowden &amp; Richard Wolff<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2645 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161118_Event_FB_Anku\u0308ndigung_E.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>We are hosting an event on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2017, which will feature leading experts like\u00a0Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, J\u00fcrgen Todenh\u00f6fer, Srecko Horvat, Richard Wolff and Paul Jay, who will talk about various issues (Military Industrial Complex, Political Economy, Mass Media, Activism, etc.) with the underlying aim of providing context as well as solutions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/events\/event-freedom-and-democracy-snowden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For more infos, click here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our plan is to live-stream this event on the internet to a global audience and capture it via video to be made available for free on social media. We also hope to translate all the footage into multiple languages to inform people globally and not just from the English speaking world.<\/p>\n<p>Please assist us with a donation today so that we can not only continue our current operations but also fully realize our plans for the upcoming event. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please support us today by donating via PayPal or Bank <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transfer by clicking here or on the picture below!<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1283 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg\" alt=\"Banner Spende Webseite_E\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-700x233.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E.jpg 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Featured Image: Trump and Hillary Elections<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Englisch:<\/strong> Donald Trump und Hillary Clinton.<br \/>\n<strong>Date:\u00a0<\/strong> 2. M\u00e4rz 2016<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source:<\/strong> This image was forwarded by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Donald_Trump_August_19,_2015_(cropped).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump August 19, 2015 (cropped).jpg<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hillary_Clinton_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author\/Copyright:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Donald_Trump_August_19,_2015_(cropped).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump August 19, 2015 (cropped).jpg: BU Rob13<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hillary_Clinton_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg: Gage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video produced by Democracy at work, Prof. Richard Wolff talks about the elections and why they served to the distract the population from issues that are of profound importance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,886],"tags":[152,35,158,93,2181,400,2182,270,2183,1630,746],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-opinions","tag-actvism","tag-actvism-munich","tag-capitalism","tag-democracy","tag-democracy-at-worka","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-2016","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-president-trump","tag-richard-d-wolff","tag-richard-wolff"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richard Wolff: &quot;Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/opinions\/richard-wolff-election-mass-distraction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Richard Wolff: &quot;Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction&quot; 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