Richard Wolff: "Election as a Weapon of Mass Distraction"
Richard Wolff:
"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."
