Reply To: Status of World Socialist Party (US)
Richard Wolff is creating and spreading the same distortions and confusions which have been done by the Leninists for several years with the only exception that he is advocating for Robert Owen coops, which will not conduct to socialism either.
In Argentina, many workers took possession of factories and company that were going into bankruptcy and they had to run them as capitalist enterprises, and when they were producing profits the state created laws to take them back, now they are in the hands of private investors, and.
In Bolivia, there are many Communes run by the peasants but they are also run as capitalist enterprises, and they are producing profits for the state apparatus and workers are still slaves and the society is still be run as a capitalist society.
He claims that he is a Marxist, but Marx and Engels never advocated for coops, or to run socialism within capitalism, it must be a post-capitalist society, coops is capitalism within capitalism