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Professor Richard D. Wolff

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Professor of Economics Emeritus University of Massachusetts Founder/Director Democracy At Work #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism Follow: bsky.app/profile/democracyatwork.bs… website: www.RDWolff.com website: www.DemocracyAtWork.info

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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 5h
Wolff Responds: "Diesel: A Typical Capitalist Hustle" Dated October 5, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPQ...
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Wolff Responds: "Diesel: A Typical Capitalist Hustle" Dated October 5, 2026
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 5h
Macron in crisis: cannot pay debts, fund Ukraine, rearm against Russia. The political center collapses.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 5h
#WolffBites: France's interest rates rise, risk recession, infect other Europe. Desperate Macron takes money from education to pay creditors. Students + French people say no. www.axios.com/2026/10/05/f...
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Why France's debt crisis matters
The situation is drawing comparisons to the sovereign debt crises that roiled Europe more than a decade ago.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Farewell my friend
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you @robinsonerhardt.bsky.social for having me
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
French high school students fight back (900 demonstrations against deteriorating French school conditions). France's public protects its interests.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#WolffBites: After Macron's gov't saved money on education to spend more on big business, military goods, and anti-Russian hysteria. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting
About 900 demonstrations, blockades and related incidents under way outside high schools around the country
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not enough punishment? Of Europe's 44 nations only Belarus has executed in the 21st century (1 person). Shame!
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Wolffbites: To cruelty add incompetence. Tennessee's botched its killing of a woman arrested at 19 (after a life of sexual abuse) and jailed until now (she is 50). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...?
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wolff Responds: "Chemical Submission or Sexual Assault" dated September 30, 2026 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
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Wolff Responds: "Chemical Submission or Sexual Assault" dated September 30, 2026
In this week’s Wolff Responds, Professor Richard D.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2026
See Amy Goodman in Berlin on Oct. 1 at a special screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" Details: www.democracynow.org/events/2026/10…
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WolffBites: Richest 0.1% of Americans (330,000) own 15% of US wealth or an average $200 million per household. Extreme US inequality became more extreme over last 10 years. The rich fund Trump. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BT Live w/ Zoe Alexandra & Rania( @raniaakhalek.bsky.social )Khalek "Prof.( @profwolff.bsky.social )Wolff: The US Debt Crisis Is Coming for You" @btnewsroom.bsky.social #breakthroughnews www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgUR...
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Prof. Wolff: The US Debt Crisis Is Coming for You
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Redneck Gone Green: Onward to the World We Deserve democracyatwork.substack.com/p/redneck-go...
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Redneck Gone Green: Onward to the World We Deserve
Shane is joined by the late David Cobb's widow
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Understanding Marxism with @profwolff.bsky.social Part 4 of 4 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding Marxism with Richard Wolff Part 4 of 4
Part four of lecture on Marxism by Professor Richard Wolff
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#WolffBites: As of 56 days before the mid-term election, $11.6 billion has been spent ("donated") to buy political parties, candidates, and votes. That's why politicians serve their donors first and everyone else a distant second. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
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Shifting Senate Map Is Fueling Most Expensive US Election Ever
The political battle for the Senate is spreading to states many analysts doubted would have a central role in the November midterms, prompting both parties to bolster spending in an election that is o...
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#WolffBites: Trump hits Europe with tariffs and demands for tribute (investments in US). Euro leaders cave plus provide bases for thousands of US bombing raids on Iran since February 2026. Slavish Euro leaders serve US masters. www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
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A conversation on NATO’s Future
with Secretary General Mark Rutte and US Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Matthew G. Whitaker, hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs | Des Moines, Iowa
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Register now for2-part Online Courses (The Marxian MBA & Red Threads) with @profwolff.bsky.social and @shahramazhar.bsky.social Learn to Analyze Corporate finance structure and tactics through a Marxian Lens, and the evolution of Marxian tradition around the Globe! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-two-part...
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A Two-Part, Four-Session Online Course from d@w
Learn to Analyze Corporate finance structure and tactics through a Marxian Lens, and the evolution of Marxian tradition around the Globe!
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wolff Responds: "Different Kinds of Socialism" dated September 26, 2026 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
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Wolff Responds: "Different Kinds of Socialism" dated September 26, 2026
In this week’s Wolff Responds, Professor Richard D.
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#WolffBite: Most in US now oppose Trump/MAGA. Yet among richest 5% - the US ruling class - enough support him to let him keep power. In return, he makes the ruling rich still richer, himself included. How long will we tolerate this?
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What kind of a nation executes a woman sexually abused and victimized throughout her childhood? Tennessee plans to do that on Sept 30. In Trump's America. truthout.org/articles/ten...?
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Clever since China's growth far faster than US (true for the last 30 years)
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#WolffBites: Axios practices self-delusion. Its headline says US is world's best growth economy. For proof it compares with Europe, Canada and Japan. It omits China (the most important US competitor). . www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Axios Macro - 1 big thing: America outruns the world
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WolffBites: NY Senator Schumer, going down with voters like most other centrists. The center cannot hold and takes its mascots down with it. Unsolved real problems kicked down the road eventually provoke most voters to chose the Mamdanis over the Cuomos. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/u...
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The Odds: Historic slump facing Senator Schumer | CNN
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing a historic slump, with his net favorability among Democrats hitting a record low in new polling. CNN News Central’s John Berman and Chief Data Analyst Ha...
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wolff Responds: "Inequality Is No Paradox" Dated September 23, 2026 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
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Wolff Responds: "Inequality Is No Paradox" Dated September 23, 2026
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WolffBites: To a UN General Assembly - an institution founded in reaction against the violent horrors of World War 2, - Trump threatened to "annihilate" a fellow UN member nation of 92 million people. No excuse, not even senility.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When the French complained about the high price of bread, Marie Antionette told them to eat cake instead. Trump's Ag Secretary just told Americans angry over high beef prices to eat eggs instead. No wonder Trump chose her. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump official tells Americans worried about beef prices to change their diet
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blamed Democrats for trying to ‘destroy our cattle herds’
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Understanding Marxism with @profwolff.bsky.social Part 3 of 4 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding Marxism with Richard Wolff Part 3 of 4
Part three of lecture on Marxism by Professor Richard Wolff
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#WolffBites: Batista's ghost returns as modern-day gusanos drool over snatching Cuba's "assets." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...?
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Trump and Rubio allies are vying for control of Cuba’s assets if regime falls
Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#WolffBites: Canada's Carney fights Trump to look good, but copies Trump in pro-corporate, anti-labor agenda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJH...
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Carney’s investment summit: “A right-wing corporate agenda wrapped in a maple leaf flag”
YouTube video by The Breach
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#WolffBites: British billionaire recognizes that the British empire is over. Duh! He has not yet figured out that the same applies to the US. Duh! again. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Manchester United Muslim fans group calls on co-owner Jim Ratcliffe to quit
Supporters’ club says billionaire should stand down after ‘completely unacceptable’ comments on the UK and empire
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wolff Responds: "The Global Birth Strike and What to do about it?" dated September 16, 2026 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
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Wolff Responds: "The Global Birth Strike and What to do about it?" dated September 16, 2026
In this week’s Wolff Responds, Professor Richard D.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#WolffBites: Billionaires with sudden moral qualms about AI may just be disguising efforts to secure their monopoly positions.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#WolffBites: Trump made more personal stockmarket trades than total trades made by all members of both US Senate and House. Profiteering from inside knowledge? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Understanding Marxism with @profwolff.bsky.social Part 2 of 4 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding Marxism with Richard Wolff Part 2 of 4
Part two of lecture on Marxism by Professor Richard Wolff
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#WolffBites: Germany's Merz ups German rearmament + help for Ukraine, cuts German public services, demonizes Russia. Last desperate gestures of European decline. www-nachdenkseiten-de.translate.goog?p=156050&_x_...
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Haushalt 2027: Mit Volldampf in die Katastrophe
Während die Industrie und das Bildungssystem erodieren, treibt der Haushaltsentwurf 2027 Rekordschulden, Rüstung und Eskalation mit Russland voran, auf Kosten von Sozialstaat und gesellschaftlichem Zu...
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#WolffBites: AI, like all technical changes before it, can either serve people or else competing profiteers. If the latter, it often disrupts and deprives millions and turns competition into war. Trump and his big AI funders push for AI profits. We better push back. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Axios AM - 1 big thing: It's not too late
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#WolffBites: Victim and Victimizer on 9/11. The US in 2001 and the US in Chile in 1973. Legacies of colonialism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Ch...
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1973 Chilean coup d'état - Wikipedia
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Global Capitalism: Trump’s Revival of Colonialism: More than Just Talk democracyatwork.substack.com/p/global-cap...
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Global Capitalism: Trump’s Revival of Colonialism: More than Just Talk
In this every-other-month presentation, Professor Wolff explains how “old” colonialism ended with World Wars I and II, and how the U.S.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#WolffBites: Using his popular anti-Trumpism, Canada's PM Carney retains his banker's notion of economic "success" as including privatizing Canada's infrastructure and subsidizing its capitalists. breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The Breach
Bay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Put a broad-based Communist party on top of a gov't-run hybrid of half private half public enterprises?
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#WolffBites: EU and US leaders complain bitterly about Chinese economic competition. Why not do what competitive losers usually do: adopt and adapt China's better "model." www.brookings.edu/articles/eur...
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Europe’s China Shock 2.0: Where does it go from here? | Brookings
Brookings experts help make sense of the current moment and potential future trajectory of EU-China trade relations.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wolff Responds: "Key Players on the Global Stage" dated September 9, 2026 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
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Wolff Responds: "Key Players on the Global Stage" dated September 9, 2026
In this week’s Wolff Responds, Professor Richard D.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#WolffBites: Trump's colonialism aims to take Greenland from Europe. Europe insists on keeping its colony. Economic decline drives both toward war. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Trump faces new Greenland setback after latest threats to take control of island
The EU has increased its focus on Greenland since Trump began insisting that the United States should take control of the island for security reasons
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No need for capitalists who merely own tools and machines made by labor. Labor is the majority. Its rule over land and capital defines real democracy. This Labor Day, think about that.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#WolffBites: Land becomes fruitful when labor works it. No need for landowners who take much of tht fruit. Tools, machines, inputs —capital— becomes productive only when labor works them.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#WolffBites: This Labor Day again, megadonors are buying elections. They fund those politicians who (1) help megadonors get their $ billions, and (2) try to keep labor from changing this undemocratic pay-to-play system. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...?
nytimes.com
Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms
The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#WolffBites: Pres says economy "great." But delinquency rate among sub-prime auto loans is now over 5%. After rising the last 4 years it is now higher than at any time during the last 20 years.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#WolffBites: France and UK celebrate display of Bayeux tapestry that shows horror of European wars. Meanwhile, both provoke wars via NATO expansion and their politically convenient Russophobia. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Why the Bayeux tapestry and Franco-British relations are natural bedfellows
Tapestry’s loan to UK is just another chapter in the love-hate relationship that has spanned the centuries since it was created
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