The System After Capitalism
VRIC Media Jul 30, 2026
Summary
Richard Wolff credits capitalism as progress over slavery and feudalism, but rejects calling it the final answer in economic organization.
He sees a repeating historical pattern: people in each system eventually organize something better for themselves.
He is very confident today's working class will build a successor to capitalism, just as earlier systems were surpassed.
Richard Wolff's takeaways
- Top takeaway The speaker is confident the working class will figure out how to do better than capitalism, just as people moved past slavery and feudalism before it.
- He concedes capitalism did good things and was better than slavery and feudalism, while stating he is not an admirer of it.