Economic Update: Understanding Communism Pt. 1

[EU S14 E36] Understanding Communism Pt. 1 On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff offers a special episode discussing the unscary origins of the ideas of communism and socialism before the Cold War demonized them. We will discuss how socialism’s history evolved into separating socialism from communism and creating multiple, different meanings of what is considered communism today. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sure to sign up on our website: As always, we thank you for your attention, support, and solidarity. The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community: Or you can go to our website: Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can’t get anywhere else. We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and the others we produce possible each week. We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: Professor Wolff’s latest book “Understanding Capitalism“ is available now for purchase: