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Richard Wolff on the Left’s New Openings in 2026 82%
By Richard D. Wolff0%
7/16/2026, 10:09:57 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias, Negativity Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 71.9% saturation with 192 hits. Analysis detected 1,049 faulty-reasoning hits from 267 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.7% and a BS Rank of 82% (3,999 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 81.70% of the article peer group.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, as Russia’s feudalism ended and its empire tottered, the great Russian novelist, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, reflected the deepening concerns and anxieties of his time in his 1863 novel, What Is to Be Done?
It offered a socialist answer.
Forty years later, a crude and rapacious capitalism had rushed in to replace Russian feudalism.
The ex-serfs then began to understand that they had not escaped from exploitation as they had hoped and dreamed.
Rather, they suffered a new form of it as industrial workers.
Vladimir Lenin reflected the concerns and anxieties of that form in his pamphlet, with its deliberately repeated title, “What Is to Be Done?”
It too offered a socialist answer.
Today a declining US empire upsets and undermines US capitalism as it rattles and shakes the world economy.
International laws are increasingly ignored, and crude authoritarianisms increasingly haunt domestic politics.
Many around the world are asking that old question yet again — as well they should.
Here is yet another socialist answer.
The Collapse of the Old Empires and the Rise of the American Empire
Emerging from the fogs of politics and war, each continuing the other by different means, a historic global reset is now underway.
On the surface, the world today is caught up directly or indirectly in the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war, and their effects.
Below the surface, as the reset’s contours become visible, they can help us to better grasp our own history and thereby better shape where we go from here.
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