#1275 So, Marxism. What is that all about?
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🗓️ 25 May 2019
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Air Date: 5/24/2019
Today we take a look at the much-maligned, rarely-understood field of economic and social study known as Marxism
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Contributions of Karl Marx Part 1 - Economic Update - Air Date 5-25-18
Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Ch. 2: Marxism Today - Analysis - Air Date 6-19-16
Robin who was a BBC reporter for 25 years thinks Marx was always in the background discourse of politics, an influence he partly feared and didn't fully understand. He takes a walk through central London in the footsteps of the great revolutionary.
Ch. 3: David Harvey on Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason - Left Out - Air Date 11-5-17
David Harvey is arguably the most influential living geographer, as well as one of the world’s leading Marxist scholars. He is among the most cited intellectuals of all time across the humanities and social sciences.
J. Moufawad-Paul, a Marxist philosopher and author of "Continuity and Rupture", "The Communist Necessity", and "Austerity Apparatus", joins Breht to discuss his most recent essay "This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists: Marxism as Science".
Ch. 5: Erosion of Consumer Choices - David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Air Date 4-24-19
Prof. Harvey discusses Marx's theory of Capital and its relevance today. Consumers have less and less autonomy. Their choices, even how they will spend their leisure time, are increasingly influenced by capitalists.
Ch. 6: The Contributions of Karl Marx Part 2 - Economic Update - Air Date 5-25-18
Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Ch. 8: Thoughts on racism from small-town Texas - Heather from Texas
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Ch. 9: Final comments on individualism and communitarianism in light of how to unleash the most amount of human progress
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:06.9 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:09.7 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:14.4 | learn about the much-maligned, rarely-understood feel of economic and social study, known as |
| 0:21.0 | Marxism. |
| 0:22.0 | Cups today come from Economic Update, Analysis, Left Out, Revolutionary Left Radio, and |
| 0:29.0 | David Harvey's anti-capitalist chronicles. |
| 0:37.8 | Before I start, I have to acknowledge what I'm sure you all know, that words like Marx |
| 0:43.4 | and Marxism, socialism, communism, and all that have been scare words for an awful lot |
| 0:50.1 | of us for many years. |
| 0:53.1 | The Cold War that erupted after 1945, and pretty much the whole time since, has been a time |
| 1:02.0 | when words like that were associated with scary other countries, scary dangers to various |
| 1:10.9 | aspects of the way we live, and so they inspired a mixture of fear and anxiety, and the way |
| 1:20.4 | that worked out for an awful lot of Americans and indeed people elsewhere too, was a decision |
| 1:28.4 | not to pay any attention to the work of Karl Marx, not to read it, not to think about |
| 1:33.6 | it, and unfortunately that meant we didn't learn from it. |
| 1:39.4 | So let me begin by explaining briefly what it is we can learn. |
| 1:44.8 | Karl Marx was a critic of capitalism. |
| 1:48.5 | He didn't like the system and he basically thought that the human race could and should |
| 1:54.3 | do better. |
| 1:56.0 | And so he spent his adult life explaining and analyzing for all the rest of us what it |
| 2:03.5 | was that he found inadequate about capitalism, where exactly he thought we could and should |
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