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Approaching Marxism: Reductionism & Breakdown Theory

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

James from Prolekult joins Breht to discuss the nuances and complexities of various forms of reductionism and capitalist-breakdown theory within the Marxist tradition. Their discussion leads them to touch on many other topics and issues that are important for the Marxist left today, including advice for those who are relatively new to Marxism.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

0:08.8

On today's episode I have on James from Prolicult.

0:12.3

The other half of Prolicult is Lexi.

0:15.2

She was not able to make it on the show today but we do have James to talk about reduction

0:20.0

is on.

0:21.2

In the Marxist tradition the various forms that reduction is on can take.

0:25.8

We get into breakdown theory right the idea about the collapse of capital.

0:30.7

It's ostensible inevitability the time scales on which it might happen etc.

0:36.0

And we cover a bunch of Marxist concepts and ideas in the process.

0:40.9

So this is a really wonderful and important conversation that I'm very happy and honored

0:45.9

that James came on to our show to have and I'm excited to show it to you.

0:51.8

And as always if you like what we do here at RevLeft you can join us at patreon.com slash

0:56.3

RevLeft Radio and as I'll make a formal announcement on the public feed soon it's just

1:01.3

we're saying now that there are major changes coming to the RevLeft Patreon and one

1:06.9

of those changes is going to be a tripling of the Patreon output that we do.

1:12.4

So if you are a fan of RevLeft you want to hear more contents I'm going to be able

1:16.8

to do interesting stuff on the Patreon that I can't always do on the public feed.

1:21.4

One of those things is because the public feed involves getting guests and interviews

1:25.9

that sometimes it is scheduled a month or more out and then you have the editing work

1:30.0

that comes with that and so one of the problems is that I'll sometimes miss news headlines

1:35.8

as they arise.

1:37.4

You know protest and I ran certain things that happen in the US government etc.

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