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Defending Socialism: A Logical Critique of Capitalism

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Breht O'Shea

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

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher Scott Sehon joins Breht to discuss his new book "Socialism: A Logical Introduction". Together they analyze arguments in favor of capitalism, argue against them, and defend socialism as a superior form of socio-economic organization in the process. They discuss different definitions of socialism, social democracy vs. democratic socialism, have a friendly back and forth about the Soviet Union, the role of morality and values in political debate, wealth inequality and its deleterious impact on society, the contradiction within capitalism between free markets and monopoly formation, democracy v. markets, and much more.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

0:08.0

All right on today's episode we have on Scott Cion to discuss his book Socialism a Logical Introduction.

0:16.0

This interview was set up by our mutual friend and friend of the show multiple time

0:21.0

guest Kristen Gotsy and I always you know respect and

0:24.7

trust her and she's like here's my friend you think you guys would have a great time and

0:27.4

we did this was a really fun conversation lots of laughs but also we get into the

0:31.9

logical systematic argumentation for socialism and we take on the common arguments that are advanced by capitalists and liberals of various sorts for the superiority of capitalism and the

0:44.6

inferiority of socialism we take them head on. The book is all about

0:48.2

systematically working through those arguments to reveal their premises, to critique them, to strip them down to their

0:55.2

bare parts and analyze them, and I think it's a really fascinating and helpful

0:59.2

thing to do for those of us interested in moving this world in a socialist direction.

1:04.6

So it's going to be a really, really fun episode.

1:06.6

I'm really excited for it.

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