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Revolutionary Left Radio

Dialectics Deep Dive: The Final Installment

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

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

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

In this final iteration of our long-standing series "Dialectics Deep Dive", Matthew Furlong joins Breht to discuss Althusser's essay "Contradiction and Overdetermination" and in the process they discuss many aspects of dialectical materialism and Marxist philosophy.

Check out Part 1 of this episode here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/dialectics-deep-dive-iix-contradiction-and-overdetermination-pt-1

Check out all our Dialectics Deep Dive episodes here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=dialectics+deep+dive

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode we have the second part of Althousaire's contradiction and over determination with Matthew

0:15.2

Furlow. This is I think the concluding episode of our overall dialectic

0:19.6

deep dive series. Of course we're going to keep working with Matthew. We have a whole thing planned

0:23.8

about Marx's dissertation on ancient philosophy and Bellamy Foster's work around

0:30.4

eco-socialism, etc. So we have a a lot more coming but this is probably the last

0:34.5

installment of the dialectics deep dive series proper so you know if you if this is the

0:39.2

first time you're hearing of it we have three years plus of material in this series. I'm very proud of it,

0:44.0

very happy with it. And this is a great way to bring this series to its culmination.

0:48.0

So I couldn't ask for a better guess than Matthew to do these sorts of episodes

0:51.8

I'm with.

0:53.2

And I also wanted to plug the fact that we have an ongoing

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1:02.2

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1:07.5

And they have a broad, broad range of books from theory and

1:15.0

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1:19.0

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1:25.6

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1:32.1

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