Episode 26, Karl Marx's Political Philosophy (Part II)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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🗓️ 24 September 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Website: www.thepanpsycast.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast Karl Marx is one of the most influential figures in human history. The Prussian-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, sociologist, and revolutionary socialist, produced some of the most controversial and influential works in the past two-hundred years. A champion of human rights for many and a dangerous radical for many others; Karl Marx, the communist, is considered one of the principal architects of modern social science. Regardless of your own points of view, it is hard to deny that Marx's critique of capitalism is relevant today. In January 2017, Oxfam published An Economy for the 99%, which found that the richest 8 men in the world are worth more than the poorest 3.6 billion. In 1848, alongside Friedrich Engels, Marx produced the Manifesto of the Communist Party. In the concluding remarks, Marx writes, "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"

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0:00.0	Working Men of the Pan-Sycast Unites Part 2 Internal Contradictions and Revolution
0:20.6	Hegel is massively influential to the philosophy of Karl Marx. Part 2. Internal Contradictions and Revolution.
0:25.2	Hegel is massively influential to the philosophy of Karl Marx.
0:28.0	Who was Hegel and what are his ideas?
0:31.5	Well, we're not going to spend as long going into the life of Hegel,
0:33.6	and I'm not going to talk about the life of Hegel at all,
0:35.6	other than the fact we'll give you his date.
0:39.7	So from 1770 to 1831, And we've already mentioned that he had a huge impact on the philosophy of Western Europe from his point onwards.
0:46.3	And unlike Marx, perhaps, he was known at his time. And he was considered to be a great
0:52.2	mind of his time and that that then flowed onwards.
0:56.0	So he wasn't in the position where Marx was, where after he died, people were thinking, who was this guy?
1:02.0	And then we discovered him later. No, no, he was the prominent philosopher.
1:06.0	His concepts have undoubtedly influenced Marx, but what's interesting is that Marx completely disregards most of what he gets at. Marks takes the core idea of what is known as the dialectic, and he turns it into a materialistic point of view rather than an idealist point of view. This bit here, I'm going to try and
1:30.1	make this as simple as possible. Hegel is known for being incredibly difficult, and I won't even
1:36.3	pretend to know everything about Hegel, but I've tried to do as much research on this to give it
1:41.6	justice. What does Hegel famously sound on his deathbed?
1:50.3	Well, I'm not sure if this was directly on his deathbed, but he implied that even his most adamant supporter had not understood him fully at all.
1:56.0	So I think we joked about that when we talked about Kerkagard as well, but a very hard man
2:00.1	to understand.
2:01.4	And that even when he was in the, apparently even when he was in the company of people, his ideas would be difficult to follow.
2:08.6	So it's not like it was just his written word.
2:10.9	He was a very intense analytic person.
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