Greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg the host of the Remnant Podcast

we're doing something a little different this week or this episode I should say our

friends at the great tic-fah podcast which is I don't want to call it a niche

podcast but they're they specialize in Jewish thinkers Jewish intellectuals

intellectual matters that are of particular interest to Jewish thinkers and

Jewish intellectuals and whatnot and they do some really great stuff I

listen to them often and a couple weeks ago they turned the tables on me and

wanted to talk to me about an essay I did for commentary magazine about

Karl Marx and Marxism and anti-Semitism and I was happy to do it and we did

it and then I asked if be okay if we sort of put it out on our feed too as a

standalone Remnant Podcast as well with the Proviso that we would say nice

things about the tic-fah podcast which I'm happy to do because it's a great

podcast and they were pleased to do it and so if you like this conversation that

we had you should really check out the tic-fah podcast they've had a whole bunch

of really great episodes that I've listened to in the past and so the person

who's interviewing me for this is the host of the tic-fah podcast Jonathan

Silver and thanks to the tic-fah folks for letting us do this and thank you for

indulging us with this really gratuitous form of recycling content and so

here we go

Jonathan Goldberg welcome to the tic-fah podcast it's great to be here thanks for

having me I thought we'd discuss your commentary essay and use it as an

occasion to think more broadly about Marx's role in politics today and how

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