No matter how bad the neighborhood anywhere in Canada, there's a gigantic no frills right in the

middle of it, right? And why? Because it's, it's, there's no reason you can't put a discounted

grocery store in even the worst neighborhood, uh, in Toronto or Vancouver because people don't

have guns, right? And that's just like game-changing on so many aspects of it, right?

So you see this huge academic debate

about food security and food deserts,

but the policy space that they have available, again,

is so constrained by just the sheer violence

of the crime that does occur in American society.

And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk.

Well, today I want to invite you to geek out with me a little bit.

As some of you know, I have a PhD in political science, and most specifically in political

theory. I don't talk about political theory all that much on this podcast, but today I had a great

political philosopher on the podcast. Joseph Heath is a professor of philosophy at the University of

Toronto and the author of a really interesting

popular substack called Indu course. And one of the things he's written about both in his academic

work and on substack is the grand debate about equality in the 1920s century. Why it is that the inability of 19th century

liberalism to address deep concerns about inequality, about the market power of proto-capitalists

led to the success of socialism and Marxism. And how it is that the Marxist tradition itself

then ended up being unable to formulate in a coherent way

some of the concerns about capitalism in the 20th century.

Why it is, in particular, that the core Marxist language of exploitation of workers

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