Marxist Humanism: Alienation, Subjectivity, and Class Society
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Maximillian Alvarez is an educator, essayist, and host of the Working People podcast. He joins Breht to explain and argue in favor of humanist Marxism, touching on countless core concepts within the Marxist and socialist traditions in the process.
Follow Max on twitter @Maximillian_alv
Listen to his podcast Working People here: http://workingpeople.libsyn.com/
And check out his writings and other work here: https://activeforgetting.com/
Here is the Mandatory OT episode we did together with Coffee w/ Comrades and Beep Beep Lettuce that was mentioned in the episode: https://soundcloud.com/mandatoryotpod/037-orgs-with-friends
Outro Music: 'Tear The Facists Down' by Woody Guthrie
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| 0:00.0 | So everybody, welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we have on Maximilian Alvarez from Working People Podcast to talk about Marxist Humanism. |
| 0:15.0 | I really love this discussion. I love talking to Max. |
| 0:18.0 | This episode will probably create more questions than in answers, |
| 0:22.0 | because it's a very nature of the dialectic, if you will. |
| 0:25.0 | So more episodes on Marxist Humanism, and then, obviously, like, episode on Alvarez's sort of anti-humanist Marxism as well, |
| 0:34.0 | are going to be forthcoming over the next year to keep this sort of conversation and dialogue going. |
| 0:39.0 | But yeah, I love Max. He's a great friend of mine, a great comrade. |
| 0:43.0 | Definitely check out Working People. And if you like what you do here at RevLeft Radio, |
| 0:47.0 | you can go to RevolutionaryLeftRadio.com. You can find both this show as well as our sister podcast, Red Menace. |
| 0:53.0 | And you can find our YouTube page, our Twitter, our Patreon, and all of that. |
| 0:57.0 | If you support us on Patreon and returning you get cool monthly bonus episodes, |
| 1:02.0 | so definitely do that if you're so inclined and have a few extra dollars later on. |
| 1:06.0 | But having said that, let's go ahead and get into this episode with Max on Marxist Humanism. |
| 1:10.0 | So my name is Max a million Alvarez. I am a writer and editor based in Baltimore, |
| 1:23.0 | also the host of the podcast, Working People, where I interview workers about their lives and jobs and dreams and struggles. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. Well, Max, it's been way overdue for you and I to do an official collab. |
| 1:40.0 | We've talked about it probably for like a year at this point. |
| 1:43.0 | We've spoken in front of a class together, but we haven't even done a podcast together, |
| 1:47.0 | which is just amazing to me. But I'm glad that that's finally being done here and that we can get over that. |
| 1:52.0 | Because again, it is long overdue. I really love you. I love your work. I love working people. |
| 1:57.0 | And I know for a fact that both of our goals and our projects are very similar |
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