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Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, and

he takes the Marxian project seriously.

As he discusses in this episode, the great Frederick Jameson was his PhD advisor and Robinson

remains up to date on the latest eco-Marxist theory in history.

As a science fiction writer, Robinson's genius is to combine cutting-edge social science

and wonderful narratives to imagine futures that clarify the present like no other work

can.

But until recently, those books were always a few decades or a few centuries out, no longer.

Robinson's most recent book, The Ministry for the Future, out in paperback this fall,

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