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🗓️ 8 December 2022
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J. Moufawad Paul returns to the show to discuss his newest book "Politics in Command: A Taxonomy of Economism". Together, Breht and JMP discuss what economism is, what Lenin's critique of it was, how it acts as a keystone of revisionism, its dialectical opposite "voluntarism", how they are tied to movementism, the necessity of a communist vanguard party, how economism distorts our understanding of class, the labor aristocracy, MLM analysis of modern China, Refoundationalism and Regroupment, and much more!
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Check out the Politics in Command podcast mentioned in this episode: https://www.politicsincommand.info/podcast/
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. |
0:08.7 | On today's episode we have back on the one and only Jay Malfawad, Paul aka JMP, to talk |
0:14.6 | about his newest book, Politics in Command, a Taxonomy of Economism. |
0:20.7 | Really really essential reading, really clarifying reading for anybody regardless of tendency |
0:26.6 | on the socialist and communist left. |
0:29.6 | Really great important exploration of a vital and widespread sort of error if you will. |
0:38.7 | And we get into what economism is, the various forms it can take, what the political solution |
0:43.2 | to it is, what it says about class, what it says about the labor aristocracy, cover a lot |
0:48.8 | of really important concepts. |
0:50.9 | And as only JMP can do, sort of clarifies them in really accessible ways without sacrificing |
0:58.3 | whatsoever the rigor and profundity of the points that he's making. |
1:02.6 | So this is another interview with Jay Malfawad, Paul, and his newest work, Politics in Command |
1:08.2 | a Taxonomy of Economism. |
1:10.0 | Also would love to give a shout out to a podcast which is pretty new of the same name, |
1:15.8 | Tixen Command, our friend Marksist, from the, our friend Paul from the channel, Marksist |
1:21.0 | Paul was recently, we showed one of his projects on Jay recently and he plugged them and I |
1:29.1 | listened to their interview as part of my prep for this conversation and I made sure |
1:33.1 | not to retread those same questions that they asked. |
1:36.4 | So if you like this interview, you can definitely go check out Politics in Command, listen |
1:40.8 | to their interview with JMP on the same book. |
1:43.1 | They cover, you know, different stuff as well so you get even a more robust understanding |
1:47.2 | of the text and of course there's no replacement for buying the text itself. |
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