This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists: Marxism as Science
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
J. Moufawad-Paul is a Marxist philosopher, the author of "Continuity and Rupture", "The Communist Necessity", and "Austerity Apparatus", and co-author with Benjanun Sriduangkaew of "Methods Devour Themselves". He joins Breht to discuss his most recent essay "This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists: Marxism as Science".
You can find JMP's essay here: http://www.abstraktdergi.net/this-ruthless-criticism-of-all-that-exists-marxism-as-science/
You can find his essay on the Enlightenment here: http://www.abstraktdergi.net/radiating-disaster-triumphant-modernity-and-its-discontents/
You can find JMP on twitter @MLM_Mayhem and you can find his blog/website as well as more of his work and writings under the same name here: http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com
You can find two of his books at Zero Books here: http://www.zero-books.net/authors/joshua-r-moufawad-paul
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.6 | Today on the show I have Jay Malfaulad Paul returning for a third time I believe to talk |
| 0:14.5 | about his new essay, This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists Marxism As a Science. |
| 0:20.8 | This is a very important topic around a very confusing subject, so throughout this episode |
| 0:25.7 | we'll be talking about what makes Marxism a science and why it's worth defending. |
| 0:30.4 | The links to Jay Malfaulad Paul's essay on science and his essay which we mentioned in |
| 0:35.1 | the episode on the Enlightenment and Marxism's relationship to it will be in the show notes. |
| 0:40.8 | I also want to remind people that our brand new spin-off show Red Menace with me and my |
| 0:46.8 | comrade Alison Escalante who was on our gender revolution in the show Foucault episode |
| 0:51.5 | as well as our state and revolution episode. |
| 0:53.7 | The first episode of that new podcast Red Menace has already been recorded. |
| 0:57.7 | It's on Angles, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific. |
| 1:01.3 | It'll be out in podcast form and on YouTube in video format in February this month. |
| 1:07.4 | So be on the lookout if you want to find it on Twitter. |
| 1:09.9 | It's at red underscore menace underscore pod and on patreon is patreon.com forward slash |
| 1:15.9 | the red menace. |
| 1:17.7 | And also I want to say in no uncertain terms that RevLeft Radio stands in unapologetic |
| 1:23.2 | and unwavering support for the Venezuelan proletariat and the continuation of the Bolivarian |
| 1:28.1 | Revolution. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm working on trying to get an episode on this topic up and running but in the meantime |
| 1:33.0 | suffice it to say that we are 100% in support of the Venezuelan poor and working class and |
| 1:39.0 | the Maduro government who mid-democratically elected and fair and open elections. |
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