Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode I have on Professor Graham Priest to talk about his book that was released

in 2021, Capitalism, Its Nature and Its Replacement, Buddhist and Marxist Insights.

This is a fascinating text and it's really just right down the center of the alley of RevLeft's

interest. As long time RevLeft listeners know we often make forays into various forms

of religion and spirituality but particularly Buddhism is close to my heart and something

that comes up on the show over and over and over again. And so when I was made aware of

this text I knew I had to have Graham on the show to talk about it and we do precisely

that. We cover a lot of fascinating elements, how these two seemingly totally different

traditions interweave with one another, complement one another, dovetail with one another,

and we even explore some of the possible tensions that might exist between them. And so this

is a really fascinating conversation and I also want to give a huge shout out to my friend

Kevin over at the sensible socialist. We've collabed, I think multiple times at this point

on our various platforms together and it was actually on his podcast that this book came

to mind because he also interviewed Graham about this text. So if you like this conversation

I will link to the episode that Kevin did over at sensible socialist on the topic and

you can go check that out for further listening. But yeah without further ado here is our

conversation with Professor Graham Priest on his newest book Capitalism Its Nature and

its replacement Buddhist and Marxist Insights. My name is Graham Priest, I'm an Australian

philosopher and now I work at the graduate center of the City University of New York. I've

worked about 10 years before that. Most of my professional life has been in Australia

with the occasional visits to other countries like the UK and Japan and other places I

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