WOF 341: Understanding the Present Moment #1 (Karl Marx)

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Friends, today on the “Word on Fire Show,” we kick off a new series of discussions called “Understanding the Present Moment.” Brandon Vogt and I will look at four massively influential figures who together help explain our present moment, how we arrived at where we are today.

The ideologies undergirding much of the unrest in our culture stem from these four thinkers: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. Once we understand these figures and their key ideas, we will recognize them everywhere and be prepared to engage today’s challenges. In today’s first discussion, we focus on Karl Marx.

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0:00.0	Whenever you say a society is all about X, you're wrong.
0:07.0	Societies are just, they're richly complex and all these things have different roles to play
0:12.2	and they're both good and bad and so on.
0:15.0	But I think that style of thinking, which you see today is very Marxist.
0:26.6	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:28.6	I'm Brandon Vott, the senior publishing director.
0:31.4	Today we kick off a new series of discussions looking at four massively influential figures
0:36.6	who together help explain our current moment, how we arrived where we are today.
0:42.1	The first one is Karl Marx, the famous German philosopher and economist.
0:46.6	And here to help unpack the person and the thought of Marx is Bishop Baron.
0:51.2	Bishop, good to see you.
0:53.2	Hey Brandon, always a joy to be with you.
0:55.2	Before we get to Marx, let's talk about your latestcomings and goings.
0:58.6	You recently journeyed to Atchenson, Kansas, where you visited the great Benedictine College
1:05.0	and also received the Beauty and Culture Award.
1:08.0	It tells a little bit about that visit.
1:10.0	I loved that visit. It was wonderful.
1:11.8	It's a great small Catholic college with a very strong sense of Catholic identity.
1:16.2	Kids were marvelous. I met a lot of the faculty.
1:18.8	It's been a lot of time with them.
1:20.8	They got their money's worth it away because I was kind of going all day.
1:24.0	But I loved it. I loved every moment of it.
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