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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
Lex Fridman Podcast
Why Is the State So Important?
Lenin was saying, that's a good thing. That's something we stand for. We want to create the conditions under which there is a way. Why is the state so important? If you understand feudalism, particularly early feudalism, it didn't have powerful states. The development of a powerful central state comes towards the end of feudalism as it is desperate to hold on. This ought to be suggestive, that may be the turn to powerful governments here in the United States or in Europe.
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