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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Contradictions of Capitalism
The Marxist theory of history is about different modes of production that existed various times, based on material conditions. It could be crudely summarizes, primitive communism, imperialism, maybe slave society, feudalism, and then capitalism and socialism, and finally, stateless communism. But actually, this is the backtrack, so in terms of contradiction, so it starts when we're in a village, hunter and gatherers,. That's what you call primitive communism, where everyone's kind of equal, it's kind of a collective - right? Maybe you could, this just let me, hold on a second; I think that was close enough.
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