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#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Getting a Degree in Philosophy at the University of Sydney
During summer, a bunch of lefties decide to read Karl Marx in the philosophy department at the University of Sydney. They were trying to understand why Kangaroo cranes don't add value. So reading through the first seven chapters of capital, what you found was Marx applying this dialectic and like the fickity and stuff is bullshit. That is not how Marx thought it all. What he does talk about is foreground and background and tension. And his idea of a dialectic is that there is a unity will exist in society. And that unity can be an individual, it can be a commodity, anything at all. The unity will be understood by that society. One particular aspect will be
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