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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

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What Is Marxism?

Much of Marxism remains chiefly the critique of capitalism. But another part of it is a set of notions of what an alternative post-capitalist society ought to look like. Marx never laid any of this out, and probably wouldn't have been all that relevant if he'd done so 50 years earlier in another country. He would wax philosophical and say, the ideas you put out are a little bit like having a child; they will find their own way.

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