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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
Lex Fridman Podcast
Marxism and the Workplace
The point of Marxism was not who the exploiter is, but the exploitation per se. Every economic system that has ever existed has included people who defend it on the grounds that every effort to go beyond it has to fail because it contradicts human nature. The clever, the charismatic, the sexy, the muscular, the powerful start becoming a leader and start to do maybe exploitation in a non-negative sense. It just becomes the leadership role. That's why communism would be nice to steal from the world. But it doesn't work in practice because of human nature.
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