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25 | Reflections on Freedom and the Cold War w/ Dr. Lea Ypi

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There a Socialism Beyond Capitalism?

For the first time, an effort has been made to institutionalize an anti capitalist system. This is a legal order that doesn't put commodification and commercial interest at its heart. It shows you the feasibility of kind of constructing a system beyond capitalism. The greatest failure was actually to not think about democracy at a sufficiently sophisticated level. What does it mean to construct a socialist society which is democratic through and through from the basic units of production till high up in the state? And i often talk in ta book about competition, which took the form of not competing with money, but competing with learning and reading more books  and having this kind of desire to discover the world more.

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