Lecture #2 Marxist Philosophy
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Marxist Marxism - The Soviet Union
State ownership of the means of production and control by armies of bureaucrats in the service of a small group of intellectuals. What does it sound like? It sounds like the Soviet Union. Now, is it any wonder that this concept became increasingly embarrassing to Marxist? In 1950, an official Soviet statement listed as the outstanding achievement in recent Soviet Oriental studies "the rouse of the notorious theory of the Asiatic Mode of Production" Since then, all mention of Oriental despotism has disappeared from handbooks.
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