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New Currents in Marxism: From Degrowth Communism to Neo-Kautskyism feat. Richard Seymour

Emancipations Podcast

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The Materialist Position on Subjectivity

The authoritarian position on subjectivity is kind of an idealist one, says Althazair. The idea that consciousness with its characteristics can emerge from matter as it's currently understood doesn't cohere, he adds. But in order for the whole system of Marxism to move forward, I mean, notoriously Marx borrowed extensively from Hegel's logic when he wrote capital,. And so the self-movement of the categories is dialectical in this sense. It's conceptual, it's conscious, and that's why it can work.

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