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What ‘The Communist Manifesto’ Means Today with China Miéville

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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Marx and Engels' Relationship to Ethics

There's such a complicated relationship that Marx has to ethics. What is what exists in Marx is an ethics of freedom, he says. He wants to get away from any notion that bad people are the reason that the world is the way it is and that good people can fix it. This is not a communism of lack. They're not talking about like everyone being equal in a kind of tiny little cell. But this is precisely about creating or attempting to create a system of adequate abundance.

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