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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

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Reformism Versus Revolution?

The focus on the state, I would argue, goes way beyond what the debate is at the time. There was a great theorist of the role of the state in a reformist strategy to get power in Germany named Edward Bernstein. That gets to be called reformism within Marxism. And the other side is revolution. Don't do that, this system, if I may quote Bernie again, is rigged, you can't get there. They've long ago learned how to manipulate parliaments and all that.

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