New Currents in Marxism: From Degrowth Communism to Neo-Kautskyism feat. Richard Seymour
Emancipations Podcast
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The War on the Utopia of Being
I think fundamentally Marx, while asserting materialism ends up with an idealist coherence. But I think that if you try and expunge the utopian element, you lose what is essential to Marxism. The whole point of Marxism is how do you understand the articulation of these two dimensions? And so freedom is basically teleological and that sends something to do with the self development of the spirit or however you want to find it. It's not all about material causation, which is basically bottom up, mechanical causation in that sense. So we talk about consciousness, we're talking about, you know, philosophers of consciousness talk about queuing and failure but a fundamental part of it is that there
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