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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

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Marxism in the Real World

In the early days of Marx's writings, and you know, his life spans the 19th century. The first half to two thirds of his life are about the critique of capitalism. By the last third of his life, he and the other producers of a anti-capitalist movement, people like the Chartists in England, that's a whole nother movement. And there was a shift in what the audience, let's call it a mixture of militant working class people on the one hand and critical or radical intelligentsia on the other. They now wanted a different question: How could we get beyond capitalism?

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