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[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Psychoanalytic Critique of Marxism

Jason: What is the psychoanalytic critique of Marxism and how does Marxism maybe replicate the capitalist promise in its own weird way? Jason: As long as Marxism promises the end of antagonism or the overcoming of lack then I think it that's a in a certain way isn't that the exact same thing that capitalism promises. The idea is the same that we'll achieve some kind of situation where we have overcome the lack that inhabits us, he says. "I'm reluctant to call myself a Marxist although in other ways I feel myself very much aligned with the Marxist critique of capital"

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