Jared Baxter, an expert on Marx and Modern Revolution, discusses Marx's views on social democracy, the genesis of the modern state, distinctions between political and social revolution, democratic legitimacy, interpretations of the French Revolution, and the lumpenproletariat. The episode also explores the radical Jacobin convention, power dynamics in American politics, the debate between enlightened despotists and natural aristocratic republicans, and Marx's theory of proletarian revolution. Delve into historical events, power dynamics, and Marxist texts.