Ask a Marxist - Part I (w/ Harvey Kaye)
Movies vs. Capitalism
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Marx vs Lenin on Workers' Role
- Marx believed intellectuals play a role but don't hold all the truth about achieving socialism.
- He envisioned a dialectic process where even educators need education, implying a collaborative learning approach with the workers.
- Lenin, conversely, advocated for a vanguard party that possessed the truth and guided the workers.
- Lenin felt workers alone could, at best, achieve trade unionism, not socialism.
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