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In this video we introduce the general idea of dialectical materialism, before moving on to more specific aspects in the next video.  Since the footnotes way excede the YouTube video description character limit, please find them here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GjSdZwUaQx1lVew98TPmuRREf-ycd7f-h41tVgmcc4U

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In this episode, we respond to PragerU's video "Who Is Karl Marx?" (https://youtu.be/UhEkJ4noN68)

Part 1: Karl Marx on Why Capitalism is not Unjust
Part 2: Karl Marx on Justice, Freedom, and Communism
Part 3: Karl Marx on Communism
Part 4: Karl Marx on Freedom and Democracy
Part 5: Conclusion

Thanks to Cuck Philosophy for reading out quotes from Paul Kengor's book, thanks to our patreons over at patreon.com/redplateaus, and thanks for listening.

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In this episode we discuss direct action in brief.

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In this video we discuss some common arguments for and against taking state power as a strategy for achieving free socialism.  

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Footnotes:

1. For more detail on these and related arguments, see and for a more in-depth di Raekstad, P. and Gradin, S. 2019. Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today. Cambridge: Polity, ch. 6.

2. Blanc, E. 2019. Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics. London: Verso and his article here: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/bernie-sanders-teachers-strikes-movement-building, where he writes that “Bernie’s 2016 primary run played a crucial role in legitimizing class-struggle politics and inspiring strike leaders in each of the red states that experienced illegal statewide walkouts in early 2018 – West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona.”

3. See Michael Mochaidean and Erin Dyke’s article here: https://blackrosefed.org/movements-gave-rise-to-teachers-revolt-not-bernie/?fbclid=IwAR3ItmT8eIVGClwzPFLuuWbHRik-qeC-ewlbeh_0V5rsppRjvE_UpQUlWJY

4. For more on this, see Anarchopac’s essay here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchopac-means-and-ends and in video format here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsRyTWBj84E

5. Some argue that there’s a version of this in Engels’ “On Authority” here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm, but I think a careful reading shows it not to be the case, since at no point does that evoke minority control, but explicitly points out that the binding decisions made over how to e.g. organise complex production processes can be made either by majority votes or by sufficiently empowered delegates (as Engels points out that his opponents, like him, agree on).

6. There’s arguably a version of this in Engels’ “On Authority” here:  https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm  and another in “The Bakunists at Work: An Account of the Spanish Revolt in the Summer of 1873” here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/bakunin/

7. https://roarmag.org/essays/zapatistas-announce-major-expansion-of-autonomous-territories/?fbclid=IwAR3WAATSQgQGH_oD55MsbtOaSIx9ZiZUhrGGd5mf-inR3S2FSDHyP94zDog

This episode is about how we might create the social change we want through the movements we develop.

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We're proud to present this talk by David Graeber and David Wengrow, entitled The Myth of the Stupid Savage: Rousseau's Ghost and the Future of Political Anthropology.

Originally presented at the PPA+ Conference at the University of Amsterdam in May 2019.

Article: http://www.journaldumauss.net/?La-sagesse-de-Kandiaronk-la-critique-indigene-le-mythe-du-progres-et-la

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Good strike, and good luck.

Footnotes:

For details, see https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/10269/University-staff-balloting-for-pension-strikes-240000-worse-off-as-costs-rise-and-benefits-cut?list=1676

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/britain-strike-higher-education-uk-university-college-union-ucu

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/10342/Value-of-university-staff-pay-has-plummeted-in-last-decade-employers-own-research-reveals?list=1676

For the numbers, see https://www.ucea.ac.uk/library/stakeholder-briefings/newjnchespaypointsrealterms.pdf

See our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5EReau1cjA and more discussion of this strike in https://jacobinmag.com/2019/01/la-teachers-strike-contract-arlene-inouye?fbclid=IwAR1jU0CcNjNRuZJzsl9sLE6V3UJcTUKDhdBKI5HJkw3HrOMfvJurTJfpUag

We explore the role of democracy in socialism historically, and take a look at the self-identified democratic socialist movement today.

The QnA of season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.

Exploring Jordan B. Peterson's misconceptions and misrepresentations of Marxism.

Episode 6, season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.

Episode 5, season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.

Episode 4, season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.

Episode 3, season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.

Why strikes work.

Episode 2, season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.

Episode 1, season 1 of our series on the thought of Karl Marx.