Ep. 361: Marx on Machines (Part One)


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Feb 17 2025 48 mins   21

We finish our treatment of Capital, Ch. 1, covering the little bit that Marx says about actual communism (he was wary of utopianism, contra his reputation), and think through a number of related practical problems. We introduce "Fragment on Machines" (1858).


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