Economic Update: Understanding Marxism

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Help us reach 100,000 subscribers and gain access to more studio time! Please hit the red SUBSCRIBE button above. ^^^ We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Please consider supporting our work. Become an EU patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate Economic Update: [S9 E21] Understanding Marxism This special edition of "Economic Update" is devoted to Understanding Marxism, the title of a short new book just published by Democracy at Work. Today's program, like the book, explains Marxism's systemic insights into capitalism now. We discuss Marxism's basic criticisms of capitalism and also its complex relationship to socialism. Finally, we offer a survey of the last century of Marxism's huge, diverse influences on modern economics, politics and culture around the world. Read full transcript here: https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_understanding_marxism Follow us ONLINE: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate Websites: http://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate http://www.rdwolff.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EconomicUpdate http://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff http://www.facebook.com/DemocracyatWrk Twitter: http://twitter.com/profwolff http://twitter.com/democracyatwrk Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracyatwrk Subscribe to our podcast: http://economicupdate.libsyn.com Shop our Store: http://bit.ly/2JkxIfy Prof. Wolff's latest book "Understanding Marxism" http://bit.ly/2BH0lkL Want to help us translate and transcribe our videos? Learn about joining our translation team: http://bit.ly/2J2uIHH Jump right in: http://bit.ly/2J3bEZR _____________________________________________________ Prof Wolff's self-described "highly incomplete" survey from the 2nd half: - In Austria: Hilferding, Adler brothers interacting with Freud - In Russia: Lenin, Trostky, Gorky, Eisenstein - In Germany: Kautsky, Luxemburg, Brecht, Frankfurt school (Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno) Einstein - In Hungary: Lukacs and the critique of consciousness - In Italy: Gramsci and the critique of culture - In France: Surrealists, Sartre, Althusser, Derrida, Levi-Strauss - In the UK: great economists Joan Robinson, Maurice Dobb - Beyond Europe (connected to its anti-imperialism) - US: Sweezy in economics, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in labor organizing, Jameson in literature and criticism, Lewontin in biology, Cornel West and WEB DuBois in philosophy and racism, Chris Hedges, - China: Mao and so many others - Asia: Nazim Hikmet, the Dutt family in India, Ho Cho Minh in Vietnam - Africa: Fanon in the north, ANC in the South, Nkrumah and Cabral in the middle - South America: Rodney and Williams on slavery, Castro and Guevara and Zapatistas, Mexico’s muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siquieros, Frida Kahlo), Pablo Neruda