RFH Ep 117 The Politics of Marx’s Capital—Interview with William Clare Roberts

23/05/2024 1h 3min
RFH Ep 117 The Politics of Marx’s Capital—Interview with William Clare Roberts

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Podcast: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: RFH Ep 117 The Politics of Marx’s Capital—Interview with William Clare RobertsPub date: 2024-05-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGabriel and Andrew welcome William Clare Roberts, author of Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of “Capital,” in which he reads the first volume of Capital as a work of political theory. They discuss differences between this and other ways of reading Capital, its engagement with Proudhonism and related non-Marxist tendencies on the left, Marx’s relation to the radical republican tradition, and the specificity of his concept of capitalist exploitation. They also discuss “Hell” imagery in radical literature, Will’s contention that “volume one of Capital must be taken as Marx’s last testament,” and more.

Plus current-events segment: The situation in Rafah and the current state of the Hamas-Israel war

SUMMER 2024 SCHEDULE: We intend to release new eps once a month, on the first Friday of the month. The next episode, Ep. 118 is slated for release on June 7. The regular schedule will resume with Ep. 121, slated for release on Sept. 6.

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