Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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These kind of territorial disputes and so on.
And I think, you know, projecting the future, I think within our lifetimes, we'll live to see, um, that kind of conflict be, uh,
And in part, you could say that, like, why?
I think it's because of popular pressure and organization.
So you could say kind of the pro-worker socialist organizing part of it, making it less normal.
If you're a capitalist, you could say, well, markets are more interlinked.
So war is even more irrational.
I don't really have a firm answer, whatever it is.
I think it's a good thing.
Well, I fundamentally, I'm a Marxist.
I fundamentally believe in the broad contours of historical materialism.
But I think we should be clear of what Marxist theory tells us and what it doesn't tell us.
I think Marxist theory tells us pertinent things about how societies evolve, about how the distributional resources work in any given society, who owns, who doesn't, how the conflict, distributional conflicts, and so on.
I think Marxism can tell us a lot.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly.
What it can tell us is, as a friend put it, a sex appeal of blue jeans or whatever else.
That's beyond what Marxism is meant to do.
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