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Socialists Define Socialism [Atlas Intellectuals]

Leave a Comment / Atlas Intellectuals, Economics, History, Philosophy, Socialism / Fermin Elizalde

Introducing this new Atlas Intellectuals course on Socialism we will consider how Socialists define Socialism throughout the years Karl Marx, Henri de Saint-Simon, Robert Heilbroner and more. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Capitalism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals

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Marx and anti-Semitism — Zineman version

Leave a Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Jacob Zineman in 1923: “As a convinced Marxist and enthusiastic socialist during the period of my youth, I wanted to forget the harsh, insulting expressions on Jews and Judaism which Marx had penned in his well-known article of 1844 ‘On the Jewish Question’. I searched for all kinds of reasons to justify and excuse Marx’s

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Violent Politics — The Lesson of Marxist Philosophy [Open College transcript]

Leave a Comment / Philosophy, Socialism / Stephen Hicks

We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the second: OC2: Violent Politics — The Lesson of Marxist Philosophy “For Marxism, the democratic process is a pointless sham.” Audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. To cover additional production costs, the

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The New Socialisms

Leave a Comment / Socialism / Stephen Hicks

Three attempts to sort out the new-style socialisms of this generation: * Nathan Pinkowski’s “The Strange Rise of Bourgeois Bolshevism” (May 2020): “The task American socialists have set themselves is to achieve and sustain a culture of free self-creation. But this culture, the culture of individual autonomy, grows out of the bourgeois.” * My “Young

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Marx’s labor theory of value — Böhm-Bawerk’s rejection

7 Comments / Economics / Stephen Hicks

The economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk arguing, in the 1890s, against the beloved-by-Marxists labor theory of value: “Value and effort, as I have stated at length in another place, are not ideas so intimately connected that one is forced immediately to adopt the view that effort is the basis of value. ‘That I have toiled over

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Marx as proto-postmodernist — revealing quotation

4 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

On the beautiful usefulness of dialectic, as Marx expressed in a letter to Engels about a predictive claim he’d made: “It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to

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Me and mini-Marx

2 Comments / Humor, News / Stephen Hicks

I passed through Trier, Germany, mostly to see the Porta Nigra. But Trier is also the birthplace of one K. Marx, and this year is the 200th anniversary of his birth. The city is full of celebratory signage and knick-knacks, but for me one item captured the event best. I give you me and mini

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Nuestro problema con el Che Guevara

1 Comment / Español, Philosophy, Politics / Stephen Hicks

por Stephen Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of “Our Che Guevara Problem”, first published in English at EveryJoe and then translated into Portuguese at Portal Libertarianismo.] Es muy probable que alguien que conozcas tenga una camiseta del Che. Versiones románticas del rostro barbudo de Ernesto Guevara Lynch son muy populares en los campus universitarios y

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