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Nov 2024
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Ep. 355: Marx on Alienation (Part One)

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On three of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, "Estranged Labor," "Private Property and Communism," and "The Power of Money on Bourgeois Society." Featuring guest Lawrence Dallman.

What is the plight of the working poor? It's that they are in an unnatural situation with regard to their work, which is supposed to gain them a sense of self but doesn't do so when it's a result of selling one's time.

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