Marx that you can imagine.
Marx came a little later.
Marx was 50 years in.
Marx acknowledged that capitalism was a dynamic, developing system.
Marx finds this intriguing, and so do I. This is an interesting way to make
Marx says this is really interesting.
Marx argues that leaving things in the hands of the capitalist corporation, and you can see now why a bit more government intervention or a bit less
Marxism has not done badly, that many of the good writers in America in the 1930s and the '40s were Marxists.
Marxist views but he did in the end he found it in a village called thaxted and
Karl Marx , who borrowed deeply from Diderot's musings on class struggle, listed the writer as his favorite author.
So Marx and Weber both talked about the propertied class and the property-less class.
Karl Marx was born in 1818.
And Marx was a tremendous admirer of the French Revolution, the slogans on the banners of the French, "liberty, equality,
So Marx was able, by the time he becomes a young man, to see about 50 years worth of development of capitalism
So Marx , young radical that he was, from an upper middle class family, educated at the university, which means he's one of the 3% or 4% of the people
And Marx pointed to that as the issue-- the way this is organized is fundamentally antagonistic to ever getting liberty, equality
But Marx was a very sophisticated thinker, and wanted to drive it home in the most intimate way that one can--
But Marx is saying, what this is going to lead to is when all the innovative power of society is concentrated at the level of ideas,
As Marx might have described it, the internet annihilated space and time as impediments to the flow of capital and information.
So Marx -- whatever else he may have been-- was a social scientist who's looking at European cities 100 years after the beginning of that Industrial Revolution
Groucho Marx he's told to go back into the closet by the by the by the gangster
And Marxian economics? And can we just even just linger and try to redefine Keynesian economics and Chicago School of Economics,
Your marxophone, I read.
My marxophone. Which is a-- My .
Now Marxists view it as the extreme corruption of a free market system.
The Marxists used to call this false consciousness.
some Marxist politics. There were role-playing games based on spy novels, things like "Top Secret." And a lot of the
Freud agreed with Marx .
that Lenin had to Marx .
It worked for Marx , but the fact that historians are still using that framework so long after Marx wrote is odd, when in fact, you can capture
That's exactly what Marx was saying in the 19th century, and what Max Weber also said.
that Karl Marx developed his analysis of capitalism.
of which Marx was a part.
And in Marx 's image, in Marx 's head, therein lies the problem.
Now back to Marx .
Because it turns out Marx , argues, that if you put the power of directing what goes on
You know-- Marx makes it very clear, but you know what I'm about to say.
Or to use Marx 's language, the worker produces a surplus over what he gets.
That was Karl Marx , by the way.
But forget Marx , since we are in California.
And Karl Marx was right.
Here's Karl Marx , writing in 1858, quote, "Capital, by its very nature, drives beyond every spatial barrier.
And so following Marx , he saw this as a revolutionary event that created settled life, and he saw it as primarily the result of an intensification of use
The crucial thing about Marx and Engels, and later Lenin and Trotsky, and all these fellows is that they did not just read old books from hundreds
You do the Groucho Marx thing.
That is not Karl Marx .
not Karl Marx . And by the way, Karl Marx is not one of the Three Stooges, for those teenagers who happen to be tuning in.
You know Marx had it right about folks being separated from the fruits of their labor.
things including watching Marx Brothers in Tehran falling in love in Tehran and
where communism Marxism is supposed to, you know, let go of history, and Confucianism, there's a real veneration of history that's happening in China of today.