Ep. 361: Marx on Machines (Part One)
We finish our treatment of Capital, Ch. 1, covering the little bit that Marx says about actual communism (he was wary of utopianism, contra his reputation), and think through a number of related pract...
17 Feb 202548min
Ep. 360: Karl Marx on Economic Value (Part Two)
Continuing on Capital, Ch. 1 on commodities. We go into detail on his account of how money gets derived from the continued comparison of various commodities, how use value comes back into play when we...
10 Feb 202551min
Ep. 360: Karl Marx on Economic Value (Part One)
On Capital (1867), Ch. 1, "The Commodity." What makes something we buy or sell valuable? Marx says it's ultimately the labor that goes into it, though there are some wrinkles in formulating this accur...
3 Feb 202548min
PEL Presents Closereads: Marx on Stirner (Part One)
Mark and Wes read through and discuss Karl Marx's The German Ideology (1846), delving deep into the middle of his critique of Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own. Marx articulates and criticizes Stirne...
1 Feb 20251h
Ep. 359: Karl Marx's Project (Part Two)
We continue on the introduction to Marx's Grundrisse, going through his criticisms of prior economists who were too ahistorical and didn't understand how production, consumption, distribution and exch...
27 Jan 202552min
Ep. 359: Karl Marx's Project (Part One)
On the intro to Marx's Grundrisse (1857) and "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845). Why economics, and why do it the way Marx does? We see Marx argues that Feuerbach's materialism was not materialistic enough,...
20 Jan 202549min
Ep. 358: Max Stirner's Egoism (Part Two)
Continuing on The Ego and Its Own, focusing now on the sections "The Owner" and "My Power." Stirner lets us know that his egoism ("ownness") is not compatible with liberal egalitarianism, which he see...
13 Jan 202541min
Ep. 358: Max Stirner's Egoism (Part One)
On The Ego and its Own (1844), another big influence on Karl Marx and a precursor of Nietzsche, or perhaps an early Ayn Rand. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/sup...
6 Jan 202548min
