Episode 2 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series.
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Topics and times: History // Three options: coincidence, unintended consequences, intended // Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Trotsky, Hobsbawm // Environmental determinism in Marxism // Plasticity of human nature in Marxism // Economic circumstances as fundamental social-environmental forces // Marxist epistemology
Transcription: Available at my thinkspot page.
Sources:
[1] Genocides and democides: https://ourworldindata.org/genocides . Wikipedia, “Democide”.
[2] Karl Marx, “The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna,” Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 136, November 1848.
[3] Friedrich Engels, “The Magyar Struggle,” first published in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 194, January 13, 1849.
[4] Vladimir I. Lenin, quoted in George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police, Oxford University Press, 1987.
[5] Felix Dzerzhinsky, press interview in early June 1918, quoted in Leggett, The Cheka.
[6] Leon Trotsky, Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence, unfinished manuscript published in 1941.
[7] “Eric Hobsbawm is Dead.”
[8] Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto. 1848.
[9] Karl Marx, Early Writings. Penguin.
[10] Marx, Das Kapital, Volume 1.
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The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.