Marxist Theory: Engels, Lenin, and Dialectical Materialism
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English - November 22, 2022 17:05 - 1 hour - 40.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture Philosophy socialism communism history leftwing liberalism marxism philosophy politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thomas Riggins is a New York university lecturer in philosophy and ancient studies. He is a retired city housing manager and a veteran of the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He holds degrees from Florida State University and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently a member of the UAW and a former Teamster.
Professor Riggins joins Breht to discuss a collection of his essays on classic texts by Lenin and Engels put out by the comrades over at Midwestern Marx called "Reading the Classical Texts of Marxism". Together they discuss Anti-Durhing by Engels, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, State and Revolution, and Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Lenin.
Check out Midwestern Marx here: https://www.midwesternmarx.com/
Find Riggins books, including the one discussed in the episode, here: https://www.midwesternmarx.com/books.html
Outro music "Which Side Are You On" by Pete Seeger
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