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The Measures Taken

The Measures Taken is a project to survey and reconstruct the history of Marxism from the development of mass Social Democracy to our own moment. Recognizing that Bolshevism has lapsed as a living pol... Read more

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Ep 10: The Agrarian Question

Ep 10: The Agrarian Question

The question of Social Democracy’s role when it came to peasants and agricultural laborers opened the floodgates to a wi... Read more

2 May 2022

1hr

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Ep 9: The Question of the Party

Ep 9: The Question of the Party

It has hardly been lost on convinced readers of Capital that the book contains no blueprint for building an organization... Read more

12 Mar 2022

1hr 25mins

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Ep. 8: Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Ep. 8: Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Questions of the bourgeois state, democracy, and the proletariat’s conquest of state power were the subject of a number ... Read more

19 Jan 2022

1hr

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Ep 7: The Woman Question

Ep 7: The Woman Question

The most popular book produced by a Second International figure was August Bebel’s “Women Under Socialism.” It introduce... Read more

13 Dec 2021

1hr 1min

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Ep 6: The National Question

Ep 6: The National Question

Despite the simplicity and strong appeal of the slogan “Proletarians of all countries unite,” the early Social Democrati... Read more

27 Oct 2021

1hr 12mins

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Ep. 5: Early Debates on Imperialism

Ep. 5: Early Debates on Imperialism

From the moment Social Democracy was compelled by virtue of the maturity of its institutions to formulate policy and str... Read more

20 Sep 2021

1hr 4mins

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Ep. 4: The Revisionist Controversy

Ep. 4: The Revisionist Controversy

The battle over Marxist orthodoxy was not long in arriving. Almost as soon as it emerged, it was subjected to a sustaine... Read more

9 Aug 2021

59mins

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Ep. 3: The Invention of Marxism

Ep. 3: The Invention of Marxism

The emergence of ‘Marxism’ as a ‘worldview’ and political tendency was not achieved during Marx’s lifetime, but remains ... Read more

8 Aug 2021

1hr 11mins

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Ep. 2: The Many Lives of Marx's Capital

Ep. 2: The Many Lives of Marx's Capital

Despite its obvious centrality to the entire corpus of historical Marxism, Capital remains contested territory on the le... Read more

7 Aug 2021

51mins

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Ep. 1: The New Moment in Marxism

Ep. 1: The New Moment in Marxism

Our first episode attempts to justify the act of bringing another Marxist podcast into the world. This is an introductio... Read more

6 Aug 2021

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