Season 7 Episode 16: Citizen Marx

Bruno Leipold joins Ben Burgis to talk about his excellent book "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought." Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument responding to Jodi Dean on "neofeudalism." In the postgame for patrons, RM Brown joins Ben and the crew to break down some more of Jordan Peterson's bizarro debate with 20 atheists. And, oh yeah, scattered around all this there's some discussion of the spiraling insanity and authoritarianism going on outside our windows in Los Angeles.

Read Ben's review of "Citizen Marx" and Jodi Dean's "Capital's Grave":

https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-marx/?us=1

Read Dean's response to Ben:

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies-a-response-to-ben-burgis

Read Ben's response to Dean:

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-servants-a-response-to-jodi-dean

Order "Citizen Marx":

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx

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