I Debated a Marxist Professor for 4 Hours.

I sat down with Professor Andrew Hartman, a Marxist historian at Illinois State University and author of “Karl Marx in America,” for a good-faith, no-holds-barred debate over capitalism, private property, and Marx’s role in America history.

We get into:

* What Marx actually meant by abolishing private property

* Why every communist regime turned militantly against religion

* The role of entrepreneurship in the American economy

* Whether wanting a better life for your kids makes you greedy

* How the Frankfurt School shaped identity politics

* The Great Depression and the New Deal

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Outline:

[0:00] Why hasn’t Marx caught on in America?

[3:21] From Howard Zinn to Karl Marx

[8:19] What is Marxism?

[19:23] Land, property, and capital

[32:55] Marx’s four intellectual traditions

[39:14] “Religion is the opiate of the masses”

[48:28] Marx wasn’t a Luddite

[56:01] Exploitation and the labor theory of value

[1:07:03] What does society owe us?

[1:19:20] Shared prosperity vs economic freedom

[1:30:53] Do workers only gain power collectively?

[1:38:41] Does entrepreneurship require capital?

[1:56:14] Positive vs negative freedom

[2:01:19] Humans are incredibly malleable

[2:08:53] The socialist calculation debate

[2:16:13] Is entrepreneurship worth celebrating?

[2:26:17] Was Marx a parasite?

[2:28:47] Did unions and the New Deal build the middle class?

[2:35:24] Why are history departments so left-wing?

[2:44:55] Is identity politics Marxist?

[2:54:17] Millennial socialism and the downwardly mobile elite

[3:02:11] How can workplace democracy work?

[3:08:45] What really caused the Great Depression?

[3:19:49] Power, private equity, and the tax code

[3:31:22] What does a better America look like?

[3:35:10] Would socialism protect free speech?

[3:39:33] Treat young men as individuals

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