How did Stalin outmanoeuvre Trotsky and take power following Lenin’s death? What do Marxists mean by ‘value’? And what does it really mean to ‘master the dialectic’? We went back to social media and asked for some more burning questions from our audience, for leading communist Niklas Albin Svensson to answer in a quickfire round!
Watch our previous viewers’ questions episode with Ben Curry here:
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korpvewBWo8&t=3561s
📖 WORKS & SOURCES CITED 📖
Wage, Labour and Capital, Karl Marx:
🔗https://marxist.com/classics-wage-labour-and-capital.htm
Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx:
🔗https://marxist.com/classics-marxism-two-book/value-price-and-profit.htm
ABC of Materialist Dialectics, Leon Trotsky:
🔗https://marxist.com/abc-materialist-dialectics-trotsky.htm
Revolution Betrayed, Leon Trotsky:
🔗https://marxist.com/classics-the-revolution-betrayed.htm
Results and Prospects, Leon Trotsky:
🔗https://marxist.com/results-and-prospects.htm
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Lenin:
🔗https://marxist.com/classics-imperialism-the-highest-stage-of-capitalism/.htm
The Wealth of Nations, Book One, Chapter 5:
🔗https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book01/ch05.htm
Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting - 3 million views (discusses crisis in cosmology):
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zozEm4f_dlw
Reason in Revolt, Ted Grant and Alan Woods:
🔗https://marxist.com/reason-in-revolt-marxist-philosophy-and-modern-science.htm
Purchase In Defence of Marxism Issue 51 here:
🔗https://magazine.marxist.com/
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
00:57 - What is value?
22:18 - How to master the dialectic?
52:20 - How did Stalin come to power?
1:04:23 - How did capitalism affect post-Soviet countries?
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