Marx
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“Grumpy Chinese Guy”
Somehow I fell upon this guy on FB (the link is to his YouTube page). He does sensible class-based analysis of various topics in the news, and he’s pretty good! Some readers may enjoy this.
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Xi Jinping and “Marxist theory”
I was in Hong Kong last week for a very informative conference on “Academic Freedom in Asia” (about which I’ll have more to say soon), as well as a talk to the philosophy department at the University of Hong Kong, which was exceptionally hospitable and welcoming. At the hotel one morning, the fellow seating folks
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“Businesses have a moral responsibility to stand up to autocracy”
So argues philosopher David Silver (UBC). My sense, alas, is that Marx and Milton Friedman were right: business under capitalism only recognizes “moral” responsibilities that are profitable. I would love to be wrong!
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Philosopher Jaime Edwards talks about Marx on ideology and class…
…at Brain in a Vat. (I talked about other parts of our Marx book last month.)
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On dreading the AI future
Philosopher Harvey Lederman comments; a long, but far from exhaustive, excerpt: For the last two and a half years, since the release of ChatGPT, I’ve been suffering from fits of dread. It’s not every minute, or even every day, but maybe once a week, I’m hit by it—slackjawed, staring into the middle distance—frozen by the
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