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In this second of a two part series looking at Marx and Marxism, Coyle and Ed look at the development of Marxism in the 20th Century, and the way in which Marxist thought is undergoing a revival as a tool of making sense of the role of technology in the contemporary economy, and growing worries about inequality and unemployment.

Books/Readings mentioned in the Episode:

• Communist Manifesto
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Steadman Jones
• David McClellan’s works
• Why not Socialism by G.A. Cohen
• The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
• Political Philosophy by Hallowell and Porter
• Reconstructing the Classics by Porter
• Mr. Robot
• Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals by Peter Viereck
• We by Yegevny Zamyatin
• Herbert Marcuse
• Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty
• “Rise of the Robots” by Paul Krugman