Political Philosophy -- Marxism: Dialectical Method in Ethics Acc. to Thomas Sowell, Stanford Univ. 2
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Part 2: Chapter 2 on The Dialectical Approach: Methodology and Ethics.
We're discussing a volume I've had since I was in high screwel (as Rush Limbaugh used to call it) at Chatfield I'm-so-High in Littleton, Colorado. I bought it with my paper route money probably at Barnes and Noble by the lake on the corner of Bowles and Wadsworth, down the street from Clement Park and Columbine Library.
We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of "Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (NY: Quill Press, 1985). By Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. We pick up on p. 18 from last time which was episode 1 in the series recorded on Sunday 31 May 2026.
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