Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism

No matter how bad the neighborhood anywhere in Canada, there's a gigantic no-frills right in the middle of it, right? Um, and why? Because it's it it's the there's no reason you can't put a discounted grocery store in even the worst neighborhood uh in Toronto or Vancouver because people don't have guns, right? And that's just like game-changing on so many aspects of it, right? So you you see this huge academic debate about food security and food deserts, but

But the policy space that they have available, again, is so constrained by by just the sheer violence of of the crime that does occur in American society. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Well, today I want to invite you to geek out of me a little bit. As some of you know, I have a PhD in political science and more specifically in political theory. I don't talk about political theory all that much on this podcast, but today I had a great political philosopher on the podcast.

Joseph Heath is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and the author of a really interesting uh popular substack called in due course. And one of the things he's written about, both in his academic work and on Substack, is the grand debate about equality in the 19th and 20th century. Why it is that the inability of 19th century liberalism to address deep concerns about inequality, about the market power of proto-capitalists led to the success of socialism and Marxism. And how it is that

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