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Jiang says this imaginative, arrogant, action-oriented conception of the human being drives modernity, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and a human-centered rather than Marxist account of history.
Jiang restates that history is driven by human beings rather than by impersonal structural or economic forces.
In Jiang’s telling, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, and Freud each help remove the divine and reframe life around property, experience, utility, class, animality, or sex.
He treats Marx's residence in capitalist Britain and comfortable middle-class life as suspicious facts that raise the question of why a capitalist power tolerated and indirectly supported a revolutionary theorist.
Jiang treats Engels's capitalist family money as part of the puzzle of why capitalist resources would support Marx's call for world revolution.
In response to a student question, Jiang says Marx did not focus on Russia and China because they were agrarian or feudal rather than industrially ripe for revolution.
Engels' support of Marx is introduced as another case where capitalist money allegedly helps an anti-capitalist ideology because communism benefits transnational capital.
Jiang reads Marx as saying capitalism imprisons people in specialized roles that prevent full individual expression.
"...history is driven by these structural forces that are materialistic as marx would argue right so the history is not governed by these structural..."
"...don is saying ultimately okay we're not just passive observers right marx would say that um there's these structural economic forces that drive history..."
"that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair..."
"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
"...between the poor and the rich. And that's it, okay? So Marx is taking out the divine from the equation. Then you have Darwin,..."
"...this the correlation, right? All right. So an example is Karl Marx. And Karl Marx, of course, is the founder of communism. And the..."
"...the world at this time, 19th century. And Britain basically allowed Marx to live there and do whatever he wants. Okay? That's strange. Number..."
"...wealthy person, give Engels a lot of money to give to Marx, and Marx is calling for a world revolution to destroy the capitalists?..."
"...pursue communism and abandon capitalism, but there is, like, they followed Marx's thinking. And, like, currently there is a special term, which is, I..."
"Okay, so China is an interesting example, because when Marx was examining the world, the two places he didn't really consider are Russia and..."
"...capital supported the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolsheviks, they also supported Karl Marx, okay, all right? So Karl Marx has an interesting background. He actually..."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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