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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.
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Marx
The object given to another person becomes, in Jiang's reading, a way for the maker to see his impact in another person's world.
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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.
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Jiang treats Engels's capitalist family money as part of the puzzle of why capitalist resources would support Marx's call for world revolution.
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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.
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Engels' support of Marx is introduced as another case where capitalist money allegedly helps an anti-capitalist ideology because communism benefits transnational capital.
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Jiang reads Marx as saying capitalism imprisons people in specialized roles that prevent full individual expression.
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The object given to another person becomes, in Jiang's reading, a way for the maker to see his impact in another person's world.
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Jiang says Marx's product-as-mirror metaphor helped form modern individualism and materialism.
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"that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair..."
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"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
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"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
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"...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,..."
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"...this the correlation, right? All right. So an example is Karl Marx. And Karl Marx, of course, is the founder of communism. And the..."
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"...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..."
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"...wealthy person, give Engels a lot of money to give to Marx, and Marx is calling for a world revolution to destroy the capitalists?..."
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"...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..."
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"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..."
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"...capital supported the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolsheviks, they also supported Karl Marx, okay, all right? So Karl Marx has an interesting background. He actually..."
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"...a Jewish industrialist. So why would a Jewish capitalist support Karl Marx? And the answer is because communism benefits transnational capital, okay? So why?..."
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"For as soon as the distribution of labor comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity which is forced upon..."
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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