Hello again, been a minute. In this episode, following along with Weeks' argument in The Problem with Work, we take a look at Socialist Humanism, the ties to productivism Weeks (and I) have issues with, we get a bit into psychologist-philosopher Erich Fromm, the (old) New Left, and humanism in Marx' early works. Hope you're up for a long episode!

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Obligatory bibliography, or books (and articles) you may also want to check out:

Celikates, Robin and Jeffrey Flynn. “Critical Theory (Frankfurt School).” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2023. citing “Fromm 1936 [2020, 39, 41]”

Weeks, Kathi. 2011. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Durham: Duke University Press. P.85

Marshall, Alfred. Principles of Economics, 1890.

Marx, Karl, Ernest Mandel, and Friedrich Engels. 1976. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume 1. Translated by Ben Fowkes. [London]: Penguin Books in association with New Left Review. P.137

Marx, Karl. Early Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin in association with New Left Review, 1992. p.322

Marx, Karl. Grundrisse. Marxists.org.

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