G. A. Cohen - Marxist Boxing Match: Roemer vs. Habermas
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Uploaded by nvrousalis on Jan 26, 2011
Gerald (Jerry) Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher. He was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and subsequently Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Cohen
This video was recorded by Erik Olin Wright at the University of Chicago, October 1991 and appears here with his permission.
Dramatis Personae
Jurgen Habermas = German philosopher
Theodor Adorno = German philosopher, among founders of the Frankfurt School
John Roemer = American economist
Paul Sweezy = American economic, founder of Monthly Review
Leon Trotsky = Russian revolutionary, intellectual and literary critic
Karl Liebknecht = German revolutionary, founder of Communist Party of Germany
Antonio Gramsci = Italian intellectual and revolutionary
Alexandra Kollontai = Russian revolutionary, Soviet Ambassador to Norway
Rosa Luxemburg = Polish revolutionary, founder of Communist Party of Germany
Georgy Plekhanov = Russian intellectual and revolutionary
David Ryazanov = Russian intellectual and revolutionary
Glossary
Gesamtausgabe = Collected works of Marx and Engels
embodied labour = labour time spent making a commodity
counterfactual labour = labour time necessary to make a commodity
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LMAO@Jurgen "The Breeze" Habermas.
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@jkduncan2120 and Plekhanov as "Georgie-Porgie Plekhanov"
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I thought of this sketch when I was listening to Raido 4's Hayek vs Keynes debate the other night... this was much funnier ;-)
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Jerry Cohen shows that even a professor of Marxist philosophy can confuse Marx with the Marx Brothers....
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yesyesyes
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Magnificent.
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I will forever cite Habermas as Jurgy-Burgy Habermas, professors be damned!
jkduncan2120 1 year ago 3
i love when you can hear the cameraman laugh at 1:37 after "...and the ill fitting shirt"
weweredoodshey 1 month ago