The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Torkil Lauesen joins Breht to discuss his newest book "The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism". Together they discuss the book, why capitalism is ripe for replacement, the importance of historical and dialectical materialism, the history of socialist movements and revolutions, each revolutions unique contributions to the historical process of socialism, the core and periphery and their connection to colonialism, the ongoing crisis of imperialism and how it relates to the end of the neoliberal era, the differences between capitalist and socialist modes of production, Torkil's vision of the next few decades, and much more!
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Check out Guerrilla History's latest James Connolly episode HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. |
| 0:08.8 | All right, we have a very special, fascinating episode for you today. |
| 0:13.5 | We have back on the show, the one and only Torkel Lawson, who just released a new book through Iskra called The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism. |
| 0:23.6 | So we talk about the capitalist and socialist modes of production. |
| 0:26.6 | We talk about the current crisis of imperialism, the ending of the neoliberal period. |
| 0:32.6 | Socialism as a historical process with unique contributions made to it by every iteration, every revolution |
| 0:39.0 | going all the way back to at least 1848 up through the current day. |
| 0:44.4 | We give an overview of the global history of capitalism and socialism. |
| 0:48.5 | We talk about the role of contradiction, how to find meaning and the effort and the contributions |
| 0:53.7 | to a socialist future for |
| 0:55.4 | posterity and the ripeness of capitalism to be overthrown, the ecological limits of the |
| 1:02.4 | capitalist mode of production, and so much more. This is a fascinating book that I highly recommend |
| 1:07.3 | people check out, and this is, of course, a wonderful discussion. We've had |
| 1:10.9 | Torkel on twice in the past, once to talk about Sweden's integration into the imperialist |
| 1:16.8 | world system, and over four years ago, we had them on an episode called the principal |
| 1:22.1 | contradiction, applying dialectical materialism. So if you enjoy this conversation and you want to |
| 1:26.8 | hear more from Torkel, you have those options. |
| 1:29.7 | And I also wanted to give a huge shout out to our comrades over at Guerrilla History. |
| 1:33.5 | Of course, I used to be the co-host for guerrilla history for many years because so much was going into my life, |
| 1:39.2 | I had to step back from that. |
| 1:40.4 | But they're continuing forward with the full head of steam and doing wonderful work. |
| 1:45.1 | And they are going to have Torkel on in the spring to talk about this book, as well as his new |
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