From Catechism To Class Consciousness: How Marxism Was Taught with Edward Barring
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The episode explores how Marxism was taught as a mass educational project to develop class consciousness.
What if the real engine of socialist history wasn’t just theory, but teaching? We sit down with historian Edward Baring to trace a vivid, often-misread story: Marxism as a mass educational project designed to turn scattered grievances into class consciousness. From best-selling primers that outsold Capital to study circles in factories and party schools, we unpack how organizers taught at scale—and why the word “vulgar” once critiqued bad teaching, not bad thinking. We map the fault line bet...
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