TheFinnishBolshevik | Guide to Marxist Economics - Ep 2. Slavery (birth of the state & cities, fall of Rome etc.) @thefinnishbolshevik2404 | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Each episode of the series will discuss one important topic of Marxist political economy. This video discusses the first class society: the slave mode of production.

The video covers the following topics:
-Rise of slavery
-Rise of the state (and armies)
-Rise of classes (slaves vs owners + peasants, handicraftsmen, lumpen)
-Separation of cities and countryside
-Division of labor:
--Separation of handicraft from agriculture
--Separation of banking and merchants from producers
-Rise of science, philosophy etc.
-Fall of the slave-owning mode of production

The textbook
marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PoliticalEconomy.pdf

Other episodes: Communism For Beginners - Basics of ML playlist.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vR4-29AGfaHOYJLnSt3ihF2

Audiobook of "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" by Engels
youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo

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