Robert Brenner

[@BrightAgeBeyond]

Thanks for the upload.

[@vasantkaiwar6280]

Brilliant as ever. The years rolled away. Four points: (1) regarding Japan: it seems that the Shogunate could have instituted a feudal-type office-holder absolutist state rather than taking a leap into the unknown; (2) ironic that in England more so than Japan (?), the feudal lords didn't have the power to extract rents but had the greater extra-economic coercive power to separate the immediate producers from their possession of the means of subsistence; (3) in large modern states, it would appear that particular regions might effect the separation of immediate producers, etc., but that this would not happen across the entire state (the comment about Spain seemed interesting in that regard); (4) that, under modern conditions, the peasant family can undergo a slow decomposition, with substantial migration to cities and the constitution of a proletariat without the wholesale evisceration of the peasantry. What does that all mean for uneven/combined development? Not sure but if it means there are other than the classical pathways towards capitalism perhaps there is something to be studied.

[@johnsmith5139]

hell yeah brenner boy

[@gonzogil123]

49:50min Yes, the removal of the means of production puts the worker closer to the edge of material existance, further away from being able to live, so this disruption, taking away, from the means of production is a form of tax if they want to survive. If they want to survive the tax on them has gone up, or, what Marx called the rate of exploitation.

[@massstrikenow1756]

Brenner is a GOD!!!! ❤❤❤

[@ach25omouth]

Some he can’t hear?

[@gonzogil123]

28:15min But the cheapening of food had no impact upon the permanent state of revolution from 1840s to 1939 or so.

[@antonjager3987]

Nice

[@gonzogil123]

23:02min But Marx does not hold that view. He agrees that it must be abolished. He notices a spike in production, but at the cost of wiping everything out. Socialists, and anarchists before and after Marx also agreed. That is a delayed view regarding the working class, Marx, and the leftist tradition.

[@T-Dogg121]

Brenner that dude

[@stavroskarageorgis4804]

He has always been a *terrible* speaker, relative to how sharp and logically tight his writing has always been.

[@citizenphaid1880]

My word this was a terrible delivery.