How did Stalin outmanoeuvre Trotsky and take power following Lenin’s death? What do Marxists mean by ‘value’? And what does it really mean to ‘master the dialectic’? We went back to social media and asked for some more burning questions from our audience, for leading communist Niklas Albin Svensson to answer in a quickfire round!

Watch our previous viewers’ questions episode with Ben Curry here:

🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korpvewBWo8&t=3561s

📖 WORKS & SOURCES CITED 📖

Wage, Labour and Capital, Karl Marx:

🔗https://marxist.com/classics-wage-labour-and-capital.htm

Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx:

🔗https://marxist.com/classics-marxism-two-book/value-price-and-profit.htm

ABC of Materialist Dialectics, Leon Trotsky:

🔗https://marxist.com/abc-materialist-dialectics-trotsky.htm

Revolution Betrayed, Leon Trotsky:

🔗https://marxist.com/classics-the-revolution-betrayed.htm

Results and Prospects, Leon Trotsky:

🔗https://marxist.com/results-and-prospects.htm

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Lenin:

🔗https://marxist.com/classics-imperialism-the-highest-stage-of-capitalism/.htm

The Wealth of Nations, Book One, Chapter 5:

🔗https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book01/ch05.htm

Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting - 3 million views (discusses crisis in cosmology):

🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zozEm4f_dlw

Reason in Revolt, Ted Grant and Alan Woods:

🔗https://marxist.com/reason-in-revolt-marxist-philosophy-and-modern-science.htm

Purchase In Defence of Marxism Issue 51 here:

🔗https://magazine.marxist.com/

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️

00:57 - What is value?

22:18 - How to master the dialectic?

52:20 - How did Stalin come to power?

1:04:23 - How did capitalism affect post-Soviet countries?

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