Don't Thank Capitalism for Liberal Rights ft. Lillian Cicerchia (Patreon)

Don't Thank Capitalism for Liberal Rights ft. Lillian Cicerchia

Lillian Cicerchia joins us to talk about her latest in Jacobin, "Liberal Freedoms Were Won Despite, Not Because of, Capitalism," a review of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhebrod. Who are liberal rights most important to, and who won them? What was Marx's position? Lenin's? What are "formal freedoms."