The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Written as a sharp reply to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's popular treatise on political economy, Karl Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy is a brisk, combative introduction to the method and stakes of Marx's emerging critique of capitalism. Moving between close textual argument and broad historical analysis, Marx challenges Proudhon's attempt to reconcile social contradictions through abstract formulas and moral appeals. He examines how economic categories like value, wages, division of labor, competition, monopoly, and property are not timeless ideas but products of specific historical conditions and struggles. With frequent returns to questions of method, Marx contrasts a living, materialist analysis of society with what he sees as Proudhon's idealist, ahistorical reasoning, and he presses the point that class conflict is not an accident of the system but a driving force in its development. Part polemic, part primer in dialectical thinking, the book invites listeners into the intellectual battlefield of 19th-century socialism while laying down themes that will later reappear in Marx's major works: the dynamics of exploitation, the limits of reformist harmonies, and the politics hidden inside everyday economic language.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:43:22) Chapter 01

(01:09:43) Chapter 02

(02:04:00) Chapter 03

(02:55:41) Chapter 04

(03:43:49) Chapter 05

(04:21:04) Chapter 06

(04:39:36) Chapter 07

(05:04:37) Chapter 08

(05:22:17) Chapter 09

(05:41:24) Chapter 10

(05:50:09) Chapter 11

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