SPS #56: Spencer Leonard on Marx & Engels

On this episode of SPS, Pamela & Andreas interview Spencer Leonard. Spencer is a founding member of Platypus and has recently published a two-volume selection of Marx & Engels journalism. The first volume focuses on Bonapartism, with selections from 1851–1859, and the second focuses on their writings on imperialism, with selections from 1856–1862. He speaks to us about the democratic revolution, liberalism, and the self-contradiction of bourgeois society. Spencer challenges the thesis put forth by Domenico Losurdo of an advancing "de-emancipation" alongside emancipation, and raises the problem of Marxism in the 20th century, and its legacy in the 21st. Links: Marx and Engels on Bonapartism, Selected Journalism, 1851–59 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666928044/Marx-and-Engels-on-Bonapartism-Selected-Journalism-1851 Marx and Engels on Imperialism, Selected Journalism, 1856–62 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498559232/Marx-and-Engels-on-Imperialism-Selected-Journalism-1856 Domenico Losurdo in the Platypus Review (May 2012) https://platypus1917.org/2012/05/01/liberalism-and-marx-domenico-losurdo/