If it wasn’t for Lenin, Karl Marx could have remained just a couch-surfer.

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In this Liberty Curious podcast excerpt, we dive deep into the underpinnings of Marxism, its origins, and its rise to prominence. Our exploration takes us back to the early days of the Frankfurt School, founded in 1923, and the impact that Lenin and the Soviet Union had on the dissemination of Marx's work.

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We examine the complexities of this intellectual tradition, often associated with Orthodox Marxism and its revolutionary vigor. Our conversation touches upon the role of the Soviet Union in putting Karl Marx on the global intellectual map, and the implications it had on the development of Western Marxist tradition.

Further, we delve into intriguing research that employs a sophisticated statistical technique called the synthetic control method. Using this method, Phillip Magness and his co-author Michael Makovi analyzed data from the Google books library to map Karl Marx's citations before and after the Russian Revolution. This empirical evidence provides profound insights into the explosion of Marx's influence and the role of the Russian Revolution in this process.

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