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The Myth of Class Reductionism with Adolph Reed

Today Bhaskar Sunkara, editor & publisher of Jacobin magazine, is joined by professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., to talk about what materialist political history actually looks like and how the charge from liberals that socialists reduce everything to class is incoherent.

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