Michael Roberts and John Bellamy Foster Discuss the First Materialist

This is a very interesting discussion between Michael Roberts and John Bellamy Foster about what  Marx wrote about the philosopher Epicurus in his dissertation.

Epicurus, together with Lucretius developed a scientific philosophy of nature. Epicurus was a materialist who began his epistemology with the senses and introduced chance into his cosmology. He also wrote about social class.

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